“Tim Tebow Saves First Base For Marriage”

In support of the change argument, do we remember the Washington Wizards were once called the Washington Bullets? Sounds weird now, doesn’t it?

Learn all you want about football and Kap. Just don’t become a fan of the 49ers. It involves much suffering.

We *need* to talk about his routine, right?

Well he does have lots of circulation happening in the scalp due to exercise. I’d assume as a pro athlete he also watches his nutrition.

I’m Black, so.

I was wondering if it was a win streak thing too.

That’s a happy little interception!

To be fair, that guy did change his mind about redface and apologize a few years later.

As a Jew, I would wear that hat every day.

It’s also pretty rare to see people in redface and headdresses at the games. At least it has been in my experience as a lifelong (30+ year) fan who for many of those years had a season ticket package. I guess, like the tweet a commenter posted above, there are rare exceptions, but it’s not the rule. I can recall two…

That’s...not at all an afro.

Seeing a fair amount of #notallClevelandfans.

With that said, I am also a major proponent in First Nation’s rights, so it puts me in a bit of a pickle.

Dunno...I’d say it’s the franchise’s fault for still having this racist logo.

I don’t understand. People have been “making a fuss” about Chief Wahoo as a racist caricature, and have been advocating for a change, for years. This is not a new thing just because the Indians are in the playoffs.

Undercover Brotha came out when I was in high school and one of my best friends growing up had started growing his hair out naturally into an afro. He was black in an overwhelmingly white area (he was one of SEVEN black kids in my graduating class and is part of one of my favorite stories about unintentional racism.…

So the starting pitchers have more juice than ownership and management.

That’s like one of those puzzles in Highlights magazine for Kids: Find all 35 horribly wrong things in this picture.... Though the Hannibal Lecter mouthguard/smiling face makeup really brings the whole bizarre racist clown look together.