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    Heck no. Tribe? Seriously? How in the world does that bring everybody together? What's the first thing you think of when you hear tribe, you think native american. And of all the crap people have been rasiting a stink about in the last 15 years about P.C. junk, you think this is going to go over well?

    That's a big fat no way man.

    Keep it Oklahoma City too. Seriously, the team is in OKC because OKC did what it needed to in order to get them. If the other communities want to feed in tax dollars, them maybe. I'm a resident of MWC and spend money in OKC, but you don't hear me asking for the team to include MWC in it's name. So why would any other community be any more important than another?

    OKC ____ for sure, Oklahoma ___, NO!

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    did you read what i wrote?
    first off, look up tribe on google & re-read what i wrote in relation to the history of oklahoma as a state. do you have some name that reflects oklahoma heritage in a more marketable manner than this. i don't think "plainsmen" is very exciting & i don't think some natural disaster better describes us as a state.

    "tribe n. A unit of sociopolitical organization consisting of a number of families, clans, or other groups who share a common ancestry and culture."

    i know it's a long read, but try to read the whole thing. don't you think everyone knows where the team would be located after the first year? if city is such an important factor in the name, why wasn't the newspaper named after the city?

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    what's un p.c. about TRIBE when it's defined by "tribe n. A unit of sociopolitical organization consisting of a number of families, clans, or other groups who share a common ancestry and culture."

    OKC, give me a break. I live in OKC & i don't think it means we have to plaster it on all merchandise to show it's ours & no one elses. my suggestion is for marketability, that all. i studied marketing/advertising in school & now my past-time to know what sounds good & what doesn't. an OKC patch on uniform & OKC anywhere else is fine for me as long as you simplify the name Oklahoma (insert name here). No NBA team in the league has a team named with city. look it up. New York Knicks aren't new york city knicks. i have more examples but adding 'city' is aggrandizing what we have here. if Oklahoma City can compete in the big leagues, then the ego of OKC needs to be humble as well. i voted yes for the 1 cent continued tax, but that doesn't mean i don't want the rest of the state to benefit as well as they can. pro franchise success means working together.

    everything you've said, bomberman, really misses my overall point. the naming would follow with permanent rights holder to the okc metro area, period. don't you think that's a pretty big deal? if you don't have the rights, but it's named okc _____ , you don't own jack & they can take it whereever. if you name it something like what i'm suggesting, the name envelopes all of an area not just one city.

    sorry i made my statement too long for you to read & comprehend what i meant. i'm not good at editing on a schedule. i wanted to get it out & i'm willing to get a petition signed to get it through.

    bomberman, if you got a better suggestion, why don't you post it here & explain why it could win people over & what theme, mascot & marketing you could do with it on a global scale? i'd like to read about it & i promise i will read through what you write & try to understand your point before i reject it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by darnell View Post
    what's un p.c. about TRIBE when it's defined by "tribe n. A unit of sociopolitical organization consisting of a number of families, clans, or other groups who share a common ancestry and culture."
    But that's not what people think of when they hear that word, especially in association with Oklahoma.

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    But he studied marketing in school, so he knows what people think when they hear the word 'tribe'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BDP View Post
    But he studied marketing in school, so he knows what people think when they hear the word 'tribe'.

    That sounds like someone else we used to know around here.

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