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  1. 05-31-2013, 05:25 PM #21
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    It's quirky, it's a nod to tradition, and it's ear-catching enough that it might work.

    Every league has teams with weird names

    Toronto Maple Leafs: Pluralization error
    Hamilton Tiger-Cats: Redundant. Tigers are already cats.
    New York Jets / Giants: Do not play in New York. Must share a stadium.
    Utah Jazz: There is no jazz in Utah
    LA Lakers: There are no lakes in LA.
    Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox: Team is named after SOCKS, for crying out loud.
    Auburn Tigers, Memphis Tigers, LSU Tigers, Clemson Tigers, Princeton Tigers, Missouri Tigers … 46 NCAA teams: We have no originality
    Toronto FC, FC Dallas, etc: We couldn't even be bothered to think of an actual name.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shayman View Post
    Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox: Team is named after SOCKS, for crying out loud.
    Yeah, and what is an individual player on those teams? A Sock? A Sox? A Sok?
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    Quote Originally Posted by paulwoods13 View Post
    Yeah, and what is an individual player on those teams? A Sock? A Sox? A Sok?
    Even though the whole "Sox" name is pretty lame, at least they didn't have a campaign to come up with a name and team of people to design the logo. The time spent to come up with this franchise and looking at the end result is pretty disappointing. If this was 1909 and some player came up with the RedBlack name then it makes sense but this?
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    could be worse. like say the Black and Deckers.
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    WEll I guess this an Ottawa thing. Our real estate agent told us that her son just finished his university hocket caeer at Ottawa and I asked her what the heck a Gee Gee was? It stands for Garnet and Grey.

    I hope they go with the logger, Rough Rider type logo which ties in history with a modern name.
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    Are you drunk, AF87? Your post, which I just deleted, was not appropriate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1argoholic View Post
    WEll I guess this an Ottawa thing. Our real estate agent told us that her son just finished his university hocket caeer at Ottawa and I asked her what the heck a Gee Gee was? It stands for Garnet and Grey.

    I hope they go with the logger, Rough Rider type logo which ties in history with a modern name.
    If the leaked logos shown here turn out to be accurate, I think it'll be a winner. A nod to history with the 'R' and the colours, and a cool sawblade treatment -

    http://news.sportslogos.net/2013/05/...ks-logos-here/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wobbler View Post
    Are you drunk, AF87? Your post, which I just deleted, was not appropriate.
    Bluto was teasing him the other day about censoring "crap" so I guess that AF87 decided to show him. BTW, starting this year, a Gee-Gee is a football player who always loses to the Carleton Ravens.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1argoholic View Post
    WEll I guess this an Ottawa thing. Our real estate agent told us that her son just finished his university hocket caeer at Ottawa and I asked her what the heck a Gee Gee was? It stands for Garnet and Grey.

    I hope they go with the logger, Rough Rider type logo which ties in history with a modern name.
    A Gee-Gee actually is a term used for the first horse out of the starting gate ..... Good thing the students that play for the Gee Gees know
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  11. 06-02-2013, 02:06 AM #31
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    WOW! did I butcher that first post. That would be hockey career. haha.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wobbler View Post
    Are you drunk, AF87? Your post, which I just deleted, was not appropriate.

    I have no idea what AF87 posted, but I'm sure it wasn't that bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shayman View Post
    Toronto FC, FC Dallas, etc: We couldn't even be bothered to think of an actual name.
    Soccer rarely has official mascots/names.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KCargosfan View Post
    Soccer rarely has official mascots/names.
    The old North American Soccer League did but the MLS went in the direction that England has.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ArgoRavi View Post
    The old North American Soccer League did but the MLS went in the direction that England has.
    I prefer the traditional English standard. No need to rebrand the team name in the future and a more organic nick name can be created for the team by the fans.
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    Ottawa Sun article - Jeff Hunt on how the name came to be -
    http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/06/08/...r-the-cfl-team
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    Sorry, Guys and Gals, I have tried for the last six moths to get used to the name "RedBlacks".

    Still haven't. In any case, since Ottawa is on a river, and the river, naturally, is full of muffins,

    I would humbly suggest, "The Ottawa Muff Divers".


    Please don't ban me. I was trying to be serious, not funny.


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    People of Ottawa have plenty of pets. They love pets and they walk there pets along the beautiful streets but pets do cause one issue, they crap. Why not call the team The Ottawa Crap. I know bad but when you read that BS about the Redblacks you realize that any bs story can be used. Plus CRAP is what I think of the name.
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    Sorry, Guys and Gals, I have tried for the last six moths to get used to the name "RedBlacks".

    Still haven't. In any case, since Ottawa is on a river, and the river, naturally, is full of muffins,

    I would humbly suggest, "The Ottawa Muff Divers".


    Please don't ban me. I was trying to be serious, not funny.


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    Are you drunk, AF87? Your post, which I just deleted, was not appropriate.
    So those quoted posts above are appropriate?
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    So those quoted posts above are appropriate?

    If you want them deleted, just add my name to them. They would then be down within the minute.
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