Washington Football Team facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Washington Football Team |
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| Established | July 9, 1932 | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Burgundy, gold |
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| Fight song | Hail to the Redskins (as the Redskins) | ||||||||||||
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| Owner(s) | Daniel Snyder | ||||||||||||
| President | Jason Wright | ||||||||||||
| General manager | Ron Rivera (de facto) | ||||||||||||
| Head coach | Ron Rivera | ||||||||||||
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National Football League (1932–present)
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League championships: 5
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Conference championships: 5
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Division championships: 14
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| Playoff appearances (24) | |||||||||||||
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The Washington Football Team are a professional American football team based in the Washington, D.C. area. The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland. The team's head office and training area are at Redskin Park in Ashburn, Virginia. They are part of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
The team began in Boston. They were first named for the Boston Braves baseball team. They were soon renamed the "Redskins". They kept that nickname after moving to Washington. Some consider it offensive to name a team after a race or ethnic group, resulting in protests and legal challenges, but the team owners have refused to think about changing the name.
On June 18, 2014, the United States Patent Office decided that they were going to cancel the Redskins trademarks and called the name "disparaging to Native Americans".
In 2020, the team announced that there would be a review of the name. On July 13, 2020, the team plans to officially retire the "Redskins" name, although they have not chosen a new team name yet.
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George Preston Marshall founded the team in 1932 and served as its owner until his death in 1969.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon meeting with the team, 1971
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The Washington Football Team playing against the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VII
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Joe Theismann at the Washington Football Team training camp in 1983
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FedExField has served as the team's stadium since 1997
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Sean Taylor, the team's first-round draft choice in 2004, was shot and killed by home invaders in 2007 while rehabbing from an injury.
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The Washington Football Team, wearing their 1970 throwback uniforms, gather at the line of scrimmage against the New York Giants, 2007
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Quarterback Robert Griffin III, the team's first-round draft choice in 2012, won the league's offensive rookie of the year award while leading the team to their first division title since 1999.
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Kirk Cousins is one of only three quarterbacks in franchise history to throw for over 4,000 yards in a single season, doing so three times.
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The depiction of a Native American as a team logo was introduced in 1937 and was used in various forms until it was retired in 2020.
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The uniform style most commonly worn by the team throughout most of the 1980s to the 2010s.
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The team's uniforms in 2020, following the retirement of the Redskins branding
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Mark May, offensive lineman for the Washington Football Team between 1981 and 1989, was named one of the 70 Greatest Redskins
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See also
In Spanish: Washington Commanders para niños
