When Washington Redskins head coach Ron Rivera spoke about social injustice, and when the team removed the name of George Preston Marshall from their Ring of Honor, the name was always in peripheral view. It wasn’t the focus; not yet. But one could tell the natural progression seemed to be inching closer to the team’s mascot.
Now, the natural progression has proven that intuition to be correct. Yesterday, FedEx, Washington’s stadium sponsor and one of the team’s closest business partners, announced that they had asked the Redskins to change their name, otherwise faced with the risk of separation and monetary loss.