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DeltaBoy

January 29, 2018, 01:13:50 pm
http://www.latimes.com/sports/mlb/la-sp-indians-wahoo-20180129-story.html


The Cleveland Indians have agreed to remove the big-toothed, red-faced caricature from their jerseys and caps starting in the 2019 season.

The Indians have used the Chief Wahoo logo since 1947, but Major League Baseball has pressured the team to end its use. The Indians will be allowed to use the logo this year, then remove it from team uniforms in 2019, when Cleveland plays host to the All-Star Game.

PC strikes again!!! :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.
-- Major General Patrick Cleburne
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than the Arkansans--fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond
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pignparadise

January 31, 2018, 07:15:40 pm #1
Gone the way of Jumpin Joe
"The race is long.. and in the end it's only with yourself.....", Baz Luhrman "Sunscreen"
 

Karma

February 24, 2018, 02:37:42 pm #2
What if a team called itself "The Arkansans" and the mascot was a shoeless hick? Would you like that characterization?

The Wahoo mascot is overtly racist.

jrulz83

February 24, 2018, 09:17:01 pm #3
I need to get a Chief Wahoo hat.
Lenin is cautiously optimistic.

southarkhog06

February 26, 2018, 01:37:58 am #4
Quote from: Karma on February 24, 2018, 02:37:42 pm
What if a team called itself "The Arkansans" and the mascot was a shoeless hick? Would you like that characterization?

The Wahoo mascot is overtly racist.
I personally wouldn't care, but if I was the Indians management I would be happy to have an excuse to change that ugly logo.

Cmon that has got to be the most hideous logo in top tier professional sports.

clutch

February 28, 2018, 08:34:12 am #5
Quote from: southarkhog06 on February 26, 2018, 01:37:58 am
I personally wouldn't care, but if I was the Indians management I would be happy to have an excuse to change that ugly logo.

Cmon that has got to be the most hideous logo in top tier professional sports.

I love the way the Chief Wahoo logo looks. Always been one of my favorites.

southarkhog06

March 01, 2018, 02:13:25 am #6
Quote from: clutch on February 28, 2018, 08:34:12 am
I love the way the Chief Wahoo logo looks. Always been one of my favorites.
No accounting for taste I guess... ;D

Obviously this is just my (probably unpopular) opinion, but to me it just looks like an inappropriate, weird uncle caricature that they added "Indianness" too. 

clutch

March 02, 2018, 02:18:02 pm #7
Quote from: southarkhog06 on March 01, 2018, 02:13:25 am
No accounting for taste I guess... ;D

Obviously this is just my (probably unpopular) opinion, but to me it just looks like an inappropriate, weird uncle caricature that they added "Indianness" too. 

I think my liking comes from playing on an "Indians" travel team growing up. We used that logo. Brings back old memories.

southarkhog06

March 05, 2018, 07:10:17 am #8
Quote from: clutch on March 02, 2018, 02:18:02 pm
I think my liking comes from playing on an "Indians" travel team growing up. We used that logo. Brings back old memories.
Fair enough, I always played for the Pirates team in Little League. I still have a fondness for them even though they are a division rival to my cubbies.

DeltaBoy

September 25, 2018, 10:00:11 am #9
It just sad this Icon coming to an end.
If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.
-- Major General Patrick Cleburne
The Confederacy had no better soldiers
than the Arkansans--fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond
prudence. Dickart History of Kershaws Brigade.
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