New Women's Pro League!

A_Fan wrote:Lumberjills?

A_Fan wrote:Timberbelles?

DoubleDipper wrote:What else? The Portland Beavers!!

Gotta love traditions and the traditional......

Dan No Yell wrote:Lumberjack, I believe, is an Eastern term.
I think out here, they are called loggers.

DaTruRochin wrote:University of Puget Sound are the Loggers.... So there's that.

The Puget Sound athletics teams are known as the "Loggers" with a grizzly bear, "Grizz", as their mascot. Originally only "Loggers" was used, until debate arose over the appropriateness of having a male logger be the mascot at a school which supports equal rights for men and women. The school is now trying to shift mascot recognition over to "Grizz", who is viewed as more in line with the University's focus.

PurpleGeezer wrote:



But this fellow staring over at the Dancing Bare is a lumberjack.



Humbolt College in California uses lumberjack as a mascot also.

Dan No Yell wrote:

Paul Bunyan, from Michigan, or perhaps Quebec.

A few years back some rich guy was collecting Paul Bunyans and offered to buy it from Kenton.

None of which has any thing to do with the topic on hand.

Much of the Paul Bunyan legend, and specifically the idea of Bunyan as a giant lumberjack with a giant blue ox sidekick, was created in the 20th century for an advertising campaign. Although it is claimed in some sources that "there is no documentary evidence of any Paul Bunyan story being told before James MacGillivray's story 'The Round River Drive,' published in 1910,"[3] MacGillivray had published some stories in the Oscoda, Michigan, Press on August 10, 1906, and Governor of Michigan Jennifer M. Granholm proclaimed the centennial of that date as "Paul Bunyan Day".[4]
MacGillivray's story does not suggest that Paul Bunyan was a giant and contains no mention of a blue ox companion.[5] However, author J.E. Rockwell had written about lumberjack tales about Paul Bunyan, and referred to the (unnamed) blue ox in the February, 1910 issue of the magazine The Outer's Book. According to one tale noted by Rockwell, Bunyan was "eight feet tall and weighed 300 pounds."[6] Historian Carleton C. Ames (whose son Aldrich Ames would later become a notorious spy)[7] claimed in a 1940 article[3] that Paul Bunyan was a 20th century invention rather than a 19th century lumber camp folk hero.[8] William Laughead, an advertising copywriter who had once worked in lumber camps, took the stories of an old lumberjack and reworked them into the modern Paul Bunyan character. He sold his character to the Red River Lumber Company, which published "Introducing Mr. Paul Bunyan of Westwood, California" in 1916 as an advertising pamphlet.[9] Among other things, Laughead gave the name "Babe" to the Blue Ox, originated the idea that Paul Bunyan and Babe were of enormous size, and created the first pictorial representation of Bunyan. Authors Richard Dorson and Marshall Fitwick cite Paul Bunyan as an example of "fakelore", or a modern story passed off as an older folktale.[10][11]

UPSoccerFanatic wrote:
Of course, Portlandia is humungous too. According to the Geez, she would be 50 feet tall standing up. How about Portlandia FC with the nickname the River Goddesses?

FC Portlandia wears purple in honor of Clive Charles, whose history with the Timbers and University of Portland has made a more than significant impact on the soccer culture of Portland and the northwest. The FCP badge the features the trident from the famous Portlandia statue.

Supporters of Portland TimbersFC formed some football clubs.
We are one of them.