Dear Geico,

[Drew]

Fuck you. (http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2009/02/tnt-to-play-g-e-i-c-o-instead-of-h-o-r.html)

Love,

EVERYBODY WHO LOVES BASKETBALL

P.S. The Geico HORSE Contest? No you couldn't?

[Briomega]

The fuck?

[Drew]

The fuck?

Click the link please.

[chazbot]

They aren't calling it HORSE.

It's absolutely ridiculous.

[D-3]

:roll:

[EdNEMO]

Um, how does changing the letters affect anything?

[Dave S.]

Wow. I can't believe it. People actually get worked over this?

[chazbot]

Um, how does changing the letters affect anything?

Why change it in the first place if it doesn't affect anything?

[Dave S.]

Why change it in the first place if it doesn't affect anything?

Umm, for money...

[Drew]

HORSE. It was horse. It will always be Horse.

[EdNEMO]

Why change it in the first place if it doesn't affect anything?

They paid for it. They set up a fun little event for fans. I mean, if I paid for something I would expect to have my name and face all over the place. As long as they don't dress the players as cavemen I am good. On second thought, caveman players would be pretty funny. Cavemen vs Geckos! And give them weapons! And make the ball blow up randomly! That would be awesome!

[Dave S.]

HORSE. It was horse. It will always be Horse.

And if you were setting up a game of horse, and a man came up to you and said 'I'll give you this wheel barrel full of money if you use different letters' are you telling me you wouldn't take the money and use different letters?

[Drew]

They paid for it. They set up a fun little event for fans. I mean, if I paid for something I would expect to have my name and face all over the place. As long as they don't dress the players as cavemen I am good. On second thought, caveman players would be pretty funny. Cavemen vs Geckos! And give them weapons! And make the ball blow up randomly! That would be awesome!

Dude. All you have to do is call it the Geico Horse Contest, sponsored by Geico. That's above and beyond.

[Drew]

And if you were setting up a game of horse, and a man came up to you and said 'I'll give you this wheel barrel full of money if you use different letters' are you telling me you wouldn't take the money and use different letters?

I'd find another five letter brand that would not change the name.

Kraft Horse Contest Perhaps?

[EdNEMO]

Dude. All you have to do is call it the Geico Horse Contest, sponsored by Geico. That's above and beyond.

Heh, I guess. I just don't feel the outrage. If the letters spelled COMICS SUCK. Then I would be outraged. Spelling Geico does absolutely nothing to me.

[Dave S.]

I'd find another five letter brand that would not change the name.

Kraft Horse Contest Perhaps?

1) If it's not changing the name why does it have to be 5 letters?

2) What nobody else is willing to offer you as much money? You'd really take less money, just because you don't want to call it something other than horse?

Anyway, I find your viewpoint irrational.

[Ben]

Damn, if only there was some way to avoid watching this!

[EdNEMO]

Damn, if only there was some way to avoid watching this!

Yeah, I was kind of expecting an explanation of it being that it takes away from William Horse the founder of the game who battled interdimensional imps in 1895. And was offensive for that reason. I don't think kids are going to be sitting in their backyards playing GEICO anytime soon. So, I don't see the problem. Oh well.

[Dave S.]

Damn, if only there was some way to avoid watching this!

Don't you get it Ben?! People WANT to watch it, but by changing the name, it makes it completely unfun to watch! They are watching it, not for the players or the shots they are taking, but for the letters that will pop up on the screen. That's WHY people watch. And with different letters, it really is going to hurt the game.

[EdNEMO]

don't you get it ben?! People want to watch it, but by changing the name, it makes it completely unfun to watch! They are watching it, not for the players or the shots they are taking, but for the letters that will pop up on the screen. That's why people watch. And with different letters, it really is going to hurt the game.

:-p

[chazbot]

Dude. All you have to do is call it the Geico Horse Contest, sponsored by Geico. That's above and beyond.

Agreed. It'd be like changing the 3-Point Shootout to the 3M Shootout just because they got a boatload of money from a sponsor. You can attach the name to the game, but when all the analysts and players are going to call the game by its original name, it just makes it seem like a cheap money grab.


Don't you get it Ben?! People WANT to watch it, but by changing the name, it makes it completely unfun to watch! They are watching it, not for the players or the shots they are taking, but for the letters that will pop up on the screen. That's WHY people watch. And with different letters, it really is going to hurt the game.

The people who are complaining are doing so more over it being inane and making it about a sponsor instead of about a way of playing basketball.
And good fake emotion over something you weren't going to watch it in the first place.

[Ben]

Agreed. It'd be like changing the 3-Point Shootout to the 3M Shootout just because they got a boatload of money from a sponsor. You can attach the name to the game, but when all the analysts and players are going to call the game by its original name, it just makes it seem like a cheap money grab.As opposed to the non-cheap money grabs that happen with sponsors?

[chazbot]

As opposed to the non-cheap money grabs that happen with sponsors?

Yes, as opposed to the non-cheap money grabs that happen with sponsors. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile)

[ManOfMiracles]

H-O-R-S-E.........Is nothing sacred?

[Ryan Elliott]

Wow. Some of you need to find better, more important things to be outraged about.

[TRILL, THE CARBON BASED LIFEFORM]

I like Geico.

[Drew]

Wow. Some of you need to find better, more important things to be outraged about.

MY GUY WON IN NOVEMBER!

sigh...

[GrandeMaestro Fünke]

Wow. Some of you need to find better, more important things to be outraged about.

*quote for future*