"I think it's a misrepresentation of the Cherokee people or Native Americans in general. Just depicts them in this kind of caveman-type people way who aren't intellectual. They are a lot more than that. It's not me being offended by the whole mascot thing. It's not. It's about the misconception of us, the Native Americans, and it devalues us and how we're perceived in that way, or used as mascots. The Redskins and stuff like that," Helsley told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Saturday. "That's the disappointing part. That stuff like this still goes on. It's just disrespectful, I think."