Lookout Landing

Or the Seattle Hoopsters!

Ballard Erik - February 8, 2012 reply

Compromise: The Seattle Hipster Hoopsters.

Soul patches for all!!!

msb - February 9, 2012 reply

Goeducks!

Go Goeducks! Love that logo.

Docmilo - February 8, 2012 reply

The equivalent of the King's Court can be called the Phalus section.

Doesn't have the right ring to it.

Try the Phallus Palace.

Geoduck*

Eyebrows - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

I was told by a man who speaks Lushootseed

that the word was submitted to Webster’s as “goeduck,” which is closer to the proper pronunciation (gooey-duck). He said it’s Lushootseed and it means “to dig.” However, the dictionary people thought this must be a typo of the prefix geo- (meaning “earth”) since the animal lives underground, and they changed it.

All hearsay of course, but it seemed plausible to me.

Repeat after me:

I took my geoduck to Puyallup.

I love Edgar

Yes we have a coupon.

Paul AB - February 8, 2012 reply

Thats a problem.

We're playing outside today

I have a little project

cfj3 - February 9, 2012 reply

The Seattle Edgars.

msb - February 9, 2012 reply

Thunderbirds

Go T-Birds!

lemonverbena - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Except fuck, Thunder

Totems. Washingtonians?

lemonverbena - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Totems. That was the name of the Junior team and was going to be the name of our NHL team back in the day.

And we’d still be able to use the “Thunderbird and Whale” motif with the Canucks.

Think I'm digging Steelheads but Totems is good too

Seattle Ironmen, Bombers, Totems

Close...

It should read…
“Fuck the Thunder”

Eric Wedge's Mustache - February 8, 2012 reply

I think using Thunderbirds would not only be a nice throwback but also a way to stick it to Oklahoma by taking their name back too.

Wilder. - February 8, 2012 reply

Yea, gotta re-use the minor league team name.

It has worked perfectly for the Sounders.

Stolen idea:

The Seattle Timbers and here’s the logo:

Both Seattle and Portland can't have "Timbers" teams...

when I root I root for the OH MAN I'M SO CONFUSED RIGHT NOW

Oh man this would make Portland want to get a hockey team so bad.

Just to beat the Seattle Timbers for stealing their name.

Hockey's too violent. We don't play that here in middle school anymore.

Keenan Williams - February 8, 2012 reply

And they are more than welcome to keep on reaching for that rainbow

Robert - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

I like that

You can't have Johnny Canuck!

kentcheesehead - February 8, 2012 reply

Johnny Canuck was a pilot during the war

But the before the Mariners the team here was the Pilots, so… I’m not sure where I’m going with this. Can the team be the Ice Pilots?

Seattle Ferries!

Ballard Erik - February 8, 2012 reply

ROFL.

Yeah, not gonna work…

No chatspeak here please

Roger that.

No radio lingo here please

MangoLiger - February 8, 2012 reply

Silently nods

Were you raised in a barn?

answer when spoken to

No folksy words of wisdom here please

Alliteration is not allowed on this blog.

You're not allowed to start sentences with words that start with "a".

Rookie move.

Honestly I thought I was getting nailed for hypocrisy on that one.

I'm going back to chatspeak

And you’re all going to like it.

Don't.

Matthew is the only one on this thread with any authority, listen to him, disregard the mildly malicious mess of moronic masses. Over and out.

No radio linger here, pl- aw crap.

That's one of the reasons why I love Lookout Platform.

Seattle Cascades

Why: Because of the Cascade Range.

Why not: Because it’s a really terrible name.

Haha, Jeff

I was right!

Jeff Sullivan - February 8, 2012 reply

This makes me nervous.

Stay tuned!

Jeff Sullivan - February 8, 2012 reply

Horse head's a coming!

My high school marching band was called the Cascade Sound.

Well I doubt they're going to let some third rate professional sports team take their name.

So scratch that off the list.

You misunderstand,

the implication was “It could be worse.”

You must be a Bruin.....

all I have to say is: Go Everett.

Don't hate it..

The Seattle Bloodbraids.

Slight variation: "The Seattle Cascadians"

Simon Phoenix - February 8, 2012 reply

Are we seceding?

Some day, my friend. Some day.

Soon.

Cascadia has no need for the east.

But we'll call it Ecotopia instead

Or maybe Salish-istan

There's a drum and bugle corps with that name.

Well, technically they’re just the Cascades now, but they’re still based out of Seattle.

Cramer05 - February 8, 2012 reply

Brother-Sucked is way worse than the original,

or maybe not. Ew, I want to stop thinking about this now.

Seattle Metropolitans. That way you can already lay claim to being the 1917 Stanley Cup champs.

Also, it seems totally f’d up to take the Kings from Sac-town when they’re essentially going through the same Seattle did – the “taxpayers won’t build a stadium so you diehards lose your team” thing.

SethGrandpa - February 8, 2012 reply

I still think we are going to end up getting the hornets.

New Orleans is owned by the NBA.

Makes more sense.

Plus it’s N.O. isn’t really a basketball city anyhow.

SethGrandpa - February 8, 2012 reply

All they care about is footbaw and Mardi Gras

cwel87 - February 8, 2012 reply

And cri

Fearless Frog - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

And crime.

And gumbo, I suppose.

Fearless Frog - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

I prefer my gumbo with a side of crime

Nadingo - February 9, 2012 reply

Seattle Metropolitans would actually be my choice for our hockey team.

The first American team to win the Stanley Cup! They need to be revived.

Anyways, that or any one of the joke suggestions… Seattle Billionaires! Seattle Coffee Beans! Seattle Roasters! Seattle Flannels!

pixburgher - February 8, 2012 reply

I don't think that any name they choose will preclude them hoisting a metropolitan banner in the rafters.

Honoring the Metropolitans would be a nice touch.

Yeah but then you have it shortened to the Mets.

And, well, you know. Mets.

Seattle Metros

Yeah, but everyone knows that Mets is short for Metrioles.

The way the Mets are going, they may be better off becoming a hockey team

They could trade for Nyjer Morgan and they’d be all set.

I'm giddy and sick to my stomach at the same time thinking about this

But if the Kings do come here

You could borrow the name of Victoria’s defunct hockey team and call them the Salmon Kings.
Even the logo works:

Just stick a basketball in its mouth like a lure.

I was thinking this same thing.

And it’s not like too many people are going to be upset about using an ex-ECHL team’s mascot

bomdal - February 9, 2012 reply

Am I in the minority if I say I wouldn't want a new basketball team to be called the Sonics?

That franchise doesn’t belong to Seattle anymore, the titles, the history, anything. I feel like it just brings up bad blood. Why not start fresh?

SgtSasquatch - February 8, 2012 reply

We still have the trophy.

I’m actually not clear on what happens to the team’s official history should, say, the Kings become the Sonics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7xpZnagk7s

Because fuck that I still have jerseys

Willay - February 8, 2012 reply

I don't know how accurate this is, and I've always been hazy on who was keeping the Sonics history, but Wikipedia says:

According to the team’s Oklahoma-based owners, the Sonics’ franchise history will be “shared” between the Thunder and any future Seattle club

ChristopherA - February 8, 2012 reply

Yeah, I just remember OKC inheriting Seattle's post-season history and Charles Barkley blasting them for it.

SgtSasquatch - February 8, 2012 reply

Well that's a weird hyperlink

I think he means this...

Charles represents

The article the citation leads to says that Seattle kept the name and history.

So now I’m all confused.

This is why the issue has always confused me,

I’ve read conflicting reports over the years and have no idea who actually knows what they’re talking about.

ChristopherA - February 8, 2012 reply

I thought there was some deal, like if Seattle got another team within five years we'd get the records back.

Something like that.

quacker27 - February 8, 2012 reply

Fuck those brother-suckers

Two Rs and Two Ls - February 8, 2012 reply

Because we had a team with that name for 41 years

A new team would definitely be the Sonics. The hypothetical owner would be insane not to, for brand value at the very least.

lemonverbena - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

I would kind of love it if they took the chance on NOT naming them the Sonics.

They should still promote the Sonics’ history aggressively, retire Sonics numbers and court Sonics legends. But they could also use the opportunity to make the statement that Seattle basketball fans should never forget the details surrounding the loss of the Sonics.

Maybe call them the Keys.

The Seattle Clay Bennet Can Lick My Choads

Finally a name we can all get behind!

Kingdomer - February 8, 2012 reply

Those will be the Sunday alts

Who gets to design the logo?

Robert

Smother Puckers

Seattle Puckers

hmm…

The Seattle Black Slammers

Because we would be the sister team of the Incheon Black Slammers

I thought this was a pog reference at first.

And Incheon is actually home to the Blackslamers.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaacist!

Snow Dogs

Please use a subject line when posting pictures

Thanks.

my bad, sorry

Possible tie-ins with Disney like the Anaheim Ducks have!

*had

Do they not exist anymore? I don't follow hockey.

they do, but Disney no longer owns them

they’re just the Ducks now, not the Mighty Ducks.

Damn right they're not mighty

They were

once

:(

Jeff Sullivan - February 8, 2012 reply

I prefer to think more like a self-inflicted wound

than being beaten by a superior team.

So the Hawks finally beat them?

Nah. Team Iceland

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking of the movies.

Michael - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Olympians

Seattle Strawberries
Seattle Waterfalls
Seattle Greenies
Seattle Foresters
Seattle Ozians
Seattle Environmentalists
Seattle Dawgs
Seattle Rain
Seattle Jimi Hendrixes
Seattle Pikes
Seattle Chieftains

These are my suggestions

The Seattle Battlers has a nice ring to it

Seattle Sleeplesses

MangoLiger - February 8, 2012 reply

Greenies?

I don’t think we want to go touting our meth issues like that…

I thought Greenies are cat treats.

That would be sooo seattle.

stredarts - February 9, 2012 reply

A very popular version of amphetamines came in little green tablets, aka "greenies".

These were particularly common in MLB clubhouses for getting players through long road stretches. They have since been banned during the steroids hullabaloo.

Drew_D - February 9, 2012 reply

The Sheep.

This is a name with a tradition of winning.

Seattle Sheeple

.

Sheeple

Stephanie Powers - February 8, 2012 reply

Westlake Bum City Skaters

I’m under the impression that that’s where we’ll be recruiting from.

Let's keep the concept behind the name

Coyotes represents a wild & free animal, romantically roaming the territory & eating garbage wherever it finds it. So I vote for the Seattle Possums.

phiat - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Feral Pigs

Urban Chickens?

The team abbreviation would be SUC!

Seattle Tree Octopuses

The Fremont Trolls

That's the name of my Fantasy Football team

but who gives a shit about that?

HitKing69 - February 8, 2012 reply

Actually, just call them the Seattle Trolls

And have everybody assume it relates to the internet.
Plus, hey, retro wild-haired bobblehead dolls.

LOLcats night every night!

d0nkey - February 9, 2012 reply

Seattle Dumpster Diving Vegan Bros

-

YES YES YES

I am actually alright with this and want it to happen now.

Go, fightin' octopi!

Chris_FB - February 8, 2012 reply

What about the Seattle Tree Devils

The team abbreviation would be SEA!

Seattle Tree Octopi

Tree Octopodes

Burning the tree would make sense then

Seattle Peccaries!

The S.L.U.T.s

South Lake Union Trolly

Heh!

I never thought of how the trolly matches that acronym before!

The Seattle Raccoons!

Reply to phiat fail

Nicholas Placentia Minnott - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Thunderbirds

Give me several reasons why not? The Sounders did it, and they’re apparently quite popular. ALL THE COOL KIDS ARE DOING IT!

I would be happy with either the Thunderbirds or the Metropolitans

Eric Wedge's Mustache - February 8, 2012 reply

Because fuck the Thunderbirds, that's why.

I may or may not be a Tips fans.

Tips is a flamingly gay name for a hockey team

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvertip_bear

It's been mentioned previously I'm sure but the Seattle Freeze would be amusing.

Eyebrows - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

.

Ice to see you!

The Seattle Overcast with a bit of drizzle

The Drizzle!

Eyebrows - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

The Livingstones.

Then every game there could be a “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” ceremony.

OK forget that. The Jimi Hendrixes is better as Dewey N suggests above. The Kurt Cobains wouldn’t be as readily popular due to the manner of death and survival of Courtney Love.

Seattle Kingsmen!

BrownL - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Mix-a-Lots!

BrownL - February 8, 2012 reply

Were the Sonics named after the band that did "Psycho" and "The Witch"?

No

The Supersonic Transport, which Boeing was going to but did not build

Seattle-Kinney

The Seattle Moose(s)

then the Mariner Moose would be able to work all year round to support his little Mooslings.

I think you mean the Seattle Moosen.

I saw a flock of moosen!

Cramer05 - February 8, 2012 reply

Many much moosen?

I love you for this reference, Brian Regan is one of the funniest men on the planet!

Keenan Williams - February 8, 2012 reply

I want to point out that he really isn't.

ShibbyHibby - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Mariners

And we could name the basketball team the Seattle Seahawks!

Confuse the hell out of everybody.

Brett the 49er - February 8, 2012 reply

Winter Sounders

The Seattle Ites.

Is that the Japanese word the referees yell before a karate match?

All the Japanese I learned from watching Ralph Macchio movies.

I thought that was "hajime"

I thought it was "Hadouken!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E351adoCuuY

Wait, I'm thinking Naruto.

http://youtu.be/eiHyBQbpYCM

I can't tell if the ref is saying itze or fight, but hajime I think is the proper thing to say

It means "begin"

aragato

Fail.

The Seattle Needles.

wazzu93 - February 8, 2012 reply

Double meaning!

You mean, besides heroin?

It would also represent our love of sewing and crocheting.

Seattle SODO'ers

kentroyals5 - February 8, 2012 reply

Typical transplant. Locals call it "pop".

Eyebrows - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Seattle Pop'ers would be good for a hockey name.

kentroyals5 - February 8, 2012 reply

Born and raised here.

I call it “soda” because “pop” sounds fucking stupid.

Eeyore hates figlet - February 8, 2012 reply

Agreed. I used to call it pop

But felt ashamed every time.

Pop feels so wrong

…and yet so right.

Mind of no mind - February 9, 2012 reply

The mere fact that you call making love "pop" tells me that you're not ready.

Oops, sorry.

I read that first post as SODOM’ers

Mind of no mind - February 9, 2012 reply

The Seattle Coffees.

Maybe the team that has the ball could make up their own rules every time

until another basket’s scored.

Why not keep "Kings"?

Cuz ya know…King County?

For the Bball team i mean.

You could take a train to King Street Station to see the Kings.

Paul AB - February 8, 2012 reply

Would the King family allow that?

Seeing as how the County is now supposed to refer to him rather than the North Carolina slave owner who was vice president for six weeks in 1853, I’m not sure an image of MLK as part of a team logo would fly. Though I do like the image of the man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial setting up for a three-pointer. “I have a … triple double.”

I don't think the implication was the have the team be the Martin Luther Kings.

Just that the name would be applicable still.

Mariner Optimist - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Grunge

Sounds like a good hockey team to me – and the 90s was the last time I paid attention to hockey so that fits.

Seattle Freezing Rain
Seattle Thin Ice
Seattle Grinders

The Grunge would be the WOORRRRST

Eyebrows - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Really? The WOORRRRST?

Is this the first comment you read? There is shit all over this place.

HitKing69 - February 8, 2012 reply

It's the worst one that I feel some people might actually consider.

Eyebrows - February 8, 2012 reply

Actually it would be a pretty damned good name

for a hockey team. They bastards never shave anyway. Lots of great intro music for the players too

116in01 - February 9, 2012 reply

We call them subs around here.

If Seattle

winds up to have been forced by the NBA to trade the current Thunder for the current Kings, then they got fucked worse than the Lakers and Hornets in the cancelled Chris Paul deal.

awilson11 - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle didn't "trade" anything, much less the current Thunder team.

The Sonics went 20-62 in their last year before moving. Who’s even left from that team other than Durant? Collison? Perkins, Harden, Westbrook etc were all added later. No way to know what would have happened if they stayed in Seattle.

So they'd only still have Kevin Durant and most likely Russell Westbrook?

Yeah, what a shitty team.

I'm saying they didn't trade the current Thunder team, and to claim they did is stupid.

Everything that happened after the relocation is irrelevant. No idea how it would have played out here. Come on, this is LL not ESPN.

Terminator...

I agree with you that we can’t pretend to know what a team would have looked like if it had stayed in Seattle, but we could say with good certainty that based on how NBA contracts work, that Kevin Durant would still be a Sonic and that Seattle would have still been in the position to draft Russell Westbrook. Those are the only two players I even mentioned.

I agree with you, but Durant is the heart of what I'm getting at is all.

Okay. Great. Good for you. Please direct me to where I said anything to the contrary.

I never said they wouldn’t have Durant. Or that they’d be a shitty team. I was (somewhat understandably for someone who didn’t follow the Sonics) wrong on Westbrook, so shoot me, but don’t argue against positions I never took.

GasolineSnuggie - February 9, 2012 reply

I take it you'd support the Seattle Passing Aggressives?

Yeesh.

Kenneth Arthur - February 9, 2012 reply

Russel Westbrook was drafted as a Sonic if I recall correctly

Sounders4life - February 8, 2012 reply

You say "other than Durant" like losing him alone isn't enough to flip your shit over.

This whole subject gives me PTSD

BrooklynPreacher - February 8, 2012 reply

Sam Presti.

Yes, the team likely would have very much looked like this. You knew that when they drafted Durant and started building the team here on their way out.

Westbrook was drafted by the Sonics

THEN they moved.

Yup

Keenan Williams - February 8, 2012 reply

.

Any picture of Stern makes blood vessels in my eye pop uncontrollably

God I hate that man.

Sacto one vote from losing the Kings last night

Let the bastard lay his grimy hands on these tapped-out brothersuckers

Ew?

Hey, I like the Seattle Aloofs!

Not so much the Malos. And is David Stern the only person in the world who makes Bud Selig look good?

extavernmouse - February 9, 2012 reply

Aloofs certainly does fit the civic character

Just wanted to thank you for giving me a factual correction without any unnecessary snark

May we all learn from your ways!

No prob.

Westbrook and Ibaka were drafted with the final two picks made as the Sonics

so yes, only three of the four best players on the team were Sonics

I imagine you can see how this would be an understandable mistake for someone who doesn't follow basketball terribly closely to make.

Doesn’t refute my main point though, which is that it’s not only asinine but factually incorrect to state that the city of Seattle was “forced to trade the current version of the Thunder”. The current version of the Thunder is probably something like the 95th percentile of outcomes when viewed from the lens of 2008 (See: Trailblazers, Portland). Maybe Westbrook never breaks out, maybe Durant gets hurt, maybe the Perkins trade doesn’t happen, etc. I never said that they’d be terrible, only that they’d be different, and being different from the 95th percentile is more likely than not being worse to some degree. Implying that Seattle ever had the current version of the Thunder is dishonest revisionist bullshit (which is the only point I was trying to make). I know Seattle fans are understandably still sore over the whole ordeal, but I’m surprised so many people are blatantly missing the point of what I was saying.

http://youtu.be/ctf260qnDeU

I just want to pile on and say that the current OKC coach was also with the Sonics in their last season.

ShibbyHibby - February 8, 2012 reply

You're being pretty pedantic

About a post that was clearly about the talent levels on the teams at the time of moving.

Mothy - February 8, 2012 via Android app reply

Shallow and pedantic...

I want to point out that without Bennett, Wally Walker would still be running the show

and therefore the team would be terrible.

MangoLiger - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Sasquatches

Smooty - February 8, 2012 reply

I miss Squatch

Our commercial legacy needs some props. Gentlemen, I give you:

The Seattle Servers. crash

The Seattle Microhard

seanchristopher - February 8, 2012 reply

The Almond Rocas

The Obertos
The Sourdoughers (Sorry, I’m hungry)
The Whitecaps (for the snow covered mountains)
The Yetties

The Seattle Old Spaghetti Factories.

Vancouver would probably get kind of pissy about a Seattle team using Whitecaps

seanchristopher - February 8, 2012 reply

Oh Yeah,

forgot about that.

You could try the Seattle Breakers, though

Though there’s a basketball team in New Zealand and a women’s soccer team in Boston wit that name, and the latter might be a problem.

Not to mention:

Portland’s 1985 USFL? team.

extavernmouse - February 9, 2012 reply

That's what the Thunderbirds were originally called.

The Seattle Phoenix

thehemogoblin - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Chris

Seattle Michaels
Seattle Ichiro!
Seattle Natashas
Seattle Freds
Seattle Jose

Seattle Lofas

Seeeeee myyyyy Loafers former gophers…!

Seattle Squids

wazzu93 - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Krakens!

Architeuthis will get you!

The Mossy Warbonnets!

Those guys are awesome.
(I mean, if you’re going to do local sea life and skip the obvious octopi and geoducks).

Seattle Snowmageddon

You’re so unprepared for us.

Ha!

Nice.

Seattle Starbuckers

Nailed it.

No, that one was just too obvious that everyone EVERYONE else had already thought of it.

That,

and Howard Schultz has lost the right to ever be involved in Seattle sports again.

Preach.

Fuck that brother-sucker too!

Tom Douglas' Seattle Hockey Team

The Seattle Chihulys

Seattle blown glass artists

That's the joke.

The Seattle Coldplays.

For the hockey team of course.

Death Cab For Hockey

That's good. I'd go to see them.

Shabazz Ice Palaces

This has already been

suggested.

Seattle Red Sox

Seattle Yankees
Seattle Giants
Seattle Dolphins
Seattle Redskins
Seattle Browns

Seattle Redskins... I wonder how that name would go down.

Seattle Indians? Seattle Reds?

Actually, Seattle Chiefs could play

Y’know, for that Chief Seattle guy

Kingdomer - February 8, 2012 reply

That's what I was thinking.

Probably wouldn’t be allowed though.

forte40 - February 8, 2012 reply

The Seattle Casinos?

Why not?

There is a football Giants and a baseball Giants and they don’t sue one another. I like this idea a lot, but the full name should be Chief Sealths pronounced properly in the orignial Duwamish tongue with the glottal stop.

Can you say this with a white man's mouth? Or a black man's?

Or a white woman’s? Or a hillbilly?

Because the NHL would not allow a team to have a Native American nickname

Certainly not like "Blackhawks"

They've had that name since 1926.

One thing to decline to force a team to change a nickname, completely different thing to allow a new team to take on a similar nickname.

There's nothing inherently wrong with naming a team "Chiefs".

Just like there’s nothing wrong with “Spartans”, or “Patriots” or “Senators”. It’s not my favorite name, but I’d certainly have no problem with it.

Not to mention the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative

Maybe because the football and baseball Giants both played in New York at one time and in 1929, the football team

was corporately named the New York FOOTBALL Giants to specify the sport, and it’s a shared name for New York – that even though they aren’t linked in any business sense, they were linked culturally?

I mean, seriously?

Spokane's hockey team is the Chiefs.

Benny Boy - February 11, 2012 reply

Seattle Injuns?

Seattle Sherman Alexies

For the basketball team, obviously.

The Seattle Angels of Downtown Seattle Right Across From Safeco By The Dumpster

The Seattle Starks.

Winter is coming to the NHL.

Just so long as no one loses their heads over it....

You totally went there.

Funny when I read Seattle Starks

I first thought Tony and Iron Man…even though I have read through Dance with Dragons

Yeah the interwebs jumps to that, too.

Hey look it's that stupid meme

Eyebrows - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Wait, that's a meme?

You have the worst case of reddit shell shock Ive ever seen

That was posted in sympathy

I think HBO ruined my fantasy series.

MT Olson - February 8, 2012 reply

I've never seen it.

Seattle Sleet

Ooooh, that one rolls off the tongue. Icestorm!

Plus it doesn't end with an "s"!

forte40 - February 8, 2012 reply

They should name the hockey team the Sonics and the basketball team the Coyotes.

Seattle Louis XIV

because that was the last time France was really strong.

The Seattle Jumpacos!

For the basketball team of course.

Bald Eagle 1313 - February 8, 2012 reply

NHL Seattle Slapsticks

Offense and entertainment!

ThundaPC - February 8, 2012 reply

Hockey in Seattle? Has to be

the Totems.

The Seattle Sandwiches

Seattle Vicodin

and they could play the Nashville Oxycontin and so on

Seattle Fairweathers

Seattle Kings

Not like the basketball team, like the villains from the Mighty Ducks.

wetzelcoal - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Queens

Bald Eagle 1313 - February 8, 2012 reply

L.A. already had the Kings in Hockey

back in Gretzky’s time. No thanks.

Actually the villains from the Might Ducks where the Hawks.

What the fuck movie was I thinking of?

wetzelcoal - February 8, 2012 reply

MacBeth

CURSED I TELL YOU

CURSED FOREVER

I could see how having a hockey team named the Kings might cause some problems

Seattle Icehawks

We have the Sea and the Ice covered.

Seattle Ted Bundys

Oh no you di'uhnt

I was thinking in the same vein

Seattle Serials

If you want to go regional I guess Orcas hasn't been used?

But, Orca sounds feminine.

Ted Bundy was sort of a PNW thing, and he was scary. Seattle Bundys doesnt have a great ring to it though and would be insensitive to women fans.

Seattle Meth for the hockey team – fucks up your teeth, can be referred to as ice, great name recognition

BrooklynPreacher - February 8, 2012 reply

Yes to the NHL's Seattle Meth

The logo would be just the Space Needle

with extra emphasis on the Needle

You need to retake a D.A.R.E. course.

This is one of those things I really can't get too upset over someone getting wrong.

I wouldn't mind Orcas, but Vancouver already uses one in their logo

Seattle Death

The Seattle Hobbits.

The other basketball teams would get overconfident, and then we’d have them right where we want them.

The Seattle Rainiers

It’s got a history, there’s the local landmark angle, and it’s recognizable to the NW without being cheesy, like something coffee related.

PissedMick - February 8, 2012 reply

I like it

It's better than coffee-related, it's beer-related

And coffee-related.

Fucking Tully’s.

But... we could be Seattle's Best

MT Olson - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle's Best is owned by Starbucks

And I think it was established earlier – fuck Howard Schultz

Seattle Nordiques

Seattle Winterhawks
Seattle Whalers

Awww.

Whalers :-(

Jim226 - February 8, 2012 reply

Whatever happens, I hope we get Miami's marketing team.

Fantastic!

Bret Boone's Farm - February 8, 2012 reply

We could have a giant volcano that spews glitter all over after a goal!

Swirl Jam

Kinda sounds snowish, but Pearl Jam is awesome.

Seattle Swirlies

Seattle Seasonal Affective Disorderses

Damn pdb sort of beat me to this

Indifferent.

F it all.

The Seattle SADs sounds like a Seattle sports team.

quacker27 - February 8, 2012 reply

The Seattle DoubleShots

Because, you know, the players won’t be good enough to make the first one.

Jeremariner - February 8, 2012 reply

You might want to rethink your signature line. It takes up unnecessary space.

yuniform - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Applefuckers

The western part of the state is technically more notorious for fucking other things.

Seattle Apple Maggot Quarantiners

DaveValleDrinkNight - February 8, 2012 reply

Nice.

My rules for naming the team

No singulars. We’re not a weather event or a sensation. We are a pack of something.

Secondly,contemplating some animals skating around is awesome. Penguins. Sharks. Ducks. Others are stupid. Like Coyotes or Panthers. No cats or dogs!

The Seattle Otters?

No Seattle Irish Setters?

Seattle Golden Retrievers? I kinda like Seattle Russian Blues.

The Seattle Bigfoot

Wait, you said no singulars. Seattle Bigfeet. Seattle Bigfoots?

ScottBrowne - February 8, 2012 via iPhone app reply

Seattle Sasquatches

Except I guess that’s already the Sonics’ mascot, so that would be embarrassing to have one sports team be the mascot for another, but I feel like the Mariners have been the mascot for the AL West for a while, so it could work I guess.

SeaKoala - February 8, 2012 reply

Now I'm contemplating a geoduck skating

Seattle clams?

Pays homage to Ivar Haglund and all players could be required to wear full beards.

Imagine the Ivars deals

shut out=free chowder

And when they make the playoffs they'll be the Bearded Clams!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL A FEMALE ANATOMY JOKE LOLOLOLOL

abender20 - February 9, 2012 reply

Sea Otters are totally awesome. But they aren't really the most scary animals.

How about the Seattle Seals? Seals are ferocious monsters, and the fiercest killers in the animal kingdom (besides Polar Bears) though I don’t know if seals even live in Seattle, so maybe Sea Lions, I don’t know if they live in Seattle either. You did say no cats though, and they are just sea versions of lions so I guess they don’t work.

SeaKoala - February 8, 2012 reply

Polar Bears live in Seattle. Or: nearby.

California Sea Lion range. Harbor Seal range.

Both seals and sea lions live in the area

I like the ring to Seattle Sea Lions.

Actually it's not uncommon to find seals hauled out at Alki in the winter months

They often leave their pups there, and volunteers watch over them so clueless people (and their dogs) don’t do them harm.

Or shoot them :(

I was going to rec you until you said no dogs.

So close

Bret Boone's Farm - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Pilots

Duh

I like this name.

Its simple, historical, kind of related to Boeing, kind of related to the mariners, kind of classy sounding.

neel - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Pucks

Seattle Deforestation

Mascot: Spotty the Homeless Owl

I REALLY like

the idea of a homeless mascot.

Seattle Stumps!

Seattle Losers

Seattle Sucks
Seattle Lasties
Seattle Gonnamoves
Seattle Nobanners

Sorry, had to get those out of my system.

Counterpoint: Seattle Perfectos

It’s only good for one season though :(

Two Rs and Two Ls - February 8, 2012 reply

Superbas!

Seattle Brazilian Wax Jobs

Seattle Flies

Nice sig!

circa81 - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Sockeyes

Seattle Steelheads

Sockeyes, nice

Goes well with punching.

And we would throw salmon onto the rink after a hattrick.

And maybe some lemon wedges and tartar sauce.

Maybe a blackberry compote

or some cranberry ginger glaze

A lot of potential for bad smells and stink.

If you have fish lying arounnd.

As I said in an earlier thread on this subject:

Seattle Sockeyes! The mascot is a salmon with a black eye, broken teeth, and boxing gloves! It’d be perfect! If you don’t like boxing gloves then fuck you! We’ll give it a hockey stick instead!

This sounds so perfect.

TWownsU - February 8, 2012 reply

This one makes the playoffs

for names.

Steelheads is kind of cool.

neel - February 8, 2012 reply

There are the Idaho Steelheads in the WCHL

Not sure how much that matters.

appleshampoo - February 9, 2012 reply

So is the rule that no nickname can be used for two teams in any level of sport simultaneously?

Seems weird.

Missouri is so screwed moving to the SEC then

I doubt there's an actual rule

But probably more of a convention. I’m sure if an NHL team wanted to call themselves the Steelheads, the Idaho team would either not care, or change their name to avoid confusion.

appleshampoo - February 10, 2012 reply

I actually really like Sockeyes.

As a team name.

I like either. Or both.

quacker27 - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Schooners

You dumb bastard. It's not Seattle Schooners, it's Seattle Sailboats.

Fuck it, call us the Seattle Mallrats.

Schooners:

Which is also an eight-ounce beer glass. Though does anybody really drink only eight ounces of beer?

extavernmouse - February 9, 2012 reply

Yes?

Aaron Campeau - February 9, 2012 reply

Seattle CapSeas

Sound Captains

Seattle Jeffs

Seattle Sullivans

Alliteration or something.

SeaKoala - February 8, 2012 reply

He's not even from Seattle

Seattle CapSeas is way better trust me on this I'm a doctor

Neither are koalas

Unless they changed the name of geoducks, salmon, narwhals, etc. to seakoalas

Also, I’ve decided on Seattle Narwhals, the Unicorns of the Sea

How about we compromise and call them the Seattle Librocrats.

Fine

Seattle Librocrats, Unicorns of the Sea

Seattle DROPBEARS

Complete with caps.

I support this message.

I think you'd have to call the Kings the Kings or the Royals

Probably the Kings given King County. That’s a team with its own proud history- you wouldn’t want to muck it up by fusing it and the Sonics together

Corco - February 8, 2012 reply

Call them the Sacreattle Kingsonics

They wear green shirts & purple shorts and we all sing kumbaya together.

The Sonics were fucking awesome.

No.

The Sonics are fucking awesome.

I believe I’m still stuck in stage one of grief.

If rage mixed with denial is stage one then I'm there

Still haven’t watched Sonicsgate. I just can’t.

It's pretty cool for the nostalgia

But I pretty much cry big baby tears of anger by the end.

Poor Sherman Alexie

Love that guy.

Samesies!

Yeah, a proud history of repeatedly...

moving cities and changing names.

Why don’t we just call them the Rochester/Cincinnati/Kansas City/Omaha/Sacramento/Anaheim/Seattle Royals/Kings/Sonics?

expatbayern - February 9, 2012 reply

Seattle Starbucks!

No.

Seriously though I'd like the Seattle Tsunami

Half of the country does not know what a Tsunami is

I am going to guess that this is incorrect

Considering more than half the people in the country live on or near the coast (53%)

I’d say even before recent events it’s widely known

Johnny Tsunami?

Disney Theme!

More than half the country doesn't know WTF a "Knickerbocker' is

And they’ve been in the league for almost 70 years.

Seattle 9/11s

Eyebrows - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Seattle Oklahoma City Bombings

Tie-in with the whole Sonics thing!

Eyebrows - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Our chant could be "TOO SOON! TOO SOON!"

or something to that effect.

iHateDaveSims - February 8, 2012 reply

A cartoon Ted Kaczynski

for the mascot

Timothy McVeigh?

Patrick Stites - February 9, 2012 reply

Seattle Unabombers would work too though

Craptastic-J - February 9, 2012 reply

Sure.

Because it's a terrible unstoppable natural catastrophe and it rolls off the tongue nicely

Cons I guess would be that it’s a terrible unstoppable natural catastrophe that has happened recently. But Sharks and Lightning kill people sometimes too dang it

You know, dang it, you could probably make an argument that ALL mascots pretty much kill people

iHateDaveSims - February 8, 2012 reply

Especially Redskins, am I right?

Seattle Smallpox

There’s your answer to the Redskins!

And we could donate blankets to the homeless.

The very suspicious homeless.

This one never got the chance

Not to mention the Avalanche and Hurricanes

And lest we forget the Great Maple Leaf Fire of aught-eight

It's ironic because Seattle is actually pretty well protected in the case of a tsunami.

That's why the name is so appropriate.

Tsunamis don’t give Seattle any grief, but they smash other cities.

The Seattle Tsunami Nukes

Mothy - February 8, 2012 via Android app reply

I still like Cascadians from when this came up last time (and search apparently doesn't go that far back).

But if asked after reading all of these, Rainers and Totems are pretty good.

ShipstadPilot11 - February 8, 2012 reply

The Lattes

Kiwi Mariner - February 8, 2012 reply

Lenny the Latte!

Back in action!

The Seattle Reign.

Even better if we steal the Kings.

The Seattle Regicide?

Kiwi Mariner - February 8, 2012 reply

Failed women's basketball team name... :(

Isn't that what hockey is?

Works on so many levels!

It literally took me several years to realize the Storm weren't a renamed version of the Reign.

So, yeah.

The Seattle Rainmen.

Bonus points if the entire team is autistic.

The Seattle Renoir-men

Bonus points if the entire team is artistic.

ShibbyHibby - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Storm

Because much of the Northwest seems to act like there isn’t a professional basketball team with that name already, judging from attendance at some of their playoff games the last couple years. You’d think a team that was the only active Seattle team with multiple championships, and an undefeated season, would get more attention.

Chris_FB - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

The Sounders have won three consecutive US Open Cups, just for the record.

soccer is for the queers

hello sailor

Meh. Not the same as winning the WS in MLB or the Super Bowl in the NFL.

The US Open Cup is just a regional tournment. An old one, but still. Not really on a par.

Chris_FB - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

If by "regional" you mean the entire nation, then you're correct

Everything's just a region, really

Does the winner of the Japan Series have as much prestige as the winner of the World Series?

I know “all of the united states” is a sort of a large region, but still. All the myriad little cups and tournaments and what all in soccer just throws me. In almost every other major sport, there’s one overall highest professional league, it has one season, a postseason, a championship, there’s a winner, beer and cupcakes for everyone, go home happy, yay. Soccer, not so much. It’s weird.

Chris_FB - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

You may find it weird.

That doesn’t change the fact that the Sounders have won a championship three years in a row.

True. And their relationship to their fans is incredible.

I still can’t believe that one time they refunded their season ticket holders after that one rare embarrassing loss a year or so ago. And the way they’ve built up traditions and fan excitement from zero is impressive. Even though on some level the sport just doesn’t do it for me, they’re a fantastically run franchise.

Chris_FB - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

In Japan, absolutely they do

Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t make it weird.

Well said. I'd make that a sig if I didn't dislike sigs so much.

Chris_FB - February 8, 2012 reply

It's no WNBA championship, that's for sure

Damn straight

…er, hang on, sarcasm detector was on the blink for a moment…

Chris_FB - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

You probably would think that until somebody told you it was a women's basketball team

And then you’d think their attendance probably reflects people general lack of interest in watching women’s basketball.

Layups!

Professinal basketball and hockey are gay

Poochie - February 8, 2012 via Android app reply

Because they live in the same building?

Dgood - February 8, 2012 reply

NBA cab be the Berts and NHL can be the Ernies

cab equals can

Just in case someone didn’t get that and I wanted to make this post worse

Agreed

We definitely don’t need teams taking any attention away from the Seahawks and Sounders.

Robert - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

The Seattle Hockey Players

Because parity has to start somewhere. All teams would be renamed the “City” Hockey Players to represent equal chance of winning a chamionship.

PackBob - February 8, 2012 reply

And all teams will have to have teams of the exact same player. Perhaps all Jeremy Roenick clones. He is a hockey man, right?

Seattle Human Beings?

Too exclusionary. Don't want to upset the bivalves.

Seattle Sentients

Discriminates against the mentally handicapped.

thehemogoblin - February 8, 2012 reply

The Seattle NordStar Softies

Because corporate sponsorship should have its rewards… Or maybe Seattle Micro Bucks

flightrisk - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle XBOXs

Seattle BINGs
Seattle Amazons
Seattle LGBTs

Did the hockey players in Strange Brew have a name? If so, we should use that.

d0nkey - February 8, 2012 reply

Don't forget WTO.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=seattle+speedball

The Seattle Speedballs

Lucifer Sam - February 8, 2012 reply

Did Hitler have any ties to Seattle, and if so, is there anyway we could play on that connection for a team name?

If not, did Stalin?

I’m kidding of course, but do we have any idea if Pol Pot has any Seattle connections?

Maybe the Seattle AIDS? Not like the disease though. It stands for All Indians Died Savagely. To honor the cities Native American background, of course.

Seattle Annefranks

But instead of a serial number she has a tribal tattoo. But a classy Puget Sound tribe type tribal tattoo.

As a fan of attics, I cannot tell you how absolutely offended I am about this idea.

Whoa mind reader

“The Attic” is going to be the name of the Arena

We won't be playing too many away games.

Lenin has a connection to Fremont, so there is that.

I am the walrus

Shut the fuck up Donnie

The Seattle Sliders

jbpalm - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Greenleafs

d0nkey - February 8, 2012 reply

I'm not quite sure how to work it in, but I'd like to pay homage to the native peoples of the area.

Logo based on:

I think Chinooks is a neat team name in theory but it just would not play nationally.

We could have cross promotions with the Army where they chopper in supplies before every game

Speaking of, what about the Ospreys?

now there’s an underutilized bird of prey name.

Or we could be the Albatrosses

Osprey = Seahawk.

That would be like having the San Diego Friars

It

's more than different enough

What about the Grizzlies

You guys are stealing all of the Missoula teams in the subthread.

Ospreys sound way cooler

I take it you've never heard ex-player announcers.

I’m trying to imagine the Milburys/Holiks/Shannahans of the world (let alone the Gorings and Danykos) attempt to spit out Ahhspreighs makes my ears hurt.

I have not watched a sporting event in twelve years

UCLA, Mariners, Padres.... Yeah I can see that being the case.

You can't hear the announcers when you're at the baseball match

You can at a Padres game

I'm partially deaf

Then your use of "you" is misleading

Does your partial deafness affect your syntax, is what I'm wondering

No my being Asian affects my syntax bally

Touche

My hatred of McEnroe is what keeps me from watching tennis rounds on TV, too.

They're matches now?

Sporting!

Eyebrows - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

They would pronounce it Ice-Sprays

Cause it’s hockey, stupid

No it's not

Oh?

I'm willing to listen to reasonable arguments, but good luck.

We have tons of Osprey here,

and I’ve never heard them called anything other than Osprey or Fishhawks.

Just because you've never heard it does not mean it's not true

See below a couple comments, I was wrong.

That would mean that everything is false because Marlee Matlin exists.

Yes it is

Graham MacAree - February 8, 2012 reply

It is!

I just learned something new, sorry guys.

That and the casino cross-marketing is too far away.

How about the Snoqualmies? We’d even have a theme song!

Oh nooooooooooooo

My thought has always been to play on the Vancouver rivalry (Whale on their logo) by using an old indian story

You’ve surely heard of Thunderbird and Whale right?

For this, either Totems (which I prefer) or Thunderbirds would work.

Seattle Steelheads

Former nickname of Seattle’s short-lived Negro League baseball team.

I like that!

This is fantastic

and that’s a pretty mean logo too

For reference

Image link

Plus they could wear steel helmets!

It looks like it should be a Pokemon.

That has a tail mouth! That thing is frightening

And it ate two baby fish!

This is really good.

neel - February 8, 2012 reply

I like the native fish imagery a lot, except that the Canuck's orca logo is way too similar.

wetzelcoal - February 8, 2012 reply

Two fish making an S!

We could be the Werewolves

Where in Washington are they going to build this arena again?

You are just adorable.

On your grave, hopefully.

Pullman

Llewdor - February 9, 2012 reply

Should we name the team Team Jacob or Team Edward?

Kenneth Arthur - February 9, 2012 reply

Seeing as how we are the Werewolves, I would think the answer would be obvious

Team Oz?

oh duh.

Kenneth Arthur - February 9, 2012 reply

Can we be the Unicorns?

or the Griffins. Some kind of mythical animal would be sweet

Oompa-Loompas?

Kiwi Mariner - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Firebirds

sofa_king - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Unicorns

My high school mascot! Lets go!

tarheels24 - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Unicrons

"Your bargaining posture is dubious."

Wait, we already worked out nicknames, remember?

The Seattle Michael Stanley Fucking Musial Pinedas

The Seattle Memes

The team will be run into the ground just as it gets started.

Jed MC - February 8, 2012 reply

The Seattle Dead Memes.

Let’s not take our chances here.

The Seattle Why Do They Always Get Betters?

The Seattle Floors

We're never going to get a team :(

Oh man.

I’m on mobile but I hope this is rec’d.

Fearless Frog - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

The Seattle Jose Lopez's Brothers

Seattle Canhascheezburgerz.

Cramer05 - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Humpies.

circa81 - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Fiddle Cats

Seattle Shotguns
Seattle Sound (get it? The Puget Sound? And the city’s musical history? Oh never mind.)
Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Roberts
Seattle Birds

Seattle Katal

Agreed 100% on this .

The Seattle Roberts will undoubtedly need a minor league team and these guys would fit the role perfectly.

Robert - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

They're going to need a good minor league team what with the vitamin deficiencies

The South Alaska Irrelevants?

That way we make it easy for the national media from the get go.

The Cheese - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Thunderbirds.

I like the name, and it’s not used by another professional franchise.

Also, it’s my high school’s mascot.

Or, we could be the Seattle Bite Me Clay Bennett, Ken Behring and David Sterns.

Both are good.

Henry Valz - February 8, 2012 reply

There already is a Seattle Thunderbirds professional hockey team.

Who are likely to be replaced by the NHL team as the only hockey team in Seattle.

Henry Valz - February 8, 2012 reply

I don't know about that.

Kent would be pissed.

How would we tell?

sanford_and_son - February 9, 2012 reply

Riots in the 'burbz.

That leaves me with the same question

Aw :(

Indeed.

Thunderbirds are not used by another professional franchise.

My bad. Major professional franchise.

Freaking writers.

Henry Valz - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Giant Pacific Octopi

They’re really big.

Memnon - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Yachtsmen.

I’m surprised no one has gotten this one yet! Sounder fans will get it and it’s a good name.

tarheels24 - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Seamen

sofa_king - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Seattle ChrisBallews!

Just makes me happy thinking of a hockey team with a peach on the front.

Kim Warnick > Chris Ballew

The Seattle Fastbacks has a nice ring to it.

Now im thinking "how can I make a giant squid sound badass enough"

Id pay money for the seattle fastbacks though

*Peach as the logo

/The Seattle Sockeyes

Both Seattle/cartoon violence soundy to be a hockey team

http://www.seattlesockeye.org/

Looks like that name's already taken

Emanon - February 9, 2012 reply

The Seattle Sound

Not only could it be a reference to Puget Sound, but you could also play off the whole Seattle music scene into the brand too. The Mascot could be a a grunged out hipster perhaps…

paulmer37 - February 8, 2012 reply

The Seattle Supercronics?

sofa_king - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

This thread is lapping itself

and not in a good way

First you expect me to spell words correctly and use proper punctuation

and now you want me to read the whole thread before commenting?

Please send my refund in the mail.

d0nkey - February 9, 2012 reply

That's not horrible

It also kinda plays of the “Supersonic” thing.

Or a basketball wearing DJ-style headphones

For a logo, i mean

Volcanoes?

Screw Salem-Keizer

the other side - February 8, 2012 reply

That's where "Rainiers" comes in....

The Seattle Kemps

brspiegel - February 8, 2012 reply

Then the Hockey team could be

The Seattle Kemp Jr’s

Then they could make up like half the team

I don’t know how many people are on a hockey team or how many kids he actually has either

brspiegel - February 8, 2012 reply

I just heard him on the Bob and Groz show today, I think he mentioned something like 5 kids. 4 boys and 1 girl.

Wikipedia says he has at least 7….

SeattleJunkieQueen - February 8, 2012 reply

The Seattle Millers

Robert - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

The Seattle SeaWolves

Which is a nickname for Orcas. It was gonna be the name of the Arena 2 football team that my old boss and Sam Adams were trying to buy rights to and bring to the Kent ShoWare center but I think it all fell through. My boss was a dick and I don’t think it’s trademarked so that’s really why.

CMoney87 - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Seattle Influenza

Robert - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Seattle Bicycle Enthusiasts

Omerta - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Junkie Queens

I’m not biased.

I've been wanting this to happen since I was a little kid.

Being a Thunderbirds fan, I really don’t see that organization just rolling over and giving up their name. Different league, same fanbase sure, but they really have something good going in Kent and I can totally see the two co-existing.

I dig the names Sockeyes or Chinooks.

Taking the name Breakers from the old Seattle area semi-pro team could be cool if possible.

Seattle Tsunamis is pretty bad ass too, but of questionable taste I guess.

I would support it, though.

DaveValleDrinkNight - February 8, 2012 reply

Seattle Strong Winds at Higher Elevations.

The Seattle Good Time Hootenanny Jug Band

Because I cant get the visual of a bunch of silly critter pals on ice skates out of my head.

DaveValleDrinkNight - February 8, 2012 reply

The Seattle Switchblades

or The Seattle Straight Razors. There should be more knives in sports.

WUWU - February 8, 2012 reply

Straight Razors would probably turn into a suicide reference but quick.

The Jeff Sullivan Hockey Experience

plish - February 8, 2012 reply

Personally, that experience sucks

So what you are saying is that it's perfect for Seattle?

Seattle Fish Tossers

Seattle Sherriffs

Seattle Supremacists
Seattle Sphinxes

Fearless Frog - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

It's gonna be The Seattle Hockey Team of Bellevue.

That spot they’re working on is too small in SoDo…

How do you know?

I kid. It was be pretty awkward with traffic. But what else is new in Seattle.

sanford_and_son - February 9, 2012 reply

Do tell.

As above. I'm just pulling your leg. It'll be interesting see if they'll widen Holgate.

Yeah

Pursuing a land deal that could potentially cost $100s of millions of dollars before ensuring that the land is large enough to build an arena on seems like the kind of thing an investment group would do.

Aaron Campeau - February 9, 2012 reply

Looked right on the back of that napkin when I was drunk

abender20 - February 9, 2012 reply

People do dumb things all the time. But I guess I goofed by thinking my first comment was funny.

The Seattle King Crabs

For the basketball team.

Emanon - February 9, 2012 reply

Chinooks

There ain’t no Nookie like Chinookie.

And whenever the regional rivalry games are on, it’ll be ’nucks vs ’nooks.

New England Fan - February 9, 2012 reply

Totems

That was the name of the team back in the pre-NHL expansion days when the WHL was a AAA league that played a higher level of hockey than some of the current NHL teams. If LA and SF hadn’t gotten greedy, the whole league could have become a major league operation. And if that won’t work, the same franchise was called the Americans, which would be a nice counterpoint to the Canucks

no, the counterpoint to Canucks would be Yankees.

and if i had to kill a yankees fan or a nazi, i’d kill a yankees fan.

#11 forever - February 9, 2012 reply

Boy I hope you don't own a firearm then

Aaron Campeau - February 9, 2012 reply

This choice could be Oskar Schindler versus Benedict Arnold

I’m also killing the Yankee

Craptastic-J - February 9, 2012 reply

Huh

abender20 - February 9, 2012 reply

I suspect it's a traitor joke but whatever

Good Nazi versus Bad Yankee Fan joke.

Or we could tie in Mark Twain, but that’s probably way too much time travelling with having to pick up Schindler in 1945, swinging by 1778 to get Benedict, and then going back another 1000 or so years to meet up with King Arthur. Way too much work for a not very good joke.

I can keep going but it’s only going to get worse. Benedict Arnold was born in Connecticut, probably should have lead with that. Chance he could have been a Red Sox fan too I guess. I should find that GIS product breaking down each team’s sphere of influence for all of MLB. I wonder if they have a historical version of that product.

Narwhals Forever

Craptastic-J - February 9, 2012 reply

I'm trying to imagine a scenario where you would be given those two options

MT Olson - February 9, 2012 reply

Blitzkrieg in the Bronx?

The best thing about this is that a google image search for just the two terms “yankees nazis” somehow turns up this in the first page of results:

Google knows everything, so what is it telling us here?

Buy a Toyota and drink Bud Light

d0nkey - February 9, 2012 reply

God I miss 2008 LL