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Originally Posted by cotmfk
They moved to DC from Boston. They were the Boston Braves. Don't remember when they switched to Redskins.
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They were only the Braves for one season. George Marshall changed the name as there was already another team named the Braves (baseball?) and he didn't want people confusing his team with any other teams. Then head coach Lone Starr Dietz supposedly chose 'Redskins' as the name. I'm going off of memory but I believe that's more or less the story behind 'Redskins'.