That's right.
The New Orleans Hornets want us all to forget about the checkered history of, you know, jobbing a Charlotte market years ago that had originally embraced the Association...and have decided that a renaming is in order.
To...
the PELICANS.
Let's ponder this for a moment.
Hornets sting (as do the painful recollections of losing Chris Paul with the help of David Stern shenanigans). Their longstanding logo reflects this aggressiveness:
On the other hand, while the pelican IS Louisiana's state bird, one looks like this:
Or this:
That imagery doesn't exactly scream "dominant handchecking" does it, guys?
Let's just say we can let the NHL off easily now for the "Mighty Ducks" after this one. Yeah.
Labels: LOL, New Orleans Hornets, New Orleans Pelicans, PELICANS REALLY WUT, this sounds like an elementary school PE class team name right here
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On a positive note, I guess we won't need any puns to make fun of them. Any team named Pelicans already sounds bad enough.