‘Kimmy Schmidt’ Reality Check: Did First Redskins Coach Really Fake Being an American Indian?

Yes, William “Lone Star” Dietz was the NFL team’s first coach — and his background has been questioned

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(Spoiler alert: Please do not read until you have finished watching Season 2 of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”)

No sooner does Jane Krakowski‘s down-on-her-luck socialite find herself developing romantic feelings for a wealthy attorney in the second season of Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” then she learns an unfortunate truth about him.

Krakowski’s Jacqueline White, an American Indian who has long been passing for white, discovers that the family of her beau, Russ (David Cross), owns the Washington Redskins — or, as the TV sports commentator says on the show, “the team that is from Washington.”

“We Snyders love our football,” Russ says — an apparent nod to the NFL team’s real-world owner, Daniel Snyder.

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