When Boredom Attacks: The OKC Story

A month or so ago, in a week of boredom at work, I set out on the epic quest to create the new name of the Oklahoma City Sonics franchise. I knew at the time, however, that these ideas would border on ridiculous and completely lack any possibility of being better than the actual name that was chosen. In the end, I created a list of just over 200 names…a few of them may have been used by other people, but I tried to be original as possible.

I’m cleaning off my computer at work, and I don’t have a reason to either keep this here or take it home, so ladies & gentlemen, here is THE list of potential-yet-completely-incorrect names for the OKC franchise!

(A few of my favorites have been bolded)



(…and by favorites, I don’t mean that they’re good)


1. Oklahoma City Algorithms
2. Oklahoma City Ambivalence
3. Oklahoma City Analysis
4. Oklahoma City Anointed
5. Oklahoma City Anteaters
6. Oklahoma City Badges
7. Oklahoma City Barbers
8. Oklahoma City Barnburners
9. Oklahoma City Beer
10. Oklahoma City Bennettiers
11. Oklahoma City Black-eyed peas
12. Oklahoma City Boilermakers
13. Oklahoma City Bonanza
14. Oklahoma City Boredom
15. Oklahoma City Bricklayers
16. Oklahoma City Bubbas
17. Oklahoma City Bullfrogs
18. Oklahoma City Bush-bashers
19. Oklahoma City Carpenters
20. Oklahoma City Cars
21. Oklahoma City Cats in Hats
22. Oklahoma City Charmin
23. Oklahoma City Chosen
24. Oklahoma City Circlers
25. Oklahoma City Climate
26. Oklahoma City Comquats
27. Oklahoma City Conquerors
28. Oklahoma City Conquest
29. Oklahoma City Conquistadores
30. Oklahoma City Conservatives
31. Oklahoma City Corkscrew
32. Oklahoma City Cornbread (Announcer: “The Cornbread is hot tonight!”)
33. Oklahoma City Corncollectors (don't piss off the huskers)
34. Oklahoma City Crew
35. Oklahoma City Cubicle
36. Oklahoma City Cult
37. Oklahoma City Cyclones
38. Oklahoma City Daffodils (new idea—I want them to be OCD!)
39. Oklahoma City Dallas
40. Oklahoma City Dark Knights
41. Oklahoma City Dastardly
42. Oklahoma City Davidson Harleys
43. Oklahoma City Dawn
44. Oklahoma City Day
45. Oklahoma City Dealbreakers
46. Oklahoma City Dealers
47. Oklahoma City Deeds
48. Oklahoma City Demon Barbers
49. Oklahoma City Demons
50. Oklahoma City Dentures
51. Oklahoma City Department of Defense
52. Oklahoma City Destruction
53. Oklahoma City Deviants
54. Oklahoma City Dial-up
55. Oklahoma City Dirt
56. Oklahoma City Disaster
57. Oklahoma City Dishwashers
58. Oklahoma City Doctors
59. Oklahoma City Dog Groomers
60. Oklahoma City Doggie Droppings
61. Oklahoma City Dogpile
62. Oklahoma City Dogs
63. Oklahoma City Dollars
64. Oklahoma City Dominion
65. Oklahoma City Doodoo Bugs
66. Oklahoma City Douchebags
67. Oklahoma City Drama Queens
68. Oklahoma City Dreadlocks
69. Oklahoma City Dream
70. Oklahoma City Dream Team
71. Oklahoma City Dreamers
72. Oklahoma City Drillers
73. Oklahoma City Drillers
74. Oklahoma City Drinkers
75. Oklahoma City Drinks
76. Oklahoma City Drivers
77. Oklahoma City Drummers
78. Oklahoma City Ducks
79. Oklahoma City Dummies
80. Oklahoma City Durants (just BEG him to stay!)
81. Oklahoma City Dynasty
82. Oklahoma City Dysentery
83. Oklahoma City Fantastic Fifteen
84. Oklahoma City Flycatchers
85. Oklahoma City Focus
86. Oklahoma City Foster Care
87. Oklahoma City Gain
88. Oklahoma City Globehikers
89. Oklahoma City Goliaths
90. Oklahoma City Googlers (easy sponsorship opportunity)
91. Oklahoma City Gorillas
92. Oklahoma City Gunners
93. Oklahoma City Hammer
94. Oklahoma City Hands
95. Oklahoma City Hicks
96. Oklahoma City High
97. Oklahoma City Hillbillies
98. Oklahoma City Hiltons
99. Oklahoma City Homogeneous
100. Oklahoma City Honeybees
101. Oklahoma City Hoopsterators
102. Oklahoma City Hounds
103. Oklahoma City Humblers
104. Oklahoma City Humdingers
105. Oklahoma City Hummers
106. Oklahoma City Hunters
107. Oklahoma City Huts
108. Oklahoma City Hypochondriacs
109. Oklahoma City Idiots
110. Oklahoma City Inbred
111. Oklahoma City Indian Blanket
112. Oklahoma City Insurmountable
113. Oklahoma City Internet
114. Oklahoma City Jordans (the jerseys will be awesome)
115. Oklahoma City Kansas City Shuffle
116. Oklahoma City Lady Trojans
117. Oklahoma City Legend
118. Oklahoma City Masochists
119. Oklahoma City Meditation
120. Oklahoma City Mentos
121. Oklahoma City Microsoft
122. Oklahoma City Middle-of-nowhere-dwellers
123. Oklahoma City Might
124. Oklahoma City Milk
125. Oklahoma City Miracle
126. Oklahoma City Missile Toe
127. Oklahoma City Mittens
128. Oklahoma City Monopoly
129. Oklahoma City Mountaineers
130. Oklahoma City Movers
131. Oklahoma City NASCARs
132. Oklahoma City Newspaper
133. Oklahoma City Oilermakers (PISS OFF PURDUE!)
134. Oklahoma City Oilers
135. Oklahoma City Okra
136. Oklahoma City Oligarchy
137. Oklahoma City Only-Game-In-Town
138. Oklahoma City Open
139. Oklahoma City Oven
140. Oklahoma City Paper
141. Oklahoma City People
142. Oklahoma City Perdition
143. Oklahoma City Polyps
144. Oklahoma City Postal Workers
145. Oklahoma City Predictors
146. Oklahoma City Pseudonyms (our name suggests that we go by other names…?)
147. Oklahoma City Pumpernickel
148. Oklahoma City Quakers
149. Oklahoma City Ranchers
150. Oklahoma City Razors
151. Oklahoma City Red
152. Oklahoma City Redbuds
153. Oklahoma City Remembrance
154. Oklahoma City Residents
155. Oklahoma City Rippers
156. Oklahoma City Salvation
157. Oklahoma City Scissortails
158. Oklahoma City Seal
159. Oklahoma City Seamen
160. Oklahoma City See Ya Seattles
161. Oklahoma City Serpents
162. Oklahoma City Seuss’s
163. Oklahoma City Sewage
164. Oklahoma City Shakers
165. Oklahoma City Shalom
166. Oklahoma City Shawshankers
167. Oklahoma City Shimmer
168. Oklahoma City Shotgunners
169. Oklahoma City Shroud
170. Oklahoma City Shuffle
171. Oklahoma City Siamese
172. Oklahoma City Simpletons
173. Oklahoma City Simpsons (OC Simpsons)
174. Oklahoma City Sleuths
175. Oklahoma City Slickers
176. Oklahoma City Smash
177. Oklahoma City Solomons
178. Oklahoma City Soniqs (LOL change one letter? That would be horrible!)
179. Oklahoma City Sophocles
180. Oklahoma City Soul
181. Oklahoma City Sour
182. Oklahoma City Spasm
183. Oklahoma City Speech Pathologists
184. Oklahoma City Square dance
185. Oklahoma City Staplers
186. Oklahoma City Starbucks
187. Oklahoma City Statesmen
188. Oklahoma City Stealth
189. Oklahoma City Stolen
190. Oklahoma City Stormchasers
191. Oklahoma City Summer Sand!
192. Oklahoma City Sundries
193. Oklahoma City Sunset
194. Oklahoma City SuperS
195. Oklahoma City Suppositories
196. Oklahoma City Surgeons
197. Oklahoma City Swallowtail (state bird…creepy name)
198. Oklahoma City Sweet Tarts
199. Oklahoma City Syringes (promote safe injections!)
200. Oklahoma City Thorough
201. Oklahoma City Tronics
202. Oklahoma City Tropics (Reference a crap Will Ferrell movie!)
203. Oklahoma City Turntables
204. Oklahoma City Tycoons
205. Oklahoma City Unknown
206. Oklahoma City Used Car Salesmen
207. Oklahoma City Village People (“People of the Village” also acceptable)
208. Oklahoma City Volvos
209. Oklahoma City Website
210. Oklahoma City Wheels
211. Oklahoma City Wild Turkeys
212. Oklahoma City Winners
213. Oklahoma City World
214. Oklahoma City Wrath (Grapes of Wrath was there)
215. Oklahoma City X (and then they'd be the X-Men!)
216. Oklahoma City Yes-Men
217. Oklahoma City Young
218. Oklahoma City Zulu


And they chose…the Thunder…


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…I’m creative enough to run an NBA team?!!