Comments on: Guess what? The Jets ARE the Thrashers http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/2013/03/guess-what-the-jets-are-the-trashers/ Fact or opinion? Exactly. Mon, 20 May 2013 04:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Geoff DeSouza http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/2013/03/guess-what-the-jets-are-the-trashers/#comment-4155 Geoff DeSouza Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:39:00 +0000 http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/?p=14655#comment-4155 Listen, I’ve been TRYING not to come off as a stereotypical stuck-up Torontonian making fun of the poor occupants of Manitoba, okay? LEAVE ME IN PEACE BEFORE I MAKE A JOKE I WILL REGRET. :(

]]> By: Quisp http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/2013/03/guess-what-the-jets-are-the-trashers/#comment-4151 Quisp Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:14:00 +0000 http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/?p=14655#comment-4151 And yet…

]]> By: Geoff DeSouza http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/2013/03/guess-what-the-jets-are-the-trashers/#comment-4150 Geoff DeSouza Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:49:00 +0000 http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/?p=14655#comment-4150 Like I said, the line of thinking by Jets fans isn’t completely unprecedented, but it has to be specifically set up by the league. Since the Coyotes were allowed to bolt town with the Jets’ franchise history intact, it would be impossible to have two separate teams claiming the same history.

]]> By: Quisp http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/2013/03/guess-what-the-jets-are-the-trashers/#comment-4135 Quisp Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:31:00 +0000 http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/?p=14655#comment-4135 I understand and have a certain amount of empathy for the folks who are so narcissistic that they more or less insist that the team they root for is the same team they always rooted for (and people revise their histories with regards to beliefs, relationships, jobs, etc., all the time). But I don’t have to play along with their fantasy. I think most of the reason for people making these claims is that they take silence on the part of the listener/reader as validation, as opposed to “you’re crazy but I’m not going to say anything.”

]]> By: Uni http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/2013/03/guess-what-the-jets-are-the-trashers/#comment-4132 Uni Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:59:00 +0000 http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/?p=14655#comment-4132 What an awesomely horrendous article! Thank you for bashing it, Quisp. Very fun read!

I just love the idea of people in the stands bickering and treating the memory of Thrashers like every player on it completely dematerialized when the team moved to Winnipeg, and a whole new team shot out the other end of a wormhole good as new save for a nasty identity crisis they picked up from another dimension where Atlanta still has a hockey team.

“And why are they always playing teams from the Southeast? It’ not like they’re not the freaking Thrashers!”

]]> By: Geoff DeSouza http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/2013/03/guess-what-the-jets-are-the-trashers/#comment-4128 Geoff DeSouza Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:40:00 +0000 http://www.mcsorleys-stick.com/?p=14655#comment-4128 It’s notable that there is some partial precedence for the semi-insane line of thinking by Jets fans – namely, the Baltimore Ravens, who, in spite of being the Cleveland Browns, were treated as a new franchise by the NFL after they relocated. And the Browns, in spite of being an expansion team when they returned, got to keep all of their history and records. Hence http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/cle/

But THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN WITH THE JETS. http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/WPG/

I don’t get why this is so hard to figure out. The Jets are a 13-year-old franchise who played in Atlanta for 11 of those seasons. I mean, crap, I’m sure people associated Calgary with Atlanta when they pulled the same trick off in the 80s – of course, they also kept the nickname.

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