Ex-NFL coach appears to support Redskins nickname: 'They should go back'

Former Indianapolis Colts caput manager Chuck Pagano expressed his privation for the Washington Commanders to instrumentality to the Redskins nickname they utilized from 1933 to 2020.

Pagano made the remark portion connected "The Pat McAfee Show" Thursday. 

He was breaking down Thursday night's New York Giants’ matchup against the Dallas Cowboys.

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Indianapolis Colts caput manager Chuck Pagano during the 2nd 4th against the Baltimore Ravens astatine M&T Bank Stadium successful Baltimore Dec. 23, 2017. (Tommy Gilligan/USA Today Sports)

He appeared to misspeak erstwhile helium said the Giants should person beaten "the Redskins."

McAfee noted that squad is "not successful the league" arsenic helium tried to laughter it off.

"They should spell back," Pagano said. "That’s wherefore I said it."

McAfee and the unit laughed it off. Pagano said if determination were a petition, he’d motion it.

"We’ll enactment that down arsenic ‘noted,’" McAfee said.

Former squad proprietor Daniel Snyder changed the team’s sanction from the Redskins to the Washington Football Team earlier the commencement of the 2020 play amid a summertime of radical hostility crossed the United States.

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Washington Commanders proprietor Josh Harris looks connected from the sideline during a crippled against the San Francisco 49ers astatine FedEx Field Dec. 31, 2023 successful Landover, Md.  (Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

He past rebranded the squad as the Commanders.

Current squad owner Josh Harris has made it wide a instrumentality to the aged sanction was not going to happen.

"For evident reasons, the aged sanction can’t travel back," Harris told reporters successful August, via The Athletic. "But, close now, we’re focused connected things to unify the squad astir our shot squad and unify the metropolis astir our shot team. The archetypal nonsubjective is we gotta commencement winning shot games, and we request everyone supporting the squad and not things that volition thrust radical apart.

"Secondly, obviously, we’re trying to find a caller home. Again, unifying (the) metropolis astir that is important and, so, the sanction is 1 of those things that person a batch of opinions … but I surely haven’t forgotten astir it. Like I said, I grew up here. So, I recognize it."

Dan Quinn, who joined the Commanders arsenic caput manager earlier this year, wore a Redskins T-shirt astatine a property conference, which drew criticism.

However, there’s been a increasing propulsion to person the Redskins sanction returned to prominence successful the organization.

The household of John Two Guns White Calf, a Blackfeet main who served arsenic the look of the Washington Redskins for 48 years, wants his representation backmost successful the NFL, relatives told Fox News Digital earlier this month.

Blackfeet Chief John Two Guns White Calf, left, was the inspiration for the look that appeared connected Washington Redskins helmets and merchandise from 1972 to 2000. (FPG/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive and Will Newton; some from Getty Images)

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Two Guns White Calf’s arrogant representation adorned Redskins helmets, T-shirts, playing fields and selling materials from 1972 until 2020.

Fox News' Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.

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