Chief Illini has been rightfully retired.
But what about this bozo?
I picked up an "advert-zine" put out by a local car sales chain opened it up and found an "article" about Chief Zee in it. The scanned image of the article is at the bottom of this post.
I went to their website (
Easterns Automotive Group) and found this in their "fun stuff" category:
http://www.easterns.com/easterns/videos/hollywood_7.wmv
Personally, I'm going to send Eastern Motors some email pointing out how obnoxiously offensive this ad campaign is. I'll also be calling corporate in the morning.
There are groups that are working on changing the Washington DC football team's name (and have been for years). Complaining to the football team's owner won't help when confronting an "unofficial" mascot. Working on a business that uses this person in their ad campaigns - hopefully (and eventually) a different story. A lot will depend on the feedback they receive, I guess.
Here is their email address:
Sales@easterns.com
CustomerCare@easterns.com
The phone numbers:
703 790 1000 (corporate)
888 217 4005 (sales)
888 800 0519 (customer care)
