Well, you can’t please everybody.
After spending the first 18 years of the new millennium opposing all critics and defying anyone who wanted the Redskins name to be dropped (“you can use all caps”), Dan Snyder finally succumbed to direct pressure from major corporate sponsors 18 months ago and abandoned the moniker the franchise had used since 1933.
On Wednesday this week, in a spectacular event broadcast live and exclusively on the prestigious Today show, the Washington franchise announced to the world its new name: the Commanders.
Shortly after, in front of a handful of journalists and former players wearing varsity jackets outside and seated on metal folding chairs on a freezing February morning, there were brief comments by Dan and Tanya Snyder before the new uniforms and team logo were unveiled to hesitant applause from the assembled group.