@George,
I have a "feeling" George. I get them about horses mainly. Not often. It's poetic really and probably no better than C/T. The carefully chosen names of the NFL franchises, they couldn't choose the name of the location, display a remarkable predatory and violent imagery. Some don't of course. Like the 49ers for example. I have a soft spot for the 49ers because I admire peaceful searches for gold.
And Lions are more predatory than packers. Packers pack things like frozen chickens and those dressing-table scent six packs with the velvet inserts and goldstyle lettering in the style redolent of the missives issued by the Courts of Love and which the buggers charge an arm and a leg for on the sound business basis of charging what the traffic will bear. Unless it's meant to mean that Green Bay packs a punch and, by mentioning it at all, it's a mean one. You only have to look in the shops, and in the garbage, to see what packers do. No very edifying is it?
These names were carefully chosen remember. I'll analyse them one of these days. The Tennessee Tomcats must have been considered if the board had decided on an alliterative name. A snappy effect. Then it's a question of running through the "t"s in the dicco and making a short list for consideration by the chiefs. It is impossible for me to imagine anyone passing "tomcats" without listing it. Terriers as well. The Tennessee Ticklers.
Was "steelers" chosen because Pittsburg is a steel town or because it is a pun on steal. God knows how Arizona got the Cardinals. Tico lives in Arizona.
Names are extremely interesting things. When you then get 11 blokes against 11 blokes on a field it becomes something else. Or we have to hope it does. And the Lions have 11 blokes on the field when the Packers have. You don't exist for the good player.
I'm just getting myself up for the game. I've never changed a pick before in my illustrious career on the Pick-um game.
