Kansas City Star Contemplates Another Silly Chiefs Name Change

Inevitably . . . Because NOTHING lasts forever, the name will eventually change, just not any time soon. 

Also . . . 

Credit where it's due . . . This dead-tree scribe comes up with an inside joke that's slightly more plausible than last year's lame missive about the possibility of a "beefs" franchise.

Here's the crux of one more thing the newspaper printed that's not gonna happen . . . Check-it: 

"It has been 50 years since the civil rights revolution, so maybe the answer to Native American symbols and team names is for us to grow up. The answer isn’t less ethnicity, but more and better. Why not honor the heroic Harlem Hellfighters, the 369th Infantry Regiment that fought in World War I after they became an early contribution to the French cause? Or what about a team named for the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II aviation fame? Why not extol the virtues of the pioneering 1st Rhode Island Regiment, whose Black and Native American soldiers excelled under fire during the Revolutionary War and helped change George Washington’s mind about who was capable of fighting for the American cause?"

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Don't criticize Chiefs name, diversify: Let's add the Samurai and the Tuskegee Airmen | Opinion

If we ban Native American NFL team names from the Super Bowl, would it be equal to allow ethnicities from just white guys like the Vikings?