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Originally Posted by jumptheshark
Couldn't find a master Brooklyn thread and since it is being talked about here
Obviously the New York Islanders will be the team name, based upon everything I have heard and read, but what would be the reaction if they renamed the team the "Brooklyn Americans"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Americans
Just to toss it out there--I liked their old unis |
Seems kind of pointless to effectively throw away forty years of history, and a freaking dynasty, behind a name only to revive a name that's been dead for seven decades and barely anybody actually remembers.