Things We Should Totally Petition For, number 2

Seattle Supersonics, no more, the, are. Or something.

Now, they're Oklahoma City.

I don't really get why this is. It seems to have something to do with the arena being a bit crap, and apparently the taxpayers won't pay for a new one. I'm not interested enough to find out quite why the taxpayers are supposed to be paying for it in the first place (is this standard, and if so, why?), but needless to say, the American sports 'franchise' culture is the spawn of Satan, American culture in general is inferior, God save the Queen, I'm a communist, et cetera.

(By the way, I'm right on this. So right am I that I will not take the time to fully explain quite what I'm right about, because I feel it unnecessary. So read on, confused and slightly alienated reader.)

Anyway. As a part of the settlement severance that the franchise and the city made, the Supersonics name stays in Seattle. Therefore, the Oklahoma City franchise needs a new nickname. And apparently, the Oklahoman is down to choosing between the final four in their unofficial (I assume) contest - it's either going to be the Thunder, the Thunderbirds, the Outlaws, and the Barons.

Is it just me, or do they all suck? Can't we petition to stop the madness? Or at least think of something better?

I mean, I can't think of something better. I'm an idiot, and I'm immature. These two things form an unbreakable alliance, and the first idea that came into my head was the 'Showertraps', proof enough that I haven't the cognitive capacity nor testitcular verticality to really be put in charge here.

That said, if we all pitched in, couldn't we find something that didn't suck? What is Oklahoma City famous for? Couldn't we find something relative to that? (Note: if you say "The Oklahoma City Bombers", you'll go to hell.) Can we at least make a better fist of it than the last time a franchise had to be nicknamed, and we got stuck with the Bobcats?

(Or, failing that, let's push for the Showertraps.)