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Originally Posted by littlechris1977
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littlechris,
Sorry you don't like the choice.
The only stipulation was that the committee could not pick a nickname being used in any of the major sports leagues...NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL.
It was ok to choose minor league nicknames...even if they had been used by a town...as in this case by the Vancouver Mounties.
As an American, the first thing I think of when I think of Canada is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...Sergeant Preston of the Yukon and his wonder dog, Yukon King...from my days of listening to him on the radio in the late Forties and early Fifties...I also think of the great CBS tv series, "Due South" and Benton Fraser, a honest, decent, courteous, intelligent and offbeat police officer, who talked to his dead father, who was also a Mountie...Fraser was assigned to the Chicago Police Dept...and I think of those two red-clad mounted horseman first when Canada is mentioned...then I think of red maple leafs...then I think of beautiful mountains and plains and wonderful scenery and wonderful people, who are our friends (even when they disagree with our politics and we with theirs).