Jason Kelce’s first game as an NFL game analyst did include one fumble.The former Philadelphia Eagles center has been a studio analyst for ESPN’s Monday Night Football coverage, but had not called a live game until Sunday in London, where the Indianapolis Colts beat the Washington Commanders – or as Kelce referred to the team, ‘the Redskins.”The Redskins right now are doing a great job of not only staying tight but making the play when the ball is in the receiver’s hand and keeping it short of the sticks,’ the 38-year-old media personality told play-by-play announcer Dave Pasch on NFL Network.The giggling Pasch wasn’t surprised by the mistake. While ‘Redskins’ is considered by many to be a derogatory racial slur, it did serve as the team’s name for 87 years dating back to its 1933 inception in Boston. In fact, the franchise was known as the Washington Redskins for most of Kelce’s 13-year NFL career.’Commanders,’ Pasch said. ‘You did it.”What’d I do?’ Kelce asked. Jason Kelce speaks with Colts head coach Shane Steichen before Sunday’s game in LondonPasch then informed Kelce of his rather understandable mistake, leading the Super Bowl winner to admit defeat.’Oh, my gosh!’ Kelce responded. ‘I almost made it out… Well, sorry, Washington.’As Pasch revealed, he, Kelce and fellow analyst Kurt Warner had a gentleman’s bet over who would be the first to make that exact mistake on Sunday in London.Kelce did not receive much online criticism over the mistake, but was instead celebrated by conservatives.’Jason Kelce confirmed Redskins truther,’ read an X post from Fox News’ conservative sports and culture website, Outkick.Many others thanked Kelce for using the team’s ‘real’ name, which remains a divisive topic across the country.After years of defending the controversial name, then-team owner Dan Snyder dropped ‘Redskins’ in 2020 as the country was going through a racial reckoning in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis Police.The origin of ‘Redskins’ is disputed, according to a 2016 Washington Post article that claimed it was first used as a pejorative as early as 1863 in Minnesota.’The State reward for dead Indians has been increased to $200 for every red-skin sent to Purgatory,’ read an announcement in The Winona Daily Republican. ‘This sum is more than the dead bodies of all the Indians east of the Red River are worth.’ While many fans wanted to keep ‘Redskins’ as the team name, critics pointed to racist imagery to argue in favor of a name change. Ultimately, in 2020, ‘Redskins’ was dropped in Washington The American Indian Movement of Colorado and Idle No More protest as the bus carrying members of Washington’s football team arrive at Denver’s Mile High Stadium in 2013 By 1898, Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary began defining ‘redskin’ with the phrase ‘often contemptuous.’A 2016 Washington Post poll found that 90 percent of the 504 Native American respondents were ‘not bothered’ by the team’s name. Snyder ultimately wrote an open letter, defending his decision to keep the moniker by citing the study.However, that survey and other similar studies have been slammed by journalists and social scientists as being unreliable.’The reporters and editors behind this story must have known that it would be used as justification for the continued use of these harmful, racist mascots,’ read a statement from the Native American Journalists Association. ‘They were either willfully malicious or dangerously naïve in the process and reporting used in this story, and neither is acceptable from any journalistic institution.’In March of 2020, UC Berkeley revealed a study that found that more than half of its 1,000 Native American respondents were offended by the team name. What’s more, the National Congress of American Indians as well as the National Indian Education Association have called for an end to the use of indigenous team mascots.