Tyler wrote:Okay, so I'm writing a story about a band, and they're going to go on tour very early on, and their first show is going to be in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I go to Google the names of some Toronto arenas that they could possibly play in, and wouldn't you know it that Toronto's professional hockey team is called "the Toronto Arenas".
What a god damn stupid as all hell name for a sports team. "Oh, we've got the Warriors over here, but you better watch out for the arenas!"
Yeah, that's a name that gets me shaking in my shoes, let me tell ya...
And that's what is particularly infuriating to me about PC team-name-changing.
The Washington Football Team? Really? I mean, seriously ######6 really?
Sorry that's lame, 'Redskins' was fierce- and yes, I have American Indian in me, and I DO. NOT. CARE.
You want ######6 fierce. If I was the owner of a sports team, I'd name them the Zulus, because I want the most badass imagery I can think of, and I can't post the youtube to demonstrate my name choice, because you know, forum rules again violence. My point, exactly. Fierce. If you ever watched 'Zulu', based on the battle of Rorke's Drift, and you're in a small British compound, and your surrounded by men armed only with spears who are beating them against leather shields and singing to you about how they're gonna whup your ass, and they simply
do not give a damn that you're gonna shoot them, then that's about as badass as it gets.