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

When the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled the Washington football team’s trademark registration last week, it upset a lot of fans. Most notably, a group of Virginia legislators who have formed the “[Washington football team]” Pride Caucus,” a bipartisan group of lawmakers who represent the fans of the team in Virginia, a release states.

The caucus, which was formed by State Senator Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax City), Delegate Jackson Miller (R-Manassas), and Delegate David Ramadan (R-Loudoun), plans to act as a voice of support for fans and season ticket holders of the team and franchise. In a release, here’s their “founding principles:”

#1- Providing a voice for [Washington football team] fans and season ticket holders.

#2- Supporting the [Washington] franchise, a Virginia-based business that generates hundreds of millions of dollars in taxable revenue for schools, roads, public safety and other important public services in the Commonwealth.

#3- Opposing the inappropriate involvement of the United States Congress in issues surrounding the [Washington] franchise and its supporters.

#4- Supporting commercial freedom in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the rights of businesses to their own brands and intellectual property.

That third principle mostly refers to the letter that 50 members of Congress sent to the NFL last month urging the league to take action against the team’s name. Speaking with the Post, Ramadan said that those Congressman should “go work on other issues and leave our Virginia businesses alone.”

Though the team is billed as the “Washington” football team, they play in Landover, Md. and the team’s actual headquarters is in Ashburn, Va. Additionally, the team’s training camp is in Richmond, Va.

Miller, Ramadan, and Petersen (who writes on his website that “ironically, the most disparaging sports names—“Yankees,” “Fighting Irish,” “Canucks”—continue on undisturbed.”) announced the formation of their new caucus at the General Assembly Building in Richmond this afternoon.