NY Mets/Jete Fans upset over Brady’s “Tom Terrific” trademark application lol

fnordcircle said:

I actually, genuinely like you.

So I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

Look it's pretty simple. A term of endearment that has been used most-often for an athlete shouldn't be require fan action to stop another athlete who has pretty much never been addressed with said term of endearment from going into his Scrooge McDuck vault of gold and pulling out 12 lawyers to trademark it.

Let's assume 'Big Papi' isn't trademarked. I don't know if it is because even trying to google stuff about baseball puts me to sleep. In 30 years some gorgeous QB for some rival team decides to trademark it because someone somewhere called him Papi once you know, you ****ing know all the Sox fans still alive would be apoplectic and with good cause. It would probably be the only time in the history of everything that I was on the side of Red Sox fans.

Saying 'welp they should have hired a lawyer' is man...it's just such a lame defense.

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fnordcircle said:

My opinion is too important for me to do things like read before posting.

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fnordcircle said:

I actually, genuinely like you.

So I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

Look it's pretty simple. A term of endearment that has been used most-often for an athlete shouldn't be require fan action to stop another athlete who has pretty much never been addressed with said term of endearment from going into his Scrooge McDuck vault of gold and pulling out 12 lawyers to trademark it.

Let's assume 'Big Papi' isn't trademarked. I don't know if it is because even trying to google stuff about baseball puts me to sleep. In 30 years some gorgeous QB for some rival team decides to trademark it because someone somewhere called him Papi once you know, you ****ing know all the Sox fans still alive would be apoplectic and with good cause. It would probably be the only time in the history of everything that I was on the side of Red Sox fans.

Saying 'welp they should have hired a lawyer' is man...it's just such a lame defense.

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fnordcircle said:

I'm really not trying to be a contrarian but personally I'm not a fan of this - it's a bad look. Tom's 'brand' wasn't going to be harmed by him being called Tom Terrific but it is hardly a name I've heard applied to him with any regularity and tbh he should have just left it alone.

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DarrylS said:

Not a huge fan of "Tom Terrific" either for #12 or anyone else.. conjurs up a very weird, but remembered image. Captain Kangaroo and his fans are quite upset at the bastardization of their offspring..

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shmessy said:

I just hope Edelman doesn’t trademark Jot.

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Tony2046 said:

Or Scrat

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shmessy said:

Jot was a cartoon on The Captn Kangaroo Show Line Tom Terrrific.

....for us old kids

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