Our City's Baseball Team is causing serious controversy here

[Iron Woode]

We have a new baseball team in the Frontier League.

The London Rippers.

here is a link to the issue: http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2011/11/16/18978701.html

Marketing experts say they have a tough time believing the London Rippers didn't have the infamous 19th-century serial killer Jack the Ripper in mind when they rolled out their team name and logo this week.

No sooner had the professional team unveiled its image, including a top-hatted logo character named Jack, than the criticism flew -- in social media, and from women unimpressed by the link -- deliberate or not -- to the British killer.

Jack the Ripper stalked and brutalized women.

"It's naive to think that they didn't have that in mind," said Richard Powers, a sports marketing expert from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

The Rippers may have struck out before they even stepped up to the plate, trading on a killer's legacy to market baseball to families.

"It is distasteful and it raises negative connotations," Powers said. "It's celebrating a very despicable criminal act."

All the typical whiners are out in force, especially the feminists.

Even Rush Limbaugh is involved now: http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2011/11/17/18984276.html

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[trmiv]

The most ridiculous part of it is them claiming they never even considered the connection to Jack the Ripper when they thought of the mascot.

 

[schneiderguy]

lolwomen

 

[bigpimpatl]

it's actually a pretty bad ass logo/team name. but like all cool things it'll be shot down.

 

[crashtestdummy]

Saucy Jack, you’re a naughty one
Saucy Jack, you’re a haughty one.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Wait, there is baseball in CANADA? WTF?











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[ElFenix]

i'll send you paypal for a hat before they decide to rename the team



local soccer team was going to name itself after the city's founding. so it would have been the houston 1836. that pissed off local mexicans who pointed out that's also when sam houston sent santa ana scurrying back across the rio grande. so the soccer team changed its name.