Matthew McConaughey touts Redskins fandom as Commanders prep for NFC title game

Actor Matthew McConaughey showed disconnected his lifelong Washington Redskins fandom connected Sunday arsenic the team, present known arsenic the Commanders, got acceptable to play successful the NFC Championship.

McConaughey posted a photograph of a tiny letterman overgarment with the Redskins logo connected the near side.

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"Hailing since 1974," helium captioned the station connected X.

While it appeared to astonishment fans of the "Interstellar" prima that helium would beryllium a instrumentality of Washington, McConaughey talked astir his enactment for the NFL squad successful 2014. 

He told GQ magazine helium became a instrumentality due to the fact that of aged Western movies. He said helium "rooted for the Indians" and that due to the fact that helium liked hamburgers, helium liked the Redskins due to the fact that of their linebacker Chris Hanburger.

At the time, helium besides expressed support for keeping the Redskins nickname. Then-team proprietor Daniel Snyder had vowed not to alteration the sanction but did successful 2020 amid a summertime of radical hostility successful the U.S.

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"What interests maine is however rapidly it got pushed into the societal consciousness," helium told the mag astatine the time. "We were each good with it since the 1930s, and each of a abrupt we go, 'No, gotta alteration it?' It seems similar erstwhile the archetypal levee breaks, everybody gets connected board. I cognize a batch of Native Americans don't person a occupation with it, but they're not going to say, 'No, we truly privation the name.' That's not however they're going to usage their pulpit. 

"It's similar my feeling astir weapon control: 'I get it. You person the close to person guns. But look, let's hide that right. Let's hide the pleasance you get safely connected your range, due to the fact that it's successful the incorrect hands successful different places.'"

The Redskins sanction is inactive a hot-button contented for fans of the franchise. It appeared the aged logo volition beryllium honored successful immoderate way arsenic the franchise looks to physique a caller stadium connected the aged RFK site.

Now arsenic the Commanders, McConaughey inactive supports the squad and volition beryllium watching intimately arsenic Washington looks to marque the Super Bowl for the archetypal clip since the 1991 season.

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