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Source: Oklahoma City team name to be Thunder

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by pressboxramblings07, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. CollegeJournalist

    CollegeJournalist Active Member

    All the more reason this is an awful nickname.
     
  2. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Why not just play off the Sonic name and the Sooners and call themselves the BOOMERS!

    But I guess McVeigh kind of knocked that one off the list.
     
  3. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    Good call there, you're probably right.

    I know the USBL team in Enid goes by the Storm, so rather than with a tornado reference, they went with Thunder. Eh. The OKC Outlaws would have been great.
     
  4. Jay Sherman

    Jay Sherman Member

    I'm just glad they didn't go with the Outlaws for the XFL part II.
     
  5. lantaur

    lantaur Well-Known Member

    There once was the Oklahoma Outlaws of the USFL. Good reason to stay away from that nickname, although Doug Williams did rock.
     
  6. Damaramu

    Damaramu Member

    I'm not a big fan of the name. But, it's no more stupid than Miami Heat or Orlando Magic.
     
  7. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    We need a "source" to "reveal" the fucking nickname of the Oklahoma City NBA team?

    And we wonder what's wrong with our business.
     
  8. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    that's actually not too bad.
     
  9. Trey Beamon

    Trey Beamon Active Member

    Meh. Personally, I liked the Oklahoma City Silos.
     
  10. MU_was_not_so_hard

    MU_was_not_so_hard Active Member

    I actually really like it.
    Granted, that stupid horse trailer doesn't do too well on hard wood. Watching the horse fall and break a leg would be good business for the horsemeat processing plants just down the road in Ft. Worth, though.
     
  11. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    The Oklahoma City Dust Bowls.

    The interesting thing about OKC, of course, is that its coolest bar district is Bricktown. If the Thunder starts tossing up bad 3-pointers, it could give new meaning to the nickname.
     
  12. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Or they'll go with Garth Brooks' "Thunder Rolls."

    Since he's an Okie, he might even do new lyrics specifically for the team. After all, a song about spousal abuse doesn't have much of an Arena Rock feel to it.
     
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