(Okay this turned in to a rant)
Yeah I don't understand why you can't take a respectful approach to the team ala: The Braves or Blackhawks?
I mean is there a particular tribe/band near Cleveland with a cool name you could think to name the team after? There was protests right?
The thing I hate about protests (and I know this is getting political, and I'm a dirty lefty too btw
) is that people are so quick to protest but offer sweet fuck all in regards to alternatives.
Wahoo, well I mean I am a big fan of The Cleveland Frowns blog. Pete has written with abhorration regarding Wahoo, most recently as of October 8th:
http://www.clevelandfrowns.com/2018/10/chief-wahoos-last-stand-on-columbus-day-is-just-perfect/
Now say what you will about Pete, if you care to there are numerous well written and well researched pieces regarding Wahoo, Jim Crow era propaganda and why the logo should be in the trash. He's lobbied for The Curse Of Chief Wahoo for as long as I've read him which is over a decade now.
I think the name "Indians" in of itself is kind of ridiculous to be honest but like, it's Sports. It's the same reason we accept sexist/racist tropes from professional wrestling... it's just what it's known for. Obviously the organization wasn't explicitly endorsing racism but in this modern age of hyperguilt it's hard not to look at it as this beacon of "WTF"... but what are you going to do? Ban EVERY team named Indians or some other banal derivative? What do you re-name the team to?
The Washington Bullets changed their name to the Wizards because the owner of the team believed his name promoted gun violence. Obviously whoever owns the Indians is not nearly as virtuous because they couldn't give two shits. The Indians organization dragged their feet through a solid 2-3 years of negative press (maybe my memory is shit, could have even been longer?) before protests and all this shit and here we are.
Yeah the block C sucks. If you're going to ditch Wahoo, come up with something better than that.