Washington’s NFL team is now known as the Commanders.
The new name unveiled Wednesday comes 18 months after the once-storied franchise dropped its old moniker following decades of criticism that it was offensive to Native Americans and under fresh pressure from sponsors. The organization committed to avoiding Native American imagery in its rebrand after being called the Washington Football Team the past two seasons.
“As an organization, we are excited to rally and rise together as one under our new identity while paying homage to our local roots and what it means to represent the nation’s capital,” owner Dan Snyder said. “As we kick off our 90th season, it is important for our organization and fans to pay tribute to our past traditions, history, legacy and the greats that came before us. We continue to honor and represent the Burgundy and Gold while forging a pathway to a new era in Washington.”
Washington joins Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians among North American major professional sports teams abandoning names linked to Native Americans.
The NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks and MLB’s Atlanta Braves have said they are not planning to make a similar change.
We’ll call them the Commies!
Good one!
(It’ll undoubtedly happen.)
Now Dirty Democrats are Erasing Team names , just the Monuments in America !!!!!!
So the WOKE finally Cave to the Democrats & change their Name !!! Silliy & Stupid !!!
Guess Coca Cola will have to change their WOKE name too !!!!!
Disney is WOKE too > change their name !!!!
New Name SUCKS !!! Alot will Boycott their team !!!! Put the Red-Skin name BACK or else !!!!
Commies.
From the nation’s capital.
How apropos.
I can’t believe these people are that stupid and didn’t anticipate this. Commies.
Wow.
How about the Washington irrelevant?