clearly not knicks fans
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
Knicks fans are in a special wing of the Smithsonian until the end of 2021
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
and on showtime on Tuesdays and Sundays
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
this is tremendous.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
is this some kind of hamfisted attempt to troll people by Snyder? not really working.
― tobo73, Friday, 24 July 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
now i want the seahawks to complain about infringement
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 July 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
hopefully this means the fight song lyrics will be changed to “hail to the football”
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 24 July 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
Were they forced to rename the bullets or did it just happen? I remember it happened seemingly over night.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 24 July 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link
it was a response to the assassination of yitzchak rabin, of all things
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 24 July 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
no one remembers because on the night the bullets changed their name, the entire world ended, just as so many people had warned
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 July 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/wizards/ever-wonder-why-name-change-bullets-wizards
"My friend was shot in the back by bullets,” Pollin said. “The name ‘Bullets’ is no longer appropriate for a sports team.”
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 24 July 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
tbf if they went back to being the bullets, but like powerpoint list bullets, it would be a perfectly appropriate team name for the city and region to get behind
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 24 July 2020 01:39 (three years ago) link
Washington PowerPoints
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 July 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
wow, i never heard that story about how the rabin assassination triggered the bullets name change
― call all destroyer, Friday, 24 July 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
The Washington Executive Summaries
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 July 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
the wikipedia for the wizards makes a really weird claim that rabin's assassin "got the idea when he watched the Bullets play a basketball game and heard the team name and suddenly snapped.[15]" the source is a link to a very thorough article about the name change that doesn't mention anything about that, and i can't find a single other thing making that claim.
washington wizards is the worst name in pro sports
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 24 July 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Thursday, July 23, 2020 9:44 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol. workable shortening to "the execs"
― call all destroyer, Friday, 24 July 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
say that ten times fast
https://i.imgur.com/yu1exl1.gif
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 July 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
The Washington Crawfish Son
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 July 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
The DC C-Notes
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 July 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
they really have a ton of good options
iirc abe pollin built dc's whatever-it's-now-called-hoops-and-hockey arena on his own without* public money, so he was cool with me
(* i'm sure there were easements and transport/metro concessions made, but relatively speaking. dude was not snyder)
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 July 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Thursday, July 23, 2020 6:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'd be really shocked if Orthodox Israeli Yigal Amir watched NBA hoops
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 24 July 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
Reggie Jackson did it
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 July 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
The Washington Lanyards
― Fetchboy, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
YES
that's my favorite
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 July 2020 06:32 (three years ago) link
that's so good
I don’t know about American sports, but I can’t see any reason not to just go with The Washington Go-Gos. Kind of the perfect name, no matter how you look at it, unless I’m missing something.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
Most of the country would wonder why they decided to name themselves after a one-hit wonder 80s band from California.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
excuse me, you mean three-hit wonder 80s band (four if you're being generous)
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
OK fine but I bet you there’s only one most people can still remember today
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
i'd say for the whippersnappers today, they're more likely to associate "go go" with either dancing or inspector gadget than the new wave band or chuck brown's scene
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
ha, apparently I wasn’t the first one to think of that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_City_Go-Go
In December 2017, the Washington Wizards unveiled the Capital City Go-Go's name and released their logo. The team's name alludes to the go-go music genre that started in the mid-1960s to late 1970s local to Washington, D.C.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
Why are we talking about whippersnappers when as far as I can tell, that team's fanbase is largely made up of portly white grandpas in the suburbs?
― Please, Hammurabi, don't hurt 'em (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 July 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
Washington Supremacists
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 July 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
The Washington Hamiltons
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 24 July 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
seriously, it's time to make a hard push for Hatcats
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 July 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Washington Generals
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 July 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
I’m digging the helmet logo being replaced with uni number.
― brownie, Friday, 24 July 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, July 24, 2020 11:19 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
the missing thing is that if you took a map of the dc/md/va and marked the regions where washington football team fans live and then mark the regions where go-go music is performed and listened to there would be zero overlap
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 24 July 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
the washington washingtons
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 24 July 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
The DC Statehoods
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 24 July 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
The DC Marvels
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 24 July 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
The DC Avengers
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 24 July 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
The DC HulksThe DC SpidermenThe DC Mickey Mice
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 24 July 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
You can stop
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 24 July 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
it's rumored that they have or are considering 'sentinels' so
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 July 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
ick
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 July 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
Washington Amazing Randys
AC/DC
― Please, Hammurabi, don't hurt 'em (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 July 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link