Though new Commanders ownership may be considering another name change, the team’s former nickname is officially off the table.
Speaking at a dinner hosted by David Rubenstein and the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Mitchell Rales—one of the top partners in the ownership group led by Josh Harris—shut down any further speculation that new leadership was considering going back to the franchise’s former moniker.
“That ship has sailed,” Mitchell Rales said, per Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post. “We’re not going to re-litigate the past. We’re about the future. We’re about building the future and not having a divisive culture that we’re engaged in. We’re going to look at everything come the end of the year and think about a lot of different things and do a lot of testing and see what people think. And we’ll learn. The beauty is we have the time to look at all of this stuff intelligently and make fan-based decisions.”
