So will they become the 'Cleveland Baseball Team'?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/s...imes&smtyp=cur
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So will they become the 'Cleveland Baseball Team'?
My Mom is rolling over in her grave because she loved the Cleveland Indians. I guess it's only right since my NFL team is no longer the Redskins that her baseball team is will not be the Indians. It's a conspiracy.
GOWFT & GOCBT.
oh well, I always figured the main problem was the logo, but whatever they do is fine by me...
Still, it reminds me of the time I was in Fulton County Stadium and a bunch of wee lads were checking out Chief Nokahoma down below (behind the outfield fence)...which led to them pouring Coca Cola down onto him, tee hee, lots of giggling and running around laughing...until The Chief appeared in the upper deck, feathers dripping with Coke, and HE was not among those amused by the entire incident...he hovered over those kids and I thought they were going to die from fright, he's about eight feet tall with the headdress, and being saturated with Coke (despite it being the Real Thing) he was in a distinctly ugly frame of mind.
My wife is part Cherokee and is not offended one bit with Native American names or mascots. She's more offended with the salaries and special treatment they receive. Especially during the Covid pandemic.
GoDuke!
Sign me up for a Cleveland Spiders shirt!
Are the Kansas City Chiefs on deck? No pun intended...well, maybe just a touch.
I'd vote for the Cleveland Burning Cuyahogas.
(Actually, I'm told that Cleveland is a wonderful place but I've never been there.)
I thought I'd weigh in with how they became the Indians. In the early 1900's, the team was generally referred to as the Naps, for their manager, Napoleon Lajoie. (Team names were more fluid and less official back then.) Lajoie was not going to be with the team in 1915, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer (I think that's the newspaper) sponsored a contest to re-name the team.
The winning entry was Indians, sent in by a fan who liked Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian who had played for the Cleveland Spiders in the National League in the late 1800's. The name "Sockalexises" or "Sockalexi" wouldn't have worked, I guess.
So, here's a trivia question: name the two teams among MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL who are named for individual persons.
The Mets are named for Mr. Met.