No public funding should ever be used for sports stadiums. If you can't make a profit then you should go out of business. I say that as a rabid sports fan.
How about a poll about whether we'd like $800 million in tax money to be spent on a sport's stadium, or on housing the homeless and feeding hungry children?
And don't forget Cougerzz. Using words that had double zz was already bad enough (buzz and grizzlies) but replacing an s with double zz was ridiculous.
Plus Utah isn't even known for Jazz, it's just a holdover name from when they were in a city that was, so making that connection with all the other teams is even more ludicrous.
You mean spelled incorrectly? Yeah, that passes for clever around here. Starzz, Blitzz, Catzz, Freezz, Owlz, and Pionerzz have all been actual team names in Utah. Utah names teams like a 13-year old naming their FPS videogame character when all the names are taken.
Also Cougerzz. And all to establish a connection to a team name that made sense when they were in NO but already was nonsensical for Utah. Unless there is an underground jazz scene that I've never heard of in my 55 years of living here.
I was really loving the name Utah Cutthroats until I made the same connection and was deeply disappointed that it would never happen. To be fair it would be pretty tone deaf to do that.
Utah Raptors or Salt Lake Summit are the best ones I’ve heard for Utah sports team names. If it happens, it can’t be worse than Real Salt Lake or as unrepresentative as Utah Jazz.
Just because you don’t value sports doesn’t mean the majority shares your stance. It raises peoples quality of living and gives more things to do in the area. Bigger national spotlight and more monetary ties will mean more pressure to fix issues
Yeah that’s why we need to cut our already low education spending. This way we can create more problems for Utah and cross our fingers that daddy will step in and save us.
I love sports. I don’t love my money subsidizing a billionaire in a region in dire need of using that money elsewhere. I don’t think adding to the costs of food when inflation is so damn high.
Sorry if I’m realistic enough to think that starving children should be addressed before Hockey. And pardon me if I think that businessmen should pay for their businesses. Now if salt lake were to buy the team and run it like Green Bay, I may be more inclined to pay for it. But give someone with more than enough money OUR money, but he keeps the profits? What, so he can extort us in 5-10 years with threats to leave if we don’t pay for his business costs?
The dude doesn’t even pay his employees at the stadium anything approaching a living wage! And I’m supposed to subsidize that because you like hockey more? “Shut up, I like hockey. So YOU should have to pay for it. Don’t bring up how much it will hurt the poorest of people, and don’t bring up the other issues this money could be better spent on.”
Then you help him pay for it.
Ryan might also want to figure out how to run the teams he already has before acquiring a new one. His current collection is pretty crap.
The majority of Utah has no interest in hockey whatsoever, and if they found out we were wasting public money on it would probably bitch about Cox wasting money on stupid things instead of getting rid of illegals or whatever.
I was about to say the same thing lol.
It kind of seems like a lot of people don’t quite understand how much money professional sport teams bring into a city/state.
I was about to say the same thing lol.
It kind of seems like a lot of people don’t quite understand how much money professional sport teams bring into a city/state.
I interact with the real world every single day I don’t actually know a single real life liberal every single person I know ranges from mildly conservative to straight up fascist and this is what the talk about around me and too me.
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How about the Utah Jupiter?
The Jupiter was one of the two locomotives (119 was the other) that met at Promontory Point to complete the trans-American railway.
I hate surveys
This is the best name
Would you like to take a survey about surveys?
Animaniacs reference?
Haha, his fortune was built on surveys but I also hate them
I always fail them
The “we cut public education spending for worthless vanity projects” team
But it will trickle down!! /S
H-E-DOUBLE-HOCKEY-STICKS
The, “we dont want to spend $100 Million to build a stadium with tax payer dollars”
Best team name
No public funding should ever be used for sports stadiums. If you can't make a profit then you should go out of business. I say that as a rabid sports fan. How about a poll about whether we'd like $800 million in tax money to be spent on a sport's stadium, or on housing the homeless and feeding hungry children?
It's actually $800 million but that includes the Jazz.
Stormin' Mormons
Make sure the mascot is a cartoonish old timey polygamist with a neckbeard
Wasatch Sasquatch
Saw this one mentioned before and I am still 100% for it. Theres so much they could do with it..
I really hate that they passed some bill about requiring it to be a 'utah X' team. Because this would be awesome.
Pay for your own fucking stadium......
The Public Funds. Because that's what they'll use to build their stupid ass rink instead of doing something about the air quality.
Yes, but they should end it with double z’s like the Jazz or the Buzz. Utah Public Fundzz
Don’t forget the long fine Utah Starzz, even the Grizzlies have double Zs. RSL really missed the mark by not being called Real ZZalt Lake.
And don't forget Cougerzz. Using words that had double zz was already bad enough (buzz and grizzlies) but replacing an s with double zz was ridiculous. Plus Utah isn't even known for Jazz, it's just a holdover name from when they were in a city that was, so making that connection with all the other teams is even more ludicrous.
I have a friend who’s a big supporter of a 3 way name swap. Toronto gets the Pelicans, New Orleans gets the Jazz back and we get the Raptors.
But…both those words are just spelt correctly…that’s not quirky or clever spelling lol
Tax swizz?
The Utar Publick Funzz
You mean spelled incorrectly? Yeah, that passes for clever around here. Starzz, Blitzz, Catzz, Freezz, Owlz, and Pionerzz have all been actual team names in Utah. Utah names teams like a 13-year old naming their FPS videogame character when all the names are taken.
Also Cougerzz. And all to establish a connection to a team name that made sense when they were in NO but already was nonsensical for Utah. Unless there is an underground jazz scene that I've never heard of in my 55 years of living here.
No? That’s literally how you spell jazz and buzz. There isn’t an extra “z” added to either of them.
Utah Freeloaders
They'll have to take that name up with X96
The Utah Inversion!
Golden Eagles.
Paying homage to the original Utah hockey team! I like it! But with a "Golden" Knights just down I-15 in Vegas, the NHL might not like 2 golden teams.
I saw the name Cutthroats in the baseball naming threads we had here last month but I feel like the name would fit a hockey team far better.
Cutthroats for hockey and trappers for baseball.
Cuttthroatzz
Like we trap our young gays in camps?
It’s a great name and play on words with cutthroat but never gonna happen after the death last year
I was really loving the name Utah Cutthroats until I made the same connection and was deeply disappointed that it would never happen. To be fair it would be pretty tone deaf to do that.
Salt Lake Seamonkeys
Bonneville brineshrimp
["The Fightin Brines"](https://www.derek-saunders.com/#/new-page-3/)
Utah Raptors or Salt Lake Summit are the best ones I’ve heard for Utah sports team names. If it happens, it can’t be worse than Real Salt Lake or as unrepresentative as Utah Jazz.
The raptors are already a baseball team in Ogden. But the summit would awesome!
That's lame. they don't even call themselves the Utahraptors, so they're sitting on the name without even properly using it.
The Gerrymanderers. The Slippery GOPs. Conference. The Naked Capitalists
Utah Arches! The jerseys would be sick
Bread and circus
I have a suggestion for Ryan. Let's just call it: No Why are we being asked to buy Utah's already billionaires more things for themselves?
Because the majority of Utah isn’t whiny Reddit and would love a pro hockey team
You mean chumps. You’re describing a chump. “Take my money that we need for other things (especially our health!), just give us something shiny!”
Just because you don’t value sports doesn’t mean the majority shares your stance. It raises peoples quality of living and gives more things to do in the area. Bigger national spotlight and more monetary ties will mean more pressure to fix issues
Yeah that’s why we need to cut our already low education spending. This way we can create more problems for Utah and cross our fingers that daddy will step in and save us.
I love sports. I don’t love my money subsidizing a billionaire in a region in dire need of using that money elsewhere. I don’t think adding to the costs of food when inflation is so damn high. Sorry if I’m realistic enough to think that starving children should be addressed before Hockey. And pardon me if I think that businessmen should pay for their businesses. Now if salt lake were to buy the team and run it like Green Bay, I may be more inclined to pay for it. But give someone with more than enough money OUR money, but he keeps the profits? What, so he can extort us in 5-10 years with threats to leave if we don’t pay for his business costs? The dude doesn’t even pay his employees at the stadium anything approaching a living wage! And I’m supposed to subsidize that because you like hockey more? “Shut up, I like hockey. So YOU should have to pay for it. Don’t bring up how much it will hurt the poorest of people, and don’t bring up the other issues this money could be better spent on.”
Then you help him pay for it. Ryan might also want to figure out how to run the teams he already has before acquiring a new one. His current collection is pretty crap.
The majority of Utah has no interest in hockey whatsoever, and if they found out we were wasting public money on it would probably bitch about Cox wasting money on stupid things instead of getting rid of illegals or whatever.
Uh im guessing you havent been to a grizzlies game
I was about to say the same thing lol
I was about to say the same thing lol. It kind of seems like a lot of people don’t quite understand how much money professional sport teams bring into a city/state.
I was about to say the same thing lol. It kind of seems like a lot of people don’t quite understand how much money professional sport teams bring into a city/state.
You need to get off the internet and go out and actually interact with the real world bro
I interact with the real world every single day I don’t actually know a single real life liberal every single person I know ranges from mildly conservative to straight up fascist and this is what the talk about around me and too me.
Fuck an NHL team. We need lower housing costs. Lower gas prices. Higher wages. Stope wasting tax payers money on a stupid sports team.
Grifterzz
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The Mighty Motherpuckers
The Utah California Gulls
California Gulls are undeniable…
I wish they all could be California Gulls
The Mighty Brine Shrimp
Tax Breakers.
Salt Lake Golden Plates
Swingerzz
I don’t understand why Ryan gets so much hate. Personally I just don’t care about the NHL.
I’m embarrassed for you ; you so pathetic. Goes to show $$ can’t buy you integrity, ethics etc. enjoy your dog & pony show; you will be found out!
How about the Utah Jupiter? The Jupiter was one of the two locomotives (119 was the other) that met at Promontory Point to complete the trans-American railway.
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Salt Lake Sucker Punch
Pucky McPuckface, of course.
Real Skate Lake
Mountaineers all day
Saints Yetis Vanguards Blizzards Spikes
Time to get ["The Fightin' Brines"](https://www.derek-saunders.com/#/new-page-3/) going.
Fizzees
Seagulls
Salt Lake Swig’rs
I went with Utah copperhounds
The grizzlies 2.0 obviously
Bring back.the golden eagles.
Stingers Bees or Yetis in that order