{"id":91335,"date":"2020-07-12T23:49:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T03:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=91335"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:44:08","slug":"washington-nfl-franchise-announce-name-change-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/07\/12\/washington-nfl-franchise-announce-name-change-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington NFL Franchise to Announce Name Change on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington NFL franchise will look a lot different moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong>Mike Jones<\/strong> of USA Today, Washington will retire the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/redskins\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redskins<\/a>&#8221; nickname and formally announce a name change on Monday. This comes in the wake of recent criticism over the existing name as part of an increased consciousness on issues related to race.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Person with knowledge of the situation confirms Washington football owner Dan Snyder and the team plan to announce name change Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Jones (@ByMikeJones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByMikeJones\/status\/1282490777256579072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Washington NFL Franchise to Announce Name Change on Monday<\/h2>\n<p>The team has come over increased pressure to make the move recently. Just a few weeks ago, the team&#8217;s most prominent corporate sponsor, FedEx, which owns the naming rights to the stadium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/redskins\/2020\/07\/02\/fedex-requests-washington-redskins-change-teams-nickname\/5369237002\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requested that they change their name<\/a>. In addition, other sponsors such as Nike and Pepsi threatened to end their relationship with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple companies who sell NFL merchandise have removed all memorabilia with the name &#8220;Redskins&#8221; from their websites. It includes the aforementioned Nike in addition to online behemoth Amazon, among others. Searches for &#8220;Washington Redskins&#8221; now return no results on many sites.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to change the team&#8217;s nickname is nothing new. Many Native American groups have been campaigning for years in the hope that Washington would eventually do so as they consider it a racial slur. In fact, the first protests over the name originated as far back as the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Current owner Dan Snyder has always been adamant that changing the team&#8217;s name would never happen. He once mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/redskins\/2013\/05\/09\/washington-redskins-daniel-snyder\/2148127\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in an interview with USA Today<\/a>: &#8220;We will never change the name. It&#8217;s that simple. NEVER. You can use caps.&#8221; But given current events and a new conversation on systemic racism, police brutality, and other issues, that has quickly become an untenable position.<\/p>\n<p>Given the inevitability of such an announcement, there have been quite a few suggestions for possible replacement names. Warriors, Redwolves, and Redtails seem to be the most popular. That third one refers to the Tuskegee Airmen who were a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. Whatever it is, tomorrow is the beginning of a new era for this organization. And it will bring closure to those who have been fighting for this team to get rid of the &#8220;Redskins&#8221; nickname for decades.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"dL0xEBZUQhl2_rNlcRvsWA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/455538422\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'dL0xEBZUQhl2_rNlcRvsWA',sig:'e-9QT0c7w-tJ1cBj7zD4nHZ7nQZwNCci3mXJnp3zgMQ=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'455538422',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of increased criticism over its nickname recently, the Washington NFL franchise will indeed announce a new name for the team on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":91339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8896,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-washington-commanders","category-washington-football-team"],"modified_by":"Al Preziosi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}