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We Rally Round the Family

Topher said:
"Bulls on Parade" addresses the American military-industrial complex, a situation in which industry (the arms industry, primarily) urges government to take military action, with the intent of obtaining military contracts, to thereby increase its revenue. The idiom "bulls on parade" refers to a bull market. The symbol may also mean the muscularity of American responses to complex problems.

Imo I don't think the name is "Gay". I also don't think it fits as a name for our Defense.
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You know, when one has to explain what the name means to people, it is probably not a good name for our defense.
 
Rey said:
I think it may be the picture from Rage's album cover????

Found it on the net and thought it was relevant to this thread...
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I recognized the bull from a bronze sculpture on Wall Street:

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I do not recognize the artistic version as a RATM cover, but perhaps a bootleg or singles version for the song?
 
Dutchrudder said:
lol! Lecture? Simply asking people to be informed of the song from which the name derives is a lecture? Wow dude, chill out. People fly off the handle all the time about stuff they don't know about, I'm trying to help inform the masses who may think it's a "gay" name or otherwise. Is it really too much to ask that people listen to a 3 minute song before jumping to conclusions?
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Just a little bit, yes.

:D
 
thunderkyss said:
Imagine another team used that as their defense's nick name.

Imagine if you were into **** talking.

Do you not see the plethora of material you have to work with?

I'm sure we can be all, "No, you guys are using it all wrong. The name refers to the socialistic Rage against the Machine song with the same title."

& they'll be, "Oh, thank you for pointing that out. Let me find something else more appropriate to make fun of."

Hell no, you'll see pictures of Brian Cushing, Brooks Reed, & Antonio Smith wearing Tutu's for years to come.

It's ridiculous.

If they want to adopt that as their theme song.... great, I'll jam along when I hear it at Reliant, I'll think about them when I hear it on the radio, I'll make it my freak'n ringtone for Mario Williams.

But I'm not calling the Texans' defense Bulls on Parade.
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Do you really think people didn't make fun of 5 guys dressed up as football players on a set with fake gravestones and machine fog calling themselves the doomsday D? I can make fun of anything. Doomsday D? More like GAYsday!!! Steel curtain? More like GAY curtain!!! People can and will make fun of everything. I just think it's funny that so many people are in search of an identity when nothing will ever meet the mystic standard they come up with from some old posters or something.

I'm not pro-nickname btw. That song just jams.
 
I say keep the song, but don't stress or worry about a nickname. Like all good nicknames, it's best if it's given to you by someone else. Unfortunately with Barwin championing this nickname, it's likely to stick regardless of the naysayers.
 
TimeKiller said:
Do you really think people didn't make fun of 5 guys dressed up as football players on a set with fake gravestones and machine fog calling themselves the doomsday D? I can make fun of anything. Doomsday D? More like GAYsday!!! Steel curtain? More like GAY curtain!!! People can and will make fun of everything. I just think it's funny that so many people are in search of an identity when nothing will ever meet the mystic standard they come up with from some old posters or something.

I'm not pro-nickname btw. That song just jams.
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msr Can't do it from tapatalk on iPhone as far as I know.
 
Love the song... I mean "Rally around the family with a pocket full of shells." How cooler can it get.

And I saw Rage in 1993 at Lolapalooza. They were no ones back then and they put on a great show.
 
TimeKiller said:
I'm not pro-nickname btw. That song just jams.
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I like the song too. If they want that to be their theme song, that's cool. If that's the song they want playing as they come out of the tunnel, that's cool.

But I don't think the name works for a football team. Especially not one that is moving away from the "soft" image.
 
So out of curiosity why does the Rep system even matter. Does one lose a body part or something if you get so many negative reps?

If one recieves so many postive reps do we get a car at the end of the year?

Just wondering why they matter.
 
They play the riff from Disturbed's "Sickness".... that would be a cool nickname.

& I still love that "Black Betty" riff.... maybe we can call the defense Black Betty. It sounds tougher than Bulls on Parade.
 
thunderkyss said:
& I still love that "Black Betty" riff.... maybe we can call the defense Black Betty. It sounds tougher than Bulls on Parade.
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Oh GAWD! I hate that Black Betty song with the heat of a thousand suns. I'd rather stick hot ice picks in my ears than listen to that dreck. And more hardcore than Rage? Hardly.

But that's just my personal opinion, of course.
 
jjjezebel said:
Oh GAWD! I hate that Black Betty song with the heat of a thousand suns. I'd rather stick hot ice picks in my ears than listen to that dreck. And more hardcore than Rage? Hardly.

But that's just my personal opinion, of course.
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I like the opening guitar riff. That's the only part they play in the stadium.

I didn't say the song was more "hardcore" than RATM.

I said the song title "Black Betty" sounds tougher than the song title "Bulls on Parade"
 
thunderkyss said:
I like the opening guitar riff. That's the only part they play in the stadium.

I didn't say the song was more "hardcore" than RATM.

I said the song title "Black Betty" sounds tougher than the song title "Bulls on Parade"
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Ah, my bad. I still disagree, but I get where you're coming from. :shades:
 
Grams said:
You know, when one has to explain what the name means to people, it is probably not a good name for our defense.
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And that right there neatly summarizes the problem with this suggested nickname. As soon as you have to start explaining what it means you're done. That's it, thank you for the suggestion. Keep up the good work and I'm sure you'll come up with something eventually.

Doomsday Defense. Everyone clear on the meaning of "Doomsday"? Steel Curtain? Monsters, Midway, Orange, Crush..... Everyone notice how they tend to trend toward the simple/descriptive?
 
Kgbmedic said:
So out of curiosity why does the Rep system even matter. Does one lose a body part or something if you get so many negative reps?

If one recieves so many postive reps do we get a car at the end of the year?

Just wondering why they matter.
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I got my student loans paid off when I crossed 10,000 by some obscure government agency Obama created. Of course when I got negative rep twice in a month I was investigated by the FBI and put on a no-fly list.
 
thunderkyss said:
I like the song too. If they want that to be their theme song, that's cool. If that's the song they want playing as they come out of the tunnel, that's cool.

But I don't think the name works for a football team. Especially not one that is moving away from the "soft" image.
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I guess that's a "soft" nickname? I haven't seen them as soft at least since last year. Unfortunate, not very good, underprepared occasionally but not soft. There's nothing soft about that song, there's nothing soft about this team and specifically this D and there's nothing soft about taking a high caliber offense and making them scramble everywhere to pull out a handful of first downs and 10 points.

The name, whether it sticks or not it's actually quite appropriate and the song works, it's a total get up and get hyped song. Wolf aside, I've never heard of anyone who didn't like this song. It's just sad to see so many people begging for an identity and when one comes along it's not good enough. Because of the word parade or something.

I tell you this much, if they continue to call themselves the Bulls on Parade, continue shutting teams down and lead us to some playoff action I bet you a million bajillion diggity dillion dollars that about half the people in this and countless other threads will come out of the woodwork acting like they came up with the name before it was cool.
 
I know there isn't much we can do about the nickname anymore. It's spreading like a STD at a ZTA mixer. However, I noticed that the classic nicknames rely on alliteration as well as some type of description of the home city. These may sound dumb or have already been suggested, but again its a moot point. I was just laying in bed and thought

Bayou Bull Rush
Space City Stampede

Corny i know
 
Grams said:
I don't see a sarcastic smilie there.

Grams is short for Grandma and she is a she not a he and she is not XXX.

You should know using the term "gay" can lead to neg rep from some posters.
Not I, but a couple of posters get offended.
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See the problems with Grams is she has grandchildren that use the word "ghey" all the time to describe stuff. She was attempting to be cool and use a teenage term, but being old caused her to misuse it.

My kids tell me all the time that I don't use emo correctly.

:peek:

:stirpot:
 
Bulls on Parade sounds like a children's book or maybe a tv show from nickelodeon or disney channel

Elephants on parade is a classic scene from disney's dumbo. Bulls on parade would fit nicely as the sequel

Bad nickname for a defense
 
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