From Erik Brady, the reporter who coaxed famous 'NEVER' quote from Washington owner Daniel Snyder, on the team's review of it's name: 'It is a moment I could feel coming.'
This quote, too, contained the word “never,” but its tone was measured and its content in line with things he’d said previously. Next I asked him about Amanda Blackhorse, the Navajo woman who, as lead petitioner in a federal trademark registration case, sought to cancel the team’s marks.at the time and had asked her what she would say to Snyder if she ever had a chance. “I’d ask him, ‘Would you dare call me ‘a redskin,’ right here, to my face?’ ” she’d told me. So I asked the question for her.
And then I asked if he would consider changing the name should his team lose the Blackhorse case. His voice rose an octave, sounding on the edge of anger. And that’s when he uttered the line about NEVER, complete with suggested typography. So on Friday, when another release announced that the football club was launching a thorough review of its team name, I called Blackhorse to ask her about the events of the past couple of days, in which Federal Express and other big-money sponsors joined the change-the-name movement.
Blackhorse said she had long understood that it was going to take sponsor dollars to make Snyder rethink the notion of never.
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