Tonight on SportsCenter:
ESPN gives away Wisconsin heritage
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:
Tags: ESPN, flubby:a nickname not worth stealing, Green Bay Packers
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July 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 am
Less Than Jake has already designated Gainesville as Rock City. Take that, Detroit
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
In related news, Baltimore is in no danger of losing its nickname of “ShitTown”
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 am
lol @ the NADC reference
did you go to brian brohm’s high school or hunter s. thompsons???
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 am
@UU
You mean it’s not “Bodymore, Murdaland?”
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 am
@Naptown, those nicknames will also still apply to Baltimore.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
But Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport is still known as “America’s Scrod Basket”, correct? You better not fuck with that, ESPN.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 am
Nothing drives me more insane than when the Packers cite their pre-NFL “championships” as “titles.”
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 am
I think this appropriately sums up the definition of tITLEtOWN.
/shows self out
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 am
I want the name Falco bestowed upon me! YAY!
Oh wait, that would mean I’d die soon. Fuck.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Fort Worth is known as Funkytown, for reasons I don’t completely understand, unless ‘old and white’ is the new funky.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
President Emeritus of the Nashville Auto-Diesel College
From my cold, dead hands!!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
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.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Bahstun is Dahkie Town, right?
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
@eddiebear
No Bahstun is Massholeville and I am the mayor!
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Gary, IN is still the “Armpit of America.”
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I’d be much more interested if they were trying to determine which city has earned the right to be called “TittieTown.”
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Is D.C still Chocolate City?
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
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!
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Nope, Tracer, that honor belongs to my beloved city of New Orleans.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
@Tdub
Pretty sure the NFL was started up in 1920, making every single one of the Packers’ championships an “NFL Championship” and a “title.”
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Flubby, you forgot “Clown Prince of Basketball”
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
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!
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
DC is the Malomar City: chocolate with a marshmallow center.
(Thanks, Stephen Colbert.)
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
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.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I would totally be down with a city of Oreos. As long as it rains milk.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
@ 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.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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!
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Yuuuuum Oreo city raining milk. I am engorged.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Notice how they held off this contest until after Favre retired…
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Way to jinx it, Westbrook.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Jinx? Fuck no, if anything, I’m ensuring BDD has another season of material.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I got offered a full ride to Nashville Auto Diesel you get a full tool kit when you graduate!