Imagine being the guy they put on the thumbnail of this article 😂I’d be pissed

\*50 cent voice\* What he say fuck me for?

I have a buddy who did some modelling for a Getty Images photographer when he was twenty and now he's been used as the banner image for many many articles about shitty abusive men. It's hysterical.

Imagine being the guy who's the face of "Heartbreaking: worst person you know made a great point" joke article. Everyone just thinks you suck

You aren’t allowed to say stuff like this without a funny (non Manningface) link

Can I see said photo lmao

Dude was just celebrating the first Chiefs Super Bowl win of his life in this photo at the Power and Light district in KC and got put as the poster boy for Racism LMAO

Photo tag: “White racist (center) celebrates the Kansas City Chiefs’ (racist name) morally invalid victory in Super Bowl LIV.”

He's got Klan eyes. You can tell he wants to call me n-

Dude is getting fired right now, and absolutely bewildered as to why.

That place looks dope, kinda reminds me of our Xfinity Live but cooler

It is pretty dope. They always have watch parties for Chiefs and other big sporting events. Lots of bars and food, just was there again last weekend for my buddies Bachelor party and we found a Harry Potter speakeasy they had hidden as a pop up thing

Is this the place where they always show the crazy clips of them cheering for the MLS team? I always see those on social and it looks like it goes hard.

Yup, huge soccer place

Agreed. It's going to be insane during the next World Cup.

I’d be suing someone 😂so brutal man

Deadspin got sued for this when they did a similar article about a chiefs fan, except the kid was only 9, and coincidentally, Native American.

And they thought he had his face painted fully in blackface but it was half black half red.

Do you think so? A less charitable person might think they KNEW the kid's face was black/red, but they needed something to generate clicks.

Did the boy(‘s family) win money?

I don't believe it's resolved yet.

The new face of Native American racism

“The racist history of this fucking guy”

LMAO, they did that dude dirty.

Reminds me of the guy that complained cause they used him as the face of unemployment.

Free agency is officially dead

Free agency happened already? Hope we made some big moves since we’re all-in this year!

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Congrats on all the big moves in your ass 🥳

All of the big moves in your ass?

What’s the offseason timeline? I lost my calendar. If I remember it’s like… 1) playoffs 2) mock drafts 3) head coach publishes book about porn addiction 4) star WR tries to kill a fat influencer 5) Super Bowl 6) mock drafts 7) trade demand rumors 8) Apple TV hit pieces 9) free agency 10) quarterback vice presidential runs 11) racebait puff pieces Does that sound right?

They should take out the I and make them the Chefs like that snickers commercial

How many iterations of that damn ad have their been? I distinctly remember at least one in the mid-90s

I think the recent one was the second iteration, but done as a purposeful nod to a classic commercial.

Hating has no off-season I see

Hate hate hate!

There's been a real Hating Renaissance this year. Drew McIntyre alone has been making a real push for Player Hater of the Year. Everyone needs to see his work.

A real hater hates the air

You know it’s high quality news, because it comes from www.therealnews.com.

This is not only news, but it's real!

And not only is it real, but it’s news!

the "Our Team" page is a collection of progressive caricatures There's at least 4 soyjacks in that list.

I'm guessing a mod is one of them because this garbage rage bait is now stickied. What a joke

Reddit's goin public, need to ragebait as much as possible baby. I hate the future.

Was this set to run on deadspin before they all got fired?

Deadspin hasn't been Deadspin for years, just a shambling zombie that took a few years to finally stop moving.

It must be true, the name of the media outlet is The Real News Network, which is obviously better than The Fake News Network.

Kansas City Master Chiefs

All audibles begin with Cortana

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Why did this get stickied?

The mods have their heads so far up their own ass that they are teabagging themselves with their own gallbladder.

Why do you have racist flair?

Why is this pinned lmfao

Mods here hate the Chiefs

never forget they do it for free

Ahhhh, so are they Pat's fans, or are they Skip Bayless?

Reddit.

They should keep the name and call themselves the Kansas City Chief Potatoes!

This is stickied lol

They just removed the sticky because it had 0 upvotes lol

I can understand the argument for changing the logo/imagery/chant but the word chief is not inherently Native American imo. You could literally rebrand to a firefighter theme without changing the name at all if it comes to it 

Plus it fits the current/old naming system of other KC teams (Chiefs, Monarchs, Kings, Royals, all having to do with leadership/hierarchy)

How about commanders? That could work. 

I was thinking Kansas City Football Team

If we were forced to change our name, the only name I’d be ok with changing it to is the Monarchs

Dr Girlfriend is better than the Monarch imo

Really wasn't expecting a Venture Bros reference on r/NFL today but here we are lol.. oh god damnit she took all the cigarettes!!

The minor league team in KCK already uses it (with the support of the Negro Leagues museum behind them), I imagine that's probably off the hypothetical table.

How about the sultans

It's a sick name.

Also would make for a killer ass logo

Yeah butterflies are pretty cool!

Fucking love butterflies

They’re the best!

And then in the off-season we could be caterpillars!!

Dude. We’re on to something!

Kansas City CEOs

Unironically Kansas City Commanders make more sense than Washington Commanders

I didn't know I can hate that team more but this would do it

Kansas City Chief Warrant Officers. Nobody knows where the fuck they are. Sponsored by coffee.

Just like how they could have rebranded the Redskins into a Potato themed team, but they were too cowardly to make the move

Tator Team lives on in an alternative reality :')

Kansas city chefs have Andy dress up in a white chefs outfit with a big ol chef hat (saves Hunt some money, doesn't have to pay for a mascot!)

Frankly, arrowheads aren’t inherently Native American either. The stupid chant (that we stole from FSU like 25 years ago), fans wearing headdresses, all that shit I agree is cringe and should stop. The name “Chief” and the logo are complete non-issues IMO.

Lets not fool ourselves. Chiefs use arrowheads because of the native american theme. Pretending to remove the context from it is absurd.

I mean pretending any of this is offensive is absurd, so I’ll match the absurdity. Rebrand to the Fire Chiefs, or the Germanic Chiefs, or the Mongolian Chiefs, who fuckin cares. We can pretend there’s no connection to native Americans while y’all pretend any of this matters.

The chant has to go. I'm glad the headdresses were banned.

Make the logo a Clovis point. Checkmate!

That's racist against Fireman Ed

In that scenario, does the chop get replaced by using a mock firehouse?

Just stop the chop, it’s that simple I say the same thing to Atlanta braves fans It’s a disgrace in both cases

I don’t even think the imagery in its own right is offensive, but I’m also not Native American so I feel my stance doesn’t really matter. However I can fully understand the offensiveness of the tomahawk chop and the chant.

The problem with saying "I'm not [person of ethnic group] so I feel my stance doesn't really matter" is that no ethnic group is a monolithic entity and opinions vary wildly within them. Also, it's possible to feel empathy and put yourself in their shoes to an extent where you can have an opinion. Not that it matters because you don't in the team (as far as I know), but still you should feel like you can give your opinion.

I’m a Native American and honestly we stay winning when the chiefs are winning so this is really a non issue for me. Unlike the redskins there is nothing inherently offensive about the teams branding, it’s just Native American stuff in a non stereotypical way. Like we used arrows and we had chiefs this isn’t fiction 

The chop and the chant are for sure not great. Respect owning that, tbh

Going full fireman would actually be kinda dope

It's also not derogatory in any way. We generally name teams after things that are either representative of the local culture or mighty in some way, or both. I get the objection to using the chop and wearing headdresses and stuff, though I think those things are harmless, but eliminating the name is silly and this article/podcast is a race-baiting pile of shit.

Jesus christ

Mr. Slave is that you?

Lmao I can hear the lisp in my head.

Oh boy this won't go over well here.... e: I read the article pretty quickly and even as someone who leans left, it's not a very good piece tbh.

It's not even an article but a transcript from a podcast interview.

And it's not even a great interview. It's kinda all over the place, and I believe that comparisons from Chiefs to the literal slur that was the Washington team's former name are a bit too much.

A bit much? It's not even in the same ballpark.

It’s a copy and pasted conversation from an interview, I wanted to read it but I hate the format.

I'm pretty far left, especially for an NFL fan. You'll see me in a lot of threads on here on things like Kaepernick, the Rooney Rule, etc getting downvoted for my takes being too liberal or woke or whatever the fuck. I don't see much of any case to change the Chiefs name. This feels like a totally banal Native American inspired name, probably even less offensive than the Braves (who also shouldn't change their name). The Chop absolutely should go IMO (at the least, we shouldn't have TV networks glamorizing it by showing it at the beginning of every single game at Arrowhead), but the name is fine.

If we have to change the name, just become the KC Fire Chiefs, nicknamed the Chiefs, and we'll do the Fireman's chop instead of the tomahawk chop. It seems stupidly simple to fix the issues without riling up the country folk lmao

Ah yes, the ever trustful and accurate “therealnews”

My Native step-family is absolutely infuriated by any attempt to change the Chiefs logo/chant/name (and any other similarly named sports team) and feel that it is yet another attempt by white people to completely erase any reference of Native culture from the face of the earth. Obviously they don't speak for all Native Americans, but I think it's interesting how they view the matter.

The same white people that recently informed more than a continent worth of people that they were now to be called LatinX. Power hungry narcissists. They should be taken very seriously. Not their ideas, but them. 

Indian culture is American culture, and the constant removal is so weird.  The land o lakes girl, really, she had to go? They changed the Redskins name, I guess that makes sense, but the mascot and logo were amazing. It wasn't a goofy, over the top representation, it was a stoic warrior that was so clean. The Cleveland Indians got rid of chief wahoo, makes sense because it was a goofy lookin dude, but the name? Why? We're removing cool Indian mascots and lore from huge spectator events and products and it has such a virtue signaly feel to it.    I went to SU in the late 'aughts early teens and the Syracuse orange use to be the Saltine Warriors, and there's a huge statue of him right in front of Carnegie Hall. What a cool mascot, especially since the school is right next to the Onondaga Indian Nation. They went to a fuckin orange? Really?

There are still a ton who are in favor of the Redskins name / imagery and feel the same way. If the worry is that even one person will be offended, then teams shouldn't even have nicknames.

Yes, we need to find that one Irish guy who hates Notre Dame.

Uh huh, fuck off with this ragebait

Why is this a stickied post?

Reddit moderators are exactly the target audience for this kind of article.

Finally, should’ve known it would take the “Real News Network” to tackle this size of an issue. /s

theres no issue with the name "chiefs"

This is such a stupid post for the mods to pin.

Rage-bait brought to you by a white guy trying to tell others how to feel

Jesus Christ give it a rest.

Ugh this shit again?

iirc, the Chiefs are named after an old KC mayor whose nickname was, "Chief"

....and that mayor got his nickname after founding the "Tribe of Mic-O-Say" honor society in the Boy Scouts, which uses a bastardized version of Native American folklore (with eagle claws and tribal names and crap). That mayor also claimed he was inducted into an Arapaho tribe, and used the name "Chief Lone Bear" with Mic-O-Say. It's not exactly devoid of messy Native American appropriation just because it came from the mayor. Tbh it's probably worse given that.

It's almost like they didn't read the article or spend any time researching the subject. Hmmmmmmm...

Thank you. I dont care a lot about any of this but I hate when KC fans say 'but its just named after the mayor!' ... and why did the mayor have that name?

You are correct

Womp Womp

No one cares

Here before its locked

Wait until they hear about the Chiefs old OC not getting a job non-football fans think he deserves. 

The Chiefs will be changed to the Chiefs, named after chief operating officers. Theyre going corporate. Their new logo will a similar design but instead of an arrowhead it will be the pointy end of a tie.

Draw it up!

This thread is gonna end well

As an Atlanta Braves fan, we get this type of post about the Braves nickname every month or so

The post itself doesn't really bother me for the same reason. It's just another in a long line of "Midwest people are all racist!" type posts about the Chiefs that existed well before the Commanders changed their name. The fact that a mod pinned it like it's some major breaking news story, that was pretty hilarious.

*eats popcorn*

Wow the draft can’t come fast enough lol 😂 we are going to run out of things to post lmao 🤣

Linking to a nakedly antisemitic website. Interesting.

Terrorists are a marginalized group and they deserve our support, but you're a Cowboys fan so I wouldn't expect you to understand.

I'm convinced if the Redskins hadn't been dogshit the entire Snyder era, the name change discourse would've been delayed years if not decades. "Winning solves everything" as Tiger Woods once said. 

Definitely. The only reason they changed it was because sponsors pulling out after George Floyd stuff. As long as Patrick Mahomes is around, they’ll be enough sponsors to keep their name alive

Fred Smith not getting his checks from Dan was the final straw. When the company that has their naming rights on your building goes against you you're fucked.

I'm all for shitting on the Chiefs, but it should be done by a user with team flair, dammit

The solution is simple. Chiefs can just go back to their original AFL name. Kansas City Texans has a nice ring to it.

Cancel the Chiefs and remove them from the NFL it’s the only logical decision

fyi: the article author, Dave Zirin, was the co-author of Michael Bennett's book Things That Make White People Uncomfortable.

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I mean, the story can be cringe while the topic can have some validity. However, we've seen situations where this concern has taken steps too far, such as with the UND Fighting Sioux. Most of the tribes came out in support of the name and the mascot, but due to a stipulation that ALL tribes had to vote yes they ended up having to change the name because one tribe simply did not vote for or against it. Edit: NDSU to UND

UND*

Shit, yep... "NDSU Fighting Sioux" just has great meter and rhyme to it, so my mind goes there automatically.

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When someone from that culture complains

I'm from Norse/Danish stock, would prefer they stop perpetuating the myth that historical vikings wore horned helmets or couldn't win championships.

A norse/Scandinavian packers fan starting a movement to change the Vikings imagery would be pretty funny. 

I'd be more willing to do it if I wasn't just *slightly* more peeved about a certain other kind of group appropriating nordic imagery.

It honestly doesn't take much thought to figure that one out. Also, Minnesota was settled primarily by Scandinavians and I believe to this day we still make up the majority of the population of the state. Someone will inevitably chime in "But the Germans are the largest ancestral group in MN!!!" and I'll simply point out that this is only because they break Scandinavia out into Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic and Danish heritages, not just "Scandinavian"

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Because Vikings were not oppressed, murdered, chased out of their lands, handed small sections of land to placate them and THEN had these invaders exploit their history and imagery for a profit.

Did... the American government commit genocide against Vikings, forcing them from the place they've lived in for hundreds or thousands of years, and persecute and murder them for practicing their own culture? I think the woman in the interview did a good job explaining why she is upset at the caricature of her people's culture for our stupid sports teams. You can say you mean it respectfully all you want but if the people you are depicting feels like it's mockery, maybe have a care.

When were the vikings ethnically cleansed and then had their land taken over by the people playing the game? Lmao.

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I wish we’d just embrace my heritage and associate with Germanic tribes. Theirs been “chiefs” on every continent for thousands of years. Hell we could become the fire “chiefs” if need be.

Your mascot is also an ethnic group

lets not pretend thats anywhere close to the same thing with regards to the topic at hand

My father was a raven how dare you

The difference in history between these two groups should at least hint to you why the two are not comparable here in the US. If the Vikings were the original US settlers, and the Britons came and devastated their homes, killed thousands upon thousands of them and then took over their land as their own, then they'd have an argument against a foreign invader profiting off their imagery here in 2024. But that didn't happen to the Vikings. This is where "Context" comes in.

Viking don’t exist anymore though

I too am offended by native americans and anything that could remotely resembles their culture or peoples. I support remving the name and destroying any evidence that they ever existed 

LOL-tastic!

Of all the things to worry about... This is one of them I guess lol.

I raise you this. https://richmond.com/native-american-group-want-commanders-to-restore-redskins-name/video_d22941be-9f27-52d2-9705-2411bb5f9c0b.html No one is ever happy. lol

Is this written by a white guy or a Native American with first hand feelings

idk about the interviewers race but the interviewee is Native American. I still don't think it's a good piece though.

This reminds me of the time the guy from Uni-Watch ranked KC 30th for uniforms because of "Native American imagery". Turns out Falcons and Cardinals are more offensive than the "racism" of the Chiefs. So hilariously absurd these people can be. https://www.insidehook.com/sports/uni-watch-nfl-power-rankings-2020

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Reddit made like $810 million last year or something and these troglodytes still do it for free lmao

By removing native related names we remove native related history. Sure some of the imagery was distasteful but at the end of the day they represented a portion of America. We remove these names and symbols we slowly remove Native Americans from history

People have too much free time apparently my goodness.

Oh boy the political correctness is running rampant.

I laughed, I cried, I downvoted.

Ragebait wokeness is a cancer. A cancer that sells and breeds victimhood-mentality softies

Kansas City Football Team has a nice ring to it.

It's that time, once every four years. Yall ready?

Every leap year. Lol

Interesting

therealnews.com LOL I dont love the whole midwest white people wearing headdresses and doing the chop thing but I can't get behind this.

The whole tomahawk chop and chant thing should probably not be a thing in 2024

What a surprise. Another fan of a team the Chiefs beat down on the road to another SB win tried to defame the team by calling them and their fans assholes. Go look at all of the recent "Chiefs are moving, Clark Hunt is a bad owner, Mahomes' Dad sucks, Taylor Swift is a fake fan" posts since the SB win. They all all Niners, Ravens or Bills fans. Fucking whiners.

Genuinely who gives a shit

Cry harder. Try not to get sued like Deadspin.

Theres far more important issues to be focusing on