Super Bowl champ says he'd ask Trump to help get Redskins nickname back

President Donald Trump made a ‘controversial’ statement about the NFL, saying he wouldn't have changed Washington's name from Redskins to Commanders.

Jason Buck was a defensive lineman for the Washington Redskins when the team topped the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVI during the 1991 season.

The Redskins’ name changed in 2020 to the Washington Football Team and then to the Washington Commanders. 

As the team begins to build a legacy as the Commanders, team owner Josh Harris has no plans of going back to the old name.

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Washington Redskins defensive end Jason Buck reacts against the Buffalo Bills during the Super Bowl at the Metrodome in Minneapolis Jan. 26, 1992. (Manny Rubio/USA Today Sports)

President Donald Trump recently suggested that he believed the organization made a mistake changing the name.

Buck, a Native American, told TMZ Sports he wants to talk to Trump about the name and would tell him, "Stand with us and stand for common sense.

"It's like your grandma passed away, and your grandpa marries a new woman, and she comes in and takes all the pictures out of the house and puts hers up," he added.

"It's like, you just lost your family. It was devastating to everybody."

Commanders owner Josh Harris told Bret Baier on "Special Report" in April that, despite his plan to bring the team back to Washington, D.C., at the site of the old RFK Stadium, the Redskins name wouldn’t be coming back. 

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"The Commanders’ name actually has taken on an amazing kind of element in our building," Harris said. "So, the people that certain types of players that are tough, that love football, are