The Washington Executive Summaries
― 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
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
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), 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
the washington warblersthe DC Compact Disksthe capitol records
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 24 July 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
*discs
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 24 July 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
The Washington Toshingwons
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 25 July 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
Washington Corrupt Bargains
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 July 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
Hopefully they learn something from the other Washington team with a new name https://www.theringer.com/2020/7/23/21336242/seattle-kraken-nhl-team-name
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 25 July 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
i don't care about hockey but that is 100% solid branding
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 25 July 2020 06:17 (three years ago) link
Maryland Myrmidons
The Myrmidons of Greek myth were known for their loyalty to their leaders, so that in pre-industrial Europe the word "myrmidon" carried many of the same connotations that "robot" does today. "Myrmidon" later came to mean "hired ruffian", according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 25 July 2020 06:23 (three years ago) link
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, July 24, 2020 11:19 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglinkthe 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
― Heez, Saturday, 25 July 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
point is the average football fan lives 30-50 miles from DC and looks like this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEeXxjTXoAASsNv.jpg
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, 25 July 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
average nats fan lives in chevy chase and looks like this
https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5bad586b3f8e152ccafcac98/master/pass/Current-KavanaughTantrum.jpg
it's very odd to me how people seem to think no people of color watch football when a majority of all football players are people of color
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 July 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
I was thinking this
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
just going off of experience as someone whose spent my entire life living within a 30 mile radius of DC. obviously the washington team has fans of color but football isn't big in the city itself
football fans are still pretty white though
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
Of course most fans will be white, whites compromise about 76% of the population.
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
9% of viewers being Black means a fuckton of viewers are Black
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
ok i regret posting that because i was only ever making a flippant generalization that the football team has never been a big part of DC metro culture like the wizards or even the nats are, they belong to maryland and virginia. i've met more WFT fans from baltimore (from the post-colts pre-ravens era) than i have from DC city proper. i spent six years in PG county (the home of go-go music AND... fedex field) and i still met surprisingly few fans who were native to the county. the idea of snyder using something like go-go to brand his team just strikes me as cheap. of course chuck brown was supposedly a big sk*ns fan so what do i know.
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, 25 July 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link