Mark Rypien, who won a Super Bowl MVP award playing for the then-Washington Redskins in 1992, said he does not like the new name Commanders for the team.
In an interview with Grant & Danny on 106.7 The Fan in Washington, Rypien said the team’s new name, the Washington Commanders was not growing on him.
“It never will. I never played for the Commanders. I absolutely support the Commanders and what they’re doing now. But I never played for them,” Rypien, 61, said. “It’s just this day and age now that we have to deal with. I just hope they don’t lose the fact that we were ‘Redskins.’ That’s all I played for. That’s what I knew, and that’s all we remember.”
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