This brings up another good point.

"New Orleans" is a boxy, shitty name for a city. It's the "LUHNS" at the end that throws off the flow of any mascot name. Nothing rolls off the tongue.

The New Orleans Hornets were a mouthful to say. Something about going LUHNS- HOR- NETS trips up and just sounds like shit.

Well, is there ANY name that would go well with "New Orleans"? Let's ignore stuff that matches the city/area's image. And stick with something simple like cat names.

New Orleans Tigers?
New Orleans Lions?
New Orleans Panthers?

Those all sound like shit. There's no ring to anything up there.

To me, the only way around this issue of too many syllables that end with a consonant is to stick to one word.

New Orleans Rape
New Orleans Jazz
New Orleans Saints

It's not perfect, but it works. "Pelicans" just has too many damn syllables.

That's why they said Pels.

Or you could just pronounce it "New Ore-LEENS".

New Orleans Rape has a nice ring to it.

The New Orleans Baskeball Saints

It's Nawlins.

University of Louisiana Lafayette already have the Cajun locked up.

It's a ****ing PELICAN(ISAURUS).

It ****ing eats other animals ALIVE.

Just ****ing LOOK AT THAT BITCH!

Phuqtards.

The interesting bird the pelican. His beak can hold more than his belican.

I've heard that phrase every year since I could walk from my dad hunting ducks when the first flock migrates through. The last time was approximately 3 weeks ago. He's 82 and its gotten to the point he can't see them anymore.

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA HA WYA IJAKFLS

what

WTF is a Pel? That's the gayest shit I've ever heard. You can't just cut a word off at one syllable because it suits your fancy. What if New Orleans did that for their current team name?

Okay, this would've been awesome.

And aside from the complete and total shock, it's easy enough to warm to. I've always thought the Myrtle Beach variety had a pretty interesting name.

I see what you did there.

Glad somebody got it. Lol. And I was proud of that joke, too.

In name, sure.

But a caricature of a drunk French-Canadian-American named Bayou Brawler?

Shit, just shorten it to Brawlers and the say it with the accent: the Nawlins Brawlahs

New Orleans and Utah need to get together and make a deal here. Jazz is the name they need to be.