See, that’s the rub, the Chiefs’ mascot is a wolf. The whole “dress up as caricatures of Natives at games” thing is a homebrewed fan thing.
Also this was an away game because at home games you’re not allowed to wear that shit because everybody realizes how fucking racist it is.
They don’t extend that train of thought and change the team name but that’s another discussion.
I’ve noticed that the Chiefs get nowhere near the flak that the teams formerly known as the removed and Indians got, less than the Braves as well. Something about the “title not ethnicity” name and the anthropomorphic mascot keeps them out of the line of fire.
Not having a literal slur for a name or a racist charactiture for a mascot seems like a low bar but other teams managed to trip dick first over it.
They also have a very racist arm chop and chant thing they do to “evoke” native-ness that gets very little scrutiny despite being so obviously offensive
the Chiefs’
dog their mascot might be a wolf but with the name and logo idk that you can call putting a fake headress and black/redface just a ‘homebrewed fan’ thing
My point was that the comment made it sound like a Native American caricature was their mascot and I was correcting that. Obviously there’s still problematic things with the Chiefs marketing. Metaphorically, it’s like the Klan hosting a meeting on a dude’s lawn because he has one of those racist lawn jockeys on it.
