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Originally Posted by troutman
Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
- A. Tennyson
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I've just been on the Wiki page and seen that too. My thought was 'what on earth does Seattle have to do with the Kraken?!', so I went to check it out.
I mean, I know a lot of the other teams in various leagues have names that don't necessarily relate to their (sometimes previous) location, but as far as I know, no other team has a mythical creature as their name.
Edit: I guess the Giants and Wizards. But at least they have connotations to sports, i.e. 'He's a giant of a man', or 'Allen Iverson was simply a wizard with the ball'. Do we need to bring Hasek out of retirement to play for Seattle before we can finally exclaim 'Ah, well I guess he DOES flop around like a giant squid, yeah...'