Thunder???

This is Kevin Durant, basketball player for the new Oklahoma City Thunder... the new NBA team in OKC.

Now I think it is great that OKC got an NBA team even though they had to go to Seattle to get it. But who was in charge of naming this team? Thunder? That was the best you could come up with?

Of course the Seattle team was the "Sonics"; which would work in OKC, home of the Sonic franchise of restaurants. You want cheese on that coney? How about a free Sonic Blast for every win? But Seattle wanted to keep the "Sonics" name so they had to pick another.

So I am thinking, I can do better than "Thunder". I mean; can you have Thunder if you don't have lightning? Nope, and Lightning always comes before Thunder. It is that old thought of if a tree falls in a forest and no is around does it make any noise type of ridiculous.

But lets look at our state, what are we known for? Thunder? Hardly. How about "Oilers"? With the price of gas now it would be good to be affiliated with oil production. How about "Roughnecks"? You know the guys that work the oil fields, of course that might have been too close to "rednecks" which really would not look too good on an NBA jersey. How about "Indians", whoops, can't do that anymore so that shoots down all the tribal names.

What else is Oklahoma known for; Sooners, uhmm that is taken; as well as the Cowboys, the Golden Hurricanes, and the Eagles. What else, "Sodbusters"; "Farmers"; "Toll Plazas"? I mean there are a ton of names Oklahoma is known for. But in reality they got close with Thunder, but Oklahoma is known not for Thunder but for the other weather pattern that starts with a T. Tornadoes, or course the Oklahoma City Twisters really rolls off the tongue but who am I to think that I can name a team? But many people in OK are afraid of Tornadoes, Twisters and Typhoons so maybe they felt "Twisters" was too risky.

I mean have you ever heard of someone dying from Thunder?