How was this ever okay? The term Indian became controversial in my adult life, somehow — I mean, we knew we didn’t live in India — but the grinning mascot could not ever have been okay. Could it?
I like the new name better … but, couldn’t the cartoon fastball have used more work?
It’s less offensive, sure, but it’s no Cardinal’s logo.
(Cool logos, even though the intertwined letters were stolen from the Catholic church.)
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The giant grin also exists in the logo for an Oklahoma institution, Eskimo Joe’s. (which people get uneasy about occasionally)
I like the bird-with-a-baseball-bat, myself, but so it goes. and did they seriously swipe those particular intertwined letters from the Catholic church??? That is bizarre and also why does the Catholic church have monograms?
KC – Napoleon’s tomb in Paris is in the church of Saint Louis, and like all Saint Louisans Gary and I spotted the familiar logo, which is on the mezzanine, I believe. Now, you can’t find a word about that in the history of the logo, so maybe it wasn’t deliberate. They also claim the name Cardinal comes from the bird, but it’s a spooky coincidence.