Name That Team
by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 8, 2012 1:30 PM PST
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This post does not really have anything to do with the Mariners. Not every post needs to have anything to do with the Mariners, just because this is a Mariners blog. Stop being so one-track minded. I did. And now I'm writing this post.
There's lots of buzz that Seattle is working hard to get an NBA team and an NHL team. We've heard such buzz before, but it's seemed unusually intense of late. They wouldn't be getting a new NBA team or a new NHL team. Presumably, they would be getting the Sacramento Kings and the Phoenix Coyotes, respectively. There's no guarantee that Sacramento moves, and there's no guarantee that Phoenix moves, but my admittedly limited understanding is that their current situations could be best described with a word rhyming with brother-sucked. Actually that's gross. 'Nother-lucked. There we go, kind of!
Matthew and I talked about this on the podcast we recorded this morning (stay tuned brother-suckers). Let's go and get ahead of ourselves. Let's say Seattle gets an NBA team, and let's say Seattle gets an NHL team. I'm assuming that the NBA team would be called the Sonics, or the SuperSonics. I'm also assuming that, if it wouldn't, whatever, I don't care about basketball. What of the NHL team? What would the hockey team be called?
You wouldn't keep them as the Coyotes. They wouldn't be starting over from scratch as a roster, but they'd be starting over from scratch as a franchise. You wouldn't want to go back to the Metropolitans, since there's already another Metropolitans in baseball, and also that name sucks. As I talked about in the podcast and since I'm not above using ideas over again, 'Lahar' is a non-starter and 'Canucks' would be hilariously dickish but probably forbidden.
So, what are your ideas? If you were in charge for some reason, what would you name the hockey team? Why would you name it that? If offering a suggestion, please also offer an explanation.
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The Seattle Hockey Cardinals and Seattle Basketball Cardinals
It would even things out among the four sports, and I like things like that.
by Grant Brisbee on Feb 8, 2012 1:32 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
And if they wanted to win a championship soon:
The Seattle Hockey Giants and the Seattle Basketball Giants.
Brandon Crawford: Yeah, but check out that Defense!
Lars Bet: 1st HoF: Bonds > Clemens
by Azmanz on Feb 8, 2012 1:40 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
Yeah, I guess you can shorten it to the Seattle PA's
if you feel like that’s better or something…
by Matthew on Feb 8, 2012 1:42 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Oh yeah, I was gonna talk about that on the 'cast.
What would happen to the current Coyotes blogger(s)?
Do they just stop? Is that how we can stop blogging about the Mariners?
Hey, no bright ideas
You can’t get away that easily. MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
Don't be silly
the Mariners aren’t going to become a hockey team any time soon. Back to work, typing man
by pdb on Feb 8, 2012 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
I think he/they just stop
Maybe he/they stick with the team through the move, but I doubt it. This is one of our two possible exits.
by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 8, 2012 1:43 PM PST up reply actions
Seattle Salmon Slingers
The short hand slang will be the Slingas
More species specific!
I think the Seattle Chum, or the Seattle Humpies would be pretty awesome. Alternatively “Sockeye” would satisfy the hooligan set.
by goyo70 on Feb 9, 2012 8:39 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I would hope that "Sockeye" is a non-starter
Since there is already a fairly proficient Ultimate team using that name. I know that no one cares about Ultimate except Ultimate players and they probably don’t have a trademark or whatever on the name, but they have been around since the early-mid-90s.
Mariners/D Broncos/BSU Broncos fan in Seattle
The first rule of Lookout Landing is...
by appleshampoo on Feb 9, 2012 12:01 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Compromise: The Seattle Hipster Hoopsters.
Doug Fister. :(
by Mothy on Feb 8, 2012 2:02 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Doesn't have the right ring to it.
Try the Phallus Palace.
Doug Fister. :(
by Mothy on Feb 8, 2012 2:04 PM PST up reply actions 14 recs
I was told by a man who speaks Lushootseed
that the word was submitted to Webster’s as “goeduck,” which is closer to the proper pronunciation (gooey-duck). He said it’s Lushootseed and it means “to dig.” However, the dictionary people thought this must be a typo of the prefix geo- (meaning “earth”) since the animal lives underground, and they changed it.
All hearsay of course, but it seemed plausible to me.
Repeat after me:
I took my geoduck to Puyallup.
by Terminator X on Feb 8, 2012 1:54 PM PST up reply actions 15 recs
Except fuck, Thunder
Totems. Washingtonians?
by lemonverbena on Feb 8, 2012 1:43 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Totems. That was the name of the Junior team and was going to be the name of our NHL team back in the day.
And we’d still be able to use the “Thunderbird and Whale” motif with the Canucks.
by Agent_J on Feb 8, 2012 4:29 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Yea, gotta re-use the minor league team name.
It has worked perfectly for the Sounders.
by Eric Wedge's Mustache on Feb 8, 2012 4:06 PM PST up reply actions
Stolen idea:
The Seattle Timbers and here’s the logo:
by Matthew on Feb 8, 2012 1:41 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
Both Seattle and Portland can't have "Timbers" teams...
by EricsLilHeros on Feb 8, 2012 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
Oh man this would make Portland want to get a hockey team so bad.
Just to beat the Seattle Timbers for stealing their name.
You can't have Johnny Canuck!
The statistics you don't compile never lie.
-Stephen Colbert
by kentcheesehead on Feb 8, 2012 3:18 PM PST up reply actions
Johnny Canuck was a pilot during the war
But the before the Mariners the team here was the Pilots, so… I’m not sure where I’m going with this. Can the team be the Ice Pilots?
Were you raised in a barn?
answer when spoken to
by Bearskin Rugburn on Feb 8, 2012 2:10 PM PST up reply actions
No folksy words of wisdom here please
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Feb 8, 2012 2:11 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Alliteration is not allowed on this blog.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Honestly I thought I was getting nailed for hypocrisy on that one.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Don't.
Matthew is the only one on this thread with any authority, listen to him, disregard the mildly malicious mess of moronic masses. Over and out.
by Terminator X on Feb 8, 2012 2:21 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
No radio linger here, pl- aw crap.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
My high school marching band was called the Cascade Sound.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Well I doubt they're going to let some third rate professional sports team take their name.
So scratch that off the list.
You misunderstand,
the implication was “It could be worse.”
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
You must be a Bruin.....
all I have to say is: Go Everett.
by Jonathan Brakke on Feb 8, 2012 6:11 PM PST up reply actions
Slight variation: "The Seattle Cascadians"
by Simon Phoenix on Feb 8, 2012 3:33 PM PST up reply actions
Some day, my friend. Some day.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Feb 8, 2012 4:09 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
There's a drum and bugle corps with that name.
Well, technically they’re just the Cascades now, but they’re still based out of Seattle.
Brother-Sucked is way worse than the original,
or maybe not. Ew, I want to stop thinking about this now.
Seattle Metropolitans. That way you can already lay claim to being the 1917 Stanley Cup champs.
Also, it seems totally f’d up to take the Kings from Sac-town when they’re essentially going through the same Seattle did – the “taxpayers won’t build a stadium so you diehards lose your team” thing.
by SethGrandpa on Feb 8, 2012 1:45 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
All they care about is footbaw and Mardi Gras
by cwel87 on Feb 8, 2012 3:34 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
And cri
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Feb 8, 2012 11:48 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
And crime.
And gumbo, I suppose.
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Feb 8, 2012 11:48 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Seattle Metropolitans would actually be my choice for our hockey team.
The first American team to win the Stanley Cup! They need to be revived.
Anyways, that or any one of the joke suggestions… Seattle Billionaires! Seattle Coffee Beans! Seattle Roasters! Seattle Flannels!
Yeah but then you have it shortened to the Mets.
And, well, you know. Mets.
by Cascadian Man on Feb 8, 2012 4:34 PM PST up reply actions
The way the Mets are going, they may be better off becoming a hockey team
They could trade for Nyjer Morgan and they’d be all set.
But if the Kings do come here
You could borrow the name of Victoria’s defunct hockey team and call them the Salmon Kings.
Even the logo works:
Just stick a basketball in its mouth like a lure.
I was thinking this same thing.
And it’s not like too many people are going to be upset about using an ex-ECHL team’s mascot
Am I in the minority if I say I wouldn't want a new basketball team to be called the Sonics?
That franchise doesn’t belong to Seattle anymore, the titles, the history, anything. I feel like it just brings up bad blood. Why not start fresh?
We still have the trophy.
I’m actually not clear on what happens to the team’s official history should, say, the Kings become the Sonics
I don't know how accurate this is, and I've always been hazy on who was keeping the Sonics history, but Wikipedia says:
According to the team’s Oklahoma-based owners, the Sonics’ franchise history will be “shared” between the Thunder and any future Seattle club
The article the citation leads to says that Seattle kept the name and history.
So now I’m all confused.
This is why the issue has always confused me,
I’ve read conflicting reports over the years and have no idea who actually knows what they’re talking about.
Because we had a team with that name for 41 years
A new team would definitely be the Sonics. The hypothetical owner would be insane not to, for brand value at the very least.
by lemonverbena on Feb 8, 2012 1:59 PM PST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
I would kind of love it if they took the chance on NOT naming them the Sonics.
They should still promote the Sonics’ history aggressively, retire Sonics numbers and court Sonics legends. But they could also use the opportunity to make the statement that Seattle basketball fans should never forget the details surrounding the loss of the Sonics.
Maybe call them the Keys.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Feb 8, 2012 2:10 PM PST up reply actions
The Seattle Clay Bennet Can Lick My Choads
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 8, 2012 2:15 PM PST up reply actions 38 recs
Robert
"You are the molders of their dreams." - Clark Mollenhoff
by EequalsMc2 on Feb 8, 2012 10:58 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Please use a subject line when posting pictures
Thanks.
by pdb on Feb 8, 2012 1:51 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
they do, but Disney no longer owns them
they’re just the Ducks now, not the Mighty Ducks.
by pdb on Feb 8, 2012 1:54 PM PST up reply actions
I prefer to think more like a self-inflicted wound
than being beaten by a superior team.
Nah. Team Iceland
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking of the movies.
Seattle Olympians
Seattle Strawberries
Seattle Waterfalls
Seattle Greenies
Seattle Foresters
Seattle Ozians
Seattle Environmentalists
Seattle Dawgs
Seattle Rain
Seattle Jimi Hendrixes
Seattle Pikes
Seattle Chieftains
These are my suggestions
by Dewey N on Feb 8, 2012 1:49 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
I thought Greenies are cat treats.
That would be sooo seattle.
A very popular version of amphetamines came in little green tablets, aka "greenies".
These were particularly common in MLB clubhouses for getting players through long road stretches. They have since been banned during the steroids hullabaloo.
Westlake Bum City Skaters
I’m under the impression that that’s where we’ll be recruiting from.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.-Homer Simpson
by Stephanie Powers on Feb 8, 2012 1:51 PM PST reply actions
Let's keep the concept behind the name
Coyotes represents a wild & free animal, romantically roaming the territory & eating garbage wherever it finds it. So I vote for the Seattle Possums.
by phiat on Feb 8, 2012 1:52 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
That's the name of my Fantasy Football team
but who gives a shit about that?
I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. Ugh
Actually, just call them the Seattle Trolls
And have everybody assume it relates to the internet.
Plus, hey, retro wild-haired bobblehead dolls.
Seattle Tree Octopi
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Feb 8, 2012 2:13 PM PST up reply actions
Seattle Peccaries!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Feb 8, 2012 2:13 PM PST up reply actions
Seattle Thunderbirds
Give me several reasons why not? The Sounders did it, and they’re apparently quite popular. ALL THE COOL KIDS ARE DOING IT!
Nicholas Placentia Minnott
by Nicholas Placentia Minnott on Feb 8, 2012 1:53 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
Because fuck the Thunderbirds, that's why.
I may or may not be a Tips fans.
by Cascadian Man on Feb 8, 2012 4:38 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
It's been mentioned previously I'm sure but the Seattle Freeze would be amusing.
by Eyebrows on Feb 8, 2012 1:55 PM PST via mobile reply actions
The Seattle Overcast with a bit of drizzle
by w00tah on Feb 8, 2012 1:57 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
The Livingstones.
Then every game there could be a “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” ceremony.
OK forget that. The Jimi Hendrixes is better as Dewey N suggests above. The Kurt Cobains wouldn’t be as readily popular due to the manner of death and survival of Courtney Love.
ignacio
The Seattle Moose(s)
then the Mariner Moose would be able to work all year round to support his little Mooslings.
I think you mean the Seattle Moosen.
I saw a flock of moosen!
by Cramer05 on Feb 8, 2012 5:33 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Many much moosen?
I love you for this reference, Brian Regan is one of the funniest men on the planet!
And we could name the basketball team the Seattle Seahawks!
Confuse the hell out of everybody.
Brett Gleason | Twitter | Sports Minds Blog | Never fallen in the sarchasm.
by Brett the 49er on Feb 8, 2012 2:04 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Is that the Japanese word the referees yell before a karate match?
All the Japanese I learned from watching Ralph Macchio movies.
I thought that was "hajime"
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
I thought it was "Hadouken!"
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 8, 2012 2:10 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Wait, I'm thinking Naruto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E351adoCuuY
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
It means "begin"
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Seattle SODO'ers
I fucking hate you Mariners
Typical transplant. Locals call it "pop".
by Eyebrows on Feb 8, 2012 2:08 PM PST via mobile up reply actions 15 recs
Seattle Pop'ers would be good for a hockey name.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Born and raised here.
I call it “soda” because “pop” sounds fucking stupid.
by harkening on Feb 8, 2012 5:49 PM PST up reply actions 5 recs
Agreed. I used to call it pop
But felt ashamed every time.
by Eeyore hates figlet on Feb 8, 2012 9:19 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The mere fact that you call making love "pop" tells me that you're not ready.
by Mind of no mind on Feb 9, 2012 4:04 AM PST up reply actions
Oops, sorry.
I read that first post as SODOM’ers
by Mind of no mind on Feb 9, 2012 4:05 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Maybe the team that has the ball could make up their own rules every time
until another basket’s scored.
ignacio
Why not keep "Kings"?
Cuz ya know…King County?
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
by Cheddar28 on Feb 8, 2012 2:08 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
For the Bball team i mean.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Would the King family allow that?
Seeing as how the County is now supposed to refer to him rather than the North Carolina slave owner who was vice president for six weeks in 1853, I’m not sure an image of MLK as part of a team logo would fly. Though I do like the image of the man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial setting up for a three-pointer. “I have a … triple double.”
I don't think the implication was the have the team be the Martin Luther Kings.
Just that the name would be applicable still.
by Mariner John on Feb 9, 2012 12:43 AM PST up reply actions
Seattle Grunge
Sounds like a good hockey team to me – and the 90s was the last time I paid attention to hockey so that fits.
Seattle Freezing Rain
Seattle Thin Ice
Seattle Grinders
by Mariner Optimist on Feb 8, 2012 2:09 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
The Grunge would be the WOORRRRST
by Eyebrows on Feb 8, 2012 2:17 PM PST via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
Really? The WOORRRRST?
Is this the first comment you read? There is shit all over this place.
I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. Ugh
by HitKing69 on Feb 8, 2012 8:02 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Actually it would be a pretty damned good name
for a hockey team. They bastards never shave anyway. Lots of great intro music for the players too
Baseball been bery, bery good to me. - Chico Escuela
If Seattle
winds up to have been forced by the NBA to trade the current Thunder for the current Kings, then they got fucked worse than the Lakers and Hornets in the cancelled Chris Paul deal.
My NBA team got stolen so now I settle for rooting against Kobe.
by awilson11 on Feb 8, 2012 2:10 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Seattle didn't "trade" anything, much less the current Thunder team.
The Sonics went 20-62 in their last year before moving. Who’s even left from that team other than Durant? Collison? Perkins, Harden, Westbrook etc were all added later. No way to know what would have happened if they stayed in Seattle.
So they'd only still have Kevin Durant and most likely Russell Westbrook?
Yeah, what a shitty team.
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 8, 2012 2:20 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm saying they didn't trade the current Thunder team, and to claim they did is stupid.
Everything that happened after the relocation is irrelevant. No idea how it would have played out here. Come on, this is LL not ESPN.
Terminator...
I agree with you that we can’t pretend to know what a team would have looked like if it had stayed in Seattle, but we could say with good certainty that based on how NBA contracts work, that Kevin Durant would still be a Sonic and that Seattle would have still been in the position to draft Russell Westbrook. Those are the only two players I even mentioned.
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 8, 2012 2:29 PM PST up reply actions
I agree with you, but Durant is the heart of what I'm getting at is all.
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 8, 2012 2:30 PM PST up reply actions
Okay. Great. Good for you. Please direct me to where I said anything to the contrary.
I never said they wouldn’t have Durant. Or that they’d be a shitty team. I was (somewhat understandably for someone who didn’t follow the Sonics) wrong on Westbrook, so shoot me, but don’t argue against positions I never took.
You say "other than Durant" like losing him alone isn't enough to flip your shit over.
Doug Fister. :(
Sam Presti.
Yes, the team likely would have very much looked like this. You knew that when they drafted Durant and started building the team here on their way out.
by BrooklynPreacher on Feb 8, 2012 2:24 PM PST up reply actions
Hey, I like the Seattle Aloofs!
Not so much the Malos. And is David Stern the only person in the world who makes Bud Selig look good?
"There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League."
—George Vecsey
by extavernmouse on Feb 9, 2012 12:31 PM PST up reply actions
Just wanted to thank you for giving me a factual correction without any unnecessary snark
May we all learn from your ways!
Westbrook and Ibaka were drafted with the final two picks made as the Sonics
so yes, only three of the four best players on the team were Sonics
I imagine you can see how this would be an understandable mistake for someone who doesn't follow basketball terribly closely to make.
Doesn’t refute my main point though, which is that it’s not only asinine but factually incorrect to state that the city of Seattle was “forced to trade the current version of the Thunder”. The current version of the Thunder is probably something like the 95th percentile of outcomes when viewed from the lens of 2008 (See: Trailblazers, Portland). Maybe Westbrook never breaks out, maybe Durant gets hurt, maybe the Perkins trade doesn’t happen, etc. I never said that they’d be terrible, only that they’d be different, and being different from the 95th percentile is more likely than not being worse to some degree. Implying that Seattle ever had the current version of the Thunder is dishonest revisionist bullshit (which is the only point I was trying to make). I know Seattle fans are understandably still sore over the whole ordeal, but I’m surprised so many people are blatantly missing the point of what I was saying.
by Terminator X on Feb 8, 2012 6:57 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
You're being pretty pedantic
About a post that was clearly about the talent levels on the teams at the time of moving.
Doug Fister. :(
by Mothy on Feb 8, 2012 8:00 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
I want to point out that without Bennett, Wally Walker would still be running the show
and therefore the team would be terrible.
Our commercial legacy needs some props. Gentlemen, I give you:
The Seattle Servers. crash
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
by Cheddar28 on Feb 8, 2012 2:12 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
The Almond Rocas
The Obertos
The Sourdoughers (Sorry, I’m hungry)
The Whitecaps (for the snow covered mountains)
The Yetties
BAH!!! HUMBUG!!!
The Seattle Old Spaghetti Factories.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
by Cheddar28 on Feb 8, 2012 2:15 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Vancouver would probably get kind of pissy about a Seattle team using Whitecaps
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 8, 2012 2:17 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Oh Yeah,
forgot about that.
BAH!!! HUMBUG!!!
by seanchristopher on Feb 8, 2012 2:34 PM PST up reply actions
You could try the Seattle Breakers, though
Though there’s a basketball team in New Zealand and a women’s soccer team in Boston wit that name, and the latter might be a problem.
Not to mention:
Portland’s 1985 USFL? team.
"There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League."
—George Vecsey
by extavernmouse on Feb 9, 2012 12:33 PM PST up reply actions
Seattle Chris
Seattle Michaels
Seattle Ichiro!
Seattle Natashas
Seattle Freds
Seattle Jose
ignacio
Seattle Lofas
Seeeeee myyyyy Loafers former gophers…!
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Seattle Krakens!
Architeuthis will get you!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Feb 8, 2012 2:17 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The Mossy Warbonnets!
Those guys are awesome.
(I mean, if you’re going to do local sea life and skip the obvious octopi and geoducks).
Seattle Snowmageddon
You’re so unprepared for us.
by FWBrodie on Feb 8, 2012 2:14 PM PST reply actions 10 recs
No, that one was just too obvious that everyone EVERYONE else had already thought of it.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Seattle Red Sox
Seattle Yankees
Seattle Giants
Seattle Dolphins
Seattle Redskins
Seattle Browns
ignacio
by ignacio on Feb 8, 2012 2:17 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Seattle Redskins... I wonder how that name would go down.
Doug Fister. :(
Why not?
There is a football Giants and a baseball Giants and they don’t sue one another. I like this idea a lot, but the full name should be Chief Sealths pronounced properly in the orignial Duwamish tongue with the glottal stop.
Can you say this with a white man's mouth? Or a black man's?
Or a white woman’s? Or a hillbilly?
ignacio
Because the NHL would not allow a team to have a Native American nickname
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 8, 2012 2:45 PM PST up reply actions
They've had that name since 1926.
One thing to decline to force a team to change a nickname, completely different thing to allow a new team to take on a similar nickname.
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 8, 2012 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
There's nothing inherently wrong with naming a team "Chiefs".
Just like there’s nothing wrong with “Spartans”, or “Patriots” or “Senators”. It’s not my favorite name, but I’d certainly have no problem with it.
Maybe because the football and baseball Giants both played in New York at one time and in 1929, the football team
was corporately named the New York FOOTBALL Giants to specify the sport, and it’s a shared name for New York – that even though they aren’t linked in any business sense, they were linked culturally?
I mean, seriously?
Seattle Sherman Alexies
For the basketball team, obviously.
by J0SER on Feb 9, 2012 12:44 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The Seattle Starks.
Winter is coming to the NHL.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
by Cheddar28 on Feb 8, 2012 2:18 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
You totally went there.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Funny when I read Seattle Starks
I first thought Tony and Iron Man…even though I have read through Dance with Dragons
Yeah the interwebs jumps to that, too.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Wait, that's a meme?
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
I've never seen it.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Seattle Sleet
Ooooh, that one rolls off the tongue. Icestorm!
by FWBrodie on Feb 8, 2012 2:21 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
They should name the hockey team the Sonics and the basketball team the Coyotes.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Feb 8, 2012 2:21 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Seattle Louis XIV
because that was the last time France was really strong.
ignacio
by ignacio on Feb 8, 2012 2:21 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Hockey in Seattle? Has to be
the Totems.
by Bald Eagle 1313 on Feb 8, 2012 2:25 PM PST reply actions 5 recs
The Seattle Sandwiches
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
Seattle Vicodin
and they could play the Nashville Oxycontin and so on
ignacio
Seattle Kings
Not like the basketball team, like the villains from the Mighty Ducks.
by wetzelcoal on Feb 8, 2012 2:26 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
L.A. already had the Kings in Hockey
back in Gretzky’s time. No thanks.
by Bald Eagle 1313 on Feb 8, 2012 2:28 PM PST up reply actions
Actually the villains from the Might Ducks where the Hawks.
What the fuck movie was I thinking of?
If you want to go regional I guess Orcas hasn't been used?
But, Orca sounds feminine.
Ted Bundy was sort of a PNW thing, and he was scary. Seattle Bundys doesnt have a great ring to it though and would be insensitive to women fans.
Seattle Meth for the hockey team – fucks up your teeth, can be referred to as ice, great name recognition
by Bearskin Rugburn on Feb 8, 2012 2:30 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
The logo would be just the Space Needle
with extra emphasis on the Needle
by Jonathan Brakke on Feb 8, 2012 6:32 PM PST up reply actions
The Seattle Hobbits.
The other basketball teams would get overconfident, and then we’d have them right where we want them.
The Seattle Rainiers
It’s got a history, there’s the local landmark angle, and it’s recognizable to the NW without being cheesy, like something coffee related.
by PissedMick on Feb 8, 2012 2:37 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
The Seattle DoubleShots
Because, you know, the players won’t be good enough to make the first one.
Sincerely,
My rules for naming the team
No singulars. We’re not a weather event or a sensation. We are a pack of something.
Secondly,contemplating some animals skating around is awesome. Penguins. Sharks. Ducks. Others are stupid. Like Coyotes or Panthers. No cats or dogs!
The Seattle Otters?
No Seattle Irish Setters?
Seattle Golden Retrievers? I kinda like Seattle Russian Blues.
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The Seattle Bigfoot
Wait, you said no singulars. Seattle Bigfeet. Seattle Bigfoots?
by ScottBrowne on Feb 8, 2012 2:50 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
Seattle Sasquatches
Except I guess that’s already the Sonics’ mascot, so that would be embarrassing to have one sports team be the mascot for another, but I feel like the Mariners have been the mascot for the AL West for a while, so it could work I guess.
Seattle clams?
Pays homage to Ivar Haglund and all players could be required to wear full beards.
Sea Otters are totally awesome. But they aren't really the most scary animals.
How about the Seattle Seals? Seals are ferocious monsters, and the fiercest killers in the animal kingdom (besides Polar Bears) though I don’t know if seals even live in Seattle, so maybe Sea Lions, I don’t know if they live in Seattle either. You did say no cats though, and they are just sea versions of lions so I guess they don’t work.
Both seals and sea lions live in the area
California Sea Lion range. Harbor Seal range.
I like the ring to Seattle Sea Lions.
by chaney on Feb 8, 2012 3:25 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Actually it's not uncommon to find seals hauled out at Alki in the winter months
They often leave their pups there, and volunteers watch over them so clueless people (and their dogs) don’t do them harm.
I like this name.
Its simple, historical, kind of related to Boeing, kind of related to the mariners, kind of classy sounding.
Seattle Deforestation
Mascot: Spotty the Homeless Owl
by FWBrodie on Feb 8, 2012 2:51 PM PST reply actions 5 recs
I REALLY like
the idea of a homeless mascot.
by FWBrodie on Feb 8, 2012 2:54 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Seattle Losers
Seattle Sucks
Seattle Lasties
Seattle Gonnamoves
Seattle Nobanners
Sorry, had to get those out of my system.
Counterpoint: Seattle Perfectos
It’s only good for one season though :(
by JY on Feb 8, 2012 4:11 PM PST up reply actions
Seattle Sockeyes
Seattle Steelheads
by CruzConnection on Feb 8, 2012 2:56 PM PST reply actions 7 recs
And we would throw salmon onto the rink after a hattrick.
And maybe some lemon wedges and tartar sauce.
by CruzConnection on Feb 8, 2012 3:00 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Maybe a blackberry compote
or some cranberry ginger glaze
by FWBrodie on Feb 8, 2012 3:05 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
As I said in an earlier thread on this subject:
Seattle Sockeyes! The mascot is a salmon with a black eye, broken teeth, and boxing gloves! It’d be perfect! If you don’t like boxing gloves then fuck you! We’ll give it a hockey stick instead!
by Cascadian Man on Feb 8, 2012 4:31 PM PST up reply actions 8 recs
There are the Idaho Steelheads in the WCHL
Not sure how much that matters.
Mariners/D Broncos/BSU Broncos fan in Seattle
The first rule of Lookout Landing is...
by appleshampoo on Feb 9, 2012 12:28 PM PST up reply actions
So is the rule that no nickname can be used for two teams in any level of sport simultaneously?
Seems weird.
I doubt there's an actual rule
But probably more of a convention. I’m sure if an NHL team wanted to call themselves the Steelheads, the Idaho team would either not care, or change their name to avoid confusion.
Mariners/D Broncos/BSU Broncos fan in Seattle
The first rule of Lookout Landing is...
by appleshampoo on Feb 10, 2012 1:57 PM PST up reply actions
I actually really like Sockeyes.
As a team name.
As for the Seahawks, they shall have stars at elbow and foot...Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again...Death shall have no dominion.
You dumb bastard. It's not Seattle Schooners, it's Seattle Sailboats.
by ThomasG on Feb 8, 2012 4:13 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Schooners:
Which is also an eight-ounce beer glass. Though does anybody really drink only eight ounces of beer?
"There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League."
—George Vecsey
by extavernmouse on Feb 9, 2012 12:40 PM PST up reply actions
He's not even from Seattle
...and now I'm here
Seattle CapSeas is way better trust me on this I'm a doctor
...and now I'm here
Unless they changed the name of geoducks, salmon, narwhals, etc. to seakoalas
Also, I’ve decided on Seattle Narwhals, the Unicorns of the Sea
How about we compromise and call them the Seattle Librocrats.
...and now I'm here
by CapSea on Feb 8, 2012 4:51 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Fine
Seattle Librocrats, Unicorns of the Sea
by Craptastic-J on Feb 8, 2012 4:55 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Seattle DROPBEARS
Complete with caps.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Feb 8, 2012 8:59 PM PST up reply actions
I think you'd have to call the Kings the Kings or the Royals
Probably the Kings given King County. That’s a team with its own proud history- you wouldn’t want to muck it up by fusing it and the Sonics together
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
by Corco on Feb 8, 2012 3:14 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
Call them the Sacreattle Kingsonics
They wear green shirts & purple shorts and we all sing kumbaya together.
No.
The Sonics are fucking awesome.
I believe I’m still stuck in stage one of grief.
by TJDirk on Feb 8, 2012 7:01 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
If rage mixed with denial is stage one then I'm there
Still haven’t watched Sonicsgate. I just can’t.
Yeah, a proud history of repeatedly...
moving cities and changing names.
Why don’t we just call them the Rochester/Cincinnati/Kansas City/Omaha/Sacramento/Anaheim/Seattle Royals/Kings/Sonics?
Half of the country does not know what a Tsunami is
"You are the molders of their dreams." - Clark Mollenhoff
Considering more than half the people in the country live on or near the coast (53%)
I’d say even before recent events it’s widely known
More than half the country doesn't know WTF a "Knickerbocker' is
And they’ve been in the league for almost 70 years.
Seattle Oklahoma City Bombings
Tie-in with the whole Sonics thing!
by Eyebrows on Feb 8, 2012 3:23 PM PST via mobile up reply actions 29 recs
Our chant could be "TOO SOON! TOO SOON!"
or something to that effect.
by iHateDaveSims on Feb 8, 2012 3:24 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Because it's a terrible unstoppable natural catastrophe and it rolls off the tongue nicely
Cons I guess would be that it’s a terrible unstoppable natural catastrophe that has happened recently. But Sharks and Lightning kill people sometimes too dang it
You know, dang it, you could probably make an argument that ALL mascots pretty much kill people
by iHateDaveSims on Feb 8, 2012 3:26 PM PST up reply actions
Especially Redskins, am I right?
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 8, 2012 3:26 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Seattle Smallpox
There’s your answer to the Redskins!
by CruzConnection on Feb 8, 2012 3:30 PM PST up reply actions
And we could donate blankets to the homeless.
The very suspicious homeless.
by CruzConnection on Feb 8, 2012 3:31 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
That's why the name is so appropriate.
Tsunamis don’t give Seattle any grief, but they smash other cities.
by katal on Feb 8, 2012 8:14 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
The Seattle Tsunami Nukes
Doug Fister. :(
by Mothy on Feb 8, 2012 8:13 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
I still like Cascadians from when this came up last time (and search apparently doesn't go that far back).
But if asked after reading all of these, Rainers and Totems are pretty good.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
The Seattle Renoir-men
Bonus points if the entire team is artistic.
by ShibbyHibby on Feb 8, 2012 7:54 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Seattle Storm
Because much of the Northwest seems to act like there isn’t a professional basketball team with that name already, judging from attendance at some of their playoff games the last couple years. You’d think a team that was the only active Seattle team with multiple championships, and an undefeated season, would get more attention.
by Chris_FB on Feb 8, 2012 3:46 PM PST via mobile reply actions
The Sounders have won three consecutive US Open Cups, just for the record.
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 8, 2012 3:53 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Meh. Not the same as winning the WS in MLB or the Super Bowl in the NFL.
The US Open Cup is just a regional tournment. An old one, but still. Not really on a par.
by Chris_FB on Feb 8, 2012 6:15 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
If by "regional" you mean the entire nation, then you're correct
by pdb on Feb 8, 2012 6:19 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Does the winner of the Japan Series have as much prestige as the winner of the World Series?
I know “all of the united states” is a sort of a large region, but still. All the myriad little cups and tournaments and what all in soccer just throws me. In almost every other major sport, there’s one overall highest professional league, it has one season, a postseason, a championship, there’s a winner, beer and cupcakes for everyone, go home happy, yay. Soccer, not so much. It’s weird.
by Chris_FB on Feb 8, 2012 7:15 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
You may find it weird.
That doesn’t change the fact that the Sounders have won a championship three years in a row.
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 8, 2012 8:03 PM PST up reply actions
True. And their relationship to their fans is incredible.
I still can’t believe that one time they refunded their season ticket holders after that one rare embarrassing loss a year or so ago. And the way they’ve built up traditions and fan excitement from zero is impressive. Even though on some level the sport just doesn’t do it for me, they’re a fantastically run franchise.
by Chris_FB on Feb 8, 2012 9:45 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
In Japan, absolutely they do
Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t make it weird.
by pdb on Feb 8, 2012 8:49 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Damn straight
…er, hang on, sarcasm detector was on the blink for a moment…
by Chris_FB on Feb 8, 2012 7:09 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
You probably would think that until somebody told you it was a women's basketball team
And then you’d think their attendance probably reflects people general lack of interest in watching women’s basketball.
by Matthew on Feb 8, 2012 4:04 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Professinal basketball and hockey are gay
by Poochie on Feb 8, 2012 3:58 PM PST via Android app reply actions 1 recs
The Seattle Hockey Players
Because parity has to start somewhere. All teams would be renamed the “City” Hockey Players to represent equal chance of winning a chamionship.
The Seattle NordStar Softies
Because corporate sponsorship should have its rewards… Or maybe Seattle Micro Bucks
Seattle XBOXs
Seattle BINGs
Seattle Amazons
Seattle LGBTs
Did the hockey players in Strange Brew have a name? If so, we should use that.
Did Hitler have any ties to Seattle, and if so, is there anyway we could play on that connection for a team name?
If not, did Stalin?
I’m kidding of course, but do we have any idea if Pol Pot has any Seattle connections?
Maybe the Seattle AIDS? Not like the disease though. It stands for All Indians Died Savagely. To honor the cities Native American background, of course.
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 8, 2012 4:06 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Seattle Annefranks
But instead of a serial number she has a tribal tattoo. But a classy Puget Sound tribe type tribal tattoo.
Whoa mind reader
“The Attic” is going to be the name of the Arena
by Craptastic-J on Feb 8, 2012 4:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm not quite sure how to work it in, but I'd like to pay homage to the native peoples of the area.
Logo based on:
Speaking of, what about the Ospreys?
now there’s an underutilized bird of prey name.
Or we could be the Albatrosses
I take it you've never heard ex-player announcers.
I’m trying to imagine the Milburys/Holiks/Shannahans of the world (let alone the Gorings and Danykos) attempt to spit out Ahhspreighs makes my ears hurt.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
UCLA, Mariners, Padres.... Yeah I can see that being the case.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
We have tons of Osprey here,
and I’ve never heard them called anything other than Osprey or Fishhawks.
That and the casino cross-marketing is too far away.
How about the Snoqualmies? We’d even have a theme song!
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Feb 8, 2012 4:43 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
My thought has always been to play on the Vancouver rivalry (Whale on their logo) by using an old indian story
You’ve surely heard of Thunderbird and Whale right?
For this, either Totems (which I prefer) or Thunderbirds would work.
by Agent_J on Feb 8, 2012 4:43 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Seattle Steelheads
Former nickname of Seattle’s short-lived Negro League baseball team.
by lemonverbena on Feb 8, 2012 4:45 PM PST up reply actions 12 recs
This is fantastic
and that’s a pretty mean logo too
Where in Washington are they going to build this arena again?
by seattlebruin on Feb 8, 2012 4:46 PM PST up reply actions 8 recs
You are just adorable.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Can we be the Unicorns?
or the Griffins. Some kind of mythical animal would be sweet
Seattle Unicrons
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Feb 8, 2012 9:05 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Wait, we already worked out nicknames, remember?
The Seattle Michael Stanley Fucking Musial Pinedas
The Seattle Dead Memes.
Let’s not take our chances here.
by JY on Feb 8, 2012 5:09 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The Seattle Why Do They Always Get Betters?
by Patrick Stites on Feb 8, 2012 5:11 PM PST up reply actions
Oh man.
I’m on mobile but I hope this is rec’d.
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Feb 8, 2012 11:55 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Seattle Fiddle Cats
Seattle Shotguns
Seattle Sound (get it? The Puget Sound? And the city’s musical history? Oh never mind.)
Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Roberts
Seattle Birds
Agreed 100% on this .
The Seattle Roberts will undoubtedly need a minor league team and these guys would fit the role perfectly.
by Robert on Feb 8, 2012 7:13 PM PST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
The South Alaska Irrelevants?
That way we make it easy for the national media from the get go.
Seattle Thunderbirds.
I like the name, and it’s not used by another professional franchise.
Also, it’s my high school’s mascot.
Or, we could be the Seattle Bite Me Clay Bennett, Ken Behring and David Sterns.
Both are good.
by Henry Valz on Feb 8, 2012 5:46 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
There already is a Seattle Thunderbirds professional hockey team.
by katal on Feb 8, 2012 6:01 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Indeed.
Thunderbirds are not used by another professional franchise.
My bad. Major professional franchise.
Freaking writers.
Seattle Yachtsmen.
I’m surprised no one has gotten this one yet! Sounder fans will get it and it’s a good name.
Seattle ChrisBallews!
Just makes me happy thinking of a hockey team with a peach on the front.
by dougstrangerthanfiction on Feb 8, 2012 6:06 PM PST reply actions
Kim Warnick > Chris Ballew
The Seattle Fastbacks has a nice ring to it.
by pdb on Feb 8, 2012 6:07 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Now im thinking "how can I make a giant squid sound badass enough"
Id pay money for the seattle fastbacks though
by dougstrangerthanfiction on Feb 8, 2012 6:10 PM PST up reply actions
/The Seattle Sockeyes
Both Seattle/cartoon violence soundy to be a hockey team
by dougstrangerthanfiction on Feb 8, 2012 6:11 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
The Seattle Sound
Not only could it be a reference to Puget Sound, but you could also play off the whole Seattle music scene into the brand too. The Mascot could be a a grunged out hipster perhaps…
The Seattle Supercronics?
by sofa_king on Feb 8, 2012 6:24 PM PST via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
This thread is lapping itself
and not in a good way
by Matthew on Feb 8, 2012 6:25 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
First you expect me to spell words correctly and use proper punctuation
and now you want me to read the whole thread before commenting?
Please send my refund in the mail.
by d0nkey on Feb 9, 2012 12:47 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Then the Hockey team could be
The Seattle Kemp Jr’s
by Jonathan Brakke on Feb 8, 2012 6:46 PM PST up reply actions
Then they could make up like half the team
I don’t know how many people are on a hockey team or how many kids he actually has either
I just heard him on the Bob and Groz show today, I think he mentioned something like 5 kids. 4 boys and 1 girl.
Wikipedia says he has at least 7….
by Patrick Stites on Feb 8, 2012 7:52 PM PST up reply actions
The Seattle SeaWolves
Which is a nickname for Orcas. It was gonna be the name of the Arena 2 football team that my old boss and Sam Adams were trying to buy rights to and bring to the Kent ShoWare center but I think it all fell through. My boss was a dick and I don’t think it’s trademarked so that’s really why.
by CMoney87 on Feb 8, 2012 8:07 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Seattle Junkie Queens
I’m not biased.
by SeattleJunkieQueen on Feb 8, 2012 9:19 PM PST reply actions
I've been wanting this to happen since I was a little kid.
Being a Thunderbirds fan, I really don’t see that organization just rolling over and giving up their name. Different league, same fanbase sure, but they really have something good going in Kent and I can totally see the two co-existing.
I dig the names Sockeyes or Chinooks.
Taking the name Breakers from the old Seattle area semi-pro team could be cool if possible.
by sanford_and_son on Feb 8, 2012 10:00 PM PST reply actions
The Seattle Good Time Hootenanny Jug Band
Because I cant get the visual of a bunch of silly critter pals on ice skates out of my head.
by DaveValleDrinkNight on Feb 8, 2012 10:04 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
The Seattle Switchblades
or The Seattle Straight Razors. There should be more knives in sports.
Seattle Sherriffs
Seattle Supremacists
Seattle Sphinxes
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Feb 8, 2012 11:59 PM PST via mobile reply actions
It's gonna be The Seattle Hockey Team of Bellevue.
That spot they’re working on is too small in SoDo…
Yeah
Pursuing a land deal that could potentially cost $100s of millions of dollars before ensuring that the land is large enough to build an arena on seems like the kind of thing an investment group would do.
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 9, 2012 9:46 AM PST up reply actions
Chinooks
There ain’t no Nookie like Chinookie.
And whenever the regional rivalry games are on, it’ll be ’nucks vs ’nooks.
by J0SER on Feb 9, 2012 1:14 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Totems
That was the name of the team back in the pre-NHL expansion days when the WHL was a AAA league that played a higher level of hockey than some of the current NHL teams. If LA and SF hadn’t gotten greedy, the whole league could have become a major league operation. And if that won’t work, the same franchise was called the Americans, which would be a nice counterpoint to the Canucks
no, the counterpoint to Canucks would be Yankees.
and if i had to kill a yankees fan or a nazi, i’d kill a yankees fan.
Boy I hope you don't own a firearm then
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 9, 2012 9:47 AM PST up reply actions
This choice could be Oskar Schindler versus Benedict Arnold
I’m also killing the Yankee
by Craptastic-J on Feb 9, 2012 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
Good Nazi versus Bad Yankee Fan joke.
Or we could tie in Mark Twain, but that’s probably way too much time travelling with having to pick up Schindler in 1945, swinging by 1778 to get Benedict, and then going back another 1000 or so years to meet up with King Arthur. Way too much work for a not very good joke.
I can keep going but it’s only going to get worse. Benedict Arnold was born in Connecticut, probably should have lead with that. Chance he could have been a Red Sox fan too I guess. I should find that GIS product breaking down each team’s sphere of influence for all of MLB. I wonder if they have a historical version of that product.
Narwhals Forever
Blitzkrieg in the Bronx?
The best thing about this is that a google image search for just the two terms “yankees nazis” somehow turns up this in the first page of results:
Google knows everything, so what is it telling us here?
by J0SER on Feb 9, 2012 10:24 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Every time you fail to capitalize the personal pronoun "I",
I will assume that you think very little of yourself and will accordingly grant you similar esteem
by Matthew on Feb 9, 2012 3:22 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
And the Winnipeg Jets are now the Winnipeg Jets.
by Robert on Feb 9, 2012 7:26 AM PST up reply actions 5 recs
You know, Prince has a symbol lying around that he's not using anymore
Maybe he’ll let us borrow it.
by phiat on Feb 9, 2012 7:45 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Thunderbirds is the obvious choice in hockey,
unless….
1. Seattle Grizzlies – (they’ve been known to roam in the North Cascades; and way more appropriate than Memphis)
2. Seattle Mountaineers – (ours are bigger than West Virginia’s… a nickname that inspires hard work and discipline to reach the top)
3. Seattle Aces – (aerospace history)
4. Seattle Totems – (but, then, why not just do T-Birds?)
5. Seattle Winterhawks – (haha, Portland!)
6. Seattle Glaciers – (slow, but unstoppable)
7. Seattle Trappers – (historical reference)
8. Seattle Timberwolves – (Does Minnesota get dibs?)
9. Seattle Wolves – (In case they get dibs)
10. Seattle Chiefs – (Does Kansas City gets dibs?)
11. Seattle Chieftains – (In case they get dibs)
12. Seattle Lumberjacks – (and I’m okay)
13. Seattle Admirals – (naval influence)
14. Seattle Silvers – (salmon term; sounds better than Steelheads)
15. Seattle Kings – (salmon term; sounds better than Sockeyes)
That’s my Top 15 (16)…
by Thane of Cascadia on Feb 10, 2012 1:47 AM PST reply actions
Thunderbirds seems to make sense
But what about the current Thunderbirds team? Would they go away, or just change their name?
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