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Warpaint was a mascot for the Kansas City Chiefs National Football League (NFL) team. Three individual pinto horses have been used for Warpaint. It is associated with the team's glory days at Municipal Stadium, having won two American Football League (AFL) championships. Warpaint led the team's victory parade after winning Super Bowl IV.
Mar 13, 2023 · The franchise moved to Kansas City in 1963 (via Britannica), and along with the new name came a new mascot in the form of a horse named Warpaint. Warpaint was a pinto horse, and the man who first rode him was Bob Johnson, who dressed in full Native American clothing, including a full headdress.
Jul 26, 2021 · July 26, 2021. Three days after Cleveland’s baseball team changed its name from Indians to Guardians, after decades of protests about the sports world’s use of Native American imagery, the Kansas...
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The Chiefs were born as the Dallas Texans in 1961 as part of the old American Football League. A logo created by newspaper cartoonist Bob Taylor featured a cowboy carrying a football under one arm and brandishing a six-shooter, all superimposed over the state of Texas. When the team moved to Kansas City in 1963, the owners changed the name to the C...
Along with the new name came a new logo, also created by Taylor: a shirtless Native man sporting washboard abs, a large feather headdress, buckskin leggings, moccasins and a loincloth. He wielded a tomahawk instead of a revolver and was depicted in front of the six-state area surrounding Kansas City. The "chief" was cradling a football. Along with ...
Sports teams have used Native imagery, cultural items and even dances to promote their teams for more than 100 years. The trend caught on quickly and hit its peak in the 1920s and '30s when high schools, universities and professional teams adopted names like Indians, Braves, Chiefs and in one case, the former name of the Washington Commanders footb...
Many Indigenous people want the Chiefs to go further while asking that the current rules be enforced. LeValdo said fans were still using the "touchdown" chant, a stereotypical tune, at Chiefs games. She and other activists have seen fans with headdresses entering the stadium. "They don't seem to care," she said. Gaylene Crouser, executive director ...
Crouser and other Native people plan to travel to Glendale, Arizona, for Super Bowl Sunday with their signs "Love the team, hate the name" and other signage to make their voices heard. They invite others to join them, Crouser said. "Kansas City deserves better." Amanda Blackhorse, the Navajo woman who led a team of Native people who sued the NFL to...
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Jul 26, 2021 · The Kansas City Chiefs have made the decision to end the use of Warpaint, a longtime mascot for the team that was reintroduced in 2009.
The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division.
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Mascots and traditions. In 1989, the Chiefs switched from Warpaint, a Pinto horse ridden by a man in a feathered headdress, to their current mascot K. C. Wolf. Warpaint returned in 2009, but was ridden by a cheerleader. [7]
