(08-27-2016 09:51 AM)Chappy Wrote:  I don't like when two-word cities choose two-word nicknames. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays eventually shortened their name to the Tampa Bay Rays, and I can could see Vegas eventually becoming the Las Vegas Knights, which sounds better than Desert Knights to me.

I guess if they wanted to tick off Chicago, they could have chosen the Las Vegas Black Holes, because, you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

Well, for then reasons stated in posts above, they won't be able to officially shorten it to just Knights , so that leaves; The Las Vegas Desert? Or the Deserters!?

Frankly, I'm not too fond of Desert Knights either. They'd be better off calling it the Las Vegas Stayzhere or the Las Vegas Don'tells. I'd even have taken Las Vegas Rat Nights (after the "rat pack") and then just shorten it to Las Vegas rats. Any team out there named the rats? lemmme check...


Well, there was the Albany River Rats who were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in Albany, New York at the Times Union Center. 1993–2010. looks like that one was available. Actually I'm serious, Las Vegas Rats would have been kinda cool!



here's one with a Las Vegas reference to it:



Desert Rats with baseball bats, punk rock lp.

(08-27-2016 12:16 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(08-27-2016 09:21 AM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  It still sounds minor-league-ish but I'm sure we will all get used to it. After all, lots of expansion teams have absolutely horrendous names – Thunder, Wild, Avalanche, Lightning all spring to mind – and we eventually got used to those terrible names. I'm sure we will get used to this latest terrible nickname too.

Avalanche in Colorado makes sense due to the snow sports out there.

Wild, ehh not sure how many wolves or whatever are native to Minnesota but the logo is pretty cool.

While I don't think the Thunder is a bad name, WDF with the logo?

Never had bad feelings on the Lightning being used.

I'd be more concerned with say the Raptors. Timberwolves seemed kind of long winded.

No, I disagree. All of those names just seem so corporatized.

They are the equivalent of elevator music. They only exist so as not to offend people and that sucks.

They're mostly named after geological phenomena because that draws less criticism. They're lame, they're boring, they are unimaginative, and they just don't work. They don't evoke anything... Which is precisely why they were chosen in the first place.

I hate all of those names with a passion. Also, they don't sound like a big league sports franchise. We come to accept them over time but when they first came out with a name like the Thunder, for example, that sounds like it should be an Arena Football League team name or some low level minor-league baseball team's name. That does not sound like the name of an NBA team.

You got names like the Celtics and the Mavericks and the Rockets and the 76ers – all cool names. And you choose the freaking Thunder?!

To me that screams out to the world that you don't believe that Oklahoma City doesn't have anything unique or interesting about it other than the fact that it has lousy weather.

That's not good.

People make fun of the nickname Pelicans but I don't hate that. It actually means something to the people of New Orleans. That's how it's supposed to work! How sad would it have been if they had instead named their team the Swamps or the Bayou.

How is there not a pro team nicknamed the Beavers? Hornets is a great hockey name. Why not something like that? Las Vegas' nickname should reflect its primary industry. However, if you can't do that for political reasons, it should be the Scorpions. That would be a pretty badass nickname.

Seattle, when they get a team, and they will, should also reflect something interesting and unique to the Pacific Northwest. It should not be the Seattle Rain or something obscenely cheesy like that. Give us something cool and unique to your part of the country – that's what makes a good nickname. Quit naming teams after your 11 o'clock news weather forecast.

I keep waiting for us to be an artist to the Louisville Low Pressure Systems or the Honolulu Humidity.

(08-27-2016 10:56 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  Seattle, when they get a team, and they will, should also reflect something interesting and unique to the Pacific Northwest. It should not be the Seattle Rain or something obscenely cheesy like that. Give us something cool and unique to your part of the country – that's what makes a good nickname. Quit naming teams after your 11 o'clock news weather forecast.

Seattle Depression or Seattle Grunge.

"course they could also call it Seattle Nice Shot, after Cobain!

Artist: Filter
Album: Short Bus
Cut: "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
July 18, 1995 Reprise Records

imagine playing this after a score!

The Desert Knight!

(08-27-2016 11:11 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(08-27-2016 10:56 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  Seattle, when they get a team, and they will, should also reflect something interesting and unique to the Pacific Northwest. It should not be the Seattle Rain or something obscenely cheesy like that. Give us something cool and unique to your part of the country – that's what makes a good nickname. Quit naming teams after your 11 o'clock news weather forecast.

Seattle Depression or Seattle Grunge.

"course they could also call it Seattle Nice Shot, after Cobain!

Artist: Filter
Album: Short Bus
Cut: "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
July 18, 1995 Reprise Records

imagine playing this after a score!

Something many people don't know about that song is that it was written about a politician from my neck of the woods named R. Bud Dwyer.





The whole thing is a hell of a story but at the end of the day, it became clear that Dwyer was actually innocent of the charges, making his suicide all the more tragic.

(08-28-2016 09:30 AM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  Something many people don't know about that song is that it was written about a politician from my neck of the woods named R. Bud Dwyer.





The whole thing is a hell of a story but at the end of the day, it became clear that Dwyer was actually innocent of the charges, making his suicide all the more tragic.

Actually, I knew it was written before 1991, but didn't know the specific story until I looked it up.

I think Dwyer shoes just how screwed up and unfair the judicial system is. There's Right and wrong, I there's what the Law says, and then there's what the prosecutors and judges actually do, which are most often 3 very different things.

I think most judges and prosecutors are among the worst examples of human beings alive today. if there's anywhere that there should be absolute term limits 9and no shifting sideways to similar jobs) it should be for judges and prosecutors. Very, very short terms. 1 year or less. Then go back and crawl under the rocks they came from.

(08-28-2016 12:37 AM)DexterDevil Wrote:  

The Desert Knight!

Back to Hockey/expansion. Sadly, I could actually see then doing something lame like this to promote their new team.

You know, it could have just been the Las Vegas Rocks. With a double-connotation, that would have been better than Desert Knights.

(08-28-2016 01:29 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(08-28-2016 12:37 AM)DexterDevil Wrote:  

The Desert Knight!

Back to Hockey/expansion. Sadly, I could actually see then doing something lame like this to promote their new team.

You know, it could have just been the Las Vegas Rocks. With a double-connotation, that would have been better than Desert Knights.

The whole thing is a epic fail for a team coming to Las Vegas and it has no "Vegas ties" to its name.

(08-28-2016 02:52 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(08-28-2016 01:29 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(08-28-2016 12:37 AM)DexterDevil Wrote:  

The Desert Knight!

Back to Hockey/expansion. Sadly, I could actually see then doing something lame like this to promote their new team.

You know, it could have just been the Las Vegas Rocks. With a double-connotation, that would have been better than Desert Knights.

The whole thing is a epic fail for a team coming to Las Vegas and it has no "Vegas ties" to its name.

I really wish they were to go with Nighthawks and see about buying the rights to the defunct UFL Omaha Nighthawks logo, that would fit Nevada at least and provide an awesome nickname. Assuming Chicago would block it?