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The Washington Redskins, a professional American football team based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area plays at FedExField, located in Landover, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland. It is headquartered and trains at Redskin Park in Ashburn, Virginia. Currently are members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Forbes Magazine has quoted the Redskins as the most valuable sports team in North America, valued at approximately $1.3 billion. They are the wealthiest team in the NFL generating around $300 million in revenue per-year.

The Redskins won the Eastern Division Championships in 1937, 1940, 1942, 1943 and 1945, and won the NFL Championship in 1937 and 1942. They defeated the Chicago Bears each time. They lost the 1940 and 1943 NFL Title Games to the Bears and the 1945 Title Game to the Cleveland Rams. The 1940 title game loss, 73-0, was the most one-sided loss in NFL history.The Redskins became the final pro football franchise to integrate, in 1962, in their second season in the stadium. First, the team drafted Ernie Davis, the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy. In 1969, D.C. Stadium was renamed Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, and the Redskins hired future hall-of-famer Vince Lombardi - who gained fame coaching with the Green Bay Packers - to be their new head coach. Lombardi led the team to a 7-5-2 record, their best since 1955, but died of cancer on the eve of the 1970 season.

For the 2004 season, Snyder successfully lured former coach Joe Gibbs away from NASCAR to return as head coach and team president. His employment came with a promise of decreased intervention in football operations from Snyder. After the end of the 2005 season, the Redskins were reportedly to be 20 million dollars over the salary cap. However, due to the NFL and NFL Players' Union agreement, the salary cap was raised to 102 million dollars. In the 2006 NFL Draft, the Redskins did not have a first round pick due to a 2005 trade used to acquire Jason Campbell with the 25th overall pick.

There is considerable controversy over the team's name and logo because various Native American groups view them as disrespectful and offensive. For most of the team's history, the Redskins logo has consisted of a profile of a stereotypical Native American. The team then briefly used a white and gold arrow for their logo during the late 1960s, and a maroon-colored "R" inside a white circle with long feathers from 1970 to 1971, a design that was inspired by Vince Lombardi. In 1972, the team introduced an updated version of the Native American profile logo that is currently used today.