This is simple. It's financial pressure. Dan Snyder is on record saying he would never,

and he said, end quote, capital, never changed the name of the Washington Redskins.

It's two names that got this change, FedEx and Nike.

It's official. After 87 years, the Washington football team is changing their name.

It's a change that many have felt was long overdue,

but one that team owner Dan Snyder has always staunchly resisted.

Today, why he finally caved,

how fans and players are reacting to the news.

And what's next for the Washington named TBDs?

I'm Mina Kimes.

It's Tuesday, July 14th.

This is ESPN Daily.

John, how's it going?

It's been a little bit busy, Mina.

You might be having the busiest offseason.

Well, the Cowboys are busy right now, too, with all the Deck Prescott stuff, but you're

pretty busy.

It was, I think it was July 6th, and a couple things happened. I told my wife, I said,

I'm about to work an 18-hour day on July 6th in NFL offseason. What is going on? And it turns out

that that was actually probably a pretty good day in hindsight. John Kahn covers the Washington,

D.C. based NFL team for ESPN. Since we are talking about names,

I do feel it's necessary to point out, you are John Kime, I am Minokimes, two different names,

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