So if you think you have a better name than Washington Football Team, you’d best hurry up and get it to washingtonjourney.com by April 5th. Washington Football Team is the generic name the club came up with when it announced last July that it was “retiring” its nickname and logo, widely considered to be offensive to Native Americans, after 87 years. So Washington Football Team remains in play. “I think they can do better than ‘Football Team,’” Scott Rosner, a sports business professor at Columbia University says. “Football Team” replaced the nickname last year because the club had to use something.

Source: The Irish Times March 31, 2021 08:03 UTC