Baseball Team Pulls Shirt After Fans Notice What City Nickname Looks Like

A Minor League ⚾Baseball team in Tennessee is scrambling for a new t-shirt design after some fans thought they saw a racial slur in their most recent design. But not everyone is convinced.

The Minor League Chattanooga Lookouts recently put out a new shirt riffing off the last five letters in name of their city and making the two Os into a pair of eyes. But some saw a word other than “Nooga” glaring back at them.

One tweet led the charge to question the shirt design over its supposedly racist subtext as an account using the Twitter name “Dre” jumped up to say “Oh no, Chattanooga this isn’t gonna work.”

But there was mixed reaction to the question over what the shirt “really” says, with the obvious implication being that this stylized “Nooga” hews a little too close to the actual N-word slur.

One Twitter user agreed with “Dre” and bashed the purportedly racist shirt as “hilariously bad.”

Another blasted the team and the city both saying, “Thought Chattanooga couldn’t get more racist.”

Twitter user “Jamie” thought the whole thing was a bad idea.”