Topic - Washington Football Team

The Washington Football Team, previously known as the Washington Redskins, is a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The team competes in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the NFC East division. The club plays its home games at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, with its headquarters and training facility located in Ashburn, Virginia.<!--(, and are one of only five franchises in the NFL to record over 600 total wins. The team was the first NFL franchise with an official marching band and a fight song, "Hail to the Redskins". - Source: Wikipedia

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In this file photo, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, left, speaks, accompanied by head coach Ron Rivera, during a news conference at the team's NFL football training facility, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020 in Ashburn, Va. Mr. Snyder has tapped D.C. attorney Beth Wilkinson to lead up an internal investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and a toxic work culture within the NFL franchise. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

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In this file photo, Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder, left, and his wife Tanya Snyder, listen to head coach Ron Rivera during a news conference at the team's NFL football training facility in Ashburn, Va., in this Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, file photo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) **FILE**

Tanya Snyder makes first extensive comments as co-CEO

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FILE - In this Thursday, July 21, 2011 file photo, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announces that NFL owners have agreed to a tentative agreement that would end the lockout, pending player approval in College Park, Ga. The process of building the NFL schedule used to be a painstaking one with executives like Val Pinchbeck spending months slotting the games one by one on his board until there was a final product for the commissioner to approve. Making late tweaks or looking at alternative options with a big game moving from early to late in the season weren't really possible for all the pieces of the complicated jigsaw puzzle to fit.(AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

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Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder, left, walking on the field with Team President Jason Wright, right, before the start of an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

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This Nov. 12, 2017, file photo shows Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder walking across the field before an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings in Landover, Md. Snyder has hired a D.C. law firm to review the Washington NFL team's culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct. Beth Wilkinson of Wilkinson Walsh LLP confirmed to The Associated Press that the firm had been retained to conduct an independent review. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

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FILE - In this Jan. 2, 2020, file photo, Washington Redskins head coach Ron Rivera holds up a helmet during a news conference at the team's NFL football training facility in Ashburn, Va. The Washington Redskins are undergoing what the team calls a “thorough review” of the nickname. In a statement released Friday, July 3, 2020, the team says it has been talking to the NFL for weeks about the subject. Owner Dan Snyder says the process will include input from alumni, sponsors, the league, community and members of the organization. FedEx on Thursday called for the team to change its name, and Nike appeared to remove all Redskins gear from its online store. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2011, file photo, Arizona Cardinals running back Jason Wright, center, talks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Washington Football Team has hired Jason Wright as team president. He’s the first Black person to hold this job in NFL history and at 38 becomes the youngest team president in the league. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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