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Washington owner Dan Snyder announces team will review nickname
Yahoo ^ | Jul 3rd 2020 | JACK BAER

Posted on 07/03/2020 7:47:49 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

In a move that was long past due, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder announced Friday the team will undergo a “thorough review of the team’s name.”

The team said it has been discussing internally a name change with the league in recent weeks.

Snyder said in a statement:

“This process allows the team to take into account not only the proud tradition and history of the franchise but also input from our alumni, the organization, sponsors, the National Football League and the local community is proud to represent on and off the field.”

Head coach Ron Rivera said in a statement it was an “issue of personal importance to me and I look forward to working closely with Dan Snyder to make sure we continue the mission of honoring and supporting Native Americans and our Military.”

In a separate statement, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed the discussions and said, “We are supportive of this important step.”

The announcement comes after weeks of pressure for the team to change it.

Two of the team’s biggest financial partners signaled they wanted a name change. FedEx, which owns the naming rights to the team’s stadium, recently revealed it informed the team it wanted to see a new name at FedEx Field. Nike, the league’s official uniform supplier, did more showing than telling when it wiped the team’s products from its online store.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: again; redskins
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1 posted on 07/03/2020 7:47:49 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Washington foreskins


2 posted on 07/03/2020 7:49:10 PM PDT by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: MarvinStinson

Washington Thinskins.


3 posted on 07/03/2020 7:49:47 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Washington Wimps


4 posted on 07/03/2020 7:50:35 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: MarvinStinson

The Sniveling Appeasers?


5 posted on 07/03/2020 7:50:55 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: MarvinStinson

This is probably their way of providing a heads-up that the name will change.


6 posted on 07/03/2020 7:51:37 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: MarvinStinson

Can’t use “Washington” either.


7 posted on 07/03/2020 7:52:06 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: PTBAA

The Sniveling Appeasers?

Renaming the football team not congress


8 posted on 07/03/2020 7:52:39 PM PDT by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: MarvinStinson

Snyder has done this before. He’ll claim the team will study a name change, the liberals will wet themselves about the great change they are making for the good of society thus confirming their own self-importance and then, after the pressure dies down, Snyder announces the Indians are cool with it and there will be no change.


9 posted on 07/03/2020 7:53:16 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Isaiah 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.")
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DC Corruptocrats


10 posted on 07/03/2020 7:53:57 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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West Coast Weasels


11 posted on 07/03/2020 7:54:01 PM PDT by RaginRak
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FedEx sucks — more corporate Marxism.


12 posted on 07/03/2020 7:54:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: OrangeHoof

I believe that script has, indeed, been successfully used in the past.


13 posted on 07/03/2020 7:55:16 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("DonÂ’t mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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Enough already. Change the stupid name. Call it the Washington Football Players. That way nobody is offended.

Except for people without feet.

14 posted on 07/03/2020 7:55:32 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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D.C. Kneelers


15 posted on 07/03/2020 7:55:40 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: MarvinStinson

DC Heckawis


16 posted on 07/03/2020 7:56:20 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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DC Pussies?


17 posted on 07/03/2020 7:56:41 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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The Washington Wokeskins
18 posted on 07/03/2020 7:57:27 PM PDT by windsorknot
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Washington Grovelers


19 posted on 07/03/2020 7:58:17 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Isaiah 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.")
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It’s a done deal.


20 posted on 07/03/2020 7:59:58 PM PDT by Meatspace
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