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All pro American sports: Problem: When I go to Arizona Cardinals games I have to see retired numbers for guys from Chicago and St Louis. Further, I'm in Phoenix and pulling for a team called the "Cardinals", while there are desert cardinals, they're not particularly prevalent. Solution: All team names, statistics, logos, colors, etc. stay with the city where said teams originate. In the words of Atom and His Package, "there's no jazz in Utah and few lakes in L.A.". The Cardinals should have become the Wrens upon their move to Arizona if they wanted to be named for a non threatening bird. I'm glad the NBA is trending this way and Seattle kept the Sonics identity, the Hornets name/iconography is returning to Charlotte. It would've been nice if New Orleans could have had the "Jazz" and Utah became the Seagulls or something, but ah well.
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Abel Wingnut posted:Sort of related, but I always thought it'd be cool if all the teams from a city had the same mascot. Yes, I know it's impossible in like five different senses, but it'd be a fun way to unite the city and keep things simple. No, I don't know how you'd deal with cities having multiple teams in the same sport. But I do like the simplicity of rooting for one mascot to represent my entire city. Well for a while St Louis had the football and baseball Cardinals. I think they would just say "football Cardinals" or "baseball Cardinals" or use context clues. The football Cardinals were also nicknamed "Big Red" I think, so that clarified it. New York had the football and baseball Giants, so its been somewhat done. I do like when cities have all their teams wearing matching colors. Pittsburgh is the best example with all the teams in black and gold, that's slick, and convenient! I imagine being able to wear a Pirates hat to a Steelers game is convenient. In Phoenix we sort of have this with the Diamondbacks, Cardinals and Coyotes all wearing red, white and black, but those colors are boring. They should have all matched the original pro team, the Suns with purple and orange. Or the Suns and everyone else should have matched ASU with maroon and gold. Both purple/orange and maroon/gold make more sense for teams in this region than the generic red/black/white.
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