The Commanders play their fight song "Hail to the Commanders." Some traditions over time have to be tweaked. The NFL franchise in Washington used to be called the Redskins and the song was known ...

By the start of the 1938 season, the Washington Redskins Marching Band had been assembled. Step two was to come up with an appropriately jaunty and rousing team fight song. The band members ...

At Washington & Lee in Arlington ... the Redskin band director who had written the music to the Redskins fight song. Breeskin, smelling an opportunity for revenge in the strained negotiations ...