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General Category => Sports, Hobbies & Interests => Topic started by: jeremyp on January 27, 2022, 02:06:31 PM

Title: Exeter Chiefs
Post by: jeremyp on January 27, 2022, 02:06:31 PM

The Exeter Chiefs are one of England's foremost club rugby teams. Apparently they are dropping their native American logo in favour of a Celtic chief.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/60155782

I assume they have decided that no descendants of the Dumnonii are alive to complain of "dehumanising".

If I am being honest, I didn't realise that the "chief" in "Exeter Chiefs" was am American. I thought it always had to do with Celtic warlords.

Title: Re: Exeter Chiefs
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 27, 2022, 02:19:58 PM

I didn't even know they were known as Exeter Chiefs. I just thought of them as Exeter