Cleveland’s Major League baseball team said Monday it is dropping the name “Indians” which it has had for 105 years and will become the “Headbangers”.
“We felt we should honor something that is exclusively Cleveland and nothing says Cleveland more than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” team owner Paul Dolan said. “Well, except for Quasar Energy, the company that owns the biofuels plant that stinks up the whole east side of the city.
“But headbangers are the people who play heavy metal, death wave, post punk and all that other brain-damaging rock and roll music, and their fans,” Dolan said. “We want to attract a younger fan base and I can’t think of a better way to do it.”
Cleveland is the second franchise of a major sport to drop its team name this year, following the National Football League’s Washington Redskins, who had been expected to be renamed the “Crapitals” until it unexpectedly won its past four games to take over first place in the NFC East.
“Now I’m not sure what we’re going to do,” team owner Daniel Snyder said. “Whistleblowers? Grifters? Swamp? The election seems to have messed up our plans.”
The decision by Washington’s and Cleveland’s teams has triggered three other franchises to announce plans to eliminate their Indian-related names.
Baseball’s Atlanta Braves are expected to become the “Traffic” or “Bottlenecks”, for which the Georgia capital is best known.
Similarly, Chicago’s National Hockey League team is dropping Black Hawks. Since Fire (a soccer team) and Winds (a defunct football team) in Chicago have been ruled out by team owner William Wirtz, names under consideration include “Cops”, “Felons” and “Deep Dish.”
And Kansas City’s NFL Chiefs are expected to become the “Barbecue.”
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