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So the Seattle Supersonics have moved to Oklahoma City where they’ll be refered to as the Thunder. Yes, their mascot is a sound. Tucson has some sweet thunder storms too, and what did we do when we picked our mascot? We went with something ridiculously sweet: the Wildcat. It “rauraurs” when it gets excited, for chrissake. The nickname originates from a 1914 L.A. Times article that claimed that Arizona “showed the fight of wildcats.” Now Wilbur and Wilma patrol the sidelines, pumping up the crowd, while wearing cardinal red and navy blue.

OKC… well, they have a sweet sound, I guess.

What ever happened to naming teams after sweet animals. The OKC Thunder sounds like a reject from the WNBA. Thank God Jerry D. Bayless ended up with the Trailblazers.

And how about the Toledo Rockets? A rocket is menacing, sure, but how can a football team be taken seriously with this thing running down the sidelines. And you’re probably thinking, “Well, maybe they fought like rockets in some game in 1754 or something.” Well, no, that’s not how it happened. Their team didn’t even have a name until 1923 and “skyrockets” just happened to be the first thing that popped into some dude’s head (what a nerd, guess he’d never seen a wildcat before).

Even if Toledo did fight like rockets, it wouldn’t matter. A wildcat would beat a rocket in a fight any day of the week (especially a Saturday!). Now, a mud hen… that’s more like it. But apparently that name was already taken.

Bear Down and beat the Rockets!