Since the voters overwhelmingly support change, let's nominate some potential new subtitles in this thread. After that we will vote in a different thread. In the meantime, I have arranged for our subtitle to be temporarily changed to WUSA Champion Blue Lions I hereby nominate the above as our forum subtitle.
Although I am an infrequent poster here I would like to offer: Blue Lions, the "Pride" of the WUSA Several definitions of "Pride" apply here.
I am staunchly against any use of "Blue Lions." The team is "Carolina Courage." I do like "The Pride of the WUSA".
I really like the idea of emphasizing one of the things that was unique and special about this year's Courage team so here's my nomination for forum subtitle: Carolina Courage 2002 WUSA Double Winners
2002 WUSA Double Winners!! I like this the best. Quite an accomplishment, not to mention "worst to first", which makes it a kind of triple. 'Pride' has too many meanings to suit me. Call them whatever you want. The Carolina Courage are the 2002 WUSA Double Winners!!
Double winners Yes, it is quite an accomplishment. We've had a great season. But the expression "double winner" bothers me. I've been a serious consumer of sports journalism all my life and I've even had a couple of stints as a sportswriter and a sports editor, but I have never seen or heard the expression "double winner" applied to a team, only to individual athletes in events like track meets. And it is not a rarity for a team to win both its regular season and its league tournament. It's fairly commonplace, in fact, especially for a good team. UNC's women's soccer team wins the league every season and then goes on to take the tournament as well. Ever heard them called a "double winner"? Of course, who says we need to be like everybody else? We don't, but as for me, I think most people who encountered it would react with a question. "Huh? What's a double winner?" Is there room for an explanation? So, for these reasons, I vote against "double winner."
Double Winnner is a very common soccer term. Of course I'm on SDM*'s ignore list, so he won't get this.
SDM: Double winners is a term used primarily in Europe. It is very common for club teams to refer to their accomplishments in the season as double winners, or, in the case of Manchester United a few years back, treble winners. The treble consisted of a premiership league title, the Champions League tournament and the UEFA Cup, I believe. If we were to win another tourney, we could be considered treble winners. I like double winners very much, as it distinguishes us from every other professional sport in that the regular season is extremely important as is the Founders' Cup accomplishment.
I agree. Double winners is a common term in soccer. If people in the US dont know what it means, let them learn. I think it's very appropriate. As a an avid track fan, BTW, I'm familiar with doubles, but they aren't usually called 'double winners', just 'doubles'. The common ones are the 100/200 meters in the sprints, and the 5k/10k in the distance, possibly a 800/1500 middle distance double. Of course, the ulitmate would be the distance triple 5k/10k/marathon, but I think only the greatest distance runner who ever lived, Emil Zatopek, could pull that one off. As I understand, Zatopek was also one of the great javelin catchers of all time. Great athletes like Zatopek, btw, come around only once in a generation. Zatopek was the greatest athlete of his generation, bar none. (perhaps of any generation) The Courage are double winners. Cheers
Yes, I believe I first heard the term double winners used when Manchester United won the English Premiere League title and the F.A. Cup in the same year. I also followed Manchester United's "treble" season quite closely in 1999 and watched them win all three legs of the treble "live" at my favorite English Pub in San Diego. As I recall, Man. Utd. first won the EPL by defeating Tottenham and then the following week they won the F.A. Cup with a victory over Newcastle. Then they completed their treble four days later by defeating Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League Final. _______________________________________ Carolina Courage 2002 WUSA Double Winners
Double winners OK, I'm convinced. And I withdraw my opposition to the use of "double winners," not that anybody was paying it much mind. But I still like "Blue Lions" very much and hope it will remain a part of our identity. SDM
me too, so I'll nominate Blue Lions - WUSA Double Winners I'll leave nominations open through tomorrow and then set up a voting thread. I'm thinking I'll ask folks to rank their top two. Here are the nominations so far in case you want to add to the list: WUSA Champion Blue Lions Blue Lions, the Pride of the WUSA The Pride of the WUSA 2002 WUSA Double Winners Blue Lions - WUSA Double Winners Also, how about a variation of the TritonSpirit's nomination: WUSA Double Winners
How about Carolina Courage - 2002 Double Winners The team is the Carolina Courage, not the Blue Lions.
How it will look The way the forum subtitle format works is you first have the name of the forum on one line and immediately below that is the one-line subtitle. so it will read: Carolina Courage Whatever Subtitle is Chosen Some of us like the nickname Blue Lions for our team... we understand that it is not the official name of the team. It is just a matter of taste, I guess.
Since including WUSA doesn't really add any information, I also prefer this other variation: Carolina Courage 2002 Double Winners