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Atlanta Braves court controversy with 'Screaming Indian' caps
Sporting News MLB ^ | December 27, 2012 | Sporting News MLB Staff

Posted on 12/31/2012 12:13:35 AM PST by Lancey Howard

The Atlanta Braves have not used their controversial "Screaming Indian" logo in any official capacity since 1989, but the team plans to bring it back next season as part of its new batting practice hats.

And so far, the reaction on the Web has been less than positive.

(Excerpt) Read more at aol.sportingnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; sports
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One thing you can count on from "sports commentators" is political correctness run amok. It's the same community where scumbags like Keith Olbermann come from.
1 posted on 12/31/2012 12:13:43 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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2 posted on 12/31/2012 12:15:48 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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This was the offical logo of the Milwaukee Braves in 1957:


3 posted on 12/31/2012 12:19:02 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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He looks happy.


4 posted on 12/31/2012 12:21:29 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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That’s just the fire water laughing.


5 posted on 12/31/2012 12:26:25 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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Here’s another thread about sports and the PC thugs:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2973547/posts?page=3


6 posted on 12/31/2012 12:31:41 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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7 posted on 12/31/2012 12:40:35 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Chief Wahoo is way cooler.


8 posted on 12/31/2012 12:44:47 AM PST by Cyman
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9 posted on 12/31/2012 12:47:00 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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Boo hoo. They should change their name to the “Heathen Savages” Eff the aboriginal Americans if they don’t like it. It probably isn’t the injuns bitching about it in the first place


10 posted on 12/31/2012 1:24:59 AM PST by Figment
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He’s not screaming. He’s laughing at the White people.


11 posted on 12/31/2012 1:26:39 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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Great teeth. Think he uses whitening strips?


13 posted on 12/31/2012 4:22:35 AM PST by sjm_888
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The Brave always looked like he got his finger caught in a high voltage socket.

Go Phils!

ff

14 posted on 12/31/2012 4:39:14 AM PST by foreverfree
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I hope they bring back Chief Nocahoma and his teepee.


15 posted on 12/31/2012 4:45:15 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Screaming Indian?

Tell these 30 IQ liberal apes that the Indian is singing a happy song about bunnies and chipmunks.


16 posted on 12/31/2012 4:47:05 AM PST by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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With a happy look like THAT, he must have just killed and eaten a spotted owl!


17 posted on 12/31/2012 4:50:11 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Bread and Circuses; Everyone to the Coliseum!)
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Screaming? The logo looks more like a LOL indian.


18 posted on 12/31/2012 4:53:53 AM PST by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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I did.

And I don’t give a damn. :)


19 posted on 12/31/2012 4:55:45 AM PST by Overtaxed
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Funny Face TV ad

20 posted on 12/31/2012 4:59:21 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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