Houston Forum Tagline - Nominations Close Jan. 1 at 5:00 pm

UrawaRed · Dec 24, 2005

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Houston--The city that gave you Enron!

anderson · Dec 24, 2005

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Mod's Note -- BS has many other forums that are more appropriate for people to go express their animosity about decisions made by AEG. This forum is not the appropriate place. Take it elsewhere.

The purpose of this thread is very clearly outlined below.

Originally Posted by houstonmls

Since there hasn't been an official announcement as to when the team name will be released, we need to figure out a temporary tagline for the forum.

This will be the venue for such discussion and as long as there are no objections to the criteria, here are what I have come up with.

1. All nominations for a tagline will be posted here.

2. For any nomination to be considered in the final voting, it must be nominated by a poster other than the originator and then must be seconded by a 3rd poster.

3. All nominations must be submitted by 12 a.m. Monday morning.

4. At this point, all nominations will be placed in a poll that will stay open for another 5 days until Saturday at 12 a.m. where the winning tagline will be submitted to Jesse for approval.

Of course, all winning taglines are subject to the Terms of Service of Bigsoccer and Jesse and the other moderators must approve of any tagline before it is granted to us. This thread and the votes are and unofficial way of the posters of the Houston forum to pick the tagline.

Anyone with any suggestions/changes to the rules, please post them and we can consider these changes as we go along.
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dredgfan · Dec 24, 2005

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Dre00 said:

Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
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if you ain't participating, you playa hating.

Fleetwood Mac #1 · Dec 24, 2005

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You Better Not Mess With Major Tom (that could be the name of the mascot).

thurd · Dec 24, 2005

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'San Jose my ass.'

yanks02 · Dec 25, 2005

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I vote we stay away from anything that makes fun of San Jose's plight. I'm sure everyone here knows what it's like to lose a sports team. This is our team now and I think we need something unique that represents our team and our city well.

My .02 cents.

Penwyth · Dec 25, 2005

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yanks02 said:

I vote we stay away from anything that makes fun of San Jose's plight. I'm sure everyone here knows what it's like to lose a sports team. This is our team now and I think we need something unique that represents our team and our city well.

My .02 cents.
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I agree with that. San Jose has already had a body blow. Don't kick someone when they are down.

houstonmls · Dec 26, 2005

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Penwyth said:

I agree with that. San Jose has already had a body blow. Don't kick someone when they are down.
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I'm all for a title that pokes a little fun at another team but considering that SJ isn't a rival in any form or fashion my vote is we stay away. I'd be all for a cheap shot at FC Dallas though.

Hachiko · Dec 26, 2005

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socluis90 said:

You don't hate us, you hate us for stealing your team...........
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I busted my lol box reading that.

You know what fellows? I think you should host a poll for what the Tagline should be. Make it last one month, advertise the poll all over BigSoccer, and the winner becomes the official forum tagline.

EDIT: There is a poll. I'd like to see who the winner is.

Dre00 · Dec 26, 2005

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Penwyth said:

I agree with that. San Jose has already had a body blow. Don't kick someone when they are down.
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Well, y'all are better people than I. Personally, I'm about fed up with a few Quakes posters. It's not just the tools that tralloped over to this thread. Hell, if you want to get a sense of what some of their mood is towards Houston and Houstonians, scroll through San Jose's board. Anger is one thing but some of them are taking it a bit far. I indeed do know what it's like to lose a team that I care about and I never once felt like taking my animosity out on the city they relocated to. Hell, I actually supported the Titans from afar for several years until enough players left that it didn't resemble the team that left Houston.

That said, a tagline that doesn't refer to the team's move wouldn't bother me. That single event shouldn't define the future of the team but seeing as how we don't have any other events in our team's history to reference, it makes sense that suggestions include that in them.

Green and BLue · Dec 27, 2005

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I can't believe nobody suggested "Houston, We have a Franchise!"

TxFan · Dec 28, 2005

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Green and BLue said:

I can't believe nobody suggested "Houston, We have a Franchise!"
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ditto. that gets my vote.

Dre00 · Dec 28, 2005

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TxFan said:

ditto. that gets my vote.
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Please, no references to the "Houston, we have a problem" quote. That is so old and played out it is unreal. Don't mean to sound difficult, I just really hate the fact that anything news story that relates to Houston immediately has some variation of that quote as a lead-in...I've probably heard it 1000 times on SportsCenter alone.

jameseyla · Dec 28, 2005

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"The only team in Texas"

Penwyth · Dec 28, 2005

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jameseyla said:

"The only team in Texas"
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I'll second that.

DrLudicrous · Dec 28, 2005

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Dre00 said:

Please, no references to the "Houston, we have a problem" quote. That is so old and played out it is unreal. Don't mean to sound difficult, I just really hate the fact that anything news story that relates to Houston immediately has some variation of that quote as a lead-in...I've probably heard it 1000 times on SportsCenter alone.
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I'll nominate this as the tag line.

Oo Ah Cantona · Dec 28, 2005

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I love it when people drop the "HWHAP" line towards Houston sports teams thinking they are being so cute, clever and original, when in reality it is anything but. Reminds me of the "My Name is Earl" scene when Earl and Randy are in jail, dressed in a priest and nun costumn. Randy explains to Earl that his costumn is funny because he "is dressed like a woman, BUT, he's really a man."

WarrenWallace · Dec 29, 2005

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Tagline: Instead of being happy that we have a team, how about we just bitch about everything?

fireman451 · Dec 30, 2005

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CityIceMan said:

Tagline: Instead of being happy that we have a team, how about we just bitch about everything?
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Good stuff. How about this,

"We hate Field Turf more than we love having a Team"

FuBoy · Dec 30, 2005

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TxFan said:

Better football than the Texans.
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I guess I've been to 4 or 5 texans games this season. I'm really looking forward to some good football come April.

Consider this tagline nominated.

anderson · Dec 31, 2005

Nominations close, polling begins at 5:00 pm 1/1/06

Announcement

We'll close this thread and set up the poll tomorrow, Sunday, Jan. 1 at 5:00 pm.

At that time, we'll open the poll and leave it open for voting through Wednesday, Jan. 4 at midnight.

If you have any last-minute nominations, please post them here before 5:00 pm on Jan. 1.

The suggestions that we've identified so far are listed below. We believe that these taglines are the ones that Houston fans have either suggested or seconded. As several people have requested, we've left out the suggestions that refer to San Jose.

What we've identified so far:

Can you take the heat?

Houston Proud

Houston, we have a franchise!

The only team in Texas

Better football than the Texans

paladius · Jan 1, 2006

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Ding! We have a winner!

anderson · Jan 1, 2006

Polling for Houston fans is now open here:

Houston Forum Tagline (Houston fans only)