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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Quote Originally Posted by silverwheels View Post
    I really can't see any way that we'll have a halfway-decent logo and colors to go along with this ****ty name. Dammit, I am so disappointed by this.


    Epic, epic, EPIC fail on the ownership's part. Like...Biblical.
    Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but what was your suggestion again?

    Literally thousands of people have contemplated this issue publicly, and I have yet to hear a single name that I would have been especially excited about. Even my own suggestion of "Stampede," which I thought was better than "Thunder."

    Seriously, I think there are very few great team names available that lend themselves to major league sports these days, and even fewer that make sense for OKC.
    Well, crap.

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    I would have rather had "Outlaws" than Thunder. My suggestion was the Blues, because it just sounds nice after Oklahoma City, and Jazz was taken.
    at this point in the process, I can only assume it was a typo and they meant to say "cram"...

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    i could have got on with Barons or 89'ers.

    on the music idea, "Western Swing" would be the way to go....but, it's of course a terrible name for a sports team.

    Thunder, like i said, sort of me makes me feel like the erstwhile Nuggets fan i've been. i wish the best for the state and team....but, i think Thunder stinks.
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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    message boards ruin everything.

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    On the jazz tip, I would have LOVED the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. It would have kicked ***, been a nod to an amazing jazz heritage that hardly anyone knows about, and could have traded on the scrappy, take-all-comers reputation the Blue Devils had (listen to how the descriptive phrases could be applied to a hoops squad):
    Before attaining his majority Lester was recruited by the barnstorming Oklahoma City Blue Devils, the scourge of every band in the Southwest. The Blue Devils thrived on battles of the bands. Their reed section smothered rivals under an overwhelming torrent of sound. They were masters of the riff style. Each section bristled with solo talent. They had taken on and beaten the best bands from Kansas City, even Bennie Moten. Had not the Depression intervened, no other band could have touched them. Beginning in 1930 one star after another had left the blue Devils—Basie, Lips Page, Walter Page, Eddie Durham, Jimmy Rushing—all of them to seek employment in Pendergast's Depression-proof Kansas City...
    Too bad Duke already had that name sewn up. Those of you who are Duke haters step outside of that for a minute and imagine the name had never been used before. Woulda been great, and far more authentic than a lot of team names.

    Oh, well...
    Well, crap.

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Sounds like a D league team
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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    i think the more important aspect of the team is color scheme. not sure if they've already chosen those but it has to be something dark like navy, black and something.

    what would you like to see?

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    I like the black and gold of the summer league
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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Quote Originally Posted by Collier11 View Post
    I like the black and gold of the summer league
    that's pretty original for all pro sports teams aside from the saints.

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    The Oklahoman now has a poll for for you like the name or not. No's are in the early lead.

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    ripped off by Big Red Jed's copycat thread...where's the merge when a mod copies ???

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    s

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    I'm sick and tired of expansion/relocated professional sports teams jacking off over names like Heat, Thunder, Wild, Avalanche etc. Gimme an s for chrissakes!!!

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Quote Originally Posted by sooners123 View Post
    thunder is a terrible name, sounds like a little league team.
    lets be honest if a team was named the "RED SOX or WHITE SOX" something like that today, do you honestly think that it would fly? cause their is goofier names that it could have been.
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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Quote Originally Posted by BigRedJed View Post
    Too bad Duke already had that name sewn up. Those of you who are Duke haters step outside of that for a minute and imagine the name had never been used before. Woulda been great, and far more authentic than a lot of team names.

    Oh, well...
    Yeah, gives me more reason to hate Duke. Well, not their football team, but you know.
    at this point in the process, I can only assume it was a typo and they meant to say "cram"...

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Keep in mind, this is a league with teams called Nuggets, Pacers, Magic, and Knickerbockers. I think Thunder is just fine, if that is in fact the name.
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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Wasn't the Royals name a nod to both of their former baseball teams, the Monarchs and the Blues?

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Quote Originally Posted by Mixer! View Post
    Wasn't the Royals name a nod to both of their former baseball teams, the Monarchs and the Blues?
    Mostly, it was a nod to the American Royal Stock Show.
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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Quote Originally Posted by soonerboy View Post
    lets be honest if a team was named the "RED SOX or WHITE SOX" something like that today, do you honestly think that it would fly? cause their is goofier names that it could have been.
    Exactly.
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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Barons with black and gold as a theme is the right answer.

    Black. Gold.

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    Re: How do you llike OKC Thunder for our NBA team name ???

    Thunder will do... I am ready to see the logo and colors.

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