No, it doesn’t force them to do anything but it does mean that anyone and I do mean anyone can use their logo an trademark without paying the team one thin dime... so effectively they and the NFL will lose millions of dollars of revenue a year. This is nothing more than extortion.
There is no part of government liberals will not abuse to get their way.
The NFL logo is still trademarked so only Redskin merchandise bearing that shield would be officially sanctioned products. There would be a substantial loss of income, but it would not mean all such revenue would be lost.
Except that these people are not "liberals." While I am a Conservative in the classic sense, I respect classic "liberals," as having intellectual integrity. The National Socialists in Washington have no intellectual integrity. Their "liberalism," is cut from the same philosophic cloth as was Hitler & Roehms, when in 1933, without outright seizure of property, as their Bolshevik cousins had, they appropriated the attributes of private property.
William Flax
No, they cannot. They can still be sued for infringement. Registration doesn’t create a trademark. The team still has its common law rights in its mark(s). Do not start selling Redskins shirts. Harry Reid doesn’t know the law.