There are many sports nicknames which are offensive to someone.
We have dealt with Indian nicknames for years. This thing with the Redskins has been percolating for years.
Pressures will come to Kansas City Chiefs, Chicago Black Hawks, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, and any other Indian names still out there.
And other names are offensive if people choose to be offended.
Notre Dame Fighting Irish is offensive to Irish.
Boston Celtics is offensive to the real Celtic people.
Las Vegas Raiders, Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrate criminal activity.
Dallas Cowboys is offensive to real cowboys.
New Orleans Saints, San Diego Padres, and Los Angeles Angels are offensive to the Catholic church and Catholic people.
New York Yankees is offensive to southerners.
You can find something wrong with almost any sports nickname if you have too much time on your hands.
The football team of a local Catholic High School near me has the nickname of “The Crusaders.”
I was wondering the other day how long it will be before angry woke people demand it be changed?
Just think about how many states are named with “native American” words or names...
Alaska
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Ohio
Montana
Iowa
Idaho
Delaware
Kentucky...
Funny thing about the Chiefs — they were named for the Mayor at the tine, H. Roe Bartle. His civilian job was full time Boy Scout District Executive. He founded the honorary scouting camping society, The Tribe of Mic-O-Say and his tribal name was Chief Bartle.
Lamar Hunt told the story of the name selection a number of times.
Apparently in the 1950s the Cincinnati Reds had too much time on their hands.....from wiki
In April 1953, the Reds announced a preference to be called the “Redlegs”, saying that the name of the club had been “Red Stockings” and then “Redlegs”. A newspaper speculated that it was due to the developing political connotation of the word ‘red’ to mean Communism.
They eventually reverted back to Reds in the 60s.