F*ck you, Pelicans are Awesome: A Defense of the NBA's Best New Team Name

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Good read.

[url]http://deadspin.com/5966336/****-you-pelicans-are-awesome-a-defense-of-the-nbas-best-new-team-name[/url]

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Good read.

[url]http://deadspin.com/5966336/****-you-pelicans-are-awesome-a-defense-of-the-nbas-best-new-team-name[/url][/QUOTE]

Great Read......but Fk the Pelicans, it still stupid.....Why not 'The Honey Badgers" :oldlol:

When you have to explain why your team name is appealing....it isn't.
And who the hell is going to buy their crappy Pelican gear????
That's going to be far less popular than that sad @ss Miami Marlins Miami Vice inspired garbage that is 30 years late :oldlol:

Being a Louisiana native I initially hated the name when it was being rumored months ago. It slightly grew one me. After seeing how polarizing the choice has become I've grown to love it. I like the idea of having one of the more unconventional names in pro sports, even though after a full season no one will care, again.

They are gonna be the Seattle SuperSonics in a few years anyway.

[QUOTE=Lakers Legend#32]They are gonna be the Seattle SuperSonics in a few years anyway.[/QUOTE]

No... The new owner agreed to a 15 or 20 years contract in New Orlans if I'm not wrong

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Convincing arguments. I'm sure the name will grow after a year or so.

It's growing on me.


[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNNl_uWmQXE[/url]

Pelicans are bosses and they don't give a ####

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You know what? It's kind of growing on me too. It's a little old school. I like team nicknames named after animals.

If they tried to name the team "Baltimore Orioles" today, everyone would hate that too.........



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Go Pelicans!! :lol

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Pelicans are awesome.

I'm scared of pelicans now :lol

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They kill people for fung.

[QUOTE=rodman91][IMG]http://www.wtfeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/pelican-biting-a-kids-head.jpg[/IMG]

They kill people for fung.[/QUOTE]
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Disgusting creatures. I hate all birds, especially some freaky looking shit like a pelican. We should be named to Crews or Alligators or something.

[QUOTE=Blue&Orange]It's growing on me.


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Pelicans are bosses and they don't give a ####[/QUOTE]

thats fukked up.......:cry:

In the NHL, there's the Carolina Hurricanes... why not the New Orleans Hurricanes

In the NHL, there's the Pittsburgh Penguins... why not the New Orleans Owls?

[QUOTE=QuebecBaller]In the NHL, there's the Carolina Hurricanes... why not the New Orleans Hurricanes[/QUOTE]
becoz of katrina......?

[QUOTE=Lakers Legend#32]They are gonna be the Seattle SuperSonics in a few years anyway.[/QUOTE]

Incorrect. The Sacramento Kings will be moved and re-named. Fact.

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[QUOTE=WolfGang]Disgusting creatures. I hate all birds, especially some freaky looking shit like a pelican. We should be named to Crews or Alligators or something.[/QUOTE]

:roll:

You had me laughing good at that creatues line!

Alligators would have been cool.

The New York Knickerbockers are named after a style of pants that hasn't been fashionable since the 1800s.



Their new name isn't the problem. Making red one of their colors is. There are too many red teams as it is. We dont need another one. They should stick with the Mardi Gras colors.

[QUOTE=WolfGang]Disgusting creatures. I hate all birds, especially some freaky looking shit like a pelican. We should be named to Crews or Alligators or something.[/QUOTE]


Crews? :oldlol:

It was going to be Krewe- the group that leads a Mardi Gras parade.

I like the Pelicans more now. I'm not sure if I [I]really[/I] like it or if I'm just happy the Charlotte Hornets are going to be back:cheers: .

"Pelicans" in Greek is πελεκάνους

[QUOTE=kentatm]The New York Knickerbockers are named after a style of pants that hasn't been fashionable since the 1800s.



Their new name isn't the problem. Making red one of their colors is. There are too many red teams as it is. We dont need another one. They should stick with the Mardi Gras colors.[/QUOTE]


The Knicks are named for the early Dutch settlers in NY.

[QUOTE=hawksdogsbraves][B]Crews[/B]? :oldlol:

It was going to be [B]Krewe[/B]- the group that leads a Mardi Gras parade.

I like the Pelicans more now. I'm not sure if I [I]really[/I] like it or if I'm just happy the Charlotte Hornets are going to be back:cheers: .[/QUOTE]

This, thank you.

I'm still going to be calling them the Hornets for a while.

Alligators would have been pretty cool, but aren't they more prevalent in Florida than Louisiana? I guess it could still work since fried alligator is a cajun dish.

What about the New Orleans Ragin Cajuns?

[QUOTE=WolfGang]Disgusting creatures. I hate all birds, especially some freaky looking shit like a pelican. We should be named to Crews or Alligators or something.[/QUOTE]

A disgusting creature is your franchise player and your avatar..so why not pelicans?

Who wouldn't want to play for a team named after a bird that stores lots of fish in its beak?

I love to watch Pelicans fly in formation and dive for food, but it doesn't make them nameworthy for a basketball team.

Anyway you put it, this is a bad idea. Just dumb.

Should have been the NO Cajuns, as someone already posted.

It's not that the Pelican isn't a worthy mascot, it's just that the name is stupid. I feel the same way about the Bobcats. Bobcats are a good enough mascot, but the name just doesn't work (it
s better than Pelicans).



I didn't like the Thunder name choice either. It's grown on me a little I guess.

Its just a name, after a while no one will even care, there are so many horrible team names in all sports but no-one cares because most of the teams have been called that for so long, for example the "Red Sox" in baseball.. There named after a piece of clothing for godsakes, even though it's a terrible name no-one ever talks about how bad the name is because they've been called that for so long. After a year of being called the pelicans no-one will care cause everyone will be used to the name

Pelicans... I like it :applause:

It's not bad.

Spurs, Trail Blazers, Mavericks, 76ers, Nets, Cavaliers, Nuggets, Pacers, Thunder, Bobcats, Bucks, Jazz, Lakers, Heat, Magic, Suns, Nicks

All names that are clearly not better than Pelicans, and most of them clearly worse.

[QUOTE=maxhornets]Its just a name, after a while no one will even care, there are so many horrible team names in all sports but no-one cares because most of the teams have been called that for so long, for example the "Red Sox" in baseball.. There named after a piece of clothing for godsakes, even though it's a terrible name no-one ever talks about how bad the name is because they've been called that for so long. After a year of being called the pelicans no-one will care cause everyone will be used to the name[/QUOTE]

True. People made a huge deal about the Thunder being a terrible name. I don't even think about it anymore, and I don't hear people still complaining about the name.

Pelicans is better than Hornets regarding New Orleans anyway.

[QUOTE=LJJ]It's not bad.

[B]Spurs, Trail Blazers, Mavericks, 76ers[/B], Nets, [B]Cavaliers[/B], Nuggets, Pacers, Thunder, Bobcats, Bucks, Jazz, Lakers, [B]Heat, Magic,[/B] Suns, Nicks

All names that are clearly not better than Pelicans, and most of them clearly worse.[/QUOTE]

What is wrong with those names? I like the names of the bolded ones. They make sense with where they are from. I feel like the worst names are names that aren't specific to an area and a team in any state could use it. Bucks for example are all over the country, so it doesn't signify the area. Spurs and Mavericks, make a ton of sense in Texas, as do most of the others I bolded. The only one I bolded that I just like the name to and doesn't really signify the area is the Cavs.

[QUOTE=rodman91]A disgusting creature is your franchise player and your avatar..so why not pelicans?[/QUOTE]

Anthony Davis is NOT a disgusting creature. He is a good looking young man when he isn't smiling or making facial expressions.

Pelicans is probably the worse name in the NBA. Thunder is cool because...it just is. What if they changed the Lakers to the LA Crabs?

[QUOTE=Myth]What is wrong with those names? I like the names of the bolded ones. They make sense with where they are from. I feel like the worst names are names that aren't specific to an area and a team in any state could use it. Bucks for example are all over the country, so it doesn't signify the area. Spurs and Mavericks, make a ton of sense in Texas, as do most of the others I bolded. The only one I bolded that I just like the name to and doesn't really signify the area is the Cavs.[/QUOTE]

Spurs: I understand Spurs is mostly just an alternate way of saying cowboy, but it's very silly to me. It's a clothing article. The San Antonio Boots, the San Antonio Handkerchiefs, the San Antonio Holsters, the San Antonio Spurs. All equally dumb. It's good that no other team does this.

Mavericks - i don't really know what the hell a maverick is. It's some other type of cowboy shit right? Their logo is a horse, so a maverick is a horse? It sounds dumb as hell anyway.

Trail Blazers - This name derives from the fact that the people from Portland aren't native but settled there? Am I Right? Just like every single god damned city in the US? Yeah, that name as significance.

76ers - Should have named themselves the Cheese Steaks.

Cavaliers - If you are going to name yourself after random historical dissidents you can do a hell of a lot better than a cavalier.

Heat - Very clever. Now imagine if the other NBA franchises did this as well. The Toronto Freeze. The Portland Rainstorms. The Los Angeles Scorch. The Denver Dust Bowls. Oh yeah, feeling it.

Magic - This name just sounds so vanilla. And the local significance of this name is because they have a themepark?

[QUOTE=WolfGang]Disgusting creatures. I hate all birds, especially some freaky looking shit like a pelican. We should be named to Crews or Alligators or something.[/QUOTE]
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