Whatever unwritten rules govern this realm clearly don't apply to caricatures that have been around for years—and that's doubly true of sports mascots. Behold Chief Wahoo, longtime mascot of the Cleveland Indians and still leering from team hats today. Shifty-eyed, devil-red, and grinning like a frat boy at an orgy, Wahoo was called "racist, degrading and demeaning" by the American Indian Education Center in Cleveland during one of many protests over the years. To no avail. Fans are dedicated to teams and their symbols in ways they rarely are to commercial products. Even here, though, the ground is shifting. The NCAA banned "hostile and abusive" mascots in 2005, prompting an outcry at places like the University of Illinois, which agonized about the fate of its Chief Illiniwek, who for decades did a halftime war dance at home games. Illinois relented, though, and in February, Illiniwek's headdress and buckskins were packed away for good.