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For now, the team will identify as the Washington team.
By Derrick Bryson Taylor
N.F.L. The team will abandon the Redskins logo and adopt a call for a fictitious team until it can on a permanent call, the organization said Thursday, weeks after declaring it would bow to the tension of sponsors and activists and abandon the call it has used for nearly 90 years. .
“For reasons of clarity and brand consistency, we’ll call ourselves ‘the Washington football team’ waiting for the adoption of our new name,” the team said in a press release, adding that the logo would be removed through the get started in the 2020 season in September.
The team also said it would deploy an aesthetic that would set the direction of the new franchise as it changes.
On Thursday, the team’s Twitter account and the official website took the call and transitority logo, a giant W, photographs of the original logo remained in some positions, and their Internet ability to use the previous call remained unchanged.
The team also tweeted a design for new uniforms, featuring its existing color palette and a number on their profile helmet drawn from a Native American face.
The team announced the upcoming “Washington Football Team” products and shared their prototypes of the transitority logo, uniform concepts and box designs that included an N.F.L. logo in midbox. The finishing spaces in his simulated box design indicated “Washington, East Football Team”. 1932. »
Team officials did not respond to messages requesting comments on Thursday. It was not without transparent delay if the enthusiasts, if spectators were allowed the coronavirus pandemic, could bring products with the old logo to the games. Nor was it transparent whether the team would eventually replace their unique burgundy and gold colors, a resolution sought through Native American teams and nearly 150 federally identified tribes in a letter sent to N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell this month.
The team is scheduled to open its season on September 13 against the Philadelphia Eagles.
On July 13, 10 days after pronouncing that it would review the 87-year-old team’s call and under increasing pressure from Native American sponsors, enthusiasts and activists, the team announced that it would abandon its logo and so-called “Redskins,” a term many have long had a racial slur.
The team’s owner, Daniel Snyder, had in the past refused to cooperate to convert the team’s call, but said the new call “would take into account not only the proud culture and history of the franchise, but also the contribution of our students. , the organization, the sponsors, the National Football League and the local network that prides itself on and off the field.”
The call’s replacement came after weeks of national unrest after George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis last May, and much of the country moved temporarily to replace old depictions that use racist symbols.
Last month, the Washington franchise spent several days cutting a memorial and memorabilia in honor of its former owner, George Preston Marshall, of the team’s amenities and their website. The replacement comes when the team lobbied to recognize Marshall’s resistance to signing and recruiting African-American players and their resolution in 1933 of calling the Redskins. A Marshall memorial, held in front of R.F.K. The stadium, the team’s former stadium, was undone through a municipal firm after being demoted.
Last week, the team returned to the spotlight, with 15 women reporting being sexually harassed while being hired through the team.
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