Sterling characters, in basketball and football

One of the distinctions between professional basketball and professional football is that if the owner of a basketball team, Donald Sterling, privately makes a racist remark about blacks to his girlfriend, the basketball commissioner fines him $2.5 million and boots him from the sport.  If the owner of a football team, Daniel Snyder, publicly sells clothing emblazoned with his team's name (Redskins, a derogatory term for Native Americans), the football commissioner does nothing much, and in fact calls the Washington Redskins name a "unifying force that stands for strength, courage, pride, and respect."  Whether Mr. Snyder and the football commissioner would take so cheerful a view of a team nickname that stood for the same qualities in their own ancestors is a question that so far they haven't answered in public.