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It's official — Washington's NFL team confirmed it's dropping the 'Redskins' name and logo after years of protests

Other major corporate sponsors, including PepsiCo and Bank of America, have also publicly supported the name change, which comes after months of protests in dozens of major US cities in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

President Donald Trump also waded into the reinvigorated calls for the name change, once again playing on racial tensions in a country already on edge from the global pandemic it's largely failed to mitigate. on July 6, "but now the Washington Redskins & Cleveland Indians, two fabled sports franchises, look like they are going to be changing their names in order to be politically correct.

According to Forbes, Washington's value as a sports franchise has fallen dramatically in past years, and not just because of its name.in 2019, "because the Redskins have been a train wreck on the football field for much of Snyder's tenure."Something is loading.

 

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Redskins Make it 'the Klingons' - no one will complain

They should drop the 'Washington' part as well and go full woke with something intersectional.

Progressivism is goin to fuck this world

Boycott the NFL. Overpaid thugs.

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