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ThePurpleHornet 
LSU Fan
NOLA
Member since Mar 2011
729 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:01 am to Jester)
Take it for what it's worth but heard from someone who works very closely with the Hornets that the two names being tossed around a lot lately are ..... Bishops and Crusaders.
Can't say I'm happy with either 
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Jester
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
15591 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:06 am to ThePurpleHornet)
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Can't say I'm happy with either
Neither are awesome, and Crusaders is especially tasteless, but I'd take either over Pelican'ts.
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Jester
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
15591 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:12 am to Jester)
I just sent an email around my office about those Gargoyles I posted. I did not mention the Hornets at all, so this response is totally unsolicited:
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Call ourselves the New Orleans Gargoyles. It looks and sounds more menacing than some damn pelican!!!!!
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42 
New Orleans Saints Fan
Member since Apr 2012
2334 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:18 am to ThePurpleHornet)
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Take it for what it's worth but heard from someone who works very closely with the Hornets that the two names being tossed around a lot lately are ..... Bishops and Crusaders.
A rep?
Crusaders has tenuous support from what I can tell. Bishops seems odd.
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TigerinATL
New Orleans Saints Fan
Member since Feb 2005
26089 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:21 am to Jester)
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Crusaders is especially tasteless
Depends on who you are. If you're hardcore Catholic, like someone who's shown the Pope his SuperBowl ring, then Crusaders are probably viewed as heroic and you don't really give a damn what the mulims, jews and atheists think.
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Fun Bunch
New Orleans Saints Fan
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
14870 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:24 am to TigerinATL)
The league still has to approve it, and they won't approve Crusaders. Way too many negative connotations.
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Jester
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
15591 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:35 am to TigerinATL)
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Depends on who you are. If you're hardcore Catholic, like someone who's shown the Pope his SuperBowl ring, then Crusaders are probably viewed as heroic and you don't really give a damn what the mulims, jews and atheists think.
Yeah, well, as a Buddhist (raised Catholic), I would be extremely put off by it. In my opinion, that is along the lines of naming them the Nazis or SS.
Considering that about 70% of NOLA is non-Catholic, I don't see it happening. Like Fun Bunch and I have both mentioned, Stern would not okay it.
This post was edited on 12/4 at 9:36 am
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TigerinATL
New Orleans Saints Fan
Member since Feb 2005
26089 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:39 am to Jester)
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I don't see it happening. Like Fun Bunch and I have both mentioned, Stern would not okay it.
Y'all are right, but that doesn't mean the crazy old man won't try
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42
New Orleans Saints Fan
Member since Apr 2012
2334 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:55 am to TigerinATL)
Neither of these has a tie to New Orleans. It's all pretty thin. I know the Brother Marin / St. Aloysius thing, but any HS mascot has the same New Orleans tie, which is next to none.
Therefore, I discount them to some extent since Benson said this would be a `feature'. This, of course, could change, but it seems like a natural requirement.
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Fun Bunch
New Orleans Saints Fan
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
14870 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 10:00 am to 42)
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Therefore, I discount them to some extent since Benson said this would be a `feature'. This, of course, could change, but it seems like a natural requirement.
Crescents?
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ThePurpleHornet
LSU Fan
NOLA
Member since Mar 2011
729 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 10:16 am to 42)
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A rep?
Definitely not a ticket rep lol, I know well enough to not trust them
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42
New Orleans Saints Fan
Member since Apr 2012
2334 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 10:36 am to ThePurpleHornet)
Crescents would be better. Seems baseless though. Still, could be it, of course.
Not all reps are created equal, but, in the end, this seems something locked away within the inner circle: Tom, Mrs. Gayle, Rita, Dennis, Mickey. There is a good deal if contradictory information being spread from otherwise reliable people. Speculation? Misdirection? Coincidence?
It's all interesting, for sure.
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bayoubengal44
LSU Fan
Prairieville, LA
Member since Aug 2004
457 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 10:41 am to 42)
42 - From what you are hearing, you still thinking Pelicans will be the new name?
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Jester
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
15591 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 10:54 am to 42)
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Misdirection?
Seems to be the MO around here.
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Fun Bunch
New Orleans Saints Fan
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
14870 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 10:56 am to bayoubengal44)
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42 - From what you are hearing, you still thinking Pelicans will be the new name?
Nobody is hearing anything of value right now. I wouldn't waste your time as this one will be close to the vest.
After the trade deadline I expect some legitimate word to start leaking.
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Jester
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
15591 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 11:00 am to Fun Bunch)
I'm hearing Cavaliers:
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Jumbeauxlaya
LSU Fan
Denham
Member since Jan 2011
15121 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 11:18 am to Jester)
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gold, and navy.
The brass!
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Jumbeauxlaya
LSU Fan
Denham
Member since Jan 2011
15121 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 11:30 am to Jester)
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Count me in. Aside from Mardi Gras, those three colors should never be combined. They just clash badly, in my opinion.
just use two of them on any given uniform IMHO.
2/3 home different 2/3 away.
This post was edited on 12/4 at 11:31 am
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42
New Orleans Saints Fan
Member since Apr 2012
2334 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 11:33 am to Jumbeauxlaya)
Agreed on misdirection MO.
Agreed on close to the vest.
I hear just about what everyone else hears, and I disclose the relevant things.
The evidence points to Pelicans but this evidence is all circumstantial. It's all process of elimination from a reasonable but.invented list.
I don't spend much time trying to 'solve'tire this. Data falls in my lap, I update the analysis.
But I think Pelicans is the answer at this time.
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hendersonshands 
LA-Lafayette Fan
Univ. of Louisiana Ragin Cajuns
Member since Oct 2007
97955 posts
| re: New color scheme announced: Red, Gold, and Navy UPDATE: NBA says "Not so fast" (Posted on 12/4/12 at 11:47 am to 42)
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