There is renewed pressure on the Washington professional tackle football team to change its racist nickname/logo, which is good and I’m glad and hope perhaps there is enough leverage this time to make it happen.
Yesterday I discovered that there is some groundswell for changing the nickname to Red Wolves (or Redwolves or ReddWolvezzz; there are no rules here) that includes ex-Washington corner Fred Smoot.
“It is an endangered species. It allows us to keep the ‘HTTR,’” Smoot said. ”It allows us to keep the burgundy and gold. It allows us to have some crazy uniforms.