The Oakland Raiders are going through a period of transition and due to that move towards a new regime at the top of the franchise, longtime CEO Amy Trask left the team and now is a member of a new studio football show on CBS Sports.
Trask is now going to be an analyst on That Other Pregame Show, which is a four-hour block on CBS Sports Network that will air on Sundays. According to USA Today, she will be the first woman who ran an NFL team to be an analyst, as she was with the Raiders for over 25 years and she was CEO since 1997 and she stepped down from her position earlier in the year and now is on television.
Trask spoke with Peter King for the MMQB column "10 Things I Think I Think" and while she delved into a number of topics, one of the most interesting things she touched on was the name of the Redskins, which has been in the news multiple times all year with fans and others calling on Daniel Snyder to change the name, since it has such hateful and racist meaning.
Trask wrote on the column on her number three "things I think" that the Redskins should change the name. She says that if the league and the team wants to inspire people, they should change it since the word is offensive and she adds that the team could do something meaningful for people. Trask described Al Davis as being a person that did not see gender or race, as evidenced by her own job as well as when he gave Art Shell his chance as head coach.
Trask's hire was met with positive reviews from certain websites and she brings plenty of knowledge and experience that many other analysts do not to a studio show.
"I have always tried to do my job as best as possible without regard to gender," Trask said. "I've always felt if I have not considered my gender to be an issue, it will be less likely that others will consider it an issue."
