Cleveland Indians changing their team name

[Tank]

3 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Oh boy am I about to start off your week on a high note.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cleveland_steamer#:~:text=Cleveland steamer (plural Cleveland steamers,and forth like a steamroller.

so, who wants to be the guinea pig to open this and tell us what's in this link?

[T.G.]

8 minutes ago, failos said:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM

Who sings that? Is his name Craig?

[eligrba]

9 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

"We once were well represented in both MLB & the NFL. 

It's a damn good thing the baseball officials in Atlanta are Brave."

FYI-He was a Sicilian, not an Indian.

[tdawg87]

8 minutes ago, Tank said:

so, who wants to be the guinea pig to open this and tell us what's in this link?

It's just the definition of what a "cleveland steamer" is. 

As much as I'd love to post a video of the act being performed, @Chuckster70 doesn't want a cleveland steamer on his couch.

[Blarg]

10 hours ago, T.G. said:

I’m surprised they didn’t follow the other creative names in the state... Browns and Reds. They could have been the Grays.

They were the Bues for a couple seasons. 

[krAbs]

TBH, the name is just fucking weird, when you think about it. Any controversy and argument aside - it would be really weird to have a team called "The Mexicans" or "The French" or "The Blacks" or something, you know?

[Blarg]

It's Erie they don't name themselves after the lake. 

[Blarg]

They could go with the Cleveland Rockers to go with the R&R hall of fame. They already have the Hewey Lewis song for their Jumbotron intros. 

[Blarg]

Elvis night, Elton John night, Hair Band night, the promotions are endless. 

[Rico]

All the Anti-SJW's are offended.

[Taylor]

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

In this scenario, wouldn't it offend Christians? 

Face!

[Dtwncbad]

10 minutes ago, krAbs said:

TBH, the name is just fucking weird, when you think about it. Any controversy and argument aside - it would be really weird to have a team called "The Mexicans" or "The French" or "The Blacks" or something, you know?

I guess.  But "when you think about it" just about every team name is weird.  What is more weird than the "Royals" or the "Padres" or the "Metropolitans" or the "Phillies"?  They are all weird.

[Taylor]

14 minutes ago, krAbs said:

TBH, the name is just fucking weird, when you think about it. Any controversy and argument aside - it would be really weird to have a team called "The Mexicans" or "The French" or "The Blacks" or something, you know?

Not to mention Native Americans aren't even Indian.

[Taylor]

Just now, Dtwncbad said:

I guess.  But "when you think about it" just about every team name is weird.  What is more weird than the "Royals" or the "Padres" or the "Metropolitans" or the "Phillies"?  They are all weird.

Have Royals, Padres, Metropolitans, and Philadelphians been systemically oppressed, murdered, raped, and displaced?

Fun fact: the Declaration of Independence declares white man's right to conquer the "merciless Indian savages."

[T.G.]

Guess who has been triggered this fine Monday morning?

[Rico]

They are called Indians because dumb fuck Christopher Columbus thought he landed in India.  

[Blarg]

3 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Have Royals, Padres, Metropolitans, and Philadelphians been systemically oppressed, murdered, raped, and displaced?

Fun fact: the Declaration of Independence declares white man's right to conquer the "merciless Indian savages."

Ask King Louis XIV and Tzar Nicholas, you insensitive bastard. 

[krAbs]

4 minutes ago, Dtwncbad said:

I guess.  But "when you think about it" just about every team name is weird.  What is more weird than the "Royals" or the "Padres" or the "Metropolitans" or the "Phillies"?  They are all weird.

I guess - but most of those are in line with typical team names that you see around (typically named after a creature of some kind, or a group of people - warriors, kings, trolley dodgers). Its very unusual to name a team after an ethnic group or a country or something like that - unless you're talking about national teams. The closest off the top of my head is something like the Yankees - but even then, its not like its "The Americans," its more of a nickname that has associations with an older era.

Except the Padres. That name IS fucking weird, cheering for the dads. It technically fits the above, but...odd....I guess the A's are also kinda odd- almost in the style of European soccer team names. "Barcelona Football Club" (FC Barcelona) has the same feeling as "Oakland Athletics

[krAbs]

11 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Not to mention Native Americans aren't even Indian.

Is...is the name not a reference to the country of India?

[Angelsjunky]

12 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Not to mention Native Americans aren't even Indian.

 

[tdawg87]

Welp, this thread went to shit.

[Torridd]

15 hours ago, JAHV76 said:

Are the Braves next?

And I think they should be.

[Angelsjunky]

 

11 hours ago, JocStrapling said:

Shut up

Well thought out reply.

[gotbeer]

31 minutes ago, krAbs said:

TBH, the name is just fucking weird, when you think about it. Any controversy and argument aside - it would be really weird to have a team called "The Mexicans" or "The French" or "The Blacks" or something, you know?

What about the Vikings?  Or the Fighting Irish?  And of course, the Browns.

[Taylor]

3 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Welp, this thread went to shit.

I'm shocked it's gone almost six pages and a mod hasn't had to move it to the Spin Forum.