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Washington NFL team to use 'Washington Football Team' for now, sources say

Effective immediately, Washington will call itself the "Washington Football Team" pending the adoption of a new name, league sources told ESPN.

This is not a final renaming and rebranding for the team; this is the name it wants to use until pending adoption of a new name at some point.

The team will continue the process of retiring the former name and hopes to be entirely rid of it on physical and digital spaces in the next 50 days, by the Sept. 13 regular-season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Washington will not have any change to its color scheme.