Wednesday, December 16, 2020
How about the Cleveland Rainbows?
The Cleveland Indians have decided to change their nickname, moving away from the moniker they've employed for more than 100 years but that many consider insensitive to indigenous peoples. CBS Sports HQ's Jim Bowden confirmed the story first reported in The New York Times. In a statement to CBS News, the team said, "We don't have a comment. We do not dispute anything written" in the Times.
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Since the minor league consolidation of teams is underway, how about The Mud Hens?
ReplyDeleteHow about they rename the team the Cleveland Engines? They could make their new logo a image of the Ford 351 Cleveland engine in full Pro Stock trim.
ReplyDeleteTeams are missing a big opportunity by not calling them selves the Caucasians. Caucs for short. And when they have a bad year the fans could say "The caucs suck" .
ReplyDeleteDaryl
Carrying this thought process one step further, the Cleveland Browns should change their name as it might be hurtful to people of color, or be considered cultural appropriation, or...
ReplyDelete-Elmo, who has had it with this spineless caving to idiots with agendas.
I'd love for them to be called the Cleveland Steamers.
ReplyDeleteSeconded!
DeleteHas anyone ever asked any real Indians (feather) if calling some team "Indians" hurts their feelings? We have a grandson is a 1/4 Injun. We have called his mother, his other grandpa and a whole tribe of Injuns, "Indians" and I even asked them about it and no one complained. Of course I am the White man who can do that sort of thing.
DeleteActually, these Indians I know are Cherokee and are almost all uneducated, lazy and living off the tribal welfare. One year we went to pick up or take back grandson, we saw a garden all plowed and planted. I asked about it, because I knew the lazy assholes didn't do any work to make a garden. The other grandpa said the Tribal Council sent a crew over to clear and plow the garden, and then several days later someone else came by with seedlings to plant. All lazy has to do is water them. They had a dog. One year we went there, dog gone! We were told it broke it's chain and run off. Poor thing got fed twice a week whether it needed feeding or not. Fucking Indians, some not much better than nignogs.
Well, they have already destroyed their fan base, might as well finish it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a sports guy, so I only see upside in them all going belly up. No more tax money for the owners.
SPORTZBALL!!! Yeah sportzball sportzball sportzball rah rah rah!!! If you support any of the sportzball you are a fool!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo, will the Major League film need to be mastered?
ReplyDeleteHere's how this will all go. Eventually the last vestige of minority team names will be wiped away. Sports no longer has to pay the Danegeld those names demanded. Within a week there will be cries of discrimination and protests because non-white people are treated as not being worthy or good enough to have a team named for them. Baksheesh is expected for pointing this out.
ReplyDelete"non-white people are treated as not being worthy or good enough"
DeleteThat is because they aren't. Fucking Indians (feather) lived here for thousands of years. And were always on the move. And a wheel never entered they brain.
What about the Vikings?
ReplyDeleteIsn’t it cultural appropriation for (proud and stunningly brave) Africans to call themselves “Vikings”?
Yes yes, I know it’s a job description and not an ethnicity per se, but it was only Scandinavians who went viking. Other people called trading/raiding something else.
How about the "Fighting Irish"? Not only the ethnicity, but an adjective to describe it, too.
DeleteYeah, they are called "Burn, Loot, and Murder"
DeleteOver the years, since the 1870s, the Cleveland team has been called the Forest City Baseball Club, the Cleveland Spiders, the Wanderers, the Exiles, Blues, Bluebirds and Naps. A more accurate name now would be the Cleveland Bendovers.
ReplyDeleteOn that line of thinking, they could opt for the "Cleveland Buttholes".
DeleteButt then you would have queers and politicians complaining.
The Cleveland Castrati has a nice ring to it.
ReplyDeleteAny takers on who's next? The Atlanta Braves? (suck it, Ted Turner)...The Chicago Blackhawks (the most recognized sports logo on Earth), The Florida State Seminoles, The Indiana Hoosiers (hey, that's deragatory), The Mississippi College Choctaws, The San Diego State Aztecs...Might want to think about a new team name if you happen to be a Tar Heel, a Black Knight, a Gorilla, a Cowboy or a Cowgirl, a Beaver, a Conquistidor, a Colonial, Marauder or Pioneer! We are doomed by the perpetually victimized.
ReplyDelete"The Florida State Seminoles"
DeleteThat one probably won't be going anywhere, as the Seminole tribe has been very supportive of it.
Some team take this one: Zulu Cannibal Giants, 1934-37, based in Louisville.
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