Quote Originally Posted by pbmax View Post
Its possible there was pressure on Pollin to change the name, but if there was I don't remember it. He did it himself after the killing of a friend.
Yeah, I was glibly lumping the Bullets/Wizards and Redskins together under the same cause. I couldn't remember whether the Bullet name change process was purely internal or response to external pressure, but discomfort with the name in the context of DC urban violence certainly does ring a bell.