OT: Thunder change their name to 'Steel'

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland-thunder/index.ssf/2016/02/portland_steel_replaces_portla.html

 

Still pissed they didn't go with Platypus the first time.

 

Damn, I thought this was going be an article, with a typo in the headline, about the OKC Thunder. As in, "Thunder change their name to Steal" with reference to how they stole the franchise from Seattle.

BNM

 

Much, much, much better.

 

Still a lame name.

 

Platypus or RIOT!

 

So glad they changed the name. I might watch a game now. I refused to support a team named the Thunder in any capacity whatsoever.

Growlers was my favorite name choice.

 

Then have Orange and Yellow as their colors, making for the most hideous uniforms of all time. It would have been so Portland and AFL.

 

Portland = Steel City!


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Should have gone with "cement" for a different kind of confusion

 

Terrible, terrible name.

It's still light years better than "Thunder."

 

They should have mocked hipster culture with the name. Its arena fucking football. some obscure and funny name would have killed on merchandise and visibility.

 

Sounds too much like semen. That would have been a better name than Thunder or Steel though. both which sound like great male stripper names.

 

Portland Raincats. That would have been dope, I would have bought a jersey.

 

Or named it after some beer ingredient.

Hops gear kills here. Although, the color scheme is on point, so there's that, too.

 

What kind of out of touch Tualatin resident thought of this shit.

 

How on earth did they miss out on "Portland Cement"?

 

Still does not fix it being boring as hell to watch.