#23 — Brown Goes Down

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Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure what the Steelers have to do with the Bruins objecting to another hockey team starting to use the same colors as them but ok!!

(I know it's because it's Pittsburgh colors!!! woo!! but it's still valid for the Bruins to have objected. They're basically exactly the same.)

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

One, that nonnie thought the colors were black and yellow, and that the Bruins were black and gold, which is incorrect. And two, wanting to have all three teams match isn't stealing from the fucking Bruins.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody in this thread said anything about "stealing"!!! the Bruins objected based on having another team with similar colors making it difficult to brand/market merch etc IN THEIR LEAGUE. why are you basically still arguing with somebody who made the stealing comment weeks ago and isn't even here!!!

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I started the thread by the fact I'm still laughing at them, and then got hit with a bunch of 'but actuallys!' So, yeah. I'm still laughing.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

It's nice to know you're laughing, but the "but actuallys" were pointing out to you that the stealing argument wasn't actually that stupid. Hyperbolic, but not dumb. They wear practically the same colors, and the Bruins wore them first for hockey. It's not that far fetched. Stop being petty.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

The Bruins actually didn't wear them first for hockey, though - that was part of the discussions. A prior Pittsburgh hockey team called the Pirates used those colors in the 1920s, so Pittsburgh actually had prior use of those colors in the NHL (although not as the Penguins).

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I literally made the first comment which pointed this out upthread, but thank you anyways.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

SA
which I realize now makes me look like an idiot for saying they wore them first when I really meant they were already wearing them at the time of the switch...sorry I'm tired.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

ah okay I was trying to figure out where I'd misread... sorry for stepping on your toes, I guess!

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

no prob, sorry for being salty. I haven't been id-ing myself in this thread and my comment made no sense considering I was the one to bring up the Pirates in the first place lol. My bad.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, I didn't identify myself as na either - I'm not laughing anon, I jumped in with the (second?) Pirates comment because of the overall thread, not so much your specific comment. I guess I missed you saying something first? I still can't find it, actually, so blame my reading comprehension.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt
"When the Pens changed their colors to black and gold, the Bruins actually did appeal to the league because they're so similar, but they got denied because the old Pittsburgh Pirates used the same colors so they weren't ~exclusively Bruins~."

first response to laughing anon

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

da
I think the problem is that I think baseball first with Pirates, even though you did say 'old Pirates.'

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Ah, thank you! I definitely missed that completely.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

it's great to know that Pens fans absurd homerism and inability to listen to facts or opposing arguments applies to all aspects of their team right down to the fucking jerseys. what are you even arguing right now?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Lol, seriously.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Pittsburgh wanting to unify their aesthetic isn't the Bruins' problem when they're trying to protect their brand identity within the NHL. Honestly, I wished the NHL hadn't allowed it, if only to get more of the color wheel represented.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

It happened over 30 years ago. I think you can let it go.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'm not a Bruins fan. I'm actually not even in the East, but thank god this meme exists to educate me me how off the wall ridiculously sensitive Pens fans are.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

da

I didn't think this was sensitive. Of course, as a Stars fan, I had to use the " it was x years ago, it's literally old enough to vote. Let it go" argument a lot, already.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Part of the Norm Green thing, though, is that a lot of Stars fans seem to take it way too far - dude, one of the reasons the Stars moved was because Norm Green was sexually harassing people and having an affair and his wife said move the team or we're divorcing.

I don't resent that the team was moved, but ffs, stop taunting Minnesota fans with how much you like the dude, Stars fans. Norm Green was a fucking dick.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I've only seen Norm Green embracing on Twitter; in my real life circle, the "Should have actually gone to the games!" argument comes up 99% of the time. Still, "let it go" is my go to response when I walk into the grocery story wearing a Stars hat and someone starts an argument with me.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Yeah, I honestly think it's mostly just a meme among Wild fans. But the whole thing was a lot more complicated than both sides make it out to be, really. There were attendance issues, there were arena issues, there was a bizarre thing about how the North Stars and the Timberwolves couldn't share an arena because one had a contract to only sell Coke and the other Pepsi (seriously), there was Norm Green the Asshole... it was complicated.

But seriously, I'm in my 30s, and I barely even remember the North Stars. Let it go, fellow Minnesota fans. Let it go.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

*cues opening piano chords*