Changing the Redskins name would be a windfall for Dan Snyder

This story was filed on February 22, 2013

Regarding Sally Jenkins’s Feb. 14 Sports column, “It’s time grown-ups talk sense into Snyder“:

Now is the perfect time to change the Washington Redskins’ name, which many people find offensive, Native Americans in particular. Team owner Dan Snyder would do well to stop resisting it.

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation)

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