Washington’s professional football league (NFL) franchise becomes the Washington Football Team for the 2020 season, she announced Thursday, ten days after relinquishing her Redskins name criticized for its racist connotation towards Native Americans. “The decision to use + Washington Football Team + for this season allows the franchise to pursue an in-depth branding policy that will take into account the views of current and former players, fans, the community and sponsors,” the franchise said. team which will also remove its logo, a Native American in profile flanked by two feathers. This new name is provisional, the franchise having wanted to give itself more time to find a new one and thus definitively end a story that began in 1933: it was then called Redskins and was based in Boston before moving to Washington in 1937. .
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