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  1. 2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    People complain about "bland" or boring nicknames. I'm arguing that it doesn't matter, and that a "local" or flashy or unique nickname can be just as weak or stupid. If they went with Washington Wildcats it wouldn't fucking matter. If they continue to suck, then it sucks. If they won a super bowl, it would be popular in all of our heads. 

    Teams can suck and have good names.  Teams can be great and still just essentially be [LOCALAFFILIATION #31] [TEAMNAME #27].  The best ones are the types that are relevant to their location.  For example:  Patriots, Cowboys, Ravens, Packers, 49ers, Saints.  Those are good names that make sense for where they are.  Or when they were created in the case of the Saints.

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  2. Just now, 'stache said:

    If they won a super bowl or two in the next five years it would be. Same with the jags, or panthers, or whatever bland name accompanies a winner. LSU is a tiger. Same as Clemson and Auburn who have been winning tons of championships with a bland name. Kansas State was big in the 90s with the blandest of all high school mascots the wildcat. 

    I don't know what you're arguing with here.  Most of those aren't interesting either, despite the team success (LSU needs to keep that name history quiet). 

     

  3. 1 hour ago, 'stache said:

    Where did the idea come from that a name has to be "strong" or unique or even non-bland? A bland name becomes powerful if the franchise is successful. The Bears were huge in the 80s. The Eagles were super popular that one year they won a superbowl. Even Cowboys is kinda generic in some respects and they're the most valuable franchise int he world despite having sucked for 25 years.

    Because 3 out of the last 5 have been named that way.  Bland strength.  Other than the Jaguars (relevant zoo animal at least), Panthers (literally named because panthers are strong), and Titans (...), you got the Ravens (famous resident and good) and the Texans (relevant...local...population?).  To be fair to the Texans, they probably would have been the red/white/blue Oilers if they could, but damn.

    Redtails is at least interesting, although also weird since they got the nickname due to the, you know, red tails on their planes.  Reminds me of redasses when applied to people instead of planes.  Redwolves and Warriors are not interesting, but hey Snyder could probably reuse alternate logos with those and keep selling dat merch.  Instead of these types of things, I wish they'd come up with something relevant to their local area or at least fun.  Like the Biscuits.  

  4. Ugh why is this taking so long?  I'm really curious to see which completely bland "strong" name and logo their corporate marketing committee comes up with.  It will surely strike fear into the hearts of their opponents.  

     

    Someone up thread (I think it was here) is right:  they should go with the MiLB approach and not take everything so seriously.  This shit is supposed to be fun, isn't it?  But I guess the superfans and some of the weirdo players who GO TO WAR every Sunday wouldn't like that too much.

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  5. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    For reference, the Russian Navy has to have a fucking big-ass tugboat following their sole "operational" aircraft carrier around.

    I don't think they can even do that right now.  That floating tire fire carrier had the one drydock that could hold it sink underneath it and cause a bunch of damage in the process.  Like, a bigass crane dropped on the deck, killed some workers, etc.  Pretty sure they were building a new drydock to replace it, but I'm not sure what the status of that is.

     

    E:  Damn, they also had a big fire on board a year later.

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  6. 3 hours ago, bernorange said:

    Sony has not released price info yet.  Undercutting xbox at ps4 launch worked great last go 'round.  Hope they do it again.

    Hell, either one of them hitting that estimated (I thought it was official, but I was just seeing TechRadar quoting analysts) price point is a pretty great deal.   Gran Turismo isn't on the Xbox though, so...

  7. I'm still in favor of Shatner or something equally ultra-cringey, but:

     

    41 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    The words "The eyes of Texas are upon you" were copied by University President Prather from Robert E. Lee's phrase "the eyes of the South are upon you". Now, again, I don't think co-opting a slogan from the head general of the confederate army is where we should set the bar at the University of Texas.

    Just based on which face it came out of, or....?  He would apparently say that to university students, which Prather was one, in the late 1860s.  

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