Rita Panahi: Idiotic Bombers review just the beginning of woke overhaul

We can mock the unbridled idiocy of Essendon wasting resources considering whether to ditch its historic logo but the vacuous Leftist dogma will not end there.

Former Essendon great Matthew Lloyd has questioned the merits of any name or logo change. Picture: AAP

No one should be surprised that within the painfully woke AFL some are troubled by a leading club being called the Bombers and having a logo featuring a warplane.

So much so that the Essendon Football Club is currently undertaking an examination of their branding with particular focus on the suitability of the military aircraft image which was adopted, along with the Bombers’ moniker, back in the 1940s, although the jet fighter image has had updates, including in the late 1990s.

Club officials are reportedly not bold enough to propose a change to the Bombers’ name, but just give them time.

Now they are investigating whether fans will accept a new logo.

Essendon Football Club is reviewing the suitability of the military aircraft image in its logo. Picture: AAP

Of course, this has caused sane footy fans like club great Matthew Lloyd and former NBA star Andrew Bogut to question the merits of any name or logo change.

“Have we got to that point that such a great logo, a tradition of the Essendon Football Club (might go) because it might upset the odd person or two that we would lose something so special … I hope it stays,” said Lloyd.

While Bogut summed up most fans’ reactions with this: “The AFL is gone. What a joke … Different themed rounds every week, pushing politics, telling people how to vote.”

Though we can mock the unbridled idiocy that sees Essendon waste resources considering a change to one of the more successful aspects of their club, they are hardly alone in being led astray by vacuous Leftist dogma.

Matthew Lloyd says he hopes the logo stays.

Andrew Bogut says ‘the AFL is gone’. Picture: Jonathan Ng

It was in late March that we read that Hawthorn’s famous “Family Club” mantra was being questioned at a club “peace summit” of powerbrokers with some asking if the use of the term was appropriate in 2023 and sufficiently inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Overseas pressure from the race-obsessed saw the Washington Redskins change their name despite various polls showing upwards of 90 per cent of native Americans were not offended by the Redskins moniker.

But why stop at the Bombers and warplane logos?

Can we really have a team called the Demons?

What about the environmentally questionable name of Power?

And surely Fremantle can’t be associated with Dockers; after all they’re complicit in exporting all that coal and uranium around the world.

As for the Magpies, not only do they swoop but the Pies nickname lends itself to overeating and fat shaming.