Back in Washington, Capitals fans celebrated into the night. “Mayor Bowser likes to say: ‘This isn’t your grandfather’s Washington DC,’” Mayor Muriel Bowser’s chief of staff, John Falcicchio, told the Guardian this week. “An NFL team employs local game day workers, but that works out to fewer than 100 full-time jobs, and these are minimum wage jobs. The major impediment might be a 2013 district council resolution that demands the NFL team change their team name from “Redskins” – which the council called “insulting and debasing”. A clear message that the sports town that was never a sports town is trying hard to really be a sports town.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2018 10:52 UTC