Washington Post calls on Skins' owner or NFL to change name

Washington Post editorial board is calling on Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to change his football club's name.

Under heline, “Change name of Washington NFL team. w,” newspaper says in an editorial posted online Friday that if Snyder won’t switch nickname, professional football league itself ought to do so.

“This should be an easy call. Mr. Snyder — or, if Mr. Snyder refuses to back down from his declaration of “NEVER,” NFL — should take vant of this singular moment in history to get on right side of history,” Post says. “Change name. W.”

Snyder has owned team since 1999 and stefastly vowed to keep name, despite calls to reconsider, a push that has resurfaced during ongoing national reckoning over racism.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser last week called name “an obstacle” to team building a new stium and hequarters in nation's capital, where a project likely would be on land leased by federal government. club currently has its stium in Maryland, and its practice facility in Virginia.

“I think it’s past time for team to deal with what offends so many people,” Bowser told Team 980 rio station. “This is a great franchise with a great history that’s beloved in Washington, and it deserves a name that reflects affection that we’ve built for team.”

On Friday, at site of team’s former home, RFK Stium in Washington, ncy that mans that arena removed a statue of former franchise owner George Preston Marshall, who moved team from Boston to Washington. Marshall resisted integrating team with Black players until “forced to do so” in 1962, according to his biography on Pro Football Hall of Fame website.

Marshall was inducted into Hall in 1963; he died in 1969.

Events DC officials called removal “a small and overdue step on ro to lasting equality and justice.”

Redskins did t immediately comment on statue's removal.

ir current stium has a section named in hor of Marshall and he is also in team’s Ring of Fame.

Since death of George Floyd in Minnesota, protests have erupted around world, with much of conversation centered on systematic racism and police brutality against Black people in U.S.