A Native American group has threatened a national boycott of the Washington Commanders unless the NFL team reverses course and changes its name back to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-football-team-unveils-8-new-potential-names-or-did-they" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Redskins</a>.
The Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) wrote on <a href="https://twitter.com/GuardiansNative/status/1688544490242359296/photo/3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter — now X —</a> that the group, along with its Founder and President Eunice Davidson, have sent a letter to the &#8220;Washington &#8216;Commanders&#8217; Ownership &amp; Key Leadership Formally Requesting The Team Revitalize it&#8217;s Relationship With The American Indian Community &amp; Rightfully Change Their Name Back to &#8216;The Redskins.'&#8221;
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🚨BREAKING: Native American Guardian’s Association Founder &amp; President Eunice Davidson Sent a Demand Letter Today to Washington &quot;Commanders&quot; Ownership &amp; Key Leadership Formally Requesting The Team Revitalize it&#39;s Relationship With The American Indian Community &amp; Rightfully Change… <a href="https://t.co/cpau4hVq6H">pic.twitter.com/cpau4hVq6H</a>
&mdash; Native American Guardians Association (@GuardiansNative) <a href="https://twitter.com/GuardiansNative/status/1688544490242359296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In a letter that addressed what the group called the &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; against the Native American population and the erasure of its &#8220;steadfast role in American history, including serving as counselors to the Founding Fathers in the creation of the U.S. constitution.&#8221;
The letter talked about the history of the Washington football team and it&#8217;s relationship with the Native American community dating back to its 1933 season when they were named the <a href="https://sportsteamhistory.com/boston-redskins/#:~:text=The%20team%20was%20founded%20in%201932%20by%20George%20Preston%20Marshall,for%20more%20than%2080%20years." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Redskins</a>.
&#8220;At this moment in history, we are formally requesting that the team revitalize its relationship with the American Indian community by (i) changing the name back to &#8216;The Redskins&#8217; which recognizes America&#8217;s original inhabitants and (ii) using the team&#8217;s historic name and legacy to encourage Americans to learn about, not cancel, the history of America&#8217;s tribes and our role in the founding of this Great Nation,&#8221; the letter read.
&#8220;Should we need to encourage a national boycott similar to what happened with Anheuser Busch (Bud Light) which is now down $27 billion (note, not one brick thrown, not one highway blocked, not one bridge burned) — WE WILL DO JUST THAT,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/native-american-group-threatens-commanders-boycott-name-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
The letter closed out by noting that in 2023, this &#8220;oppression and arbitrary and capricious recognition of U.S. history and Constitutional rights is not acceptable.&#8221; The group also vowed to stand their ground because, if &#8220;you don&#8217;t acknowledge history, we are doomed to repeat it.&#8221;
In 2020, the team announced it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/redskins-cave-announce-thorough-review-of-name-here-are-the-top-suggestions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removing Redskins</a> from its name and two years later announced the national professional football team would be called the Washington Commanders.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-redskins-cant-return-to-dc-unless-they-change-their-name-officials-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">name change came</a> about from pressure from the cancel culture mob following the death of George Floyd and those who claimed that the term was racist and offensive to Native Americans.

New York Giants v Washington Redskins

Native American Group Threatens National Boycott If Washington Football Team Doesn’t Change Name Back To ‘Redskins’

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The Washington Redskins last year ditched its name and couldn&#8217;t come up with a new one so they became simply the Washington Football Team (WFT).
But now there are eight names floating around, according to Tanya Snyder, the co-CEO of the Washington franchise (and also the wife of owner Dan Snyder). She appeared on Adam Schefter&#8217;s podcast Tuesday and confirmed there are eight possible nicknames for the team. Here they are, in alphabetical order:
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<li>Armada</li>
<li>Brigade</li>
<li>Commanders</li>
<li>Defenders</li>
<li>Presidents</li>
<li>Red Wolves</li>
<li>Red Hogs</li>
<li>WFT</li>
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Snyder went even further, saying on the podcast that the team had narrowed the list to three. But when Schefter asked if she could reveal them, she replied, &#8220;No!&#8221; <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/8-washington-nfl-nickname-finalists-one-which-will-final-choice-1626923">according</a> to Newsweek.
But there is still confusion. When the eight names leaked out last month, team president Jason Wright said they weren&#8217;t necessarily the final eight, but rather just a random selection of some names under consideration. But Schefter read the names and asked Snyder if those were the final eight, and she said yes.
Later, though, Ben Standig of The Athletic wrote on Twitter that the eight names were not the final eight, echoing what Wright had said.
&#8220;Received some clarification. Nothing new here re: the names. The 8 mentioned by the interviewer in the ESPN podcast are not a final 8 but part of a broader list, as Jason Wright stated previously. Why Tanya Snyder said &#8216;that&#8217;s right&#8217; as shown below, you got me. Down to 3 overall,&#8221; he wrote.
Standig also wrote: &#8220;During the pod, Schefter notes they&#8217;re down to 3 names w/ 8 candidates: Red Hogs, Defenders, Armada, Presidents, Brigade, Commanders, Red Wolves, WFT. Schefter: &#8216;Those are the candidates, right?&#8217; Snyder: &#8216;That’s right. Has that been said?&#8217; Schefter: ‘That’s been said, yes.’”
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Received some clarification. Nothing new here re: the names. The 8 mentioned by the interviewer in the ESPN podcast are not a final 8 but part of a broader list, as Jason Wright stated previously. Why Tanya Snyder said &quot;that&#39;s right&quot; as shown below, you got me. Down to 3 overall. <a href="https://t.co/5OxY5kBB7k">https://t.co/5OxY5kBB7k</a>
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So maybe eight, maybe three &#8212; but either way, it&#8217;s way down from 42,000 possible names Snyder said the team received.
Last July, the Washington Redskins officially announced they would retire their 87-year-old name and Indian head logo, finally caving to complaints that the name is offensive to Native Americans.
The real motivator behind the change, though, appears to be money. “FedEx, Nike, Pepsi and Bank of America all lined up against the name, which was given to the franchise in 1933 when the team was still based in Boston,” <a href="https://apnews.com/b6f6919292f5a3c94cb23d92bde21a54">The Associated Press</a> reported. On July 2, FedEx threatened to pull out of $205 million stadium naming rights deal and issued a statement asking for a change to the controversial name.
Dan Snyder had long expressed opposition to changing the name, telling USA Today in 2013 that he would “never change the name. It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.”
But a poll in May 2020 found that nine in 10 American Indians are not offended by the name, The Washington Post reported. And the son of Walter “Blackie” Wetzel — the Native American whose 1971 design of the Redskins logo depicts John “Two Guns” White Calf, a Blackfoot chief who also appears on the buffalo nickel — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/native-american-son-of-redskins-logo-designer-says-its-not-offensive">said</a> the mascot is not offensive.
Of the mascot change, Lance Wetzel said, “It takes away from the Native Americans. When I see that logo, I take pride in it. You look at the depiction of the Redskins logo and it’s of a true Native American. I always felt it was representing my people.”

Cincinnati Bengals v Washington Redskins

Washington Football Team Unveils 8 New Potential Names (Or Did They?)

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Rumor has it that the Washington Redskins has bigger problems beyond its controversial name, and a supposed bombshell will be coming soon exposing the NFL team&#8217;s allegedly problematic past.
Adding to these rumors on Thursday, former Redskins cornerback Josh Norman tweeted out a cryptic message indicating that the team&#8217;s former “dark” days will soon be brought to light.
“Look don’t ask me NO QUESTIONS,” Norman tweeted. “I will say this, what goes around comes around. What’s done in the dark will surly come to the Light! God seems to always have a way of reposition his people at the right time &amp; reveal Truths without saying a single &#8211; word.”
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Look Don’t ask me NO QUESTIONS! 🦗.. (🙅🏽‍♂️69) but I will say this, what goes around comes around.. What’s done in the dark will surly come to the Light! God seems to always have away of reposition his people at the right time &amp; reveal Truths without saying a single &#8211; word.
&mdash; *Joshua R. Norman (@J_No24) <a href="https://twitter.com/J_No24/status/1283612952856334336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Norman played with the Washington Redskins for three seasons on a five-year $75 million deal that ended this past February when he signed with the Buffalo Bills. As noted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/washington-josh-norman-tweets-cryptic-message-dark-past-bombshell-report">Fox News</a>, local reporters have been spreading rumors on Twitter that an explosive report will soon be coming out about the football franchise.
“The warped and toxic culture of the Washington Football Team is about to be exposed in a sickening fashion . . . Again,” tweeted Jason La Canfora of CBS.
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The warped and toxic culture of the Washington Football Team is about to be exposed in a sickening fashion &#8230; Again
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&#8220;There is much more going on at Redskins Park than a name change. I’m told by a source there will be some more news that comes out tomorrow other than the name change. And it’s not good. I did not get specifics, but get ready people,&#8221; tweeted Scott Abraham of ABC.
&#8220;I’ve been told it has to do with the front office firings of Alex Santos and Richard Mann II. Again no details, no specifics. Sorry people&#8230;I’m waiting just like you,&#8221; he added.
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I’ve been told it has to do with the front office firings of Alex Santos and Richard Mann II.
Again no details, no specifics. Sorry people&#8230;I’m waiting just like you. <a href="https://t.co/Y0HoqIhYsU">https://t.co/Y0HoqIhYsU</a>
&mdash; Scott Abraham (@ScottABC7) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottABC7/status/1282534561944162305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What’s coming is disappointing and sad,&#8221; tweeted Julie Donaldson of NBC.
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What’s coming is disappointing and sad.
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On Monday, the Washington Redskins <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-redskins-officially-announce-nfl-team-will-retire-name-logo">announced</a> that the team would soon be changing its name after FedEx, Nike, Pepsi, and Bank of America all denounced the name.
“Today, we are announcing that we will be retiring the Redskins name and logo upon completion of this review,” the team said in a statement. “[Team owner] Dan Snyder and Coach [Ron] Rivera are working closely to develop a new name and design approach that will enhance the standing of our proud, tradition rich franchise and inspire our sponsors, fans and community for the next 100 years.”
The Redskins logo that America knows today was originally designed in 1971 by Native American Walter “Blackie” Wetzel, whose iconic image depicted John “Two Guns” White Calf, a Blackfeet Chief who also appears on the Buffalo Nickel. Wetzel’s son, Lance Wetzel, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/native-american-son-of-redskins-logo-designer-says-its-not-offensive">said the logo evokes</a> pride in Native Americans and should not be considered offensive. Though he understands the decision to change the team nickname, he believes the logo should stay.
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“Everyone was pretty upset (about the change),” Lance Wetzel said. “Everyone understood the name change. We were all on board with that. Once they weren’t going to use the logo, it was hard. It takes away from the Native Americans. When I see that logo, I take pride in it. You look at the depiction of the Redskins logo and it’s of a true Native American. I always felt it was representing my people. That’s not gone.”
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“The Native Americans were forgotten people. That logo lets people know these people exist,” Wetzel continued. “If it were changed and it removed any derogatory feelings toward any person, then I think it’s a win. I don’t want that logo to be associated in a negative way, ever.”
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Amid Social And Corporate Pressure, Washington Redskins Consider Name Change

Ex-Redskins Player Tweets Cryptic Message About Team’s ‘Dark’ Past

The Oxford Dictionary doesn&#8217;t mince words.
&#8220;Redskin — a North American Indian. DATED, OFFENSIVE&#8221;
You never hear anyone use the word now in any other context than identifying a National Football League team, the Washington Redskins.
Soon, you may not even hear that.
“&#8217;We came up with a couple of names — two of them I really like,&#8217; Redskins Coach Ron Rivera said Saturday, one day after the team announced it is undergoing &#8216;a thorough review&#8217; of the name the franchise has had since 1933,&#8221; The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/06/redskins-new-name-redtails-warriors/">Washington Post</a> reported.
<blockquote>Rivera declined to reveal the possibilities but said he believes the most important criteria for a new name is that it is respectful of Native American culture and traditions and also is a tribute to the military. He indicated Snyder agrees with that sentiment. Warriors could fit the bill.
On his podcast Friday, The Team 980’s Kevin Sheehan said he had it “on pretty good authority” that the leading contender for the replacement name is Warriors.
“I don’t think that’s a reveal by any stretch,” Sheehan said. “I think people do know that the Redskins have marked Washington Warriors just in case and that this has been the way. … I would bet big money on the Warriors being the new name for the football team.”</blockquote>
The Post listed a slew of &#8220;other potential names,&#8221; including:
Redtails — &#8220;The Redtails nickname was used by the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first African American aerial combat unit, who broke the color barrier during World War II,&#8221; the D.C. paper said.
Dwayne Haskins Jr., the new quarterback for the Washington team, supports the name, writing on Twitter: &#8220;I like the redtails.&#8221;
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I like the redtails 🤔 <a href="https://t.co/DLSWsUcldp">https://t.co/DLSWsUcldp</a>
&mdash; Dwayne Haskins, Jr (@dh_simba7) <a href="https://twitter.com/dh_simba7/status/1279186285882728450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Pigskins — A football is sometimes called a &#8220;pigskin&#8221; because they were originally animal bladders covered with leather and then inflated. Additionally, the offensive line of the Washington team has long been called the &#8220;Hogs&#8221; in honor of the huge linemen during the 1980s and early 1990s, who helped the team win three Super Bowl championships.
Americans — The name would dovetail with Washington&#8217;s Major League Baseball team, the Nationals. “Well, you’ve got the Nationals. What about the Americans?” Kevin Gover, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, said in 2013. &#8220;You know in the 17th and 18th centuries when a European writer referred to Americans, they were not talking about the colonialists. They were talking about the Native Americans. And that’s how they were referred to. Even scientific literature at the time comparing the different races said, well, you’ve got Africans, you got Asians, you got Europeans and you’ve got Americans. It’s a much more inclusive term. So if you had a Native American image but the team was called the Americans, that starts to feel like something more like an honor. You’re not being singled out; you’re being included.”
The Post included a list of &#8220;honorable mentions, including names submitted by readers: Rainbows, Dee Cees, Swamp, Red Jackets, Rough Riders, Veterans, Federals, Monuments, Sentinels, Defenders.&#8221;

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Washington Redskins May Have Already Picked Out New Name: Report

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After years of pressure, the Washington Redskins have announced they will conduct a “thorough review” of the team name.
In the past week, activists have stepped up their pressure against the team – and politicians and sponsors have joined. On Thursday, Washington, D.C., officials said the team could not relocate within the city – they currently play at FedEx Field in Maryland – unless they change their name and logo, The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-redskins-cant-return-to-dc-unless-they-change-their-name-officials-say">reported</a>:
<blockquote>“I call on [Redskins owner] Dan Snyder once again to face that reality since he does still desperately want to be in the nation’s capital,” Holmes said, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/redskins-move-new-stadium-team-name-changes-report">per Fox News</a>. “He has got a problem he can’t get around — and he particularly can’t get around it today, after the George Floyd killing.”
D.C.’s Deputy Mayor agreed: “There is no viable path, locally or federally, for the Washington football team to return to Washington, D.C., without first changing the team name.”</blockquote>
Then Nike, which has adhered to social justice demands in recent years (and lost $790 million, leading to layoffs) announced it would no longer sell Redskins gear on their website, The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nike-caves-to-activist-investors-removes-all-redskins-gear-from-website">reported</a>.
In addition to Nike, FedEx and PepsiCo also announced they would end their business partnerships with the team unless it changed its name. On Friday, the team announced it would “undergo a thorough review” of its name, WTOP <a href="https://wtop.com/washington-redskins/2020/07/redskins-announce-formal-review-of-team-name-after-pressure-from-nfl-sponsors/">reported</a>.
Dan Snyder, who owns the team, has adamantly opposed the name change for years, but now says the review “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 it is proud to represent on and off the field.”
Several name suggestions have been floating around social media over the past week, including the Washington Warriors, Washington Redtails, and Washington Redhawks. The Redtails refer to the name of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of all-black fighter pilots who operated during World War II.
Some online have joked that since there are so many former Ohio State University players on the team, it should be renamed the Washington Buckeyes. Team Quarterback Dwayne Haskins, Jr – who attended OSU – said his favorite name suggestion so far was the Redtails.
His statement came in a Twitter response to Bleacher Report’s Matt Miller making the Buckeyes suggestion. Haskins quote-tweeted Miller and added, “I like the redtails.”
Haskins added, however, that he liked the name “if we have to change the name,&#8221; taking no position one way or the other on the issue.
Sponsors, including Bank of America, Inova, PepsiCo, and FedEx have all expressed support for the team’s announcement to review its name.
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Redskins Cave, Announce ‘Thorough Review’ Of Name. Here Are The Top Suggestions.

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Nike appears to have caved to pressure from activists over the name of the Washington Redskins, and has now removed all Redskins gear from their website.
&#8220;Last week, three letters signed by 87 different investment firms and shareholders asked Nike, FedEx, and PepsiCo to end their business relationships with the Washington Redskins until the team decides to change its name,&#8221; Fox 5 <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/nike-fedex-pepsico-asked-to-cut-ties-with-redskins-until-name-changed-report">reported</a>. &#8220;The investment firms and shareholders are worth a collective $620 billion.&#8221;
The move by Nike appears to have come after FedEx called on Thursday for the team to change its name after activist investors claimed that the name was racist.
“We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name,” FedEx <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/fedex-washington-redskins-team-name-change">said</a> in a statement to FOX Business.
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Washington Redskins v Buffalo Bills

Nike Caves To Activist Investors, Removes All ‘Redskins’ Gear From Website

The Washington Redskins NFL team has been looking to relocate closer to their home city of Washington, D.C., but officials there say they won&#8217;t approve any return to D.C. until the Redskins change their name and logo.
The team currently plays at FedEx Field in Maryland, accessible by the Beltway from Washington, D.C., but not within the city&#8217;s borders. The team would prefer, instead, to play in Virginia, or somewhere closer to the capital city, according to plans for a new stadium released in early 2020, <a href="https://www.si.com/nfl/redskins/news/redskins-stadium-update-virginia-a-dome-in-md">per Sports Illustrated</a>.
But Washington, D.C,&#8217;s Congresswoman, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), said Thursday that she&#8217;d block the team from relocating into the city unless they jettisoned what she believes is a racist moniker, offensive to Native Americans.
“I call on [Redskins owner] Dan Snyder once again to face that reality since he does still desperately want to be in the nation’s capital,” Holmes said, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/redskins-move-new-stadium-team-name-changes-report">per Fox News</a>. “He has got a problem he can’t get around — and he particularly can’t get around it today, after the George Floyd killing.&#8221;
D.C.&#8217;s Deputy Mayor agreed: “There is no viable path, locally or federally, for the Washington football team to return to Washington, D.C., without first changing the team name.&#8221;
The Redskins name, of course, has been under fire for over a decade, but Snyder, who has owned the team since the late 1990s, has been adamant that the name will not change, even telling USA Today back in 2013, &#8220;We’ll never change the name. It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.”
In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death while in the custody of Minneapolis police, a number of corporations and brands have taken the extraordinary step of removing controversial images and names from national products, and activists seem to believe the Redskins should be next among them.
Last Friday, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethcohen/2020/07/02/the-racist-redskins-why-critics-say-its-time-to-boycott-the-nfl-team/#7d7c6e13e35a">Forbes reports</a>, &#8220;over 87 investment firms and shareholders worth a collective $620 billion sent letters asking Nike, FedEx, and PepsiCo to end their financial arrangements with the NFL’s Washington Redskins based on the team’s racist name.&#8221;
As far as the team&#8217;s plans to relocate, Rep. Holmes may be pleased to know that Washington, D.C., isn&#8217;t necessarily on the table. Although the team and its ownership proposed playing some games in RFK Stadium back in 2019, the team&#8217;s plans have since changed, according to <a href="https://www.si.com/nfl/redskins/news/redskins-stadium-update-virginia-a-dome-in-md">Sports Illustrated</a>. They are now looking at two locations, one site close to Dulles Airport in Virginia, and another &#8220;with better access to the city,&#8221; but also in southern Virginia.
The team hasn&#8217;t inked any deals and could be waiting to see whether Virginia legislators ease up on threats to block state and federal funding from going towards a new football stadium. They&#8217;re also in the process of finalizing a design &#8212; one that would allow them to use the stadium year-round for events other than just NFL games.
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Washington Redskins Can’t Return To DC Unless They Change Their Name, Officials Say

On Wednesday, Alyssa Milano, managing to gain some attention amid the maelstrom as rioters and protesters express themselves around the nation, tweeted her opposition to the name of the NFL’s Washington Redskins.
“We must end racism in its entirety. Allowing the @NFL to continue to use the @redskins name is destructive to Native communities and cannot be tolerated any longer,&#8221; the actress-turned-activist wrote. &#8220;Change the name.”
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We must end racism in its entirety. Allowing the <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nfl</a> to continue to use the <a href="https://twitter.com/Redskins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@redskins</a> name is destructive to Native communities and cannot be tolerated any longer. Change the name <a href="https://twitter.com/Redskins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Redskins</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nfl</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheTimeIsNow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheTimeIsNow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChangeTheName?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChangeTheName</a>
&mdash; Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1278427600864624640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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But when there’s money involved, it seems Milano sings a different tune.
On the NFL Shop website, not only are there items that are part of Milano’s fashion line Touch emblazoned with the <a href="https://www.nflshop.com/washington-redskins/womens-washington-redskins-touch-by-alyssa-milano-black-all-american-full-zip-hoodie/t-36711669+p-4794508230449+z-9-4002224810?_ref=p-CLP:m-GRID:i-r0c0:po-0">Redskins name</a>, but there are also items from her line with the logo of the <a href="https://www.nflshop.com/?query=Kansas%20City%20Chiefs%20Alyssa%20Milano&amp;_ref=p-SRP:m-SEARCH">Kansas City Chiefs</a>.
<div class="image"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-125415" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Touch-by-Alyssa-Milano-1024x434.jpg" alt="Alyssa Milano in a Redskins shirt" width="600" height="254" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/07/Touch-by-Alyssa-Milano-1024x434.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/07/Touch-by-Alyssa-Milano-300x127.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/07/Touch-by-Alyssa-Milano-768x325.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/07/Touch-by-Alyssa-Milano-1536x651.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/07/Touch-by-Alyssa-Milano-2048x868.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></div>
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It’s not as though Milano has not been warned before about her merchandise. Writing in <a href="https://psmag.com/ideas/dear-alyssa-milano-please-stop-selling-racist-clothes">Pacific Standard Magazine</a> in February 2019, an indigenous woman, Terese Marie Mailhot, criticized Milano for selling Redskins paraphernalia:
<blockquote>I understand that you&#8217;ve been asked on Twitter to remove and apologize for selling Washington Redskins paraphernalia in your fashion line, Touch by Alyssa Milano. I want to articulate delicately and kindly, as I would to a friend, that I too would like you to remove Redskins merchandise from your line. I&#8217;d like you to acknowledge the slur as racist. I&#8217;d like to ask you to make commitments to support indigenous people beyond general statements, with concrete action.
I understand you might think this disapproval of the team&#8217;s name is a new development, and that people are eager to be offended by everything in today&#8217;s culture of allegedly stifling political correctness. In fact, Natives have been protesting derogatory team names and mascots since the 1960’s, when the National Congress of American Indians expressed serious disappointment with college and professional sports teams that use racial slurs or racist caricatures as mascots.</blockquote>
Milano&#8217;s capacity to condemn the Redskins name while simultaneously merchandise from her fashion line is sold with the Redskins name on it fits well with this <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/04/alyssa-milano-joe-biden-tara-reade-allegations-guest-column-1202921826/">recent statement</a> of hers: &#8220;The world is gray. And as uncomfortable as that makes people, gray is where the real change happens. Black and white is easy. Gray is the place women can come together out of the glare of the election and speak our truths, our doubts, our hopes, our convictions and test them against the light and the dark.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alyssa-milano-defends-darkening-face-in-years-old-parody-video">Alyssa Milano Defends Darkening Face In Years-Old Parody Video</a>
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The Washington Redskins are performing so poorly this season that tickets to their game this Sunday against the Detroit Lions are selling for as little as $5.
<a href="https://gametime.co/nfl-football/lions-at-redskins-tickets/11-24-2019-washington-dc-fedex-field/events/5cb7daf250e1820014bf1ccf">GameTime Tickets</a> is selling standing-room only tickets to the game for $5 each, a slight increase from the $4 they were selling for on Thursday. WUSA9 <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/sports/nfl/redskins/redskins-tickets-for-sunday-selling-for-under-10/65-0a7c8efa-b488-46d9-9c01-082c76c890d4">reported</a> that StubHub and Vivid Seats are also selling tickets at such a low price, while even Ticketmaster has tickets available for just $6.
The Redskins have won just one game this season – against the Miami Dolphins. At the time the two teams played each other, neither had won a game. The Dolphins have now won two games, while the Redskins remain 1-9. The only NFL team with a worse record this season is the Cincinnati Bengals, who haven’t won a single game.
The Lions may not be one of the top teams this year (again), but they have at least won three games (and tied one against the Arizona Cardinals).
WUSA9 also reported that this is one of the Redskins’ worst seasons in franchise history, and is on track to be their worst season of all time. In 1961, the team had their worst season, winning just one game and tying in another.
Observant news consumers may recall that $5 is even cheaper than what Hillary Clinton sold tickets for during her disastrous post-election loss tour with husband and former president Bill. As The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-hillary-clinton-book-tour-prices-slashed-emily-zanotti">reported</a> in May 2019, tickets to the couple’s joint “book tour” were selling for just $6 at one point. Tickets for the event at some venues originally cost as much as $1,700, but by the end of the tour, venues struggled to fill seats, slashing prices by huge margins. Those expensive seats were dropped to about $800 for the Seattle event. More from Zanotti:
Secondary ticket marketplace, StubHub, has tickets for Saturday evening’s show in LA <a href="https://www.stubhub.com/hillary-clinton-tickets-hillary-clinton-inglewood-the-forum-los-angeles-5-4-2019/event/103880607/?sort=price+asc">available for a mere $6</a> — and that’s for a floor seat. Similar-priced tickets are available in the arena’s first and second bowls. The best ticket currently available on StubHub — a third row, middle, floor section seat — is just $47.50.
Parking at LA’s Forum Theater may actually cost you more than seeing the main event.
Zanotti also reported that attendance was so poor in Toronto that organizers of the event began reassigning seats and “blacking out empty sections with curtains” to make the event seem more crowded. People who bought cheap tickets were even moved up closer to “fill in” gaps in the audience.
Clinton’s tour came after a blockbuster tour by former First Lady Michelle Obama, which sold out venues and was hailed as a success. Clinton’s, by contrast, was a massive failure for the two-time presidential candidate and former secretary of state.
Congratulations, Redskins, you’re the Hillary Clinton of the NFL.
As WUSA9 reported, blame for the team’s failure can be reliably placed on team owner Dan Snyder and fired coach Jay Gruden. Clinton continues to blame everyone but herself for her own failures.

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Former NFL second-string quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been out of work for almost two full seasons, but it seems he may have finally found a home &#8212; with the nation&#8217;s most controversially named NFL team.
<a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-colin-kaepernick-play-redskins-offered-224756117.html">According to Yahoo Sports</a>, Kaepernick, who walked away from a one-year contract extension with the San Francisco 49ers, under the mistaken impression his anti-racism protests had made him a desirable commodity, is &#8220;ready and willing&#8221; to suit up for just about any professional football team, even if that means playing for the Washington Redskins, whose very name sparks revulsion in social justice communities.
&#8220;The sources told Yahoo Sports on Sunday that Kaepernick remains willing to play for any NFL team that wants to offer him a job,&#8221; the outlet reported late Sunday. &#8220;Both stressed that &#8216;any NFL team&#8217; includes the Redskins, in spite of longstanding criticism over the team&#8217;s logo and name, as well as team owner Dan Snyder having been one of the most critical owners on the issue of players kneeling during the national anthem.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s a professional Super Bowl-caliber quarterback and in the best shape of his life and he would play if given the opportunity on any NFL team,&#8221; sources told Yahoo.
The Redskins are a controversial team, to say the least. The moniker &#8220;redskin&#8221; is widely recognized as an overtly racist term for a Native American, and social justice warriors have been pushing the team to adopt a more &#8220;modern&#8221; name for decades. Public opinion on the matter is generally split, but certainly Colin Kaepernick, who has made &#8220;anti-racism&#8221; the subject of his public protests, probably isn&#8217;t on the side of those who claim critics of the Redskins&#8217; name are being &#8220;overly-sensitive.&#8221;
Of course, the Redskins would have to roll out the red carpet to Colin Kaepernick first, and they don&#8217;t seem in a hurry to pick him up &#8212; or pick up any experienced quarterback, for that matter. Instead, the team is relying on aging QB Mark Sanchez backed up by Josh Johnson who, Yahoo news points out, hasn&#8217;t thrown a pass in nearly seven years.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/colin-kaepernick-would-reportedly-sign-with-any-nfl-team-even-the-washington-redskins">Fox News reports</a> that the Redskins have &#8220;discussed&#8221; signing Kaepernick but haven&#8217;t made any job offers and certainly haven&#8217;t scheduled any tryouts, even though they have a losing record and are looking increasingly desperate for talent. Coaches for the Redskins told Yahoo that they&#8217;re concerned about bringing in a brand new QB with only three weeks left in the season.
Kaepernick has been out of work for nearly two years, having left the San Francisco 49ers back in 2016. He claims that&#8217;s not because he lacks talent &#8212; though by the time he left San Francisco he was relegated to second-string QB &#8212; but because his anti-racism protests, which involved kneeling during the national anthem ceremony that takes place before each NFL game, made him a pariah.
Those same protests, which caught on after President Donald Trump publicly condemned them at a rally in 2017, have gone on to cost the NFL dearly, leaving stadiums empty and tickets unsold.
In a lawsuit filed this year, Kaepernick accused NFL team owners of coordinating with each other &#8212; and President Trump &#8212; to shut him out of the league. That lawsuit is reportedly in its &#8220;final stages,&#8221; meaning it could be close to a resolution or settlement.

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According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html?smid=tw-nytsports&amp;smtyp=cur">The New York Times</a>, some Washington Redskins cheerleaders taken to Costa Rica in 2013 for a calendar photo shoot were required to go topless, and had no idea that male sponsors and FedExField suite holders were granted access to watch them pose nude from the waist up.
The Times writes that the cheerleaders first thought something might be awry when Redskins officials collected their passports upon arrival at the adults-only Occidental Grand Papagayo resort on Culebra Bay, which left them without official identification.
Some of the cheerleaders were topless; others wore nothing but body paint, according to the Times. None of the pictures were used in the calendar.
The Times reports that one night, the squad&#8217;s director informed nine of the 36 cheerleaders that they were to serve as personal escorts for some of the male sponsors at a nightclub. The director allegedly said, &#8220;So get back to your room and get ready.&#8221; Some cheerleaders started to cry; one recalled, &#8220;They weren&#8217;t putting a gun to our heads, but it was mandatory for us to go. We weren&#8217;t asked, we were told. Other girls were devastated because we knew exactly what she was doing.&#8221;
The cheerleaders said they were not asked to have sex with the sponsors, but felt as if the situation was &#8220;pimping us out.&#8221; The cheerleaders were not paid for the trip, although transportation costs, meals and lodging were covered.

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In another attempt to pander to leftist special snowflakes, the director of the Green Acres School in North Bethesda, Maryland, has banned students and faculty from wearing any gear related to the Washington Redskins football team, claiming that the team logo is an insult against Native Americans. The football stadium where the team plays is about twenty miles from the school.
Sports Illustrated <a href="https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/08/29/maryland-school-bans-washington-redskins-gear-team-name">reports</a> that head of the school Neal M. Brown released a letter explaining the school&#8217;s decision:
<blockquote>
The local football team has been around a long time and has experienced great successes; loyalty to this beloved team and passion for the game of football are understandably strong among many of our students, families, and staff members,&#8221; the letter reads. &#8220;Clearly, there is nothing wrong with rooting for one&#8217;s team. 
At the same time, the term &#8220;Redskin&#8221; is a racial slur. Its use, whether intentional or not, can be deeply insulting and offensive. It is a term that demeans a group of people. Similarly, the team&#8217;s logo also can reasonably be viewed as racially demeaning. At best, the image is an ethnic stereotype that promotes cultural misunderstanding; at worst, it is intensely derogatory.
As such, having students or staff members on campus wearing clothing with this name and/or this team logo feels profoundly at odds with our community&#8217;s mission and values.
</blockquote>
Brown claims that the move happened after several students suggested that seeing their peers wear Redskins gear was &#8220;triggering.&#8221;
In the wake of the incident in Charlottesville, the left has placed pressure on a number of organizations to bend to their ideological whim, no matter how ridiculous. Forcing students to not wear their favorite team because someone&#8217;s feelings got hurt over a football mascot is nothing short of censorship. 
The Roman Empire regularly fed those who followed the teachings of Jesus Christ to lions as a form of entertainment. What if Christians complained about someone wearing a shirt with the Detroit Lions? Would the school be so quick to accommodate the request? Doubtful. The left is only interested in virtue signaling when it benefits their agenda of censorship against those who disagree. 
Redskins team owner Daniel Snyder insists that the team&#8217;s name is in fact a tribute to Native Americans and has refused to alter the mascot.

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