Throwback 'Reveal' Wednesday

[Cyrus12]

How is the other Washington team
Not RIGHT?

The logo on the helmet is not a character but an actual chief and the artwork was by a native American.

The Washington Redskins logo, which featured the side profile of Blackfeet Chief John Two Guns White Calf, was designed in the early 1970s by Walter Blackie Wetzel, a former chair of the Blackfeet Tribe.

Cancel culture at its peak when they did away with it.

 

[keasley45]

How is the other Washington team
Not RIGHT?

The logo on the helmet is not a character but an actual chief and the artwork was by a native American.

The Washington Redskins logo, which featured the side profile of Blackfeet Chief John Two Guns White Calf, was designed in the early 1970s by Walter Blackie Wetzel, a former chair of the Blackfeet Tribe.

Its the name that is the issue. the logo being associated with it... collateral damage.

The fact that it was drawn by a native american has nothing to do with it really.

If a black artist sketched the profile of an african king and then the NFL chose to slap it on the helmet of a team called the Tar Babies... well, one can see how the association isn't a great one.

At the end of the day, had european settlers taken it upon themselves to live in harmony with native peoples when they got here, rather than massacring them, outlawing their traditions and stealing their lands, using derogitory terms like redskins and savages to describe them, then throwing the original logo on the side of an NFL helmet and calling the team the Chiefs, Warriors, or Americans wouldn't be an issue.

 

[IndyHawk]

That's a fair point. I only know it's rubbed a lot of people the wring way for a long time. I'll go a step further and I don't think they meant the Redskins name as a slur in its time. But it is a slur now.

But someone would need to have a pretty long and girthy stick up the rear to get bent out of shape at the original Seahawks logo.

To me it was the same cancel culture that tries to change things
logos, movies and rules ect.
A lot of it has gone way overboard, if it was never broken, don't fix.

 

[MORGULON]

Its the name that is the issue. the logo being associated with it... collateral damage.

The fact that it was drawn by a native american has nothing to do with it really.

If a black artist sketched the profile of an african king and then the NFL chose to slap it on the helmet of a team called the Tar Babies... well, one can see how the association isn't a great one.

At the end of the day, had european settlers taken it upon themselves to live in harmony with native peoples when they got here, rather than massacring them, outlawing their traditions and stealing their lands, using derogitory terms like redskins and savages to describe them, then throwing the original logo on the side of an NFL helmet and calling the team the Chiefs, Warriors, or Americans wouldn't be an issue.

I disagree with you as I don't take the name in a negative light.

Many native Americans feel the same way . I am Redskin myself. I don't think it was natives that started the campaign against it and I'll leave it there . I certainly don't want to argue.

Oh , last thing.

There's a misconception that before the European arrived, the north American continent had all these beautiful smiling tribes that got along and lived in harmony but it was very violent and brutal.