NFL Washington Franchise Retiring Name, Resonates With Some In Oklahoma

Tuesday, July 14th 2020, 5:44 pm

By: Alex Cameron

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -

The National Football League’s Washington franchise will no longer be known as the Redskins.

The team has decided to retire the name and logo it has used since 1933, amid growing complaints that the name is offensive to Native Americans.

Alex Cameron is in our News On 6 Washington Bureau with the details and reaction from Oklahoma and Washington leaders.

Alex Cameron

Alex Cameron is Griffin Media’s Washington Bureau Chief, reporting from our nation’s capital on issues that impact Oklahomans. An award-winning journalist, Alex first joined the News 9 team in 1995, and his reporting has taken him around the world, covering stories in Bosnia, Colorado, Washington, D.C., Seattle, New York and Ukraine. 