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While most of Washington fans are anxiously awaiting their football team’s first playoff match-up with the Green Bay Packers this Sunday, the folks at Change the Mascot are already thinking about what happens if the team makes it all the way to the Super Bowl.

In a letter to CBS, the advocacy group requests that the station “commit to refrain from using the name of the Washington professional football franchise in its broadcast” of the biggest game of the year, “because that name is a dictionary-defined racial slur.”

“Our point was that we wanted to be on the record now,” says Change the Mascot spokesperson Joel Barkin. “Since we began our campaign, the team never even smelled the playoffs, let alone made it to the playoffs.”

The letter notes that some CBS broadcasters like Phil Simms (as well as other media outlets, like this one) have already opted not to use the team’s name, though Barkin says that “it should go beyond that and extend to the whole network. The Super Bowl is a unique global event. It would not only reflect poorly on the NFL, but on all of America if they used their name.”

Media representatives for the team have not returned requests for comment.

The team also made news this week by hiring Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group to design a new stadium, though it remains a mystery where exactly the new building would go.

“Public money, which inevitably will be used to build a new stadium, should not be going to build and support the continued use of a dictionary-defined slur,” says Barkin.

The team has played at FedExField in Landover, Maryland since 1997, and will face off against the Packers there at 4:40 this Sunday.

A recent ruling in federal court already gave Snyder a big win, by calling the provision used to take away the Washington football team’s trademark “unconstitutional.”