He’s wrong. [4] The team had two captains, Simon Nolet and Guy Charron. This article is about the now defunct Kansas City hockey team.
The Chop has become a fixture at Arrowhead Stadium. Each of those teams — including the Kansas City Chiefs — must begin a thorough reappraisal of their use of those images and traditions. Feathers and face paint, on the other hand, are everywhere.
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Yes, the team wasn’t directly named with Native Americans in mind.
The question isn’t whether all Native Americans find these symbols objectionable.
Kansas City had been the home of several minor league ice hockey teams through the years.
Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt and general manager Jack Steadman opted to name the franchise after Kansas City mayor, H. Roe Bartle, whose nickname was “The Chief.” His nickname, however, came from being a founding member of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say — a Boy Scout troop that wore Native American garb such as headdresses. For other uses, see, "National Hockey League (NHL) Expansion History", "Turnin' Back the Clock: Kansas City Scouts", "Kansas City Scouts 1974 12 22 NY Islanders Pages 1 - 50 ...", Defunct and relocated National Hockey League teams, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kansas_City_Scouts&oldid=987054601, Defunct ice hockey teams in the United States, Professional ice hockey teams in Missouri, Sports in the Kansas City metropolitan area, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 4 November 2020, at 16:46. “But why?
The franchise failed to make the playoffs in either season in Kansas City and won only 27 of 160 games, including a 7-66-7 mark away from home. So the Scouts were put up for sale, with a Denver-based group led by oilman Jack Vickers looking to buy the club. A local group was also interested, but when the NHL informed the Scouts' owners that they would be on the hook of over a million dollars in expansion and territorial fees (owed the St. Louis Blues) if they didn't sell to Vickers, they reluctantly did so on July 26, 1976.
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Kansas City has won the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup four times — first in 2004 by beating the Chicago Fire, next in 2012 by beating the Seattle Sounders at Sporting Park, again in 2015 by beating the Philadelphia Union, and most recently in 2017 by beating the New York Red Bulls. The concerns of the Native American community, and a much broader audience, can’t be ignored.
Notify me of follow-up comments by email. It might be more interesting to hear ideas for potential team names and see ideas for logos and jerseys. ‘Chiefs’ isn’t a racial slur like the Washington team name.”. [2] To allow construction to be completed on Kemper Arena, the Scouts played their first eight games on the road, where they lost seven and tied one. At what point does the team stop working to correct issues that persist and simply move away from the nickname causing those issues in the first place? In 1972, Kansas City gained an NBA franchise, when the Kansas City-Omaha Kings – which had originated as the Rochester Royals, before becoming the Cincinnati Royals – relocated to the city from Cincinnati; the Kings split their home games between Kansas City and Omaha, Nebraska until 1975, when the team began playing its games exclusively in Kansas City, shortening its name to the Kansas City Kings. The short-lived team from the 1970s could make its return to Kansas City, and this blog isn't the only one ready for its return.
As in Washington, D.C., and in Cleveland, fans will insist the names are meant to honor Native Americans or aren’t related to that community at all. Near the midway point of the season, the team was competing for a playoff spot, with a 3–1 win over the California Golden Seals on December 28 placing them just one point behind the St. Louis Blues and a playoff position in the weak Smythe Division. Later, they’d work to eliminate Native American imagery from all officially licensed NFL merchandise in an effort to quash any stereotypes. This includes the option to have the list emailed to you at the very bottom. All rights reserved. ), There will be enormous resistance to even talking about this. The Scouts fared only marginally better (losing 56 games), and the 1974 NHL expansion was widely seen as having been a mistake.