Yesterday, the Washington football team ended their disappointing 2014 season with a predictably lousy 44-17 loss against the Dallas Cowboys. It marked the end of a season plagued with key injuries, a new coach still trying to figure out the team, and, of course, the ever-tightening grip of owner Dan Snyder.

It also marked the end of a season that saw the movement to get the team to change its name and mascot grow. At yesterday’s finale at FedEx Field, more than 100 Native American activists marched and rallied against the team’s name, outside of the stadium. The rally, as the Post reports, was met with, uh, less than cordial response from Washington fans flocking to the game.

Here’s an excerpt from the scene at FedEx Field yesterday from the Post:

One man held up his middle finger, demanding to know why the demonstrators weren’t in Kansas City (home of the National Football League’s Chiefs) or Tallahassee (Florida State Seminoles), places with teams that have Native American mascots. He screamed expletives until his voice cracked.

Earlier this season, Native American activists in Minnesota organized a much larger rally outside of the team’s game against the Vikings at the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium. The protest, which activists say was the largest anti-Washington football team rally to date, featured more than a thousand people.

Though the season is over, the campaign to get the team to change their name and mascot isn’t. The National Congress of American Indians is currently crowdfunding to pay for a new anti-Washington ad to be released in time for the Super Bowl.

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