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Naff IPL Team Names
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pup11
International Coach
Haha... had a laugh reading through the thread, but don't know why is anyone too surprised to see the owners coming up with such stupid names for their franchises, its not really a secret that most of them are just filthy rich idiots; its not like it really matters to do them what their teams are called as long as they make money.
wellAlbidarned
International Coach
"The Great SRT + 10" would've been a great name IMO.
STOP!!! Dont go any further, you're just embarrassing yourself here. Please pick up a history book of North India. Maharajah Ranjeet Singh had the Kohinoor at one time and invaded part of mighty Afghanistan (hence NWFP is in Pakistan now). Punjabi Maharajas were the last people to be conquered before the British successfully annexed India FFS!Tamil Nadu has been a land of kings and the people feel an affinity for their achievements, that was the reasoning behind Chennai naming their franchise so. Justified, imo.
Vijay Mallya of Kingfisher owns the Bangalore Royal Challengers, and 'Royal' is a brand name he owns and uses for many of his products. Perfectly valid and well reasoned branding.
Rajasthan and Punjab are the weird ones imo. I've never associated Punjab with kings, not any significant ones in any case, although I might be wrong on that count. Wannabes imo.
Its the 'Rajasthan' part of the Rajasthan Royals that grinds my gears. There were precisely two players actually from Rajasthan in their squad last year, and only one of them played any games for them. The most ridiculous grouping of players into a team ever.
Re: Knight Riders. I have an inkling SRK might have let his son name his team, its not the sort of name a grown up would come up with. The juvenility of the branding gives me a chuckle. Its actually a name my buddies and me were considering for our little scouts group in school a long time back, before we finally settled for the Holmes inspired 'Silver Blaze'
What are the Tamil kings achievements.....apart from mass dosa production?
angad
U19 12th Man
Punjab has 10x richer culture, history than Rajasthan. Maharaja Ranjit Singh's (The Quintessential Indus Man) Military General Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa conquered Kashmir, Multan, Peshawar and made Chamba, Kangra and Jammu bow before him. He extended his territories upto Ladakh and China and struck his coin there. He defeated the Afghans, something the British failed to do, and annexed a segment of what was the Kingdom of Kabul to the Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Kingdom.
Kings in Punjab team stands for lavish lifestyle, Punjab on both side of border is rich state, very fertile land, we spend on Jewellery/Bullet Bikes/Arms/Jeeps/marriages. Punjab has highest no. of Mercedes sales in India.
Airtel Bharti/Mahindra/Hero Group/Ranbaxy/Fortis Group/Vinod Dham (Father of Pentium 4 Processor)/Obeori Hotels/India Today Group/F C Kohli (Father of Indian Software Industry, Founder of TCS)/Sabeer Bhatia (founder of Hotmail)/T Series/Vinod Khosla (Co founder Sun Micro Systems) all these n many more are Punjabi's.
Punjabi's have struck their coin in US/Canada/UK politics. 75% of bollywood is Punjabi. Kapoors/Puris/Khannas/Deols/Devgans/Roshans/Chopras/Sahnis/Anands/Dutts/Bedis!!!!! You know our contribution to Indian Army, only Gurkha's can match us. Punjabi's alone make 15%-20% of expat Indians. 1983WC winning team had 1/2 squad was Punjabi.
What has Rajasthan achieved? Except stealing our water? Except Vasundra Raje corruption and Gujjar reservation clashes?
Food wise we have slight edge over Rajisthani's (We're better in Non-veg variety), In Music, we are miles ahead.
You also mentioned Forts, Punjab has 10x more forts including U.N. World Heritage sites. Its just Congress hates us, we already got partitioned many times, our quota of river water is stolen, Even Chandigarh is disputed (we dont have right to say it our own).
King Porus was Punjabi
Other suitable names for Punjab team - Chak De XI (Chak de phattey was a war cry) or Sarson Saag XI or Thandi Lassi XI or Tandoori Nights XI or Punjabi Gabroo XI (Gabroo=Jawaan) or Punjabi Soormay.
Plz do visit - List of Punjabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Come to think of it, no need to waste our time with people like this. Some people just have an inferiority complex and have to overtly discredit people they actually admire underneath. The british, indian and pakistani govts in the past have tried to suppress Punjabi culture...look at it today, its still dominant and now influencing all of India. So if these govts were unsuccessful I dont think a few losers posting threads here and there will make a much of a differencePunjab has 10x richer culture, history than Rajasthan. Maharaja Ranjit Singh's (The Quintessential Indus Man) Military General Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa conquered Kashmir, Multan, Peshawar and made Chamba, Kangra and Jammu bow before him. He extended his territories upto Ladakh and China and struck his coin there. He defeated the Afghans, something the British failed to do, and annexed a segment of what was the Kingdom of Kabul to the Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Kingdom.
Kings in Punjab team stands for lavish lifestyle, Punjab on both side of border is rich state, very fertile land, we spend on Jewellery/Bullet Bikes/Arms/Jeeps/marriages. Punjab has highest no. of Mercedes sales in India.
Airtel Bharti/Mahindra/Hero Group/Ranbaxy/Fortis Group/Vinod Dham (Father of Pentium 4 Processor)/Obeori Hotels/India Today Group/F C Kohli (Father of Indian Software Industry, Founder of TCS)/Sabeer Bhatia (founder of Hotmail)/T Series/Vinod Khosla (Co founder Sun Micro Systems) all these n many more are Punjabi's.
Punjabi's have struck their coin in US/Canada/UK politics. 75% of bollywood is Punjabi. Kapoors/Puris/Khannas/Deols/Devgans/Roshans/Chopras/Sahnis/Anands/Dutts/Bedis!!!!! You know our contribution to Indian Army, only Gurkha's can match us. Punjabi's alone make 15%-20% of expat Indians. 1983WC winning team had 1/2 squad was Punjabi.
What has Rajasthan achieved? Except stealing our water? Except Vasundra Raje corruption and Gujjar reservation clashes?
Food wise we have slight edge over Rajisthani's (We're better in Non-veg variety), In Music, we are miles ahead.
You also mentioned Forts, Punjab has 10x more forts including U.N. World Heritage sites. Its just Congress hates us, we already got partitioned many times, our quota of river water is stolen, Even Chandigarh is disputed (we dont have right to say it our own).
King Porus was Punjabi
Other suitable names for Punjab team - Chak De XI (Chak de phattey was a war cry) or Sarson Saag XI or Thandi Lassi XI or Tandoori Nights XI or Punjabi Gabroo XI (Gabroo=Jawaan) or Punjabi Soormay.
Plz do visit - List of Punjabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
vcs
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Hate to fall for the obvious bait but can't remember seeing any architecture of that quality in Punjab.
architecture......yes because after all that is the better reflection of a kings empire as opposed to successful conquests of neighbouring lands. Anyway even if it was, why is it that Queen Elizabeth, Dalai Lama, Barrack Obama make it amongst their priorities to visit the Golden Temple Amritsar? Why is it that after the Taj Mahal, the Golden Temple is the most recognized architecture of India worldwide?
Kings Xi is the bare minimum we deserve to be called, you guys are the real wannabes in my opinion!
anyway I'm gonna stop going any further, because I dont want to offend the GOOD people that exist in Tamil Nadhu. However, the posters here can exclude themselves from that list.
vcs
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Yeah, agree that the Golden Temple is a great monument, though I'd hardly use the list of visiting celebrities as any indication of its architectural intricacy. But then I wasn't the one saying something idiotic like "Punjabi rulers have done nothing but popularise Bhangra". And no, I certainly don't consider expansion and size of an empire as any indication of how good the rulers were.
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I love eating dosa and if one thinks about it, mass dosa production is a worthy achievement as all of India has embraced this food. The fact that your region has produced a dish that dominates restaurants throughout north india is a considerable compliment. Dosa has influenced all of India like Indian food in general has influenced the UK.
how 'good' rulers were has got nothing to do with it....if that was the case every team would want to call themselves "Mahatma Gandhi XI". It is more about dominance of your empire as IPL franchise names are constructed to have commercial worth, not ethical!
Not to feed a parochial discussion or to defend the "Chennai super kings" name, but in the interest of a history lesson: You might want to read up about the Cholas and Rajendra Chola.
slugger
State Vice-Captain
I think alot of the names just lacked creativeness.
why a team as of yet has taken the name of the Cobra's, Bengal Tiger, Leapords or the Rhino's just does not make sense, usually everyone grabs the animal names first.
there was also mentioned the mumbai indians was a take on the new york yankees.
this is inteesting the history of the word yankee awas first used to describe the people of New England, anyone who arrived in america directly from the UK during the 17th century were named or called Yankees, over time the word was used by englishmen in describing anyone who came from USA to visit england "damm yankees" etc.. most southern states referred to the northern and eastern states (NY) as Yankees. at times the word was negative word and also a positive word, the final nail in the coffin was New York adopting the name thus removing it away from the negative use.
if Mumbai wanted to base their franchise on such a name, i think indians is far to board.
however the word indian might refer to mumbai being the orginal up rising fighting for inderpendence. if this is the case I would have gone for: Mumbai Fighters, Mumbai Rebels or Mumbai Renegades.
but hey no one asked me.
why a team as of yet has taken the name of the Cobra's, Bengal Tiger, Leapords or the Rhino's just does not make sense, usually everyone grabs the animal names first.
there was also mentioned the mumbai indians was a take on the new york yankees.
this is inteesting the history of the word yankee awas first used to describe the people of New England, anyone who arrived in america directly from the UK during the 17th century were named or called Yankees, over time the word was used by englishmen in describing anyone who came from USA to visit england "damm yankees" etc.. most southern states referred to the northern and eastern states (NY) as Yankees. at times the word was negative word and also a positive word, the final nail in the coffin was New York adopting the name thus removing it away from the negative use.
if Mumbai wanted to base their franchise on such a name, i think indians is far to board.
however the word indian might refer to mumbai being the orginal up rising fighting for inderpendence. if this is the case I would have gone for: Mumbai Fighters, Mumbai Rebels or Mumbai Renegades.
but hey no one asked me.
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Ha ha, good one actually. The elephant is a prominent animal motif in India / subcontinent - so much so that the mascots for this cricket WC is one (as was the one for the 1982 Asian games in Delhi).
Also representative of some Indian things. Like Sehwag for example. Absolutely brilliant mind, very clear thinking, excellent fine motor skills with hand-eye or trunk-eye coordination to die for. No footwork. A butt of many jokes. Gets the job done spectacularly when all is said & done.
(The Indian economy is another one. Ridiculed for ages for being an elephant, which it really is, except people sort of forgot that the elephant is a very smart and competent animal that easily manages to hold its own against tigers. Just took a different evolutionary path, thats all).