You can try to custom your css style, for example like this:
.fixed-table-container thead th .both { background-image: none;}.fixed-table-container thead th .asc { background-image: url(asc.png);}.fixed-table-container thead th .desc { background-image: url(desc.png);}
jsFiddle link: http://jsfiddle.net/e3nk137y/3258/