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[bomberclifford]

Our Flag Means Death was cancelled after one season.
Pirates are ded.

 

[JimmyBC]

Pirates actually was a huge missed opportunity it's marketing appeal would've been insane.

Look ridiculous backtracking to it now unfortunately, I'm still a fan of dropping the Power nick and just ending up at Ports.

 

[edgie]

Barracuda Bay! What are you doing Lego for when you could afford to sack Hinkley?

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[chiwigi]

Growing up in Argentina around (international) football, I always found the American-style team mascots/monikers over the top. In Argentina, like in, I think, most international football leagues, there are no official nicknames. Just the clubs' names. Every club has one or multiple nicknames that emerged organically over time and that can usually be traced back to one incident or an era in the past. Most clubs would have a "positive" nickname and a "negative" one. E.g:

River Plate can be the Millionaires (wealthy era in the 1930s) or the chickens (lost an international final in the 1960s 2-4 that were winning 2-0)
Boca Juniors can be the Genovese (Italian migrants) or the shitkickers (bad part of town, lower class supporters)

But in many cases a "negative" nickname sticks and is used in general. E.g: Rosario Central are the Scoundrels or the Rabble and Newell's Old Boys are the Lepers, both arising from a charity match for a leprosy clinic in the 1920s.

[all rough English translations, of course]

These nicknames are used regularly but they are not official club branding.

I kind of like that approach better, but I am most likely culturally conditioned to think that way.

GremioPower I assume it's the same in Brazil, right?

Yup, same for me.

It feels so forced to use a nickname.

Nobody ever really called Manchester United the Red Devils or Arsenal the gunners etc until they become international brands in the late 90’s early 2000’s.

The nicknames were there, but not used day to day. Anyone who did use them just sounded American.

 

[RossFC]

Pirates actually was a huge missed opportunity it's marketing appeal would've been insane.

Look ridiculous backtracking to it now unfortunately, I'm still a fan of dropping the Power nick and just ending up at Ports.

In an alternate timeline this is Jarrod Walsh during gamedays on the boundary line.

 

[Dylan8]

Yup, same for me.

It feels so forced to use a nickname.

Nobody ever really called Manchester United the Red Devils or Arsenal the gunners etc until they become international brands in the late 90’s early 2000’s.

The nicknames were there, but not used day to day. Anyone who did use them just sounded American.

Cardiff City Red Dragons vs Wrexham Deadpools! Defense Defense Defense!

 

[chiwigi]

Cardiff City Red Dragons vs Wrexham Deadpools! Defense Defense Defense!

Indeed

 

[El_Scorcho]

In an alternate timeline this is Jarrod Walsh during gamedays on the boundary line.

A pirate costume would improve Jarrod Walsh IMO

 

[El_Scorcho]

Cardiff City Red Dragons vs Wrexham Deadpools! Defense Defense Defense!

While I agree that nicknames are odd from a world game perspective, they aren't weird from an Australian sports perspective. The oldest Aussie rules teams still playing today have been around longer than the vast majority of major soccer clubs and nicknames have been in use since the 1800s.

 

[bomberclifford]

Pirates actually was a huge missed opportunity it's marketing appeal would've been insane.

Look ridiculous backtracking to it now unfortunately, I'm still a fan of dropping the Power nick and just ending up at Ports.

 

[El_Scorcho]

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Unironically yes

 

[Ford Fairlane]

What really put me off pirates in the end was Graham Cornes thought it would be a good idea.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[VineValerian]

What really put me off pirates in the end was Graham Cornes thought it would be a good idea.

Gra Graham always said that the acronym for Port Adelaide Power was PAP.

Hence why other club's SANFL supporters called us the Pap Smears

But the acronym for Port Adelaide Pirates is .............. PAP.

Go figure!

 

[JimmyBC]

Gra Graham always said that the acronym for Port Adelaide Power was PAP.

Hence why other club's SANFL supporters called us the Pap Smears

But the acronym for Port Adelaide Pirates is .............. PAP.

Go figure!

Keeps me up at night this.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

It's like that factoid that all continents begin and end with the same letter.

Or do they?

 

[El Zorro]

It's like that factoid that all continents begin and end with the same letter.

Or do they?

Another factoid: In most European languages, Europe starts with an E and ends with an A.

 

[VineValerian]

It's like that factoid that all continents begin and end with the same letter.

Or do they?

 

[Contested Marx]

Australia
Europe
Asia
Antarctica
South Americas
North American

 

[Contested Marx]

Australia
Europe
Asia
Antarctica
South Americas
North American

Works with oceans as well

 

[Jonts]

I love Pear

It's the original and better than crom and Hok

 

[Contested Marx]

I thought it was at the time fun but now I look back and cringe, mostly because of the In Ken We Trust vibe from the same era which has tainted it

 

[Lagooner]

At least Pear was organic. Crom and Hok are both painfully forced and about as original as the nickname Pete.

 

[Scodges]

I love Pear

It's the original and better than crom and Hok

Crom & Hok is what you do to remove phlegm


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