It's today explained I'm Sean Ramasferum and I'm standing outside RFK Memorial Stadium

in Northeast Washington, D.C.

It looks kind of like a dying, rusty, convertible spaceship.

Washington's professional football team hasn't played here since about 1996, but on Juneteenth,

just about where I'm standing, there was this big production because a monument was removed.

It was a tribute to a guy named George Preston Marshall.

Marshall is best known for pioneering the halftime show, the fight song, the forward pass,

and for being a raging bigot.

He bought the Boston Braves football team in 1932.

A year later he changed the team's name to the Redskins, and in 1937 he moved his team

to Washington, D.C.

It was the NFL's last team to integrate in 1962, 15 years after other teams had begun

drafting black players.

And he acquiesced only after the federal government threatened to kick him out of its federal

district.

Not before Marshall's statue was removed a few weeks ago, protesters covered it in red

paint.

On the sides of it, they scrawled a message, change the name.

Bit of a hail, Mary?

But it appears to have worked.

Some major news out of the NFL.

Washington's NFL team retiring its controversial nickname.

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