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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Well this is the main problem I have with it all. Where does it end? If copying certain aspects of a culture is cultural appropriation and this is a bad thing, then that means we should cancel 95% of music. The English should be legally bound to only make Tudor-style folk music and psychedelic boy band pop rock, and Daft Punk should change all the name of their songs, such as "Around the World" into "Dans le Monde Entier".
Exactly.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
That big teeth logo is pretty cheesy, but I fail to see how it's offensive. You can just as easily find such ridiculous cartoonish images of white people.
As a sports logo? Not sure offensive is the right word for it, but it's unflattering at the very least. If you lived in Africa and a sports team there had a caricature of a white person as their logo...?
There's no good reason to have a logo that takes the piss out of a minority.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
I'm not sure why Exeter call themselves the "Chiefs". We don't get silly names like this in football, not sure why rugby feels the need to do this. Just looking at the list of Premier League rugby clubs in England, we have the Chiefs, Bears, Tigers, Falcons, Sharks, Warriors and Saints. I don't mind Warriors and Saints, but none of the others make any sense for an English club.
Animal references are fine if they evoke strength or ferocity or w/e. Cultural references should at least have some relation to the place the team resides in, or they just seem dumb.
Some of them make sense, like Minnesota Vikings in US football. The state is frozen six months of the year and has a lot of scandinavians living there. And the logo looks cool, not goofy.
@ the bolded: do soccer teams even have nicknames. I can't remember ever hearing one.
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