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"But, right now, we're focused on things that unify the team around our football team. And unify the city around our football team. And the first objective is, we gotta start winning football games.", '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm0b4eawq001x3b7jyt62yrhk@published'}, {'data': {'text': ""And we need everyone supporting the team and not things that might drive people apart. Secondly, obviously, we're trying to find a new home. And again, unifying the city around that is important.", '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm0b4p1hy00333b7jby98elxr@published'}, {'data': {'text': ""And the name is one of those things that [inspires] a lot of opinions, but I mean I can't say, I'm certainly not forgotten about it. Like I said, I grew up here. And so, I understand it. We're gonna start to do things that bring us back to our heritage, honoring our past. You saw the gold pants, those are easy things to do."", '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm0b4t5l7003b3b7j0nvrfw5q@published'}, {'data': {'text': "Harris added that they organization is "doing research" and "thinking about" the way the name Commanders is received, "but right now, we're prioritizing the things that we've talked about and that's kinda the rationale for it."", '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm0b4w3l6003i3b7j2wkofylr@published'}, {'data': {'text': "While Kevin Sheehan acknowledges that Harris' answer on the old name was "not acceptable" to most Washington football fans, "when he says that there are obvious reasons on why the name can't come back, I do think that those obvious reasons are obvious to him and they are obvious to certain people in the media, perhaps the media at large, and those reasons would be 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