If there is one truism about Washington it’s that money talks. It talks so loudly that even iron held positions can be reversed, flipped and scrubbed away.
“We’ll never change the name,” Washington owner Dan Snyder told USA Today in 2013 of the “Redskins." “It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.”
Well, never is a long time (or SEVEN years) and it has a price tag, of course. In recent days major corporate partners such as FedEx, Nike and PepsiCo began severing ties and asking others to sever ties with the franchise unless it changed the name.