View Full Version : How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???
Now all we need is a logo & colors (blue & silver, if memory serves me correctly).
EDIT: nba.com/thunder is a 404.
colleyvillesooner
8/6/2008, 02:19 PM
Good Job NBA!!!
mfosterftw
8/6/2008, 02:29 PM
I suspect someone thought they could slide the schedule references and links under the radar, but I also have to think we're close to an announcement. I'm sure the media up there will run with this, which may force the timetable forward some.
But why the NBA programmers didn't park this on their development server until the announcement is beyond me.
OUMallen
8/6/2008, 02:56 PM
http://www.nba.com/schedules/?team=thunder
Okla-homey
8/6/2008, 02:58 PM
Can we have a chubby pom squad called the Thunder Thighs?
Oooh, and can Garth sing "And the Thunder Roooolled!" as the team is introduced?
OUMallen
8/6/2008, 03:16 PM
AC/DC's THUNDERSTRUCK for the introduction!
Oooh, and can Garth sing "And the Thunder Roooolled!" as the team is introduced?
Garth won't sing in Oklahoma. He seems to have made that much obvious in the past.
Not that it really matters to me. :D
I suspect someone thought they could slide the schedule references and links under the radar, but I also have to think we're close to an announcement. I'm sure the media up there will run with this, which may force the timetable forward some.
But why the NBA programmers didn't park this on their development server until the announcement is beyond me.
Any chance the link is a red herring?
birddog
8/6/2008, 06:38 PM
so, the team is still coming here, verdad? i don't hear any talk about it anymore. i guess people have grown tired of the front office skylarkings.
mfosterftw
8/7/2008, 08:20 AM
Morning update:
http://www.nba.com/thunder was changed to http://www.nba.com/oklahomacity
Schedule now changed....
http://www.nba.com/schedules/?team=oklahomacity
http://www.nba.com/schedules/?team=thunder no longer works.
the link to "Thunder" (http://www.nba.com/thunder) is still active here http://www.nba.com/schedules/national_tv_schedule/index.html
BigRedJed
8/7/2008, 08:54 AM
They had changed all of the links by the middle of the afternoon yesterday.
Also, that TV schedule is a bummer. One... ...ONE nationally televised game. Against New Orleans. I'm guessing they chose that game for the intrigue factor. By comparison, the Hornets have ten nationally televised games according to my cursory look-through.
BigRedJed
8/7/2008, 08:57 AM
The same thing happened to the Hornets when they played here. I'm guessing it is a result of combining an expectedly bad team with a perceived "unexciting" market from a national perspective. Guess we'll all just need to prove them wrong.
:les: C'MON THUNDER!! WIN!!!
Harry Beanbag
8/7/2008, 03:31 PM
They had changed all of the links by the middle of the afternoon yesterday.
Also, that TV schedule is a bummer. One... ...ONE nationally televised game. Against New Orleans. I'm guessing they chose that game for the intrigue factor. By comparison, the Hornets have ten nationally televised games according to my cursory look-through.
Well, the Hornets are a really good team. The Thunder or whatever they are will suck next season.
BigRedJed
8/7/2008, 03:33 PM
Yep. Tru dat.
mfosterftw
8/27/2008, 07:32 PM
September 3rd...
http://newsok.com/okc-nba-team-nickname-expected-to-be-announced-sept.-3/article/3289525/?tm=1219874400
Harry Beanbag
8/28/2008, 07:12 AM
Four team colors?
JohnnyMack
8/28/2008, 07:57 AM
Black, white, grey, blue.
Barf.
Harry Beanbag
8/28/2008, 08:20 AM
http://nbainsidestuff.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/the-oklahoma-city-barons/
Crack smoker?
http://nbainsidestuff.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/the-oklahoma-city-barons/
Crack smoker?
If so, y'all should make a play for Baron Davis. :D
BigRedJed
8/28/2008, 09:02 AM
Nah. That dude posted that back when someone farked up those pics to push the Barons name. I guess he took it as gospel.
Soonerus
8/28/2008, 10:09 AM
THUNDER...
JohnnyMack
8/28/2008, 10:28 AM
THUNDER...
...is as pathetic a name as your posting style...
mfosterftw
8/28/2008, 11:39 AM
Four team colors?
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/SSURORG/NBA/Colors/Solid/OklahomaCityThunder_PF1_9999_SOL_SR.jpg
BlondeSoonerGirl
8/28/2008, 12:16 PM
Every time you post and I see your handle all I see if 'nosferatu'.
Carry on...
mfosterftw
8/28/2008, 01:05 PM
Every time you post and I see your handle all I see if 'nosferatu'.
Carry on...
Me? Oooooookay. I'll chalk that up as yet another nickname I've acquired online. It's not used here, but the my aka of choice on other boards (typically hockey) is Mr. Know-It-All. I'm sure some of my detractors elsewhere would get a chuckle out of "nosferatu". :D
BlondeSoonerGirl
8/28/2008, 01:06 PM
Heh.
yermom
8/28/2008, 01:34 PM
once it's official, i'm thinking of changing my name to OUThunder
silverwheels
8/28/2008, 02:03 PM
Heh.
Srsly, though, I hate the name "Thunder". Sounds like a little league name. I also hate all nicknames that don't end in "s", except for "Jazz". I just hate that Utah gets that name despite their lack of jazz.
birddog
8/28/2008, 03:05 PM
once it's official, i'm thinking of changing my name to OUThunder
Thunderhammer!!
Harry Beanbag
8/28/2008, 05:23 PM
The NBA (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=National+Basketball+Association&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) filed trademark rights to six nicknames for Oklahoma City (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Oklahoma+City+NBA+Team&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION)’s franchise in July, according to the U.S. (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=United+States&CATEGORY=COUNTRY) patent and trademark office. Thunder was one of six names filed. The others were: Barons, Bison, Energy, Marshalls and Wind.
My God, they all sucked.
BigRedJed
8/28/2008, 05:37 PM
Stampede didn't suck. Nobody ever listens to me though.
Harry Beanbag
8/28/2008, 05:43 PM
I don't particularly care for it, but it is better than any of the apparent finalists. Your idea of Drillers though was the mack daddy wiener, that should have been it.
BigRedJed
8/28/2008, 05:46 PM
I know, right? Damn Tulsa good name stealers.
Crimson Kid
9/3/2008, 07:21 AM
I'm starting to think it's not going to be thunder.
mfosterftw
9/3/2008, 08:33 AM
If so, it'll have been the head-fake to end all head-fakes...
birddog
9/3/2008, 09:08 AM
i'm going to be an angry man if that generic pos is our logo. all i see when i look at that is the tropics team in semi pro.
Soonermagik
9/3/2008, 04:17 PM
Trust me, it's going to be Thunder. I work in Leadership Sq where their office is located and I saw them bringing in boxes with OKC thunder on the side.
It's possible they could try and trick us, but I doubt it. Heck, they've had forever to get the name and colors out. I think the organization has done a **** poor job so far.
TheHumanAlphabet
9/4/2008, 08:21 AM
The fact they choose Thunder because they could make some sound at the beginning of the game is stupid, just as their choice of colors - orange, but not too orange or too red for the sunset...God! this is a sports team not some flag symbolism...
"I'm an LA Laker, oooh, I'm skeered with all that thunder and noise..."
Now that could work if they played out doors and saw some April or May supercells bearing down on them...
ousooners182
9/13/2008, 01:05 AM
i wish we would have been the barons!
Crimson Kid
9/16/2008, 02:02 PM
Im sure after a few years, thunder will grow on us.
silverwheels
9/16/2008, 03:24 PM
Im sure after a few years, thunder will grow on us.
Maybe for some people, but I doubt I'm ever going to like it. My dislike may grow into tolerance, but the logo certainly doesn't help.
"Thunder" just isn't a major league name.
Harry Beanbag
9/16/2008, 05:46 PM
I've been paying attention to a lot of other big league nicknames lately, and Thunder isn't anywhere near the worst. Angels? It doesn't get any gheyer than that.
BigRedJed
9/16/2008, 10:55 PM
Yeah, I agree. This whole episode has made me realize just how many crappy names and logos there are in major league sports, overall. Gives credibility to the "history and winning makes the name/logo cool" school of thought. But I also agree with the people who say we shouldn't be shooting for "way better than the bottom 10% of sports team nicknames/logos."
Harry Beanbag
9/17/2008, 01:03 AM
Oh, don't get me wrong, the Thunder logo actually is the worst one out there. ;)
BigRedJed
9/17/2008, 07:48 AM
Heck, you're not gonna catch me defending it. Wearing it maybe, but not defending it. :D
Mixer!
9/17/2008, 08:23 PM
Look at all the generic names we've seen the last few years: Thunder, Titans, Texans, Bobcats, Panthers, Jaguars - a cornucopia of bland and vanilla nicknames. I'm starting to think it's deliberate.
Look at all the generic names we've seen the last few years: Thunder, Titans, Texans, Bobcats, Panthers, Jaguars - a cornucopia of bland and vanilla nicknames. I'm starting to think it's deliberate.
Yea, Texans? Come on. Bobcats? You're right, generic.
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