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That new panther logo WOULD BENEFIT EVERYONE. would be, as the kids say, “on fleek.” BY CHRIS JOSEPH Better TV ratings and ticket sales: If people he BB&T Center, tucked away in Sun- are given a reason to be proud to represent TS | TS N rise across the street from Sawgrass their city, they’ll show up to games. And TE Mills, has been home to the Florida when they can’t go to the games, they’ll N TPanthers since 1998, when the team moved watch on television. Sports is all about re- O C from the old Miami Arena. This was two gional pride. City names matter. Florida years after the Cats made their historic run Panthers brings no such pride, because to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they were the name is vague and over-broad. eventually swept by the Colorado Avalanche. The Marlins did it: The Florida Marlins | PULP Since then, the team has languished in me- changed their name to the Miami Marlins in diocrity and despair, missing the playoffs and 2011. Now, yes, they too are struggling with EWS EWS perching itself at the lowest level of the South attendance, and their logo design is probably N Florida sports totem pole. Ice hockey doesn’t the worst in baseball, but, OK, bad example. Y | hold the same appeal as pro basketball or So how close is the Panthers’ name DA pro football or even pro baseball. Yet success change to becoming a reality? Not very, be- can be had. Just 280 miles northwest, the cause the City of Sunrise would have a say, Tampa Bay Lightning has a huge following. and that could make things complicated. The Lightning came into the NHL just a year “It would be ridiculous to name a team before the Panthers yet has drawn more fans. that plays in Sunrise after another city,” Sun- This is likely because the team has made rise Deputy Mayor Donald Rosen says. “The GE | NIGHT+ A the Stanley Cup Finals twice and won it in team has a contract to play here for 30 years.” T S 2003. But it also might have to do with its Sunrise Commissioner Neil Kerch, name. The Tampa Bay Lightning repre- who attended the recent NHL Draft sents the Tampa Bay area. The Panthers, Jack Seiler tells New Times. “I’ve been ap- misguided, because if sports has taught us with Panthers ownership, also seems on the other hand, represent — Florida? proached by numerous people over the anything, it’s that fans go maniacal not so appalled by the suggestion.