I love the fact that our soccer team is the Chicago Fire. Don't know too many other cities that would name a pro sports team after a catastrophe.
Well, quite a lot of fuss. If I didn't know better, I'd think we were dangerous.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Jun 15, 2011 9:32:57 am PDT #12824 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Jesse - Jun 15, 2011 9:33:47 am PDT #12825 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm just picturing all of the first team meetings, with the guys looking around saying, "OK, so who are we? Uh, I guess we're.... Americans! (/Canucks/Knickerbockers/etc.)"
-t - Jun 15, 2011 9:33:51 am PDT #12826 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Kathy, San Jose Quakes
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2011 9:36:21 am PDT #12827 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't know too many other cities that would name a pro sports team after a catastrophe.
Miami Hurricanes.
I like that the Canadiens are called the Habs, but which one was named first? In my head, if Vancouver was second, it was because they were listless and uninventive. If it was Montreal second, they were just flipping le oiseau by refusing to acknowledge the rest of the country actually exists.
amych - Jun 15, 2011 9:37:05 am PDT #12828 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I love the fact that our soccer team is the Chicago Fire. Don't know too many other cities that would name a pro sports team after a catastrophe.
Be proud of your Fire! The Hurricanes moved/renamed here the year after Hurricane Floyd came through, and there was a fair bit of, "maybe too soon?"... but by now they're just named after a season rather than a single event.
Sue - Jun 15, 2011 9:41:16 am PDT #12829 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I like that the Canadiens are called the Habs, but which one was named first? In my head, if Vancouver was second, it was because they were listless and uninventive.
The Canucks are a relatively young team, from the 1970's expansion. Les Habitants have been around since the teens, '20s? ETA: Wikipedia says 1909 for The Candiens.
brenda m - Jun 15, 2011 9:42:01 am PDT #12830 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
In my head, if Vancouver was second, it was because they were listless and uninventive.
Definitely second. Canucks are a modern-era expansion team. The Habs go back nearly to the turn of the (last) century.
ETA:
The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, formally Le Club de Hockey Canadien, was founded on December 4, 1909. It is the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world,[1] and one of the four founding teams of the National Hockey League (NHL).
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2011 9:46:29 am PDT #12831 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Now I imaging Quebec hockey going "Sitting right here! Fine, fuck you, seceding."
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2011 9:49:14 am PDT #12832 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have an application I can't print from. It's making me feel very stupid. And when I choose "export to PDF" I get no actual PDFs. And it mutters something about converting to HTML.
Look, technology, I have a busy day and a short fuse. Don't be ridiculous. Roll over and give it up.
Jesse - Jun 15, 2011 9:51:58 am PDT #12833 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So I did not realize that the N in NHL was actually Canada, although of course it should be.