New Orleans Hornets to change name to "Pelicans"

[Serbia]

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Pelicans? The Pelicans? Does this automatically become the worst pro sports moniker in North America?

[Metsfanmax]

Pelicans? The Pelicans? Does this automatically become the best pro sports moniker in North America?

Yes.

[Army of GOD]

The Red Wings are pretty bad.


Not the name, the team.

[saxitoxin]

Serbia got ESPN to cooperate in building a BBS Trap Thread.

Serbia +10,000 SaxBucks

[Dukasaur]

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Pelicans? The Pelicans? Does this automatically become the worst pro sports moniker in North America?

I don't think the Mighty Ducks will ever be beaten in the atrocious moniker department.

[Army of GOD]

Read the title, click the linky

Pelicans? The Pelicans? Does this automatically become the worst pro sports moniker in North America?

I don't think the Mighty Ducks will ever be beaten in the atrocious moniker department.

Really? I love the Might Ducks name.

Then again I love the movies but still....

Pelicans is meh. Not the greatest. There are a ton of better names, especially for a Nola based team.

[tzor]

Clearly he doesn't understand Pelicans. Having lived in the Florida Keys, I know them quite well.

They are sort of like flying deer ... in that if they fly into your car ... your car is going to be severely damaged.

And in full flight, they are a thing to behold. I saw a bunch of them flying at full speed while on the seven mile bridge looking like Klingon Warships in formation.

I'm not sure how you image them to the game of basketball. They are not known for their jumping. They are not known for being graceful.

I could see them in hockey. Those poor penguins won't have a chance against a collision with a pelican.

[warmonger1981]

TOTAL SUCK. ENOUGH SAID.

[Funkyterrance]

Pelicans are cool!
I went fishing at my uncles house in Florida and a pelican stole a fish right off the end of someone's line as they were pulling it onto the dock and flew away. It was freaking hilarious!!! Maybe the team will get more steals now?

[macbone]

Well, minor league baseball has enough dumb names to give the Pelicans a run for their money. The Montgomery Biscuits? Were they even trying?

[Army of GOD]

Well, minor league baseball has enough dumb names to give the Pelicans a run for their money. The Montgomery Biscuits? Were they even trying?

Look up a lot of early baseball/football team names. Like, early 1900s...some of the names are beyond ridiculous.

[Serbia]

Clearly he doesn't understand Pelicans. Having lived in the Florida Keys, I know them quite well.

They are sort of like flying deer ... in that if they fly into your car ... your car is going to be severely damaged.

And in full flight, they are a thing to behold. I saw a bunch of them flying at full speed while on the seven mile bridge looking like Klingon Warships in formation.

I'm not sure how you image them to the game of basketball. They are not known for their jumping. They are not known for being graceful.

I could see them in hockey. Those poor penguins won't have a chance against a collision with a pelican.

The hippopotamus is a fucking TANK. They're huge, they're mean, they are badass. You get hit by a hippopotamus, you won't know it for long, because your ass will be DEAD in a second. Really, what's going to stop a hippopotamus? You think a Chicago Bull wants to tangle with that beast? No, Bulls will be running. Bobcat? Hippopotamus will sit on that stupid little cat. Nothing can stop a hippopotamus.

But seriously, calling a team The Hippos would be idiotic. I don't care that the animal is sweet, huge, and badass, if it's a bad name, it's a bad name!

[DoomYoshi]

In Ontario, we have a team called the Peterborough Petes. I think that is worse than Pelicans.

Also, there are tons of other bad names. Serbia just doesn't like sports and never thought of these.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15646_th ... names.html

Also, before you ask... Maple Leafs are made up because leaf is pluralized to leaves. Therefore LEAFS are not a real thing.

[Army of GOD]

Clearly he doesn't understand Pelicans. Having lived in the Florida Keys, I know them quite well.

They are sort of like flying deer ... in that if they fly into your car ... your car is going to be severely damaged.

And in full flight, they are a thing to behold. I saw a bunch of them flying at full speed while on the seven mile bridge looking like Klingon Warships in formation.

I'm not sure how you image them to the game of basketball. They are not known for their jumping. They are not known for being graceful.

I could see them in hockey. Those poor penguins won't have a chance against a collision with a pelican.

The hippopotamus is a fucking TANK. They're huge, they're mean, they are badass. You get hit by a hippopotamus, you won't know it for long, because your ass will be DEAD in a second. Really, what's going to stop a hippopotamus? You think a Chicago Bull wants to tangle with that beast? No, Bulls will be running. Bobcat? Hippopotamus will sit on that stupid little cat. Nothing can stop a hippopotamus.

But seriously, calling a team The Hippos would be idiotic. I don't care that the animal is sweet, huge, and badass, if it's a bad name, it's a bad name!

The hippo is hardly sweet. I heard they're the second most dangerous animal in Africa, behind the mosquito.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/rea ... ous-animal

[Serbia]

In Ontario, we have a team called the Peterborough Petes. I think that is worse than Pelicans.

Minor league teams are meant to have bad names. I approve of the Petes.

Also, there are tons of other bad names.

No shit Sherlock. This thread isn't about all the horrifically bad names in sports, it's about the New Orleans Hornets rebranding themselves as the New Orleans Pelicans, and my opinion that "Pelicans" is a bad name for a professional sports team.

Serbia just doesn't like sports and never thought of these.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15646_th ... names.html

Yes, I most clearly am not a sports fan. Also, I'm not going to click on your link.

Also, before you ask... Maple Leafs are made up because leaf is pluralized to leaves. Therefore LEAFS are not a real thing.

And that has what to do with Pelicans? You really are a throw-away troll, aren't you?

[Nola_Lifer]

I kinda like the name. Not like we can be New Orleans Jazz.

[Symmetry]

There's a baseball team in Japan called the Nippon Ham Fighters. Technically it's because they're sponsored by Nippon Ham, but still...

[DoomYoshi]

There's a baseball team in Japan called the Nippon Ham Fighters. Technically it's because they're sponsored by Nippon Ham, but still...

Yup. In the link I posted.

[Symmetry]

There's a baseball team in Japan called the Nippon Ham Fighters. Technically it's because they're sponsored by Nippon Ham, but still...

Yup. In the link I posted.

Apologies- didn't look.

[tzor]

The hippopotamus is a fucking TANK. They're huge, they're mean, they are badass. You get hit by a hippopotamus, you won't know it for long, because your ass will be DEAD in a second. Really, what's going to stop a hippopotamus? You think a Chicago Bull wants to tangle with that beast? No, Bulls will be running. Bobcat? Hippopotamus will sit on that stupid little cat. Nothing can stop a hippopotamus.

But seriously, calling a team The Hippos would be idiotic. I don't care that the animal is sweet, huge, and badass, if it's a bad name, it's a bad name!

They would be good for a running based football team. Have you ever seen the offensive line lately? They all look like hippos!

The problem is, ironically, the Fantasia effect. Hippos are forever linked to the world of ballet.

[spurgistan]

I kinda like the name. Not like we can be New Orleans Jazz.

YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE.