02-08-2025
Trump wants the Commanders to revert to their old name. Here's its history.
The world barely noticed in July 1933 when George Preston Marshall, the owner of the NFL's Boston Braves, announced his fateful decision to rename his team the Boston Redskins. The name would stay when Marshall relocated his team to Washington four years later, and eventually outlast Marshall, who died in 1969. It was pulled only in 2020.
