Sports teams with name changes due to offensive connotations...they're all American

Sports teams with name changes due to offensive connotations...they're all American

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Do do do do doo No no thanks. Sports teams
that have had to change their name. This is things
that have changed their names.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay, not targeting the Crusaders, not suggesting that it would
be time to change it.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Changing bloody logo, what we did enough surprising, not surprisingly,
I should say it's mostly American sports teams, yeah, change.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Just more in the lines of cultural appropriation a lot
of the time. Like it's not, I mean, most famously
the Washington Redskins that Americas. Yeah, that's an offensive term,
racially derogatory term. But you know what blew my mind,
how many European sports teams have native American names. Because

(01:10):
we've got the Chiefs okay, the Waco Chiefs, but also
that's Maulti Chiefs. Yeah, but like a European football teams
and baseball teams, they didn't have chiefs, did they did? Know?
They certainly didn't have chiefs adorned with feather based headwear.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
As a woman who has definitely not deleted a photo
of herself from Instagram wearing a Native American he dress.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'm a Paul he looks so good in that photo.
Must still every there's always a profile model the rocker
full an approprile he dress.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Though I did have a photo of me in a
Native American he dress on my Instagram from two thousand
and Live them.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Wow borderline almost too deleted that, but you've lift the
black face photo.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Up because but my body was popping. That's when I
was really into and so just like what's happening.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Up top, it was ghastly going black face to ride
an elephant. I said that she's doing both at once.
She was black face patting a drugged out tigers on
the back of an allan feeling sweet.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
He was a sweet little boy. He was just a nice,
kind boy. Win a nice connection.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Right Here are some sports teams that have changed their names.
The you know, the all A Clippers Clippers, No, no,
I actually too. It's named after the boats because the
Clippers are from San Diego. They were in San Diego
when they're changing the into the Clippers, and it's like
a name for a little boat. But before that, there
were the San Diego Braves. When they moved from Buffalo,
there were the Buffalo Braves and all of their Buffalo

(02:49):
New York, all of their heavily it was very heavily
Native American, right. The Golden State Warriors were originally the
Philadelphia warrior Is, then the San Francisco Warriors. They dropped
the Native American imagery when they became the Golden State Warriors,
and of course now it's the Bridges, the Bridge of
the Golden State Warriors. The Cleveland the Cleveland Indians played

(03:13):
in the Major League Baseball for a very long time.
They dropped the name in December twenty twenty. They will
be called the Cleveland Guardians. There run out and I
believe they were the last game that the squad player
as Indians was a good one that I fitted the
Texas Rangers six zero. So they think they saw the
name off for the good right, for the good win

(03:35):
over the Rangers. I'm not sure. Of course. The Washington
Redskins is the most famous example because they kind of
fought it so much. Yeah, we don't really want to change.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
It, but everyone knows us as there.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, that's our name, that's what we've got. But that's
probaty the most high profile one. So all the examples
of sports teams that had to change their names because
of a cultural and appropriation, or just bait and racism
in the form of the Washington Redskins have changed their
names and they've all been Americans.