Article 6YSTG Trump wants to force the Commanders to revert to a racist name. It’s unlikely he can

Trump wants to force the Commanders to revert to a racist name. It’s unlikely he can

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Beau Dure
from US news | The Guardian on (#6YSTG)

The president launched a broadside at Washington's NFL team as well as the Cleveland Guardians. But the teams and their fans have largely moved on

Haven't the fans of the Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians suffered enough?

For decades, each team had to endure the twin indignities of on-field futility and off-field scorn. Until last year, when they enjoyed a resurgence under rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels, the Washington NFL team had won exactly only one playoff game in the 21st century. Cleveland's baseball team have been competitive this century, but they once went 41 years between playoff appearances (from 1954 to 1995) and came out on the losing end in the whose drought will end?" World Series of 2016, in which the Chicago Cubs won the championship for the first time in 108 years at the expense of Cleveland, whose epoch without a World Series win now stands at 77 years.

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