The name leads people astray into thinking a football team exists.
[reaches into pocket to grab invisible money]
whoosh
Seeing this makes me sad for the current state of the NBA. Maybe it's just me, but I really think it cheapens your claim as the greatest basketball league in the world when you have a jersey with Gerald Henderson's name on the back.
...watch a WNBA game sometime.
Nope. I look forward to the day this is a dead horse...you know, when the name's been changed. Until then it's all relevant and current and applicable.
Shouldn't the Chief Wahoo logo have its trademark taken away as well?
South America is kicking butts.
It's not attempting to prove it's been a controversy for years. It establishes the historical tendency of the team, the fans, and the NFL to use the name as an excuse to peddle in myriad cheap, racist parodies of American Indian culture. That's the sort of thing that would help to support claims that the name itself…
Clearly did not read closely at all. Egg on my face.
Yeah, caricatures and stereotypes of probably the most oppressed group in the United States aren't racist at all!
You don't really understand what "mocking" is, do you?
But we've been calling them n*$%#s for years! Everyone is fine with it!
YEAH WELL YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN BAKING SO IT ISN'T REALLY YOUR PLACE TO SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT HERE. I AM ALL FOR THE RIGHTS AND CIVIL TREATMENT OF ALL PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE COMMENTS AND BAKE FREE OF ANY HEAD SHAKING DISCRIMINATION FROM SO-CALLED WRITERS AT OVERLY LIBERAL WEBSITES!!!!!! NEXT YOU…
If you were a real baker, you would already know the answer to that.
So...like overnight then?
Until the Muslim in Chief is succesfully IMPEACHED and THROWN IN JAIL for his HIGH CRIMES and MISDERMEANERS against FREEDOM LOVING AMERUCICANS EVERYWHERE!
"And I saw the Four Horsemen of the Comment Apocalypse, and they said in unison unto me: 'Beware the false idol Kinja and her wily ways.' And I, for my part, took up my mobile device and screeched, 'EVEN NATIVE AMERICANS DON'T THINK THE NAME IS OFFENSIVE!' and lo, the Angel Snyder smiled down on me, well pleased."