A ‘storm is coming’ with ‘blizzard’ potential and an adrenaline-‘pulse’ that is going to “punish’ the competition. Erie Professional Football, Inc. announces a community-wide contest to name the new professional arena football team.
The new ownership group announced in December that a new team name will replace the RiverRats to best reflect Erie and its hometown pride. The contenders are:
1. Erie Storm
2. Erie Blizzard
3. The Pulse of Erie
4. The Erie Punishers
You can go vote on their website, but if you don’t feel like it, you can vote here right now. Think those names are lame? Suggest your own in the poll or in the comments below. I like the Erie Zebra Mussels myself. Erie Channel Cats? Erie Lake Effect?
Bill Stafford, ownership group spokesperson elaborated, “The new team’s mantra has been ‘our town, our team’. What better way to successfully introduce the new team than with a team name chosen by the community. It’s the perfect combination – hometown heroes/players … hometown pride … hometown ‘ownership’ of the team by the community with the team being named by the community.”
Anyone can participate by visiting ErieProfessionalFootball.com and casting a vote for our town’s new team name. Or votes can be mailed to Erie Professional Football, Inc. 2047 West 12th Street; Erie, PA 16505. The deadline to vote is January 12. Our town’s team name will be announced Thursday, January 14, 2010.
How about Erie Locomotives? Something not so generic. I liked Invaders when we had that, but can’t go to the past.
Reading (PA) is the Express and already has a locomotive theme.
How the hell does “Punishers” best reflect Erie and its hometown pride?
How about Erie Steelhead.
We have anglers that come from around the world to come fish in the tribs of Lake Erie for monster fish…
On top of that make their colors yellow and black and people will think we’re the farm team for the steelers :-)
Erie Lakers
Erie Hazards (In reference to Oliver “Hazard” Perry)
Erie Fighters
Erie Briggers (for the Brig Niagara)
I also like the Erie Locomotives.
These names (barring Erie Storm) are so freaking awful. Seriously, how lame can they get? Who cares if it doesn’t capture the “essence” of Erie, as long as it sounds semi decent I’ll be proud. Heck, even the Erie Bears sounds a whole lot better than half of these