Re: Big East Conference Player Hater Ball
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 10:12 am
aughnanure wrote:notkirkcameron wrote:Marquette: Holy Personality Disorders, Batman. Pick a name and stick with it. You've been the Warriors, the Lightning, the Warriors again, then the Golden Eagles, then nearly the Warriors again (to the point where everyone just calls you that anyway because it's just easier at this point), then for a week you were the Gold and that was f---ing weird, and then back to Golden Eagles...and that's all just since 1993, and not including at least three other nicknames held before then.
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Wait, when the hell were we the lightning? Like...ever. We did not go from Warriors to Lightning back to Warriors.
I had always been told that when the name change came about in 1994, the initial reports said that MU was changing its name to the Lightning. Reaction was so swift and negative that they quickly cobbled together a vote, and that's where Golden Eagles was chosen over Lightning, and the majority of votes (for Warriors) were disregarded.
billyjack wrote:Providence (PC) - No sitcom or character or anything was ever set here... maybe the Alec Baldwin father character in "Outside Providence" who wore a wife beater tshirt, drank too much, swore too much, he seemed like a Rhode Islander.... Ben Stiller's character in "Something About Mary" was funny but weird.... there was the Love Story character... the irritating girlfriend who got sick was from Cranston... also, there was a soap opera with Melina Kanakarides and BJ Honeycutt that was set here... maybe we can piggyback off the many Boston shows... say, Coach from "Cheers".
I will admit, it's been a long time since I've been in Rhode Island (unsurprisingly easy when it's all tucked away over there), but aren't we forgetting?
Related: Providence easily has the creepiest mascot in the Big East. It's staring into my soul and looks like it's one decent Kool-Aid punch away from leading its followers back to the spaceship of eternal enlightenment.