Another HUGE development in the movement to change the name of the NFL's Washington team ... with a major business partner pushing to drop the moniker.
FedEx -- which has spent MILLIONS for the naming rights to FedExField in Maryland over the years -- is joining major leaders and asking Redskins owner"We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name," the company said in a statement.
For years, Washington said Native Americans didn't have a problem with the name so they refused to make a change.... saying the name is deeply offensive and needs to be changed immediately. "It’s time for the players to rip down that name like it was a statue of a Confederate general in their locker room," NCAI president
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