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December 27, 2011
Can a Sports Team’s Ill Fortunes Be Foretold in Its Name?
The New York Times
by Clyde Haberman
Developments in the New York sports world over the holiday weekend lead to a conclusion that has been bubbling for a while, and now seems inescapable: If you root for a team whose name ends in “ets,” you’re swimming in a sea of troubles.
...There is another “ets” team, the basketball-playing Nets of New Jersey, which is destined to move soon to Brooklyn in the arena that is rising at Atlantic Yards. This team is some catch. It lost 70 percent of its games last season. At that, it was vastly improved over the previous year, when it lost 85 percent of the time.
...By the way, the basketball team’s majority owner is Mikhail D. Prokhorov, a billionaire oligarch who announced this month that he would challenge Vladimir V. Putin for the Russian presidency in an election scheduled for the spring. Distracted as Mr. Prokhorov is by Russian politics, it is hard to see how much attention he will give to his flop of a basketball crew as it prepares to move to Brooklyn.
Maybe yet another name change is called for, particularly if this team doesn’t improve. Why not the Brooklyn Nyets?
Posted by eric at December 27, 2011 11:23 AM