Source: Oklahoma City team name to be Thunder

[Lester Bangs]

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

Well, as long as "no more stupid" is the standard we are looking for ...

MU, your avatar is AWESOME. I stop to watch the kid in the red shirt dance probably five or six times every time I encounter one of your posts. Those your kids or is it just an Internet thing?

 

[Football_Bat]

Since it's Oklahoma and every third high school still has an insensitive Native American nickname, I figured they'd have gone with the flow.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Since it's Oklahoma and every third high school still has an insensitive Native American nickname, I figured they'd have gone with the flow.

You mean like the Southeastern Oklahoma SAVAGES?

As for Boomers, I'm guessing they didn't want to alienate all the OK State fans. Doubt their colors will be crimson & cream, either.

Outlaws? No way Stern would ever approve that.

Thunder is nice and innocuous. Not great, but at least they didn't name it after a dinosaur in Jurassic Park.

 

[OJ1414]

You mean like the Southeastern Oklahoma SAVAGES?

They're now the Savage Storm. Fellow Lone Star Conference school Northeastern State went from the Redmen to the RiverHawks last year.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Link: http://www.koco.com/sports/16925692/detail.html

Chalk up OKC for getting a WNBA name.

You mean a World League of American Football Mk1 name. Perhaps they'll recycle the color scheme, too.

 

[BTExpress]

Great name? No, but how many are? Seriously, if someone had invented "Red Sox" today . . . we could have that person committed for stupidity. But now it's "classic."

And do we need another predatory animal nickname?

 

[ondeadline]

Has there ever been a major-league franchise that has a nickname that is a sound?

What kind of logo to you have for a sound? My guess that it will be some sort of lightning bolt, but that's not thunder.

I'm also guessing that there will be some obnoxious sounds at Oklahoma City games.

 

[BTExpress]

What kind of logo to you have for a sound?

Not major league, but . . .

Heck, "SuperSonic" is a speed, "Heat" is temperature, "Reds" is a color, as is "Browns".

My guess is a logo will look something like this . . .

 

[king cranium maximus IV]

"Oklahoma City Thunder" sounds like a team who would play in a stadium like this:

 

[Damaramu]

Yeah because every name in the league sounds so much better than that. Clippers? Heat? Magic? It's about on par with those.

 

[zebracoy]

Beats Real Oklahoma City.

 

[Bubbler]

Yeah because every name in the league sounds so much better than that. Clippers? Heat? Magic? It's about on par with those.

Don't be so sensitive.

A little advice. In my home state, one numbnut tried to fork a dead deer, and now, I never hear the end of it.

I could sit here and get all pissy, but why? Instead I embrace the absurdity of it. I mean ... now I know why I get turned on during deer season.

See? Follow my path, and just do what you do to relax in Oklahoma, which presumably, is having sex with living, breathing livestock.