WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid says the National Football League is more concerned with air in footballs than the Washington Redskins' ''racist'' name.
Reid spoke on the Senate floor a day after the NFL suspended New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for the first four games of the upcoming season for his role in a scheme to deflate footballs used in the AFC title game. The league also fined the Patriots $1 million and took away two draft picks.
The Nevada senator said he wished Commissioner Roger Goodell would act as swiftly to change a name that denigrates Native Americans as he did about ''enough air in a football.