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Jason Buck was a defensive lineman for Washington Redskins as the team topped Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl XXVI in the 1991 season.
Redskins’ name changed in 2020 to Washington football teams and then to the Washington commanders.
As the team begins to build a legacy that commanders, team owner Josh Harris has no plans to go back to the old name.
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Washington Redskins Defensive End Jason Buck responds to Buffalo Bills during the Super Bowl at Metrodome in Minneapolis January 26, 1992. (Manny Rubio/USA Today Sports)
President Donald Trump recently suggested he believed the organization made a mistake of changing the name.
Buck, an Native American, told TMZ Sports that he wants to talk to Trump about the name and would tell him, “stand with us and stand for common sense.
“It’s as if your grandmother died and your grandfather marries a new woman and she comes in and takes all the pictures out of the house and puts her up,” he added.
“It’s like, you just lost your family. It was devastating to everyone.”
Commanders Owner Josh Harris told Bret Baier on “Special Report” In April, despite his plan to bring the team back to Washington, DC, at the place of the old RFK Stadium, the Redskins name would not return.
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“The commander’s name has actually taken on a fantastic form of element in our building,” Harris said. “So the people as certain types of players who are hard, the love football are delegated commanders and jayden [Daniels]is, for example, a commander and they are ranked.
“And you know the business staff has come into it, and of course we’re in a military town here. There are more military staff than anywhere else. So we are moving a little forward with the commander’s name, excited about it and not looking back.”
Although he may not have changed the name, Trump thinks a team that wins will stick to fans, no matter what. That’s exactly what Washington did last season and reached the NFC Championship game for the first time in almost three decades under the new quarterback Jayden Daniels.
Washington commanders who control owner Josh Harris, under the Left, sign a helmet with the District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell following a announcement of a new home for the team on site of Old RFK Stadium April 28, 2025, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
“But you know that wins can make everything sound good,” Trump said earlier this month. “So if they win, suddenly sounds good. But I wouldn’t have changed the name.”
