Reality via Free Beacon: “In actuality,  then owner of the Boston Braves George Marshall chose the name to honor the coach William ‘Lone Star’ Dietz, himself purportedly of Native American descent.”

Via WFB:

LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: The name of the Washington football team was invented by white guys in 1933 when the team was then located in Boston. We don’t have notes from the naming session so we don’t know what else the team owner vetoed. Boston white skins? I doubt that made the list even though the team was very, very white. So what were the chances that the white guys in Boston in 1933 would come up with a racist term when thinking of people of different races? The chances were 100 percent.