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Hypothetical team name poll

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Where do you stand in regards to the team name?

Poll ended at Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:25 pm

1. Bobcats is fine. The name has grown on me.
11
58%
2. I would want the Hornet name back.
5
26%
3. The Hornet name reeks of Shinn & relocation. Don't want it.
1
5%
4. Want to completely rebrand the team.
2
11%
 
Total votes: 19

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Hypothetical team name poll 

Post#1 » by WC NBA Fan » Sun Sep 4, 2011 10:25 pm

Let's assume that the Hornets get bought by a Seattle group and become the Sonics or move to Vancouver and get rebranded. The Hornet name will be on the open market. Would you have any interest in bringing the name back to Charlotte or in rebranding the Bobcats altogether?
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Post#2 » by captaincrunk » Sun Sep 4, 2011 10:40 pm

I like the Bobcats name. It's nice. The Hornets history doesn't belong to this organization, the city maybe but not the organization. It'd feel like a lie.
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Re: Hypothetical team name poll 

Post#3 » by BigSlam » Sun Sep 4, 2011 10:53 pm

Bobcats or die.
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Post#4 » by ohara » Mon Sep 5, 2011 3:03 am

I like Bobcats, but I voted to go back to the Hornets. Kinda like to go back to the roots of what we had with Zo and LJ. Back then we were a good team and had sell out after sell out. We were a real threat. Just would be neat to go back and take what was originally ours.

Of course, it this economy continues to suck, we might see England take the same idea and expand upon it and offer to buy America and make it a Colony again. Then Spain and England can fight over us. But hey, if they give every American family a cool million as part of the deal, they can call me English all day long.
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Post#5 » by captaincrunk » Mon Sep 5, 2011 8:43 am

ohara wrote:I like Bobcats, but I voted to go back to the Hornets. Kinda like to go back to the roots of what we had with Zo and LJ. Back then we were a good team and had sell out after sell out. We were a real threat. Just would be neat to go back and take what was originally ours.

Of course, it this economy continues to suck, we might see England take the same idea and expand upon it and offer to buy America and make it a Colony again. Then Spain and England can fight over us. But hey, if they give every American family a cool million as part of the deal, they can call me English all day long.

You do realize our GDP dwarfs theirs right? and we have more than twice as many people?
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Post#6 » by Elden Payton » Mon Sep 5, 2011 9:28 am

Bobcats definitely, We are not the Hornets lol.

If not the Bobcats then the Swagcats obviously.
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Post#7 » by Snidely FC » Tue Sep 6, 2011 1:36 pm

^ wouldn't mind dropping Bob and going plain 'Cats (in nod to MJ replacing BJ).
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Post#8 » by ohara » Tue Sep 6, 2011 1:42 pm

captaincrunk wrote:
ohara wrote:I like Bobcats, but I voted to go back to the Hornets. Kinda like to go back to the roots of what we had with Zo and LJ. Back then we were a good team and had sell out after sell out. We were a real threat. Just would be neat to go back and take what was originally ours.

Of course, it this economy continues to suck, we might see England take the same idea and expand upon it and offer to buy America and make it a Colony again. Then Spain and England can fight over us. But hey, if they give every American family a cool million as part of the deal, they can call me English all day long.

You do realize our GDP dwarfs theirs right? and we have more than twice as many people?


Did you take that comment as serious? Not mean to be so.
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Post#9 » by captaincrunk » Tue Sep 6, 2011 4:33 pm

ohara wrote:
captaincrunk wrote:
ohara wrote:I like Bobcats, but I voted to go back to the Hornets. Kinda like to go back to the roots of what we had with Zo and LJ. Back then we were a good team and had sell out after sell out. We were a real threat. Just would be neat to go back and take what was originally ours.

Of course, it this economy continues to suck, we might see England take the same idea and expand upon it and offer to buy America and make it a Colony again. Then Spain and England can fight over us. But hey, if they give every American family a cool million as part of the deal, they can call me English all day long.

You do realize our GDP dwarfs theirs right? and we have more than twice as many people?


Did you take that comment as serious? Not mean to be so.

No but it wasn't even plausible enough to imagine someone saying it in earnest (which would have made it funnier, a la "Obama is a pansy muslim socialist cyborg").
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Post#10 » by ohara » Tue Sep 6, 2011 4:36 pm

^^^ You mean.....he's not? :-)
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Post#11 » by Elden Payton » Wed Sep 7, 2011 11:26 am

Snidely FC wrote:^ wouldn't mind dropping Bob and going plain 'Cats (in nod to MJ replacing BJ).


Charlotte Cats is just a bit too plain for a team thats got as much swag as us,

Maybe the Queen City Cats has a little more flavour??
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Post#12 » by Elden Payton » Wed Sep 7, 2011 11:31 am

^^^^
Good idea about paying homage to MJ though Snidely.
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Post#13 » by Kembastockton » Wed Sep 7, 2011 5:10 pm

No but it wasn't even plausible enough to imagine someone saying it in earnest (which would have made it funnier, a la "Obama is a pansy muslim socialist cyborg").
ohara wrote:^^^ You mean.....he's not? :-)


You two are trying to start an argument that has no place on this board. :meditate:
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Re: Hypothetical team name poll 

Post#14 » by captaincrunk » Wed Sep 7, 2011 9:44 pm

I get the feeling ohara feels the same way I do about cyborgs.

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