My hometown is a finalist for ESPN’s TitleTown award. While we Louisvillians are grateful for whatever non-dead-horse related sports publicity we can garner, I’m pretty sure the Titletown designation got hashed out in Green Bay’s favor over forty years ago. Is this second capitalized “T” supposed to make if different somehow? Do the Packers’ accomplishments mean less since they happened before ESPN was created?
Green Bay is not completely screwed yet. They are also a “finalist” for ESPN’s version of the appellation. But why should they have to “win” something that’s been theirs exclusively for decades? Do I sound indignant? Am I doing this right? Are you sick of rhetorical questions?
Here’s a look at some other nicknames and honorifics that ESPN will be pretending to have the authority to put to a public vote in the near future:
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I got offered a full ride to Nashville Auto Diesel you get a full tool kit when you graduate!
Jinx? Fuck no, if anything, I’m ensuring BDD has another season of material.
Way to jinx it, Westbrook.
Notice how they held off this contest until after Favre retired…
Yuuuuum Oreo city raining milk. I am engorged.
While we Louisvillians are grateful for whatever non-dead-horse related sports publicity we can garner
One time we, the whole city, threw O.J. out of a restaurant!
@ Ringo
pretty sure nobody cares. It’s just dumb to combine the super bowl wins with the championships where like 3 teams competed for the titles, that’s all I’m saying…
/polishing the combined zero Vikings titles.
I would totally be down with a city of Oreos. As long as it rains milk.
Geographically that’s actually the opposite of what DC is. Unless you’re saying that it’s a city of oreos, but I wouldn’t agree with that either.
DC is the Malomar City: chocolate with a marshmallow center.
(Thanks, Stephen Colbert.)
Is D.C still Chocolate City?
There’s a lot of chocolate cities around. We’ve got Newark, we’ve got Gary. Somebody told me we got L.A. And we’re working on Atlanta. But you’re the capital, CC!
Gainin’ on ya!
Flubby, you forgot “Clown Prince of Basketball”
@Tdub
Pretty sure the NFL was started up in 1920, making every single one of the Packers’ championships an “NFL Championship” and a “title.”
Nope, Tracer, that honor belongs to my beloved city of New Orleans.
Boston came one incompletion away from being the current Titletown… imagine one city having the MLB, NBA, and NFL champs in the same year. Instead, New York (or maybe NJ) is the reigning King and Boston is left with meaningless championships in “those other sports”.
Paraphrasing As Dr. Doofenschmirtz: Curse you, David Tyree!
Is D.C still Chocolate City?
I’d be much more interested if they were trying to determine which city has earned the right to be called “TittieTown.”
Female: Las Vegas, Nevada
Male: Dallas, Texas
I’d be much more interested if they were trying to determine which city has earned the right to be called “TittieTown.”
Gary, IN is still the “Armpit of America.”
@eddiebear
No Bahstun is Massholeville and I am the mayor!
A friend of mine once won Metallica tickets and backstage passes for the Black Album tour by naming their original bass player after about 5 call-in listeners said “Cliff Burton.” Of course, since he was a 13-year-old Jehovah’s Witness at the time, he was not only disallowed from going to the concert, he was whupped with a belt for listening to the Devil’s Music in the first place.
Ah, memories.
Bahstun is Dahkie Town, right?
Ooh, know what else they should vote on is who gets the nickname “Air.” I bet Michael Jordan wins, but I’m voting for oxygen.
President Emeritus of the Nashville Auto-Diesel College
From my cold, dead hands!!!
Well with competition like Masillon, Ohio they’re fucked. Seriously, this is the stupidest contest on ESPN since “Who is Now?”
And for what its worth, I’ve always thought that calling yourself Titletown when you only have 1 professional sports team was pretty fucking arrogant. But now that Favre is gone they’ve got to hold on to everything possible.
Fort Worth is known as Funkytown, for reasons I don’t completely understand, unless ‘old and white’ is the new funky.
I want the name Falco bestowed upon me! YAY!
Oh wait, that would mean I’d die soon. Fuck.
I think this appropriately sums up the definition of tITLEtOWN.
/shows self out
Nothing drives me more insane than when the Packers cite their pre-NFL “championships” as “titles.”
But Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport is still known as “America’s Scrod Basket”, correct? You better not fuck with that, ESPN.
@Naptown, those nicknames will also still apply to Baltimore.
@UU
You mean it’s not “Bodymore, Murdaland?”
lol @ the NADC reference
did you go to brian brohm’s high school or hunter s. thompsons???
In related news, Baltimore is in no danger of losing its nickname of “ShitTown”
Less Than Jake has already designated Gainesville as Rock City. Take that, Detroit