Congratulations to all the Cleveland fans!!! Gonna be some cool derbies with Columbus and Rochester!!!
Nice! Cleveland Steamers indeed. I wonder how long it will take them to move to Baltimore? . . . . . . . . I'm jus' keeding! Congrats to Cleveland.
Steamers, Stokers, whatever! Does seem too good to be true. Gotta start stocking up on poster paints (extra gallons of orange? brown?), conjuring up fight songs, reorganizing the Stoker Blokes fan club (wonder if anyone else is still breathin'?). Enjoy the moment. Wish as well for the Rhinos, OKC, and anyone else who jumps on board this weekend.
Does it go without saying that Orange will be the signature color? I think Holand knock off kits are in order.
Steamers huh... How stupid is that name........ I hope they can come up with some thing better... I've never been to cleveland so i cant really say whats a good name or not but I'm sure there is some thing more that cleveland is known for other than STEAM!!!!
Woh. Congratulations, though the name needs help. Steamers? Is that a lock? How about the Cleveland Torsos? (for those of you with lives, read here or here). Being called the Steamers really invites the "steaming pile of crap" references. Couldn't they be the Cleveland Motherphuckers or something cooler? I guess I'm just waiting until the Detroit Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgeralds get started. I think the Holland knock off kits are a good idea. Too many teams have either blue (NE, SJ, KC) or some black/white/red combo (Metro, DC, Burn). Cleveland's Browns are known for the Orange and Brown, why not go for the Orange, with a bit of brown trim? The Portland Timbers (who I think will be promoted eventually) has the offical Celtic copyright infringement jerseys, certainly Holland wouldn't mind all that much. Columbus, much as I don't like them, have a distinctive look with the Yellow/Black. If Cleveland could pull off something as equally distinctive it would be good. I vote for all orange. Though, on review, I think having Cleveland in all orange play Columbus in all yellow would be hard to watch. That has all the earmarks of an eyesore.
thats funny some people don't get the joke and think thats actually a name being considered... Cobras, Knights, Bulldogs, should be one of those 3...
"Let's all welcome the Cleveland Steamers!" Oy, that's gonna be hard to get rid of. Shouldn't we at least explain what a Cleveland Steamer is to the uninitiated? (Maybe provide a link?) I mean, any time they kill a team at home, they would have given them "the old cleveland steamer!" Ugh. They better get a good nickname, or else its "Steamers" all the way! P.S. Although the "Dawgs" are all NFL, I don't see why this would be a bad pick. . . I mean "Force"? God, that's awful. FORCE vs. CREW. . . ugh.
342.9 miles 5 hours 32 mins 366.3 miles 6 hours 39 mins to Columbus. So it actually takes longer for them to get to Columbus and they usually bring about 50-100 people there.
even though the powers that be in cleveland would never allow it the best name would be... burning river football club.
If they name the team "The Cleveland Steamers", I feel that it would be a bunch of shite. Maybe instead of Chivas USA, they should name Vergara's team "The Dirty Sanchez" ...come on people, Cleveland Steamer?
Chicago is about 300 miles and six hourse away. I should now since I went there in July to see Celtic-Boca Juniors.
I was talking about the ship, not the beer, but I get ya. The ship left out of (IIRC), Sault Ste. Marie in Northern Michigan, so Detroit would likely be the only team to geographically be able to lay claim to the name. Though, we all know that Detriot will be called the Action Jacksons when they join. Or the Detroit Slim Shady's. I really, really hope "Steamers" isn't the name. ("Aggh, someone left a Cleveland Steamer in the bathroom"). I'm not too fond of Knights (no knights or royalty in Cleveland, is there), Cobras (again, are these snakes prevalent in the Arid Ohio Desertland from which Cleveland springs?), or bulldogs (a name without anything too relevant about it). I think names are important, especially since I root for the Metrostars which is a meaningless name anyway. What the hell is a metrostar? In NYC, there are so many lights you can't see the stars. In Jersey, it's suburban enough not to be Metropolitan. So, you end up with a name that both offends and pleases no one. Cleveland fact: 1901- Cleveland resident Leon Czolgosz assassinates President William McKinley. So the Cleveland Czolgoszs is a possibility. If only someone could pronounce it.