I get why Chief Wahoo is offensive and if it disappears, I can understand it. But maybe because I have a soft spot for this team that Wahoo has always been my image of the team. One of my favorite Indians jerseys of all time is the vest where Wahoo is right on the left chest. Then again, I’ve been expecting this with the logo being minimized on the cap and introduction to their new wordmark. If this is the road to the end, I will miss it. But I understand.
UPDATE: The whole marginalization idea has always been my gut feeling, not some fact I’ve heard from anyone. And if there was any doubt about that, I was just contacted by the Indians who quite politely told me that I’m reading way too much into this (shocker, because, like, I NEVER do that. Ahem):
We wanted to reach out to clarify something, re: Chief Wahoo, about which we saw your post this afternoon. There are absolutely no plans to phase out Chief Wahoo, as some folks have speculated on social media. The details:
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Nothing is changing on our 2013 uniforms except for the batting helmets. By MLB rule – with the new helmets being universally adopted – teams were only allowed one logo and not a different helmet for home and road.
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Secondly, Chief Wahoo remains on our traditional home cap, our alternate road cap and every uniform sleeve.
Sigh.
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But at the end of the day... 