Prince Albert Raiders walk back plans to use third jerseys depicting culturally insensitive design

The WHL's Prince Albert Raiders are taking some serious heat after a proposed third jersey depicting an offensive logo.

The Raiders revealed the culturally insensitive logo on social media, but quickly walked back the idea after coming under heavy fire for the inappropriate image.

The tweet has since been removed, but not before the Twitterverse got ahold of the screen shots.

Late Saturday night, WHL Commissioner Ron Robison released a formal statement on the matter, apologizing for the error in judgement.

"On Friday night the Prince Albert Raiders unveiled an alternate third jersey, which was inspired by a highly successful era in Club history. We recognize the dated design is insensitive and offensive. After consultation with the Prince Albert Raiders, this uniform and brand will be discontinued effective immediately. On behalf of the WHL and the Prince Albert Raiders, we regret this uniform design was approved and sincerely apologize for any harm it may have caused."

No word yet on what, if anything, the team plans to do for an alternate, non-offensive third jersey design.

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