Super Bowl Champ Says He'd Ask Trump To Help Get Redskins Nickname Back

Jason Buck was a protect lineman for nan Washington Redskins erstwhile nan squad topped nan Buffalo Bills successful Super Bowl XXVI during nan 1991 season.

The Redskins’ sanction changed successful 2020 to nan Washington Football Team and past to nan Washington Commanders. 

As nan squad originates to build a bequest arsenic nan Commanders, squad proprietor Josh Harris has nary plans of going backmost to nan aged name.

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Washington Redskins protect extremity Jason Buck reacts against nan Buffalo Bills during nan Super Bowl astatine nan Metrodome successful Minneapolis Jan. 26, 1992. (Manny Rubio/USA Today Sports)

President Donald Trump precocious suggested that he believed nan statement made a correction changing nan name.

Buck, a Native American, told TMZ Sports he wants to talk to Trump astir nan sanction and would show him, "Stand pinch america and guidelines for communal sense.

"It's for illustration your grandma passed away, and your grandpa marries a caller woman, and she comes successful and takes each nan pictures retired of nan location and puts hers up," he added.

"It's like, you conscionable mislaid your family. It was devastating to everybody."

Commanders proprietor Josh Harris told Bret Baier on "Special Report" successful April that, contempt his scheme to bring nan squad backmost to Washington, D.C., astatine nan tract of nan aged RFK Stadium, nan Redskins sanction wouldn’t beryllium coming back. 

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"The Commanders’ sanction really has taken connected an astonishing benignant of constituent successful our building," Harris said. "So, nan group that definite types of players that are tough, that emotion football, are delegated Commanders, and Jayden [Daniels], for example, is simply a Commander, and they're ranked. 

"And, you know, nan business unit has gotten into it, and, obviously, we're successful a subject metropolis here. There's much subject unit than anyplace else. So, we're benignant of moving guardant pinch nan Commanders name, excited astir that and not looking back."

While he whitethorn not person changed nan name, Trump thinks immoderate squad that wins will instrumentality pinch fans nary matter what. That’s precisely what Washington did past season, reaching nan NFC title crippled for nan first clip successful almost 3 decades nether caller backmost Jayden Daniels.

Washington Commanders controlling proprietor Josh Harris, from left, signs a helmet on pinch District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell aft an announcement astir a caller location for nan squad connected nan tract of nan aged RFK Stadium April 28, 2025, astatine nan National Press Club successful Washington.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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"But, you know, winning tin make everything sound good," Trump said earlier this month. "So, if they’re winning, each of a abrupt Commanders sounds good. But I wouldn’t person changed nan name."

Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.