After watching More Than a Word, which dissects the history of the Washington Redskins football team, it has been interesting to see how things have changed since that documentary was released in 2017. The past year, the Washington football team has actually removed the R-word from their name, going simply as the Washington Football Team, in addition just days ago, the Cleveland Indians have announced they plan to change their name soon. While both of these are long past due and should have changed decades ago, the fact that they are now willing to change on their own accord and not due to legal matters gives me hope that while so much has gone wrong this year that this is indicative of more change to come in the future. Even now there are plenty of fans who are upset with the name changes, and my hope is that now that the teams themselves have decided to change their names this will shed some light upon those fans who have refused any change so far. If these people start to realize how many people, including those whom the name is meant to honor, have found the names offensive then that could possibly lead to further change in other domains outside of sports team names and we could become a more respectful society overall. But who knows if these recent changes will have any greater impact outside of their own teams.