Edmonton Football Team asks fans to vote on possible name options

The CFL’s Edmonton franchise has released a shortlist of seven candidates for its new name.

The team dropped the name Eskimos last year.

It followed a similar decision by the NFL’s Washington team as pressure mounts on teams to eliminate racist or stereotypical names.

Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team has since announced it also is changing its name.

Edmonton’s survey, the second and final phase of the selection process, asks fans to rate the seven candidates from first to worst.

#EENameTime phase two begins now!

It’s your turn to rank the shortlist of seven names, one of which will be our new name! Give us your feedback 👇

💻: https://t.co/JsWh248nhV pic.twitter.com/ZEdLCApPPe

— EE Football Team (@EdmFootballTeam) February 8, 2021

The options are: Elk, Evergreens, Evergolds, Eclipse, Elkhounds, Eagles and Elements.

The team says the group selecting the name will take the results into account after the survey concludes Sunday.

The team says it had 14,833 submissions with 2,047 unique name entries in the first phase of the selection process.