Shit, Wilson High in P-Town are the Trojans already! Back in HS when they used to come to Grant to play we would all turnaround during their intros and blow up rubbers...... turn around and let em fly!
How about these. 'Heat': Are you fucking kidding me 'Nuggets': A nugget of what exactly 'Thunder': So you are a big lound sound 'Jazz' + Utah: I can think of no place less 'jazzy' 'Spurs': For real? Come to think of it, is there a professional sport with worse mascots/nicknames than the NBA?
I pretty much knew the NBA was on the downslide when they made the Bullets get renamed to the Wizards. Let me see, Bullets, associated with the revolutionary war for the team in the capital of our country, or Wizards, which has absolutely nothing to do with Washington, besides starting with W. What a horrible nickname for a team. But I guess now at least they have a great pun tool. Their fans can now say "What fucking Wizard is running this franchise?
Wow, these days the OSAA forbids chanting anything at a player.. including "Airball" chants. They enforced it last year and if you did anything like that you got kicked out. This year they don't care as much, but the only prop we can have is a 8 and 1/2 by 11 inch piece of paper with approved writing on it..
You probably already know this, but the Jazz were originally in New Orleans. Not sure why teams carry the names with them to other cities. (also, Lakers from Minneapolis to LA)
Is a "Laker" any better a thing to name a team after (even when the team was located near lakes)? Basketball does have some strange nicknames. But all sports teams can't be Bulls, Bears or Hawks, I guess.
My thought is if you own the team, you own the team name. There was that big lawsuit with the Clevland Browns about who owned the name "Browns" (why fight over that name?) . . . think the city won (unless owner decided to just give it up)
My High School mascot was the Cheesemakers so everything else seems pretty awesome in comparison. We literally had someone dress up like a wedge of cheddar for a mascot during home games. Oh, and there was also a mouse. Nothing puts the fear of god into your opponent like dairy products.
oh man, at Jesuit, we got in such trouble because the hoops team was playing @ Wilson and we were chanting "Where's my wallet?" (and "Is he strapped", etc) when the black guys on Wilson were at the FT line.
"Utah Jazz". - I know its historical but they should have left it in NOLA. "Toronto Raptors"- Just because Jurrasic Park was popular when they got their franchise.
When I was in High School an intramural baskeball team named themselves The Muffdivers. The top 2 intramural teams got to play for the championship for a school assembly and sure enough... my team played the Muffdivers in front of the whole school. They had shirts with it on them and everything. I guess the teachers didn't know what it meant or something. UofC Santa Cruz are called the Banana Slugs.
My college intramural team was called the Lakers...most of my teammates were die-hard lakers fans. haha.
