Mountain West Microbrew & Dirty Soda Fountain: Irrelevant chit chat - Page 2

Cirrus · #21 Posted **Apr 14, 2024, 3:26 AM**

Wow, good for SLC. Hope that's true. Hockey belongs in a winter sports town more than freaking Phoenix.

Are there any legends about a monster in Salt Lake? Like a hydra or something? Now'd be a great time to uncover an ancient myth about that.

s.p.hansen · #22 Posted **Apr 14, 2024, 3:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

Wow, good for SLC. Hope that's true. Hockey belongs in a winter sports town more than freaking Phoenix.

Are there any legends about a monster in Salt Lake? Like a hydra or something? Now'd be a great time to uncover an ancient myth about that.

We have Skinwalker Ranch

Cirrus · #23 Posted **Apr 14, 2024, 3:49 AM**

I googled that and definitely was not expecting an actual Navajo legend. More like a nude beach on the shore of the lake.

s.p.hansen · #24 Posted **Apr 14, 2024, 3:53 AM**

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I googled that and definitely was not expecting an actual Navajo legend. More like a nude beach on the shore of the lake.

We have the nude beach too on Stansbury Island. It’s sort of a land of anarchy where people ride side by sides, shoot guns wherever, there’s people flying model planes, a nude beach and gays cruising each other nearby.

i-215 · #25 Posted **Apr 14, 2024, 4:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

Wow, good for SLC. Hope that's true. Hockey belongs in a winter sports town more than freaking Phoenix.

I'm generally an opponent of using TIF or subsidies to build stadiums for privately-owned sports teams. But it sounds like the Coyotes tried nine ways from Sunday to build a home for the team, and kept getting shut down. One even had 90%+ private financing (1.9B of 2.1B).

I had fond memories of going to a Utah Golden Eagles game as a kid. I bet a major league hockey team will find strong support in the state.

The question now: Should they re-name the team? And if they do, we run into the perennial problem... Utah just doesn't have anything noteworthy to name the team after (Lakes, Mountains, Bees...?) Which is why the Jazz are still the Jazz.

Cirrus · #26 Posted **Apr 14, 2024, 4:52 AM**

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Utah just doesn't have anything noteworthy to name the team after

I think we got the answer right here in this thread:

bob rulz · #27 Posted **Apr 14, 2024, 6:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

Wow, good for SLC. Hope that's true. Hockey belongs in a winter sports town more than freaking Phoenix.

Are there any legends about a monster in Salt Lake? Like a hydra or something? Now'd be a great time to uncover an ancient myth about that.

No Great Salt Lake monster legends that I'm aware of, but we did have Pink Floyd the Flamingo.

https://www.utahhumanities.org/stories/items/show/438

DenverInfill · #28 Posted **Apr 14, 2024, 1:21 PM**

Someone previously mentioned the Swarm. I like that, particularly if paired with Salt Lake for the alliteration, and the connection to bees of course. But I guess the name must be the Utah ___?

i-215 · #29 Posted **Apr 16, 2024, 3:23 AM**

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I think we got the answer right here in this thread:

THE SALT LAKE DIRTY SODAS

God bless, AI!

delts145 · #30 Posted **Apr 16, 2024, 5:18 PM**

I always liked the name Golden Eagles. IMO, that was the best name given a Utah team at the time. Eagles is used a lot around the country, but I'm not aware of Golden in the name. I would be all for resurrecting the name if possible. It seems like all of the noble wildlife bird and beast names that are common to Utah are already being taken as either major league names or college team names and mascots.