Former Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall's granddaughter Jordan Wright isn't sad to see her grandfather's statue go, and believes the team needs to do more.
“No, not at all — not one damn bit,” she said, via the Washington Post. “I was glad to see it come down. It’s past time to see it go.”
Marshall was the first owner of the team, founding it in 1932 in Boston and moving it to Washington, D.C. later. There were some good things he did with changing the game, but there was a lot he did wrong. The Redskins were the last team to integrate and he only did it because otherwise, he might have lost his lease for his stadium.
With all the talk about social injustice the last few weeks, it has brought up the debate about the team needing to change their name. Wright said it's a new age, and with that needs to be a name change.
“It’s a new age,” Wright said. “It has been. But there have been a lot of people living in a bubble that, let’s just say, their consciousness hasn’t been raised, even though there’s every kind of evidence that it should be by now.”
Current Redskins owner Dan Snyder has said many times that he won't be changing the name, but people can always change their mind.
Ron Rivera, Washington's new head coach, has been very outspoken the last few weeks, and if he starts speaking out about the name, things could get very interesting in the nation's capital.
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