Other Team Discussion Thread Vol. 12: Spoilers Within

Discussion in 'D.C. United' started by Sachin, Oct 26, 2009.

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  1. Falc

    Falc Member+

    Jul 29, 2006
    Club:
    Juventus FC
    Obviously he did not live up to the mascot's characteristics or you would not be around.
     
  2. nobletea

    nobletea Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 29, 2004
    HarCo
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That's called the "Pokie".
     
  3. DecadeOfDCU26

    DecadeOfDCU26 Member+

    May 2, 2007
    DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well for some of us DCU are the only DC area team we support
     
  4. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    Most say "Hoki" was a made up word for a school cheer. "Hoki hoki hoki hi, Tech Tech VPI..." There are some who say it has roots as a greeting amongst Germans who had lived in the area before the Civil War. It eventually became Hokie with an "e". The football team was known as the Gobblers likely because of how they were witnessed eating. Floyd Meade (a local black boy who often was around the Cadets and later a VT employee) later trained a turkey to gobble on command (notably after they scored) and even pull him in a cart at football games becoming the team's first mascot. Decades later, it was eventually all put together and an actual mascot costume was made based on a turkey and known as the HokieBird. Hokies is now the official name. I want to say about 15 years ago the old scoreboard still said Gobblers or Fighting Gobblers. It's gone now, but the marketing departments still uses turkey sounds over the loud speakers occasionally.

    //I'm still mad VT is retiring the "TV" logo and especially annoyed that the Gobbler logo is being retired after they used it on the Bowl game helmets.
     
  5. Potowmack

    Potowmack Member+

    Apr 2, 2010
    Washington, DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Obscure facts like that are one of my favorite things about college sports.
     
  6. Hedbal

    Hedbal Member+

    Jul 31, 2000
    DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Thanks, Sitruc, for the Hokie history (and yes, I remember the school cheer). Now, would someone do the same for the U. of California-Santa Cruz Banana Slugs?
     
  7. Untroubled by Reason

    Dec 5, 2007
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Google is your friend...
     
  8. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    [​IMG]

    The Wolf: You guys look like... What do they look like, Jimmie?
    Jimmie: Dorks. They look like a couple of dorks.
    Jules: Ha-ha-ha. They're your clothes, ************************.
     
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  9. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    Banana slugs are something to behold. They are otherworldly yellow -- "dayglo" doesn't do justice to the intensity of the color. We used to play with them when I was a kid running around in Northern California.
     
  10. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    Like the Crew? :p
     
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  11. Heist

    Heist Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Virginia
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That's fine. Lots of people aren't fans of other sports. I don't care for hockey that much, although I do enjoy watching playoff hockey. I just don't get why so many DCU fans are so hostile to other area sports teams.
     
  12. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    It is kind of strange. I've met Wizards, Capitals & Redskins fans that are indifferent to other Washington team but not any who are hostile to them.
     
  13. Potowmack

    Potowmack Member+

    Apr 2, 2010
    Washington, DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    There's a feeling among some DCU fans on here that the Nationals ruined our chances for a stadium.

    I don't think that's a legitimate complaint, personally. The Nationals did what a smart business is supposed to do: get the best deal possible for themselves.
     
  14. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    I understand the hostility towards the Nationals, I share it for the most part. I find the hostility towards the other teams kind of strange.
     
  15. DecadeOfDCU26

    DecadeOfDCU26 Member+

    May 2, 2007
    DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well I was implying that I am a fan of other teams not from DC in other sports rather than I don't watch other sports, but I see your point too.

    I would assume too that the hate is more so from people that like other teams rather than those who don't watch other sports.
     
  16. Potowmack

    Potowmack Member+

    Apr 2, 2010
    Washington, DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm not sure I get it, either. Especially since there isn't all that much overlap between the MLS season and the other sports (baseball excepted).
     
  17. greatscott

    greatscott Member+

    Dec 21, 2002
    Richmond
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    why?
    People probably have diverse reasons.
    Personally I hate the redskins because of my family.
    I hate the caps because i hate hockey, and I hate the Wizards because I hate magic.
     
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  18. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

    Oct 18, 2004
    Capitol Hill
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well, I explained my reasons for not liking the Washington-area professional football team about a dozen posts before yours, and they don't seem strange to me at all.

    I don't have any hostility towards the Wizards or the Caps.
     
  19. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I like the Caps. I hate the Wizards because the Bullets beat the Sonics for the championship way back when. I hate the redskins because of their players and fans from when I moved here in 1983 (but thanks to all their fans who bet their hard-earned money with me on the unlikely scenario that the 'skins would beat the Raiders in the SuperBowl that "year", you bunch of dumbasses who paid my rent). Nothing since then has made me even want to try to like them, but Joe Theisman and his ilk inspired the actual hate. I do like most of Joe Gibbs' NASCAR race teams.
    I like the Ravens okay, they're local. And the Blast (I liked the Warthogs too, they were an actual DC team).
     
  20. nobletea

    nobletea Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 29, 2004
    HarCo
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I don't root for any pro team in either metro area except DC United. Some partiality to the Caps, but that's mostly a nod to what the NHL used to be. And some partiality to the Blast, but I don't follow them anymore. Some partiality to the Orioles, for nostalgia's sake, but I definitely don't follow them too much.

    Other than that, I really don't care what happens to anybody and don't really have any negativity toward any of them. If I had to pick just one to hate though, it would be the Nationals for sure.
     
  21. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    My allegiances are ecumenical:

    Soccer -- DCU (season tickets)
    Football -- New York Giants/Oakland Raiders (my youth)
    Baseball -- San Francisco Giants (youth again)
    Hockey (do they still play?) -- New York Rangers (old girlfriend)
    Basketball -- don't care, don't watch

    I'll watch a Giants game if on and the weather doesn't permit going out, Oakland games have been unwatchable for years. I didn't see one inning of the World Series. Other than DCU, my attention interest to other sports teams is passing at best and the older I get, the less interested I become.
     
  22. nobletea

    nobletea Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 29, 2004
    HarCo
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Now you want to talk about teams I hate (outside MLS)? I thought I heard you ask.

    Yeah, I actively root against the following:
    Chelsea
    Real Madrid
    Man City
    All mexican club and national teams

    I am always delighted when the above lose or almost anything non-life threatening happens to them.
     
  23. JayRockers!

    JayRockers! Member+

    Aug 4, 2001
    Weren't they the Indians or Warriors or something offensive like that then they had a contest to rename the mascot? Like Stanford picking a tree (The Cardinal). Except in this case they picked the animal that has the largest penis-size to body size ratio.

    Thx,

    Jay!
     
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  24. Hedbal

    Hedbal Member+

    Jul 31, 2000
    DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Actually, Stanford's choice of "Cardinal" was for the color, not the bird. Student suggestions for assorted fauna were rejected because of perceived injustice to the species.
     
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  25. Heist

    Heist Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Virginia
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I hate the same clubs! I also hate the Yankees!
     

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