The names we didn't choose: Despite having heard this story numerous times, I never really paid attention to this part. Seriously, these are the 10 best names our entire city could come up with? Could you imagine being named the Tarantulas? 1990's Toronto was fucking lame. btw, I'm just bringing this up because it came up in a different thread. I love the Raptors name. It's got camp value.
Those were the names they came up with in order to make Raptors more appealing. They are the culmination of some bogus contest. Raptors was the name they wanted from the start. Hogs actually wouldn't have been bad, Toronto being Hogtown and all, but the puns that would've come with a name like that would've been unbearable.
That's such a fiendishly deceptive plot, that I have a hard time believing Bitove's ownership group was capable of devising it.
"Beavers, Bobcats, Dragons, Grizzlies, Hogs, Raptors, Scorpions, T-Rex, Tarantulas, and Terriers. " wait a minute, we could had bobcats....charlotte stole that years later from our list....
