Nike has removed Washington Redskins name, gear from official store website

FedEx may have made the public statement heard around the sporting world on Thursday when they publicly asked for the Washington Redskins to change their name, but Nike might have hit them where it hurts.

New reports are surfacing that Nike has removed all Redskins-related gear from their NFL merchandise website, Nike.com. The website has every team listed on the left side of the page, and the Redskins are the lone team missing from that list.

In a separate report from ESPN’s Josina Anderson, stating that team owner Dan Snyder had ‘no official plans’ to address the name change, a picture of the Nike website was featured, with no results coming up for the search ‘Redskins.’

As of tonight I'm told Dan Snyder has no official plans to address the renewed call to change t/ Washington team name. While internally they say no other owner has contributed more to the Native American community monetarily &/w time pressure is rising for him to address publicly pic.twitter.com/HQd9CdIGAG

— IG: JosinaAnderson (@JosinaAnderson) July 3, 2020

Nike has not released an official statement declaring that Washington changes its team name, but the message seems to be loud and clear.