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KC paper won't use Redskins?

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

The Kansas City Star's various accounts of the Chiefs' victory Sunday over Washington never used the word "Redskins." About 40 protesters came to Arrowhead Stadium to protest the team's nickname, according to the WASHINGTON POST.

In a story about the protest, the paper said, "The Star's policy is not to use Washington's team name because it is a racial slur." And what about the Chiefs? The paper wrote that, "the Chiefs were actually named for former Mayor H. Roe Bartle -- known as The Chief -- who was key in getting the team to come to Kansas City in the 1960s."