The Thunder Made a Bad Choice

I'd much rather be looking at a fake bison

The Oklahoma City Thunder have been playing better as of late, but are still mired near the bottom of the standings.  If anything can get them to start climbing the ranks, it’s a big free agent acquisition.  Like a guy in a bison suit.  That should fire up the fellas.

So the team’s name is the Thunder and they will be trotting out a Bison each home game to root the team on?  I’m confused. 

A good mascot for the Thunder would have been nothing.  You can’t see thunder, so why do fans have to see a goofy, fur covered middle-aged man running around scaring kids and annoying adults?

You know what many NBA fans would prefer instead?  Anything, but specifically more cheerleaders.  If you need a distraction from the monotony that is the 2nd quarter of an NBA game, there’s the snack bar and there’s whatever the hot girls in short shorts are doing.  The more of the latter, the easier it is to stare at them at an angle that isn’t obvious to your accompanying wife or girlfriend. 

Mascots, however, are not essential to sports.  I don’t know how everyone decided they were.  If you went to a meeting and told your boss that a good way to get the public behind your company was to “throw a guy into a bison suit and tell him to jump up and down and throw shirts” you’d be fired on the spot.

Tags: basketball, NBA, Oklahoma City Thunder

4 Comments to The Thunder Made a Bad Choice

Royce
February 10, 2009

Just thought I’d point out that the bison is Oklahoma’s state animal. I think the whole intent with “Thunder” was to tie it to the bison because a herd of bison running on the plains sounds like Thunder rumbling.

And besides, what does the Philly Phanatic have to do with Philadelphia? Or a Gorilla with the Phoenix Suns? There’s plenty of mascots that don’t have anything to do with the nickname and a lot of times, those are the best.

Sis
February 11, 2009

Or, you know they could have just named the team Bison in the first place which is a hell of a lot more interesting than Thunder.

Saint Joe
February 11, 2009

Or they could have named the team the Half-Naked Hotties. That would have solved this problem just fine.

Dammmnnn baby
June 18, 2009

I’d like that…mascots don’t make me want to run on the court. Cheerleaders make me want to run down and tap. And the refs make me want to run down there and yell. Mascots make me want to go the fuck home.

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