Comments on: Pelicans, regional name suggestions and mysterious sewer clouds

By: oats

oats — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:33:09 +0000

Knickerbockers are short pants that go below the knee. Think old school baggy baseball pants. You know, the ones from when Ruth was playing. Or old golf pants. You could do an image search on Bobby Jones if you need help picturing them. They go slightly below the knee. The first organized baseball team was the New York Knickerbockers, named for their pants, but the Knickerbockers were an athletic club that would play various sports. Knickerbocker is also a Dutch last name, and Washington Irving wrote a book, The History of New York, which featured the fictional author Diedrich Knickerbocker. The pants actually got their name from the idea that aristocratic Dutch in New York wore them after they went out of style in favor of trousers. The point is, Knickerbocker as a name, the short pants, and athletic clubs have all been associated with New York for a very long time before the New York Knicks chose their name.

By: Scott Free

Scott Free — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:46:25 +0000

David Stern is enough of a micromanager to pull this off — here me out.

The Jazz should trade their name back to New Orleans. Toronto should send theirs to the Jazz. Charlotte should trade their name to Toronto and the Hornets should go back to Charlotte. Then almost everyones names would make sense (what the hells a knickerbocker anyways?)

1. New Orleans Jazz
2. Utah Raptors (look it up)
3. Toronto Bobcats
4. Charlotte Hornets

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:44:14 +0000

The simple explanation is that there is a steam system that is used to heat many of the buildings in Detroit. For a more detailed explanation, you can go to the following article: http://www2.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13425