NBA News: Hornets to Become New Orleans Pelicans

I don't know about  you but this sounds like a hockey team name... I'm not feeling it at all. But its  New Orleans...who cares.. The basket ball team suck and the football team suck - yeah the "SAINTS". I am an Atlanta Falcons fan.

Yahoo! Sports initially reported the story on Wednesday.

  "This isn't something that was just done overnight," Benson said, according to nola.com. "This is a long process. We are not just changing the name to change the name. The Hornets name came from Charlotte. That fits in with Charlotte. It doesn't fit into New Orleans, La., or our area here. The Hornets don't mean anything here. We needed something that symbolizes New Orleans and Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. And nothing does that better than this name."

 The Name suck ---!!!

The name change was made after scouring more than 100 possible names in a search for the perfect fit, Hornets officials told nola.com.

The team settled on Pelicans because the brown pelican is the state bird of Louisiana and is one of the most visible symbols in the state, on license plates, the state flag and the state seal.

The Pelicans also were a minor league baseball team in New Orleans from 1887 to 1959 and again in 1977.

Hornets officials also said the brown pelican, which was once on the endangered species list but has battled its way off, symbolizes the Gulf Coast region, which has fought its way back after Hurricane Katrina endangered this region.

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