Raven Ziegler from Minneapolis protests the name nickname of the Washington team. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)

It’s been another rough week for Dan Snyder and his Washington football team, and a good week for people who hate racism.

Yesterday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled the team’s trademark registration, saying that the team’s name is “disparaging to Native Americans” in its 177-page opinion. This isn’t the first time that’s happened—a similar thing happened in 1992—but the ruling was overturned by a federal court. To no ones surprise, the team announced that they’ll appeal the ruling, but, like last time, that could be a while.

With the future of the team’s trademark up in the air, the pressure for Snyder to change the team’s name is escalating. Earlier today, investors with the FedEx Corporation, who is a major sponsor of the team—with the team’s stadium being named “FedEx Field” and all—filed a shareholder proposal asking the company to “respond to reputational damage from its association with the Washington D.C. NFL franchise team,” according to Trillium Asset Management, one of FedEx’s investors.

The lead filer of the proposal is The Oneida Trust of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin (The Oneida Indian Nation, a different Oneida organization, has been leading a public campaign against the team’s name since the beginning of last season), who, along with Mercy Investment Services and Calvert Investments, are asking FedEx to address the issue. “As investors, we believe that the FedEx board and management must address the reputational risks linked to its sponsorship of the Washington NFL team franchise. Each time a game is broadcast or the team name mentioned, the company is perceived as supporting disparaging and racist language,” Jonas D. Kron, Senior Vice President and Director of Shareholder Advocacy at Trillium Asset Management, LLC said in a statement “Concern over the team name has grown over the past eighteen months, with heightened calls to change it.”

But the Washington football team’s bad week doesn’t stop there. The Seattle Times—Washington state’s largest daily newspaper—declared today that they’re joining the numerous publications who are refusing to use the team’s disparaging name. “We’re banning the name for one reason: It’s offensive,” Sports Editor Don Shelton writes on the newspaper’s website. “Far from honoring Native Americans, the term colors an entire race. Many Native Americans consider it an outdated label placed on their people.”

However, while the pressure for Snyder to change the team’s name mounts, there’s a majority of people still think the name shouldn’t be changed. Here in D.C., most team fans support the name, a Washington Post poll found last summer. And moreover, many current and former players think there’s nothing wrong with the name, like former tight end Chris Cooley, who, along with his radio show co-host Steve Czaban, think it’s all part of the “guilt-ridden white liberal sportswriters” agenda. From DC Sports Bog:

Czaban: It’s a cause. They need a cause to feel good about themselves. They will then say it doesn’t matter if it’s 70, 80 percent — if one person is offended, then that’s enough.

Cooley: You know what, Steve? We need a cause. You and I need a cause. And you know what that cause is going to be? I don’t like the Chargers because I want to protect the ozone, all right guys? I feel like there’s a global warming issue, and I don’t like the name Chargers, because they’re promoting electricity. Eff electricity, and eff the Chargers name. I have a problem with them. All I’ve got to do is a pamphlet and 10 percent of a couple people and maybe a Senator or two that wants to protect the ozone and we’re off and running.

Galdi: Call Olbermann. Call Deadspin.

Cooley: I don’t want just money; I want power too. I want to create power with this. I want to create a name for myself out of this. This is for me.

Cool story, bros. Meanwhile, Hail to the Landover Racists?