Ladies and gentlemen, The Atchafalaya Cookin’ CrawNutria.
I think this captures everything that people are looking for in a Hornets name (judging by the recent flood of “suggestions” from “people” who have “ideas”).
1. Pretentious reference to local thing that nobody outside of South Louisiana can identify without at least 10 minutes on the internet dedicated to the topic
2. Cheesy reference to something everybody outside Louisiana associates with Louisiana and also thinks is terribly cheesy
3. Cheesy reference to aspect of New Orleans culture that everybody recognizes but that everyone in New Orleans is insufferably pretentious about
4. Terrible, terrible, fucking terrible MS Paint logo idea
5. End result is a mythological or conceptual thing that can’t be legitimately represented by a mascot.
Really, this is the one, people. And if you had an idea that you considered original, funny, classy, unique, and/or feasible (especially if you called it in to 870 this morning), it is probably more terrible than the Atchafalaya Cookin’ CrawNutria.
What the fuck was wrong with “Hornets” anyway?
Outstanding.
Not that I think that “Hornets” is a bad mascot, but I can promise you that if I paid $350 million for anything and wanted to rename them “The Fiery Scrotums of Murder & War” that sure as shit would be its name.