Redskins’ stadium bid could be blocked over team name – 07-02

The Redskins played at RFK Stadium (previously D.C. Stadium) from 1961-1996 before moving to FedEx Field (aka Jack Kent Cooke Stadium) in Landover, Md., in 1997.

In order to convince the team to build a new stadium at that location, Bowser would need to extend the city’s lease of the 190 acres beneath RFK beyond the 22 years it now has left.

The Redskins now play in FedEx Field, which is in Prince George’s County, but D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has been lobbying to have the team return to the city itself by building a new facility where Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium now stands. However, team owner Dan Snyder absolutely refuses, saying that the name will remain the same for as long as he is owner.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, who oversees national parks and the USA trust and treaty agreements with Native American tribes, has echoed the president’s concern over the controversial nickname.

A bid for a new National Football League stadium in Washington, D.C., could be blocked unless the franchise is willing to change the team name from Redskins. “So, personally, I find it surprising that in this day and age, the name is not different”. In fact, he’s brazenly denied any inherent wrongdoing with the “Redskins” name, despite the whole world thinking otherwise.

Change the Mascot is a grassroots campaign that works to educate the public about the damaging effects on Native Americans arising from the continued use of the R-word. However, the recent push to remove the Confederate flag from various public locales has demonstrated that even entrenched symbols aren’t immune from change or removal, regardless of the heritage and pride those symbols’ supporters extol.

Snyder said he will “NEVER” change the name.

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