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2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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hold....hold...hold. For sure think about using that one. Fighter and the Kid!"Big **** bandits"
Not all plays on words are puns. These don't take a word and use its other meaning. If I said "The team has a bad defense because the coach loves offense but defense is secondary." Then I'm using the alternate meaning of the same word (secondary), or a word that sounds the same. Or the Sherman meme "thou shalt not pass." Pass has two meanings. LOB is just a metaphor, so is Steel Curtain. I guess Orange Crush is a pun even thouh the name for the soda is probably derived from crush's original meaning."pun. the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. the word or phrase used in this way"
By this definition straight off a google search Steel Curtain is actually the least 'punny' of all three examples you provided because the Steel in Steelers and Steel Curtain mean the same thing.
I'm not trying to be a smart-arse, from my viewpoint they are all puns because they are a play on words/sayings.
Legion of Doom (DC comic villains) = Legion of Boom (NFL villains)
Orange Crush (soda) = Orange Crush (crush your opponent)
Then there's Gang Green, Greatest Show on Turf...All these nicknames are puns derived from existing sayings.
If Tim Wright has a good season can him & Gronk be the Boston TE Party?
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