“Where are lines drawn? If Redskins is offensive, then based on these criteria, Boston Celtics is offensive. So is Minnesota Vikings. Both are ethnic nicknames.”
If I were a baseball player I’d be offended to play for a team with a pejorative name like “The Yankee’s”
Rush once spent a lot of time on a team called the Fighting Whities, which the local whites adored.
Momma always said it’s always better to be the yankee than the yanker.