The Washington Commanders are open to changing their name, but that doesn’t appear to be something that will happen anytime soon.
Washington finally changed its name in 2020 amid continued backlash. The franchise briefly re-branded as “Washington Football Team” in 2020 (winning the NFC East that year) before going with the Commanders in 2022. A whopping 58% of fans said they don’t like the team’s new nickname in a poll recently conducted by the Washington Post.
“As you would imagine, everybody has an opinion about the name,” Majorie Harris, the wife of Commanders majority owner Josh Harris, recently told NBC Sports. “Some good, some bad, some in the middle. I think that we have a lot of work to do, so that name issue is gonna be on the side for now until we can get things going.
“Quite frankly, I had a whole day out in the community, and I kept referring to the team as the Commanders. And you know what? It sounds pretty good to me. So for now, it’s the Commanders.”
Based on Harris’ comments, it appears that, while they are open to a name change, Washington’s brass has other things it wants to tackle first. Even if a name change eventually happens, it doesn’t appear to be happening anytime…
