Houston MLS team to be Houston 1836

Give me a 1...1 Give me a 8....8 Give me a 3....3 Give me a 6...6, What does that spell? 1836!! Wait, what?

 

I'm so happy we get a team in Houston, and then the name is 1836...what the hell is that..how do i root for that...we better come up with a nickname..

 

WTF? I think Hot Sweaty B@lls would have been better. And wtf is up with them unveiling the name at a Middle School Auditorium? Would make alot more sense to do it at UH since they will play there games there.

 

1836 is just stupid. Are they going to have throwback jerseys with Roman numerals on them?

 

Probably the only place they could find. I don't think they wanted to bump the "That's a fact jack" mattress guy.

 

That story has already been broken by DrLudicrous. ( kind of)

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=2163501#post2163501




I like it and will buy a hat.

I think it looks like the NBA All Star logo this year

 

Can someone please tell me the signifigance of 1836, is that the year the city was founded or something...yes i should google it but im being a lazy ass...

EDIT - Okay i guess it was the year Houston was founded....very interesting name choice.

 

I'm pretty sure it's the year Texas won its independence from Mexico.

 

Houston was founded in 1836 (by brothers Augustus and John Allen)

 

It's also the same year Texas declared and won its independence.

http://www.texasindependencetrail.org/timeline_of_events.htm

 

What is the plural of 1836?

 

Most likely the "nickname" of the team will be the 36er's in the same vein as 49er's and 76er's. Personally I really like the name, it could have been much worse (gattos?).

 

I couldn't possibly post enough of these:

Thank god I'm not a soccer fan or I'd be pissed. Jim Rome should have a field day with this tomorrow.

 

Oh that's great. Go ahead and piss off all the Mexicans and remind them of how Texas defeated them in battle. I though the Mexicans were supposed to be the target audience for this team in the first place!

 

If the Mexicans are still hungover from that, then let me be the first to say:

I like the name. Pretty cool, very original. I'm looking forward to going to these games.

 

That's right, because there are no Mexicans who happen to be proud Texans here in Texas. That would be so odd.

 

Dude, this is sooooo freaking awesome! I came up with this name for the Texans (36'ers), on their NFL2002 website back in 1999 when they were asking fans for team names. It got a lot of good feedback on this site.

I don't care that I don't get any "true" credit. In my opinion, I came up with the name!

(Now I gotta go look and see if I can find any of those old threads.)

Never underestimate my awesomeness!

 

out of all the names and they choose this crap! I was afraid of this when I saw it in the poll for voting a name. Im pretty sure that was not the name people voted for. I would have preffered FC Houston then this.

 

Sweet! Now we know whose ass to kick!