The Washington Redskins have officially ditched their team name and announced their new temporary name on Thursday which they will have throughout the upcoming football season.

The new name? The Washington Football Team.

"Effective immediately, Washington will call itself the “Washington Football Team”, pending adoption of a new name, sources tell ESPN. This is not a final renaming and rebranding for team; this is the name it wants to use until pending adoption of a new name in the future," reports Adam Schefter.

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Check out what USA Today reported:

The franchise announced Thursday that it has decided call itself the "Washington Football Team" throughout the upcoming season as it continues to finalize a replacement name and logo for "Redskins," which will be formally retired once the games begin.

The team will keep its burgundy and gold color scheme but play with new jerseys when the season kicks off Sept. 13. The Indian head logo on the helmets will be replaced with players' jersey numbers. 

Washington dropped its old name and logo earlier this month amid continued pressure from activists and key sponsors. It has not publicly revealed a timeline for its formal rebranding process or when a new name might be revealed.

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"The decision to use 'Washington Football Team' for this season allows the franchise the ability to undertake an in-depth branding process to properly include player, alumni, fan, community, and sponsor input," said the franchise in a statement. 

The name change was immediately mocked online by the football community.

NBA star Lebron James commented, "Just waking back up from my pregame nap to see about The Washington Football team???. Is that real?? No way! Oh man they had a thorough intense long board meeting about that one huh."

"If you hate the name Washington Football Team just thank the woke social justice warriors who canceled the Native American who created the redskin logo, sits at home, tweets all day, DOESN’T watch sports and puts black leotards on at night to go burn cities down," tweeted Kambree.

She added: "In 1971, Walter "Blackie" Wetzel, a chairman of the Blackfeet Tribe who dedicated his life to advancing Native American civil rights, met with the Washington football Team and persuaded them to drop the team’s “R” logo in favor of an image of a Native American warrior."

Football star Dez Bryant tweeted: "Who you play for? The Washington football team.. naw that ain’t it. For some reason that alone makes me feel it won’t be a football season.. I’m sad seriously."

Parody Twitter account 'Sean Spicier' tweeted: "Given their record the last 20 years, Washington “Football Team” is more offensive than the last one."

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