This might be the lamest controversy of all time.

The Washington Commanders released their crest when they rebranded recently, and it includes the dates of the five team championships.

However, from Pro Football Talk:

…the years of the championships include the year the Super Bowls were played, not the seasons they came in, as the team’s fans noted. So while the Cowboys are recognized as the 1992 Super Bowl champions, the Commanders list 1992 as their championship season since the 1991 Washington team won Super Bowl XXVI on Jan. 26, 1992.

The team tweaked the crest, changing the years to Roman numerals of the game, Michael Phillips of the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. But NFL approval is required for all changes to logos and team identities, and the league denied Washington’s request, according to Phillips.

The NFL holds copyrights to the Roman numerals used as Super Bowl identifiers.

This is very dumb. This would be like the Eagles putting 2018 on their badge, when it should have said 2017, and then they go to put ‘LII’ on there instead, but the NFL says ‘no you can’t do that because we have the copyright for that.’ Nevermind the fact that the entity looking to use the Roman numeral is a TEAM THAT PLAYS IN YOUR LEAGUE.

This could very easily be solved by just changing the Super Bowl winning years to 1982, 1987, and 1991. Surely there are enough smart people in the Washington organ-eye-zation and National Football League to just make the corrections here and then we all move on with our lives.