IamThunderbolt
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Guardians of what? The Cuyahoga river?
Stupid name.
Taken from the "Guardians of Transportation" statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge which is a distinctive city landmark
Guardians of what? The Cuyahoga river?
Stupid name.
So you think the native americans who were here when Europeans arrived were just gentle, peace-loving people who didn't displace earlier people using violence? Please show me the evidence for that. The history of humans is that when civilizations clash one wins and one loses. Both sides were murderous. You know that. Or you are a moron. So, liar or moron. Take your pick.
That is a good question. How come there are few or no teams called the Anacondas or the Pythons? Pythons have nearly destroyed the everglades food chain single handedly in only 20 years. I guess there are the diamond backs, which are pretty bad ass. One thing about rattle snakes though, and I doubt most team naming consultants look this deep into it, is they are really all bluffing and bluster. The puffing up, the rattle, they are all false signals to try and scare and adversary away, attacking and biting an intruder is always an act of desperation and their last resort. They are actually relatively unaggressive snakes as snakes go.
Guardians is an odd choice given the deep well of inspiration available with Rock-n-Roll. There's the obvious Rockers, Rollers, Comets (Bill Haley and the Comets - built in timeless theme song along with "Cleveland Rocks" - first band elected in RRHOF with Coasters), Rocket 88 is first RR song (so Rockets or 88's) about a car no less, which plays locally. Seems like they disregarded 20 better names for a ham fisted one that is tied to the city and cannot be interpreted as offensive. Reminds me of the WF logo "inspired by" our wrought iron railing. Some marketing firm took a walk, made an observation, and billed 6 figures. It's like they liked Guardians because it ends in "-dians" like their previous logo.
I agree with IamThunderbolt that the name is like Sentinels. Mascots need to be aggressive, not defensive in nature.
Can't wait until they play LAA, and it will be the Guardian Angels game.
Taken from the "Guardians of Transportation" statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge which is a distinctive city landmark
OK, so the genesis of the name makes sense then, but still a dumb name. Though, honestly, I'm hard pressed to think of any names in the last 30 years that have been good.
Diamondbacks - good
Marlins - dumb
Devil Rays - I guess it's better than a marlin?
Rockies - dumb
Heat - dumb
Thunder - dumb
Kraken - good
Lightning - ok
Magic - dumb
Hornets - mostly dumb
Pelicans - dumb
Jaguars - dumb because there aren't jaguars in Jacksonville
Panthers - good name, ugliest uniforms in the NFL
Guardians is an odd choice given the deep well of inspiration available with Rock-n-Roll. There's the obvious Rockers, Rollers, Comets (Bill Haley and the Comets - built in timeless theme song along with "Cleveland Rocks" - first band elected in RRHOF with Coasters), Rocket 88 is first RR song (so Rockets or 88's) about a car no less, which plays locally. Seems like they disregarded 20 better names for a ham fisted one that is tied to the city and cannot be interpreted as offensive. Reminds me of the WF logo "inspired by" our wrought iron railing. Some marketing firm took a walk, made an observation, and billed 6 figures. It's like they liked Guardians because it ends in "-dians" like their previous logo.
I agree with IamThunderbolt that the name is like Sentinels. Mascots need to be aggressive, not defensive in nature.
Can't wait until they play LAA, and it will be the Guardian Angels game.
So you like the Panthers despite really not much of a connection in origin to the Carolinas, but you dislike the following:
Thunder - Oklahoma is known for strong thunderstorms across the plains
Marlins - Strong, dynamic fish for a coastal city
Rockies - It's Colorado
Magic - It's Orlando
Heat - It's Miami
Don't want to drop one controversial name for the lesser know controversial number 88. In white supremacist circles h is the eighth letter so they use it to reference hitler.