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With Finley leaving, I guess there’s no “Fighting” left in ’em.

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by J.P. on May 15, 2009 10:21 AM EDT reply actions  

With Joe leaving, all the potential great team names go, too…

Like, “The North Dakota Go Hide your Mascots”

by Love and Osechkin on May 15, 2009 10:31 AM EDT reply actions   1 recs

The North Dakota It’s Now Safe To Shake Our Hands Postgames has a nice ring to it.

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by J.P. on May 15, 2009 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions  

How the hell are they going to call themselves The North Dakota Badass Business Management Majors now?

by Love and Osechkin on May 15, 2009 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions  

They did have the name Moose as one of the suggestions… which would fit Finley pretty well.

Let's go Caps!

by MikeL-Pivonka on May 15, 2009 1:46 PM EDT reply actions  

/sigh. Change everything, if native american names are bad. I’m offended by Canucks, Canadiens, Kings, Indians, Vikings, Warriors, Seminoles, Lumberjacks, and any other character.

I'm so sick and tired of the refs explaining the calls like this is the NFL.

by Whiter Mage on May 15, 2009 2:13 PM EDT reply actions  

I’m offended by Lightning, Hurricanes and Avalanche, as those natural disasters have claimed many lives in this country. In fact, so have Sharks, Bruins, Panthers, etc. Hell, for that matter so have Senators (but we need not go there).

In a decade, all teams will be named after flowers and abstractions. Except the Penguins. They can stick with their utterly harmless namesake.

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by J.P. on May 15, 2009 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

Or how about their politically correct names:

Tampa Bay Excessive Electrical Discharges
Carolina Tropical Cyclones
Vancover People from Canada
Montreal People from Canada
Boston Largish Brown Bears
Pittsburgh Flightless Antarctic Waterfowl

and of course:

Washington Exceptional People (Capital as an adjective means exceptional…)

Let's go Caps!

by MikeL-Pivonka on May 15, 2009 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Or, if you’re in a violent mood:

Pittsburgh Orca Food
Tampa Bay Golfer Scorcher
Boston Top of the Food Chain (or if Stephen Colbert were to name them, the Boston Nature’s Godless Killing Machines).

Let's go Caps!

by MikeL-Pivonka on May 15, 2009 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

I saw a penguin eat a fish on the nature channel ones. I had a pen goldfish so I was offended. I demand they change their mascot.

I think we should just stick to shapes as team mascots. What’s plural for “rhombus”?

by Sombrero Guy on May 15, 2009 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

er….meant pet goldfish….

by Sombrero Guy on May 15, 2009 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

Either rhombuses or rhombi….

Let's go Caps!

by MikeL-Pivonka on May 15, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

Seriously. I understand when your past is characatured, as the Cleveland Indian mascot seems to, but when it’s doing something that’s historically somewhat accurate, and let’s be honest, a lot of the stories are, it shouldn’t be this big of an issue, in my book. I come from Nordic family roots. That doesn’t mean I’m going to rant about the Vikings being compared to raping pillaging machines. Why? Cause it’s true. You can’t erase history, and this “PC machine” is bugging me.

I'm so sick and tired of the refs explaining the calls like this is the NFL.

by Whiter Mage on May 15, 2009 11:36 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

If a team changed their name to the “Anglo Saxon Mutts” I would be more likely to root for them.

by Sombrero Guy on May 16, 2009 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions  

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