Following an editorial decrying the Washington Redskins’ team name and announcing that the newspaper will no longer print it, the New York Daily News announced that it will also abstain from publishing the Cleveland Indians’ logo, Chief Wahoo. 

From Baseball Insider writer Andy Martino:

Another obvious and positive development, and one that won’t prevent us from continuing to call on the team and others in media to do the same. In reporting on this issue in the recent past, it became clear to me that Native American groups consider Chief Wahoo offensive, which is enough for the rest of us to deem it inappropriate.

…”the rest of us” quite clearly, however, does not include Indians management nor the seemingly gazillions of furious Clevelanders who take to the Internet in seething droves anytime even the slightest #DeChief notion is published. (See below, inevitably.)

This article appears in Sep 3-9, 2014.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

8 replies on “Wahoo Watch: New York Daily News Will No Longer Print Chief Wahoo Image”

  1. Time to take Wahoo off life support. Could we please be on the right side of history for once?

  2. Fortunately, I represent one of the intelligent, socially responsible Clevelanders who do not support the perpetuation of racist images like Chief Wahoo while decrying false values of “tradition”. Just wanna make sure folks elsewhere know we do exist.

  3. A square peg can fit in a round hole. Just keep shoving it until the round hole breaks and the square peg will then fit.

  4. and then lets get rid off ALL things that remind us, Indian Casinos, Cheap Gasoline and Cigaretts , and why is reservation land to special. We are either ALL americans or NOT IMHO

  5. the world has gone mad. The Vikings were brutal killers. Giants haunted Jacks dreams. Pirates killed, raped and pillaged, and hell the Royals have killed more people than anyone combined, and these shithead newspaper jerks wanna pick on Cleveand Indians .. FUCK OFF!

  8. The NOO YAWK DAILY NOOZE, AKA THE FISH WRAPPER AND BIRDCAGE LINER?

    The ultimate tabloid “journalists” have the balls to call out somebody else about “inappropriate” and “offensive” behavior? Oh, my aching ass!

    Gimme a break! That’s like Jeffrey Dahmer telling somebody how to cook.

    Fuck the Daily News. And fuck New York. Elitist assholes. Kiss mine.

    Chuckles the Clown

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