Mayor Muriel Bowser Backs Redskins Name Change, Pushes for Team to Play in D.C.
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said she supports plans to change the name of Washington’s NFL team from the Redskins.
And she again pushed her wish for the team to play in a stadium located inside the city.
“We want to change the name and change the location,” Bowser said.
“You’ve heard me say that a number of times that the Washington football team should be playing in Washington.”
The franchise announced it is dropping the “Redskins” name and Indian head logo, bowing to recent pressure from sponsors and decades of criticism that they are offensive to Native Americans.
A new name must still be selected for one of the oldest and most storied teams in the National Football League, and it was unclear how soon that will happen.
But for now, arguably the most polarizing name in North American professional sports is gone at a time of reckoning over racial injustice, iconography and racism in the U.S.
The move came less than two weeks after owner Dan Snyder, a boyhood fan of the team who once declared he would never get rid of the name, launched a “thorough review” amid pressure from sponsors.
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.
The team used to play at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington. In recent years, however, it has played its games at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, a few miles east of the District of Columbia.
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