Spike Lee wants the National Football League to put pressure on the owner of the Washington, D.C., team to change itscontroversial name.
While a guest Friday on theSiriusXM's The Joe Madison Show, the Oscar-winning filmmaker joined the renewed outcry for the rebranding, which has gainedmomentum amid the worldwide anti-racism protests and calls for actual racial equality.
Lee, who first mocked Roger Goodell as the overseer of the "No Freedom League," said the NFL commissioner should tell team owner Daniel Snyder the name and logo have got to go. "He should approach [Snyder] and say if the Confederate stars and bars, good ole boys, they could do that.