Kansas City Chiefs Mascot Change

Roe bartle who helped the city land a pro football team in the early 1960s.

Kansas city chiefs mascot change.

Chiefs fans have been doing the tomahawk chop at arrowhead stadium for years but now could be the time for. The chiefs were named after former kansas city mayor h. Warpaint the team s mascot horse appears to be a permanent fixture for kansas city since the 50th anniversary of the team in 2009. The team even built a drum deck for their pregame ritual.

While the team has no plans to change the name other changes could be in store. Nfl s kansas city chiefs one of several american sports teams that copy native american imagery and traditions will take the field for super bowl liv. With the news now fully enveloping dan snyder and his football team in washington working towards finally changing their mascot moniker logo after decades of pushback and protest the news cycle. The franchise of course has adopted native american themes.

How did the team which was founded in 1959. It has been around since 1989 but it is not the organization s first representative before kc wolf there was a live animal mascot discontinued for. He was first introduced in 1989 as a successor to warpaint a horse ridden by a man wearing a full indian chief headdress from the mid 1980s.