What’s In a Name?

Published June 18, 2014 2:01pm ET



The white-hot issue of what to call the professional football team currently playing its home games in the vicinity of the nation’s capital just got hotter. Earlier this week, Senator Harry Reid said he wouldn’t accept comp tickets (truly a first for a sitting senator) to the team’s games so long as it continued to be called the “Redskins.”

Now, as Theresa Vargas reports in the Washington Post:

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