NFL fans demand Donald Trump restores team's controversial former name

Donald Trump's predetermination triumph implicit Kamala Harris this week has sparked a bold sports question wrong the NFL community. 

With the 78-year-old poised to reassume power of the White House, hoards of Washington Commanders fans person called connected the president-elect to intervene connected their behalf to alteration the franchise's sanction erstwhile again. 

In the aftermath of the Republican candidate's triumph astatine the ballot container Tuesday, old-school NFL fans person urged Trump to person the enactment to restoring its archetypal sanction - the Washington Redskins. 

The squad played arsenic the Washington Redskins from 1937, erstwhile they relocated to the nation's superior from Boston, until 2020 erstwhile erstwhile proprietor Dan Snyder succumbed to years-long unit and dropped the name, which is considered violative to Native Americans.

The franchise began a lengthy rebranding process successful 2020, archetypal becoming the Washington Football Team connected a impermanent ground earlier adopting the 'Commanders' successful 2022. 

However, successful the days aft Trump reclaimed the White House, the fanbase has called connected the president-elect to overturn the politically close moniker. 

'Donald Trump should unit the NFL to rename them to the "Redskins",' 1 instrumentality wrote connected X, formerly known arsenic societal media.

'Can we commencement calling Washington the Redskins again Tomorrow,' different said successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday morning. 

'It’s clip we bring backmost the Washington Redskins,' different declared successful the aftermath of Trump's election, portion 1 protagonist chimed in, 'Can we alteration the sanction backmost to the Redskins now?'

'Time to bring backmost the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians #MAGA #Trump,' 1 instrumentality posted, besides referring to Cleveland's MLB team, which changed it sanction from the Indians to the Guardians successful 2022.

'64% of Native Americans voted for Trump. Bring backmost the Indians and Redskins. End the politically close nonsense.,' different alleged.

One shared an representation of a antheral peering astir a curtain, adding: 'Me checking to spot if we tin telephone Washington the Redskins again yet…' 

In 2023, a Native American radical called connected the Commanders to revert backmost to the Redskins to 'put an extremity to cancel culture.' 

However, the franchise, which came nether caller ownership past year, is simply a backstage entity and Trump, arsenic president oregon president-elect, has nary authoritative authorization implicit the team's decisions. 

The franchise's erstwhile sanction and logo were 2 of respective controversies Snyder faced during his tenure arsenic proprietor earlier helium sold to a Josh Harris-led consortium successful 2023. 

Amid radical hostility crossed the state and the aftermath of the George Floyd riots successful 2020, the enactment was yet forced to alteration its sanction erstwhile sponsors threatened to propulsion their deals. Trump besides mislaid his re-election bid aboriginal that year. 

The caller ownership radical includes Harris, who besides owns the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers , arsenic good arsenic Los Angeles Lakers fable and Dodgers co-owner, Earvin 'Magic' Johnson.

An NFL squad has to hold 5 years earlier it tin rebrand again. However, determination is an objection if a caller ownership takes charge.

During their 'Redskins' years, the squad did person a dark-skinned, mohawked mascot adorned with loin cloth featuring the club's logo.

The nine originated successful Boston, wherever then-owner George P. Marshall had wanted to telephone them the 'Braves' but opted for his 2nd prime owed to the beingness of the city's National League shot team, which has since moved connected to Milwaukee and Atlanta.

The term's root is disputed, according to a 2016 Washington Post article, that claims it was archetypal utilized arsenic a pejorative arsenic aboriginal arsenic 1863 successful Minnesota.

'The State reward for dormant Indians has been accrued to $200 for each red-skin sent to Purgatory,' work an announcement successful The Winona Daily Republican. 'This sum is much than the dormant bodies of each the Indians eastbound of the Red River are worth.' 

By 1898, Webster's Collegiate Dictionary began defining 'redskin' with the operation 'often contemptuous.'

A 2016 Washington Post canvass recovered that 90 percent of the 504 Native American respondents were 'not bothered' by the squad name. Snyder yet wrote an unfastened letter, defending his determination to support the moniker by citing the study.

However, that survey and different akin studies person been slammed by journalists and societal scientists arsenic being unreliable.

'The reporters and editors down this communicative indispensable person known that it would beryllium utilized arsenic justification for the continued usage of these harmful, racist mascots,' work a connection from the Native American Journalists Association. 'They were either willfully malicious oregon dangerously naïve successful the process and reporting utilized successful this story, and neither is acceptable from immoderate journalistic institution.'

In March of 2020, UC Berkeley revealed a survey that recovered that much than fractional of its 1,000 Native American respondents were offended by the squad name.

The Supreme Court ruled successful 2017 that a trademark instrumentality barring disparaging presumption infringes connected escaped code rights. Prior to that, the United States Patent and Trademark bureau had tried to revoke the Redskins' trademark due to the fact that it was a radical epithet.

Before the 2021 season, the squad banned fans from wearing headdresses to location games.