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Exeter Chiefs have a new logo.
DIR By: DazzaS
Date: January 27, 2022, 7:55 am
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Exeter Chiefs are to end their Native American-themed branding
this summer.
The club had been criticised for continued use of Native
American imagery and announced last year they were reviewing
their branding.
Exeter will keep their 'Chiefs' nickname but will now use
imagery from the Celtic Iron Age Dumnonii Tribe.
"We are excited to welcome in the next era of rugby within
Exeter," said chairman and chief executive Tony Rowe in a
statement.
"Exeter has and always will be the most important term in our
overall identity. The term Chiefs, however, is equally
entrenched in our make-up, going back to over a century ago when
teams in this region would regularly call their first teams that
of the Chiefs," Rowe added.
"As a rugby club we have been willing to listen, we have
consulted far and wide, and now we are ready to invoke change."
Exeter say they have been known as the 'Chiefs' since the early
1900s and have used Native American imagery on their branding
since 1999
A number of clubs have asked visiting Exeter fans not to wear
Native American-themed headdresses to their away matches this
season after criticism of the club's branding by the National
Congress of American Indians (NCAI).
In October Dante Desiderio, the NCAI's chief executive, said:
"Native 'themed' mascot imagery and the dehumanising stereotypes
it perpetuates must go."
The club first received criticism over its branding - which as
well as a Native American on the club's crest, also includes
places such as the 'Wigwam Bar' and 'Campfire Grill' in their
home ground at Sandy Park - in 2020 following a petition by some
fans.
At the time Exeter decided to drop their mascot 'Big Chief' but
retain the rest of their branding.
In the United States, Washington's American football team
dropped their controversial Redskins name and logo, while
Cleveland's baseball team changed its name from the Indians to
the Guardians.
Exeter's new imagery comes from the Dumnonii tribe, which the
club say was based in Devon, Cornwall and parts of Somerset for
"many hundreds of years before the Roman occupation from AD43".
At that time, Exeter say, historians believe people were "living
in small kingdoms known as 'chiefdoms' which were ruled by high
chieftains", thus providing a link to keep the term 'Chiefs'.
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Re: Exeter Chiefs have a new logo.
DIR By: never sleep
Date: January 27, 2022, 8:09 am
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Is it just me - or does it look like a cartoon version of Jack
Nowell?
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Re: Exeter Chiefs have a new logo.
DIR By: SiB
Date: January 27, 2022, 8:11 am
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> Is it just me - or does it look like a cartoon version of Jack
Nowell?
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Nope not just you, and think it’s got the chiefs mullet
Good club, good fans and a decent logo
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Re: Exeter Chiefs have a new logo.
DIR By: DazzaS
Date: January 27, 2022, 8:14 am
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It may be the historian nerd in me, but I was surprised Exeter
did not draw on the rich heritage around them in the first place
and use something like this to back the Chiefs name. Well, they
have now.
Does this mean we cannot sing "Harlequins" to the tomahawk chop
anymore? That was quite effective.
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Re: Exeter Chiefs have a new logo.
DIR By: Bolly-Quin
Date: January 27, 2022, 8:16 am
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You heard it here first...
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Re: Exeter Chiefs have a new logo.
DIR By: DOK
Date: January 27, 2022, 8:18 am
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Not looking forward to hearing the Dumnonii chop!
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Re: Exeter Chiefs have a new logo.
DIR By: Bolly-Quin
Date: January 27, 2022, 8:20 am
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We'll have to abandon the US Cavalry fancy dress for Vespasian's
Roman Legionnaires...
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Re: Exeter Chiefs have a new logo.
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: January 27, 2022, 8:22 am
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> We'll have to abandon the US Cavalry fancy dress for
Vespasian's Roman Legionnaires...
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Toga party at The Stoop!
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Re: Exeter Chiefs have a new logo.
DIR By: mighty_quin
Date: January 27, 2022, 8:22 am
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Good for them. About time, and looks quite smart.
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Re: Exeter Chiefs have a new logo.
DIR By: never sleep
Date: January 27, 2022, 8:28 am
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It is worth watching the video they have released.
There is a fantastic part at 55 seconds into it.
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