{"id":243834,"date":"2022-02-02T16:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=243834"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:30:19","slug":"washingtons-nfl-team-unveils-new-name-as-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=243834","title":{"rendered":"Washington&#8217;s NFL Team New Name &#8211; Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main_body\" class=\"container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"row content-details no-gutters clearfix ng-star-inserted\">\n<div id=\"details-main-div\" class=\"col-12 ng-star-inserted\" tabindex=\"1\">\n<div id=\"story-details\" class=\"container-fluid p-0\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters d-flex\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-5 col-lg-6 col-12 max-reading-w order-last order-lg-first\">\n<div class=\"meta-block\">\n<div id=\"storycontent\">\n<div class=\"content-block\">\n<div class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\n<p id=\"story_summarycontent\" class=\"summary ap-serif d-block mb-3 p-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WashingtonCommanders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-243837\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WashingtonCommanders-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WashingtonCommanders-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WashingtonCommanders-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WashingtonCommanders.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Washington\u2019s NFL team is now known as the Commanders. The new name was unveiled 18 months after the once-storied franchise dropped its old moniker following decades of criticism that it was offensive to Native Americans and under fresh pressure from sponsors. The organization committed to avoiding Native American imagery in its rebrand after being called the Washington Football Team the past two seasons. Washington joins Major League Baseball\u2019s Cleveland Guardians among North American major professional sports teams abandoning names linked to Native Americans. Washington as the Commanders is keeping the same burgundy and gold colors that were around for the three Super Bowl championships in the 1980s and early \u201990s glory. days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington\u2019s NFL team is now known as the Commanders. The new name was unveiled 18 months after the once-storied franchise dropped its old moniker following decades of criticism that it was offensive to Native Americans and under fresh pressure from sponsors. The organization committed to avoiding Native American imagery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":243836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243858,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243834\/revisions\/243858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/243836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}