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Dec 5, 2012 · Sure, the pelican is Louisiana’s state bird, but it shouldn’t take long to come up with a giant list of better nicknames for the New Orleans NBA franchise. Here’s our list: The Captains. An ode...
- ’Cans
- Pecans/P’Cans/P-Cans/Pee-Cans
- Nope/Nope
- The P’s
- The Birds
- The Flock
- The Long Beaks/Beaks/Bills/Long Bills
- The Pels
I’m sorry, but no. I get the appeal, believe me. The word “cans” is right in the word “pelicans,” and brings a double entendre that would make Adam Sandler laugh and gain a new relevance every Mardi Gras. But we can’t lean upon a term some conservative producers might think of as inappropriate, and if we leave that more fun interpretation aside, we...
Candy-coated pecans are a popular sort of praline, a treat with a long tradition in and around New Orleans. But a pecan is a nut. We cannot come to know a collection of the world’s most talented athletes by referring to them, collectively, as a bunch of tiny nuts. The NBA isn’t short on ridiculous official nicknames — Magic, Thunder, Jazz, Spurs, H...
This works better in writing than it does verbally. Scoreboard operators with limited space often used “NOH” (Basketball-Reference does as well) to abbreviate the Hornets, and I suspect we’ll see “NOP” on those same scoreboards and along television crawls. But I can’t picture a SportsCenteranchor saying, “Anthony Davis and the rest of NOPE took on ...
Innuendo aside, this isn’t terrible. Fans in Boston know the Bruins and Celtics as the “B’s” and “C’s,” respectively, Seattle has the “M’s,” and Oakland the “A’s.” Even “Dubs” is a version of this trope. But with a word and image as rich as “pelicans,” we can do better.
The NBA has only one other bird mascot, and let’s just say the Hawks aren’t popular enough to stop New Orleans from immediately becoming known as “the Birds” if the franchise wishes to co-opt the name. But teams in other sports, especially the Philadelphia Eagles and St. Louis Cardinals, already own the “birds” lingo, and it’s not all that evocativ...
Now we’re getting somewhere. Flocks are vaguely threatening, and they move in unison within set patterns, not unlike an NBA team fanning out in fast-break formation (leader in the center, teammates filling the wings). A number of readers pointed out that a group of pelicans is actually known as a “squadron” (among other names, including “pod” and “...
(I can’t find tweets suggesting Long Bills and Long Beaks, but several folks did.) Hmm … The beak is the pelican’s most distinctive feature, and it’s pretty fucking cool. It can scoop and hold an entire fish in that thing, and the brown pelican uses its beak almost as a weapon when it flies in the air, spots a fish, and shifts into a downward dive-...
This is by far the most likely winner of this competition, over Pellies and everything else. For one, the organization is pushing it, though I couldn’t give a whit about what the franchise wants us to call the team. But “Pels” has also been the most popular suggestion among fans and Twitter people, by a considerable margin. And it has an obvious dr...
The New Orleans Pelicans are an American professional basketball team based in New Orleans. The Pelicans compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference. The team plays its home games at the Smoothie King Center.
22 New Orleans Nicknames That You Should Know Visual Story. Want to learn the meanings and origins of some New Orleans nicknames? This list covers...
Oct 3, 2017 · The newest New Orleans nickname, presented to us by actor Ryan Gosling and "Saturday Night Live," is "N'erlins.'' This silliness was unveiled Sept. 30 on the show, where Gosling was guest...
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Feb 24, 2017 · No matter what team you cheer for, New Orleans’ unique engagement with sports perfectly captures the fun-loving passionate spirit of the Big Easy. The Pelicans have the perfect opportunity to capture the same hometown pride that makes the Saints such a fixture of New Orleans culture.
