Indians removing Chief Wahoo logo from uniforms.
The cartoonish image of a big-toothed American Indian with a scarlet face and a single feather in his headdress will come off the team’s jersey sleeves and caps starting with the 2019 season.
“Major League Baseball is committed to building a culture of diversity and inclusion throughout the game,” Manfred said in a statement. He said the logo “is no longer appropriate for on-field use.”
The decision is unlikely to quell complaints from Native American organizations and others who see the symbol as offensive. The Indians will continue to wear the Wahoo logo in 2018, and even after it is gone from the uniform, the club will still sell merchandise featuring the mascot in the Cleveland area.
You know what? I’m a recovering alcoholic (play along), the name Milwaukee BREWERS triggers me. I want it changed!!!
ht/ brown eyed girl
Then what does this mean for the Downs Symphony Orchestra?
As for their record, changing the Brewers name might not be a bad idea.
At least they gave themselves another year to sell as much Chief Yahoo paraphernalia as possible. I bet the price of everything goes up. You’ve got to buy them before you can’t.
Use the image of a real Indian like Elizabeth Warren.
Or Chief Iron Eyes crying about pollution.
What? He was Italian?!!! Crap.
Just put a red dot on his forehead and make him a representative of Microsoft…..
Time to go to Fanatics.com and stock up (They have a really nice Under Armour hat w/ the chief on it. Not a huge Clevberg fan (nickname with which my brother used to tease his Shaker Heights roommate), so I don’t want to spend the spare cash, but others might.
Does this make watching the movie Major League a hate crime?
I’m an insensitive progressive jerk destined for hell (right after I make this nation a living hell for everyone else), and the Angels name and halo logo triggers me. I want the name changed to the “Los Angeles Unbelievers In All Things Religious Of Anaheim,” or LAUIATROA for short.
And I’m also against exploiting wildlife for commercial gain, so trade Mike Trout immediately and ban Tim Salmon from LAUIATROA stadium.
I think Chief Wahoo should be the poster boy of DACA. He’s been here since 1914….just a boy’s dream to be an American logo….
Wahoo McDaniel’s, a yesteryear wrestler, could be used as a replacement logo. He came out wearing a full headdress and his famous move was a tomahawk chop. Ask McMahon for details.
Cleveland management are pussies for caving to this politically correct logo change bullshit.
I am not PC and have absolutely no intents of even remotely becoming so.
Add MLB to the NBA and NFL list of leagues that i’ll never watch again.
FFFFFFF them.
Caved to Political Correctness.
Won’t solve any problems and only means that the dumbed-down, self-absorbed, spoon-fed, celebrity-obsessed, White guilt-ridden, Birkenstock-wearing, bottled-water-drinking, kumbaya-singing, Xanax-disabled, Rainbow Plantation, COEXIST bumper-sticker, Liberal cry baby “Victims” will be even more emboldened to destroy something else!
Corona – We have Browns Syndrome here in Cleveland!
They could set off a real firestorm by adopting this team mascot.
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I guess the Indians may just as well change their name and also leave Cleveland. I think Cleveland may as well ask the BROWNS to leave!! Cleveland, as with Detroit, is a “loser town, but at least they still have the Cavs……and the proud memory of Dennis Kucinich!!!!
Is that Dodgers, as in Draft?
So Fauxcahontas sued THEM for infringement, and because it’s Cleveland, they folded faster than Superman on laundry day? 🙄
If they can’t use Chief Wahoo and be the Cleveland Indians; may I suggest the Cleveland Muzzies.
With all the latinos nearby maybe we’ll see the New York Yanquis soon.
Baseball loses it balls. News at 11.
It might come off the uniforms, but will never go away. You can’t go anywhere here in northern Ohio without seeing it in one form or another. Just makes all the old stuff more valuable. The fans will not give it up. I happen to know one or 5000 of them, and it will not go away. Now maybe the four people who protest in front of the stadium three or four times a year will stop showing up.
it’s only because the chiefs eyes are not really shaded like triangles. it’s purely for the aesthetics and symmetry in appearance and we don’t have those fucking beaver teeth either, you forked tongue paleface!
Sorry, will read through the comments, after I post. This sucks…sonsabitches caved and as a NE Ohio gal who grew up with Chief Wahoo….it just sucks. I hate political correctness and I lose respect for those who cave to it.
@ShakeNbake – you got it brother – Chief Wahoo will not go any time soon.
upon pondering this ‘situation’, my brain extrapolates (never a good thing) …. I truly believe the New York ‘Yankees’ should change their name …. I mean, who wants to support a team named after a self-induced quickie? … not a good lesson for the children at all!
… & why did the NY Jets name themselves after a cis-gendered, dancing NY street gang?
… & why did the Cleveland Browns decide to discriminate against Cleveland Blacks?
In honor of their stellar state leadership, the Indians will be known as the “Our Fathers Were Mailmen”. It’s got a native American ring to it. It was that or ‘Pandering For Fans.’
The Indians have no dicks.
It was offensive to
stupid leftist white people.
Chief Nokahoma was the name I liked back in the day.
“Knock a home(run)” for those in Rio Linda.
F*ck Cleveland. Cesspool.
The left will just find other things to go after these owners for. Now that they know the owners will cave.