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Francesca D'Annunzio in Glendale, Arizona

Kansas City Chiefs face new call to drop ‘insulting’ name and symbol

Kansas City Chiefs celebrate the Super Bowl LVII win on Sunday.
Kansas City Chiefs celebrate the Super Bowl LVII win on Sunday. Photograph: Anthony Behar/PA

The Kansas City Chiefs may have won the Super Bowl in an epic game, but for some there will be no victory until the football team changes its name and symbol and its fans stop performing an insulting gesture and chant.

A small but loud group protested outside the stadium hosting the Super Bowl in Arizona on Sunday, aggrieved that the team from the city that straddles the Kansas-Missouri border continues to refuse to drop its name and arrowhead symbol, which Native American leaders class as a racist mascot and symbol that devalues Native traditions.

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