After nearly 50 years, it finally happened.
The team, which still used the name several times in its statement, did not say when the “thorough review” would end or when the name change would take place. It is still unclear whether it will use the name during the 2020 NFL season, which begins in September.asked the team to change its name
The change is a massive victory for tribal activists and organizations that oppose the use of Native American mascots at all levels of sports because they contribute to harmful stereotypes of the peoples they depict. And it’s a major ― if long overdue ― shift for the NFL and for Snyder, who in 2013 promised in USA Today that he would “Washington’s NFL franchise has used the Redskins name since 1933, when the team was still located in Boston.
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