Hornets considering name change to "Mormons" in effort to force Utah to trade

[BRHornet45]

lol sons I can't make this shit up ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/16/new-orleans-new-basketball-team-the-mormons/


Robbie Vitrano, head of an advertising agency contracted to help re-brand the Hornets. Amongst other things, he’s trying to get a new name for the team starting in the 2013 season – or maybe an old one.

It’s one of the long-running jokes in the sports world that the Jazz currently live in one of America’s least Jazzy cities: Salt Lake City, Utah. In New Orleans, which lost the Jazz in 1979, they are treated as one of those remembered fragments of a golden past – in some neighborhoods, old Jazz T-shirts are almost as common as new Hornets ones.

So Vitrano thought – how could New Orleans get the Jazz back? One idea was to change the Hornets to “The Mormons” in an effort to force Utah’s hand and trade them for the team name.

“If you asked the average person in the city, I think they’d want that name back,” says Vitrano. “And they might be interested in something like actually taking the name and forcing the trade. We have the inspired opportunity to have some energy towards localizing this, whether it’s with a crazy idea or a shrewd idea.”

[Venti Quattro]

:lmao :lmao :lmao

[pass1st]

Why the fuck not

[Girasuck]

Greg Miller @GregInUtah
The window of opportunity to change our name closed shortly after we moved to Utah from NOLA. We are Utah Jazz. And we always will be.

Do it New Orleans. I dare you.

[ElNono]

How about "New Orleans Jizz"?

[Pelicans78]

Honestly, Utah Saints would make alot of sense. I'm not joking either. Latter-day Saints.

[DMC]

How about New Orleans Lottery Pickers?

[DMC]

Utah Polygamists

[DMC]

New Orleans Chocolate

[DMC]

Pretty bad when you cannot find anything linked to your city you can use as a positive brand.

[Pelicans78]

Pretty bad when you cannot find anything linked to your city you can use as a positive brand.

If only we could find a creative name as Spurs.

Jazz was a great name, but it ain't coming back.

[BRHornet45]

If only we could find a creative name as Spurs.

Jazz was a great name, but it ain't coming back.

San Antonio Aliens

San Antonio Tonks

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tonk

[HarlemHo 37]

New Orleans Cyclones, tbh

[Bynumite]

What about New Orleans Class?

San Antonio loves to constantly puke their pseudo class for others to see and not give a fuck, they might be willing to trade names :toast

[rayjayjohnson]

New Orleans Looters tbh

[baseline bum]

PRIMARY

http://i.imgur.com/0XIR1.png







SECONDARY

http://i.imgur.com/JhLP9.png

[lefty]

NO Team Leaders

[Venti Quattro]

New Orleans Sons

[ginobili's bald spot]

New Orleans Cuckolds

[scanry]

New Orleans Sons

That could work and hey Chris Kaman would fit right in. :lol

BR, any luck with Grande Belli on Twitter.

[mystargtr34]

New Orleans Hurricanes tbh

[Twisted_Dawg]

Does that old, feeble Tom Benson really think another franchise that has had so much success as Utah is going to give up their name to a broke dick franchise like NO?

If NO wants a team to give up their name, then go to their local Arena team and get them to give up the name Voodo.

[100%duncan]

NO Team Leaders
:lmao

[Bynumite]

New Orleans Katrinas

NO Bounties

[will_spurs]

Voodoo would be nice. Creoles could fit. I was going to suggest Dykes for the dykes protecting NO from the sea but well, you know :)

[CavsSuperFan]

Can you just imagine what the cheerleaders are going to look like...

[Leetonidas]

Why not just call them the Gators? Louisana Gators sounds cool

[Seventyniner]

If this works, Minnesota should change their team name to the Implants and get their own damn name back too.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

New Orleans goes back to being the Jazz, Utah's team changes its name to reflect SLC's greatest export: Ladies and Gentlemen, let's hear it for your Utah Ken Jennings'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sportcamper]

Fighting Irish...The list is endless...

[ducks]

new orleans drunks
new orleans sluts
new orleans I want my free handout

[Reck]

Oh I dare them to do it.

It would bring more trouble then they can handle. lol

[The Great Fantastic]

New Orleans Marsh Munchers

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e88/jupiterkali/nutria.jpg

[TimmehC]

Cajuns
Oilers
Surge (If Tulane is the Green Wave...)

[Spur_Fanatic]

Why the fuck not

This.

[DMC]

If only we could find a creative name as Spurs.

Jazz was a great name, but it ain't coming back.
If only you had any success in which to build whatever unrelated name you guys pull out of your ass.

I hope Tom Benson names your team "New Orleans Tax Writeoff"

[djohn2oo8]

New Orleans Spirits

[djohn2oo8]

Kinda sounds like a WNBA team :lol

[Pelicans78]

If only you had any success in which to build whatever unrelated name you guys pull out of your ass.

I hope Tom Benson names your team "New Orleans Tax Writeoff"

You act like its hard finding a name that relates to New Orleans which is a much more diverse cultural city compared to San Antonio.

The last sentence makes no sense at all. I see you're subscribing to whatever DPG and Chumpdumper shoot out their mouth.

[Bynumite]

New Orleans Sterns