Report: Dan Snyder has no ‘official plans’ to address call to change Redskins name

As pressure for Dan Snyder to change the Redskins name has increased, the owner reportedly has no intention of making a statement.

The calls for Dan Snyder and the Washington Redskins to change their name have gotten extremely loud over the last couple of days, but a new report from ESPN’s Josina Anderson states that Snyder does not plan on addressing any of these any time soon.

According to Anderson, Snyder “has no official plans to address the renewed call to change t/ Washington team name.”

The biggest call for a name change came on Thursday afternoon when FedEx, one of the Redskins biggest sponsors, released a statement saying that they had requested the team change its name going forward. The request from FedEx came a day after several investment firms and shareholders encouraged FedEx, Nike, and PepsiCo to terminate their relationship with the team unless a change to the name was made.

While losing the FedEx relationship would be huge — Washington plays at FedEx Field, and the CEO of FedEx is a minority owner of the Redskins — the pressure to change the name would only grow as more companies threaten to end their relationship with the team going forward. The feeling around Washington circles is that FedEx was simply the first domino to fall, and several more might follow.

Snyder might not have any plans to address the name change at the moment, but you can almost guarantee that if another big-name sponsor threatens to pull out unless changes are made, he’d start to consider it a bit more. Stay tuned going forward.

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