Posted on 02/10/2023 6:38:35 PM PST by xxqqzz
As the Kansas City Chiefs secured another Super Bowl berth, a raucous home crowd of 76,000-plus saluted the team by performing their version of the “tomahawk chop,” which was broadcast to a national audience.
In that moment, fans of the Washington Commanders might have been thinking: “How is that still okay, but not the ‘Redskins’ name?”
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It’s a play on an epic quote from former Indians manager Frank Robinson: “In Cleveland, pennant fever usually winds up as a 48-hour virus.”
cause they skeeerd of bigleft...
It’s simple. Because Washington is woke and Kansas City is not.
And don’t even mention the Reds!
Go Texans!
When the Cowboys and Chiefs met in 2009, the Chiefs wore their Dallas Texans helmets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZcghbL840k
The Redskins should have kept their logo and just changed their mascot to a potato.
1. When the NFL started in the 1920s it was very much an upstart league, playing in the shadow of professional baseball in major U.S. cities.
2. To hitch itself to baseball’s popularity, the early owners decided to adopt many team names that were linked to established baseball teams in those cities. The New York Giants had the same name as the baseball team whose stadium they shared. This was also the case with the Boston Braves. The Chicago Bears were named to complement the Cubs, the Detroit Lions complemented the Tigers, etc.
3. The NFL’s Boston Braves moved to Fenway Park in the 1930s. They changed their name to the Redskins so they could retain a Native American theme while also complementing the name of their MLB landlord, the Boston Red Sox.
The Cleveland Grovers
Bingo.
I was wondering why so many teams are still doing the tomahawk chop. Complete with the wo-wo-woooing.
I think it’s great. But a travesty that Redskins had to totally disappear.
Chief Zee must be rolling in his grave. Imagine what they’d do to that presumptuous black guy for daring to appropriate all that Indian stuff!
Redskins desperately need a new stadium and financial underpinning ain’t happening until racist “Redskins” and unwoke Snyder are gone.
its all bull shiite
Yes, I always call them the Chefs if they’re having a bad day.
Or communists about the Reds.
Chief Zee even appeared in our whole area (Baltimore is very close to DC) on local used-car sales ads.
He made out well.
I just can’t imagine the Schadenfreude now with the black guy wearing all the Indian paraphernalia. They’d strip him off the car commercials!
Washington DC versus midwest KC...where sanity still rules.
The Rams and the Chargers got their stadium built in L.A. with private funds. Same with the Giants and the Jets in the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Dan Synder is worth 4.9 billion dollars. He can take out a loan to build the new stadium. It'll cost him money. But at the same time, he'll make more money in a brand new stadium. Especially if it's a dome because he'll be able to host events like the Final Four and the Super Bowl.
Because Washington is full of foreign people who haven’t assimilated as Americans.
Because Chiefs fans are not pussies and Redskins management are.
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