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Prodigal Hockey, LLC has left the Oil-related genre and has jumped into two non-sensical nicknames.  Pumpjacks still gets no love.

Star-divide

Oilfield Hockey reports that Prodigal has reserved two more domain names in their quest to name their new AHL club.  Prodigal is up to ten domains and ten possible team names now that they have registered Tornadoes and Bison with the always-present "okc" prefix, of course.

http://www.okctornadoes.com/

http://www.okcbison.com/

The Buffalo Bison are an AAA baseball club in Buffalo, NY, and the Tornadoes name for a midwestern team seems...short-sighted.

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Naming teams after natural disasters.

I’ve never understood the thinking behind it myself…

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by Art Middleton on Mar 18, 2010 4:05 PM MDT reply actions  

might as well do diseases

Ebola, the black death, bubonic plague …

If they like tornadoes so much, they should go with the scale used to measure their intensity: The Oklahoma City Fujitas!

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by Baroque on Mar 18, 2010 4:34 PM MDT up reply actions  

Dude, how many jerseys would the Oklahoma Black Death sell? One jillion at least.

by Benjamin Massey on Mar 18, 2010 6:11 PM MDT up reply actions  

Or how about the OKC Zombie Apocalypse

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by SwisherThresher on Mar 18, 2010 6:56 PM MDT up reply actions  

That’s actually a great idea. Perhaps a giant boil could run around the stands giving away free blood-lettings.

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by Derek Zona on Mar 18, 2010 7:48 PM MDT up reply actions  

I was on the phone with Josh Evans the other day, while putting a deposit on my season seats. And I just happen to ask him if there was a timetable on the naming. And he told me no, but they’re doing their diligence on the name. Cause they only get one shot at getting it right.

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by HF4L on Mar 18, 2010 7:16 PM MDT reply actions  

Chalk up another one! http://okctwisters.com/

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by HF4L on Mar 18, 2010 8:02 PM MDT reply actions  

What’s next? OKC Locust Plagues?

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by Derek Zona on Mar 18, 2010 8:04 PM MDT up reply actions  

who knows?

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by HF4L on Mar 18, 2010 8:08 PM MDT up reply actions  

Yeesh, these names are really pretty bad. I still like the roughnecks, personally. It’s not going to inspire fear (unless you really hate bad Sci-Fi movies) but it isn’t nrealy as corny as most of this trash.

A marketing man would name them the Cheifs, and cut a deal with the right-holders with the slap-shot movies.

by Permaculture on Mar 19, 2010 11:22 AM MDT reply actions  

I’m surprised that okcdustdevils.com isn’t taken.

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by HF4L on Mar 19, 2010 11:33 AM MDT reply actions  

I was afraid of this crap. I told Josh it better not be a stupid name like “Thunder.” Just go with Barons. No need for the Oil part, just Barons. Cleveland ain’t using it anymore.

The Avalanche, clearly, are down with No PP.

by Mike @ MHH on Mar 31, 2010 3:35 PM MDT reply actions  

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