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WKBT February 4, 2021 8:15 AM Associated Press Updated: February 4, 2021 9:43 AM Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk. Local groups have long argued that the team’s chop tradition and even its name itself are derogatory to American Indians, yet the national attention focused for years on the Washington football team’s use of the name Redskins and the cartoonish Chief Wahoo logo, lo...

St. Pete group to protest indigenous imagery used by Chiefs on Super Bowl Sunday Matthew McClellan reports ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - With the Kansas City Chiefs getting ready for a second consecutive appearance on the biggest night in sports, the defending champions are attracting renewed attention over the team's use of Native American imagery. The St. Petersburg-based group "Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality," or FIREE, is planning a protest right outside Raymond James Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, targeting the Chiefs and the team's fans. Organizers said they plan to be on ...

Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk. Local groups have long argued that the team's chop tradition and even its name itself are derogatory to American Indians, yet the national attention focused for years on the Washington football team's use of the name Redskins and the cartoonish Chief Wahoo logo, long the emblem for the Cleveland Indians baseball team. But in the past year, those teams have decided to ditch ...

Updated: 9:47 AM CST Feb 4, 2021 The Associated Press Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk.Local groups have long argued that the team’s chop tradition and even its name itself are derogatory to American Indians, yet the national attention focused for years on the Washington football team’s use of the name Redskins and the cartoonish Chief Wahoo logo, long the emblem for the Clevelan...

Relief for oil: As more people get coronavirus vaccines, demand for fuels like gasoline will tick back up. That should raise the price of oil - and provide relief to the companies that sell it. What else? Producers will be much leaner next year, now that they've cut spending, and that may inspire investors to load up on energy stocks. Still, there will be pain ahead for oil firms until demand for fuel returns. Experts we spoke to offered up different dates for when that might happen, including never. There's another reality: Should demand return, it will inevitably fall back down, followi...