Marshall, however, had a reputation as a racist. He was the last NFL owner who refused to sign black players 鈥?the federal government forced him to integrate in 1962 by threatening to cancel the lease on his stadium. When he died in 1969, his will created a Redskins Foundation but stipulated that it never support "the principle of racial integration in any form."
And Dietz, the namesake Redskin,
Scarpe Air Max Scontate, may not have even been a real Indian. Dietz served jail time for charges that he falsely registered for the draft as an Indian in order to avoid service. According to an investigation by the Indian Country Today newspaper, he stole the identity of a missing Oglala Sioux man.