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Redskins: Riggo’s Rag Podcast – Discussing the name change

LANDOVER, MD - SEPTEMBER 15: A Washington Redskins helmet on the sidelines during the first half of the game between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys at FedExField on September 15, 2019 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

The Redskins impending name change has not only been the largest story in D.C. over the past couple days, but perhaps the largest story in the NFL.

Since 1937, the franchise of Sammy Baugh, Joe Gibbs, and Darrell Green, among others, has been nicknamed the Washington Redskins. For the entirety of the team’s time in Washington D.