Commanders' Josh Harris maintains team name is here to stay

Josh Harris, the controlling proprietor of the Washington Commanders, said Monday helium has nary plans to alteration the team’s nickname and that it has been catching connected with fans.

The erstwhile administration’s determination to alteration the team's nickname caused a ton of blowback from fans. Daniel Snyder renamed the enactment the Washington Football Team from the Washington Redskins amid a summertime of radical hostility successful the U.S. successful 2020. Then the squad was renamed the Commanders from there.

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Washington Commanders proprietor Josh Harris looks connected from the sidelines anterior to the crippled against the San Francisco 49ers connected December 31, 2023, successful Landover, Md. (Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

Harris made wide the squad sanction would enactment put.

"I deliberation it’s present being embraced by our team, by our culture, by our coaching staff, so, we’re going with that," Harris said. "Now, successful this building, the sanction Commanders means something. It’s astir players who emotion football, are large astatine football, deed hard, mentally tough, large teammates. It’s truly meaningful that that sanction is increasing successful meaning."

Bringing the Redskins nickname and logo backmost has been a taxable broached a fewer times since Harris took over.

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Washington Commanders proprietor Josh Harris is shown anterior to the crippled against the Dallas Cowboys successful Landover, Md., connected Nov 24, 2024. (Geoff Burke-Imagn Images)

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said successful November "good religion negotiations" astir honoring the team’s history, including the Blackfeet main logo that the enactment utilized for decades, helped lawmakers and the enactment travel to a woody connected the RFK Stadium tract successful D.C.

"As acold arsenic rebranding and bringing (back) our past, which evidently I grew up with and each the Super Bowl championships and our aboriginal together, you’re going to spot america caput backmost towards honoring our past and bringing it unneurotic with our future," Harris said.

Harris said talks are ongoing with Maryland, Virginia and D.C. officials astir a caller stadium and enactment 2030 arsenic a "reasonable target" for opening.

"I grew up with a large stadium, and I recognize what it’s similar to play successful a stadium wherever it’s hard for the visiting squad to play," Harris said, referring to RFK Stadium, the team's erstwhile location successful Washington from 1961-96 earlier moving to Landover, Maryland. "We request to person a large spot wherever our fans tin amusement up, and, arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, we privation that to beryllium an vantage to our squad successful presumption of winning connected the field."

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said a stadium successful D.C. could beryllium a "huge economical driver."

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"I deliberation it tin beryllium large for our nation," Goodell said. "I retrieve that arsenic a kid increasing up, the powerfulness of that. If that’s the champion alternative, I deliberation it would beryllium a large thing."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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