{"id":161621,"date":"2016-02-25T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=161621"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:06:28","slug":"british-lawmakers-write-to-roger-goodell-expressing-concern-over-redskins-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=161621","title":{"rendered":"British lawmakers write to Roger Goodell expressing concern over Redskins&#8217; name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Two British lawmakers have written to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to complain about the nickname of the Washington Redskins ahead of the team&#8217;s visit to London next season.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Smeeth and Ian Austin, who are members of the Labour Party in the UK&#8217;s House of Commons, wrote in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/feb\/25\/british-lawmakers-redskins-name-letter-nfl-goodell\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/feb\/25\/british-lawmakers-redskins-name-letter-nfl-goodell\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"British lawmakers write to Roger Goodell expressing concern over Redskins&#039; name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Two British lawmakers have written to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to complain about the nickname of the Washington Redskins ahead of the team&#8217;s visit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907620,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161621\/revisions\/1907620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}