Post-Redskins, Washington has long road toward new name

When the University of North Dakota moved on from being the Fighting Sioux like Washington's NFL team is doing from Redskins, the new name could've been anything.

More than 1,600 suggestions were submitted, ranging from the realistic to the ridiculous, like the "Abdominal Snowman."

Dan Snyder isn't welcoming that long list of suggestions, though what he and the organization do next will determine how the team is perceived for decades.

"Here's where I think the fun begins and the work begins," said Brand Federation founding partner and CEO Kelly O'Keefe, who was on North Dakota's name change task force. "To just pop out with a new name is not the right answer. The right answer is to build a…