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First 'Who's Now?' and now this.

Where is Titletown, USA?

When did this get put on the table? What's next? "Where's the Big Apple?"

Green Bay is Title Town. Them fools. We actually should be called the Titletown Packers really. I think its kinky after a few beers.

I really liked John Anderson's story about why Green Bay deserves it. I love having a local guy on espn because he name drops things I actually know. We apparently went to the same camp when we were young and during the little league world series he talked going out for a jolly good soda afterwards. Ahh, my youth.

Back on topic. Worst. Idea. Ever.

Its garbage. The only point could be to try to make some city like ny or boston the 'new titletown'. who are they to decide anything about sports.

DrugBust wrote:First 'Who's Now?' and now this.

Where is Titletown, USA?

When did this get put on the table? What's next? "Where's the Big Apple?"

No ****, How about what Mile High stadium should be?

Or what is the windy city (According to the National Climatic Data Center's list of annual average wind speeds, the windiest U.S. city is Dodge City, Kansas, with an average speed of 13.9 mph. Other windy cities include Amarillo, Texas (13.5 mph) and Rochester, Minn. (13.1 mph.). The windiest "big" cities are New York City (LaGuardia Airport) and Oklahoma City, which both have an average annual wind speed of 12.2 mph.

The "windy city" of Chicago isn't as high on the list as you might think. It's average annual wind speed is 10.3 mph.)

or the land of ten thousand lakes (The state with the most lakes is Alaska and not Minnesota despite the "10,000 Lakes" slogan on its license plates. Alaska is home to more than three million lakes. BTW, Wisconsin has 14,927 lakes)

Or maybe the sunshine state shouldn't be Florida (While Florida proclaims itself "the Sunshine State," it might be more appropriately named the "partly cloudy" state. Five other states, Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas, catch more rays than Florida, according to the National Weather Service.)

It must have been a slow news day for ESPN to debate this crap.

Yeah. I saw this the other day and almost threw up in my mouth. The sad part is reading the comments form people who are obviously 12-15 years old who have no idea Green Bay was even nicknamed Titletown so they don't even think it deserves to be called a nominee.

I laughed at some of the comments. Some people are sooooo stupid. One said, "how can vince lombari be considered a great coach. He only won 2 super bowls. I can't even believe that they name the trophy after him!"

Dumb people.

The east coast bias shows again as ESPN is so bold as to even try to strip Green Bay's nickname and give it to Boston on New York (You know that's what they want

BTW, here is another interesting stat:
Why is NY called the big apple?

Here are the top apple growing states:
1. Washington: 144 million bushels
2. New York: 31 million
3. Michigan: 18 million
4. Pennsylvania: 10 million
5. California: 9 million

However according to about.com, here is the real reason for the nickname

"In the early 1920s, "apple" was used in reference to the many racing courses in and around New York City. Apple referred to the prizes being awarded for the races -- as these were important races, the rewards were substantial.

Based on the research of Barry Popik, the use of "Big Apple" to refer to New York City became clearer. Popik found that a writer for the New York Morning Telegraph, John Fitzgerald, referred to New York City's races "Around the Big Apple." It is rumored that Fitzgerald got the term from jockeys and trainers in New Orleans who aspired to race on New York City tracks, referring to the "Big Apple."

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, New York City's jazz musicians began referring to New York City as the "Big Apple." An old saying in show business was "There are many apples on the tree, but only one Big Apple." New York City being the premier place to perform was referred to as the Big Apple."

But wouldn't the fact that Washington sells more than 4 times as many apples as NY mean that stealing the nickname wouldn't be too hard? And on top of that, most of those apples grown in NY are sold in upstate NY and not NY City which means the big apple as a nickname should be BS.

If it isn't already, the Packers should just trademark "Titletown" now like the Red Wings did with "Hockeytown."

Does ESPN really have nothing to talk about?

I really don't like ESPN that much and its b/c of these dumba** things...

In fact, this made me close to throwing up...

http://www.titletown.org/
http://www.titletown.com/

Mags FTW wrote:http://www.titletown.org/
http://www.titletown.com/

well that settles that.

I just made my first pilgrimage to Lambeau (diversion from the airport to grandmas house) and I must say this. I was surprised to find out Lambeau was in a residential neighborhood in Woggyboggyton and not downtown Green Bay. Rename Wigglybooglymucca Titletown and retain balance with the force.

What a f'n joke.

This contest is moronic on so many levels. To name but one, the word Titletown itself contains the word "town" and derives much of its charm from the irony of a smaller town winning titles by competing against the bigger cities; the implied David versus Goliath nature of the term suits Green Bay perfectly and just wouldn't apply to New York or Boston.

As for Chicago's "Windy City" nickname, it was first used by some New York newspaperman to portray Chicagoans as a bunch of boastful blowhards for campaigning so hard to win in the bidding for the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

DelaneyRudd wrote:I just made my first pilgrimage to Lambeau (diversion from the airport to grandmas house) and I must say this. I was surprised to find out Lambeau was in a residential neighborhood in Woggyboggyton and not downtown Green Bay. Rename Wigglybooglymucca Titletown and retain balance with the force.

I laughed at a previous Bill Simmons article where he first went to Lambeau. He said it was like driving through your local neighbor hood, then Wham, here is a 300 million dollar pro stadium.

He said he got off on Lombardi av and asked for directions to the stadium at the first gas station, and without blinking an eye the lady told him to go out and take a right, and you will see Lambeau Field just past the K-mark.

Classic!