Will Financial Pressure Finally Force Dan Snyder to Change His Team's Name?

data-mm-id=”_qzyrt14n9″>There has been relatively consistent pressure around the Washington football team to change their offensive name for most of this decade. As America's sensitivity towards racial issues have heightened significantly over the last month and a half, that pressure has grown . To an extent, Washington has listened; they took down the statue of former owner George Preston Marshall, who had to be forced by the government to racially integrate his team in the early 1960s. They also renamed the lower bowl of FedEx Stadium in honor of their first black player, Bobby Mitchell, after retiring his number. And yet the team name, coined after a derogatory term for Native Americans, remains. While it is good that no part of the stadium or its grounds pays homage to its for…