Some Indians Fans Wore Red-face to the Wild Card Game

No, that was just my observation as a fan of the team. I think Wahoo will remain on the sleeves until the baby boomers are gone. That nostalgia (as misplaced as it is) for Wahoo will be gone at that point. But they'll take him off the cap and batting helmets completely in the near future, I predict. The stadium really is devoid of Wahoo now. The Script I logo failed miserably. The Block C gave fans my age a solid logo and a cap to wear that wasn't racist. Finally.

 

They had a few chances to retire Wahoo.
The C was on the cap through the '80s.
I don't know why Wahoo was brought back.
They had a chance to get rid of Wahoo a few years ago with the partial uniform change, and failed.

 

Good links and discussion above.

I think one of the fears is that if they kill off Chief Wahoo, the "Indians" nickname will be the next to go.

I do think "Tribe" is a good compromise because that's what most of the fans call the team anyway, and there are a variety of historic 'C' logos that will work.

 

I will always go "Wahoo!" over the Seinfeld scene.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DV16ECAAACM

Heap big fun!

 

"If I were the owner of the team and I knew that the name of my team, even if they've had a storied history, that was offending a sizable group of people, I'd think about changing it,”

 

Blackhawks are named after a guy, not a name for a race though. So the only offending Chicago is doing is maybe offending the ancestors of Chief Black Hawk?