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Indians formally drop Chief Wahoo as primary logo

The iconic, yet controversial, Chief Wahoo logo will no longer be as heavily featured for the Indians as team owner Paul Dolan announced the franchise will move to the Block C as it’s primary logo, a distinction seemingly practiced since 2014 but made official Saturday.

NEWS: The Cleveland Indians have officially made the block C their primary logo. "Chief Wahoo" will now be 2nd logo pic.twitter.com/hdlPbRJnkW

— CLE Sports Talk (@Cleveland_STC) April 2, 2016

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"Clearly, we are using it more heavily than we are the Chief Wahoo logo,” Dolan said (via Cleveland.