12th Man or Twelves?

[bjornanderson21]

I prefer 12th man, but if "twelves" stops people from saying we COPIED it then I support it.

As for the 12th man agreement, I didnt think it was a short term deal like that but I could be wrong.

 

[Riley12]

This is a good point.

*Goes to trademark 'Twelves' *

Too late. If you listen to that "WeeHawk" fellow, he will inevitably start complaining that the Seahawks use
"twelves" without his permission. He produces some merchandise with it, like the "We in twelve", if I'm not mistaken.

I like the term "twelves" better, especially if Texas A&M gets off our backs. If they do try to coerce more money out of Paul Allen next time around, I say we take the whole thing to court and get to the bottom of the "12th Man" origins and who, if anyone can hold a copywrite.

That term has been around a loooooooong time before either the Seahawks or T 'n A M have been using it.

 

[Jay-Dog]

I could be wrong but Aggies are..."______ _____"

How about we start trade-marking

Home of the 12's

Home of 12

Home of the Twelves

Home of the 12th man and woman

Home of the 12th fan....

Welcome to HELL TOWN.

Home of the LOB!

Surely we can play the word game to get beyond this or just keep paying them extortion fees.

 

[Seahawkscrazy]

I could be wrong but Aggies are..."______ _____"

How about we start trade-marking

Home of the 12's

Home of 12

Home of the Twelves

Home of the 12th man and woman

Home of the 12th fan....

Welcome to HELL TOWN.

Home of the LOB!

Surely we can play the word game to get beyond this or just keep paying them extortion fees.

I want that on a banner at the opener

 

[LargentFan]

At the risk of sounding slightly grammar nazi-ish, if we are going to refer to ourselves as "12s" we need to lose the apostrophe.
Nothing is ever pluralized by adding 's. Ever.
Normally, I wouldn't bother with this, but seeing as this has the potential to be sort of the identity of our fan base, we should get it right.

 

[Jay-Dog]

At the risk of sounding slightly grammar nazi-ish, if we are going to refer to ourselves as "12s" we need to lose the apostrophe.
Nothing is ever pluralized by adding 's. Ever.
Normally, I wouldn't bother with this, but seeing as this has the potential to be sort of the identity of our fan base, we should get it right.

I agree. Grammar is important in this new era. I suggest a Hawk feather in lieu of an an apostrophe. Hawk feathers added will override the English language and forgive any misunderstandings. :sarcasm_on:

 

[Timmahawk]

I noticed myself that whenever we were on def, I would scream at the TV, come on twelves! My wife would always say, I'm sure they can hear you...

 

[Tical21]

we're getting awfully close to a grey area here:

Exception:
Use apostrophes with capital letters and numbers when the meaning would be unclear otherwise.

Examples:
Please dot your i's.
You don't mean is.
Ted couldn't distinguish between his 6's and 0's.
You need to use the apostrophe to indicate the plural of zero or it will look like the word Os. To be consistent within a sentence, you would also use the apostrophe to indicate the plural of 6's.

 

[BlueTalon]

I don't think it has anything to do with the ATMs.

"Twelves" has two functions:

"Twelves" is a shorthand version of "12th Man" and
"Twelves" is plural, while "12th Man" is a collective singular.

 

[BlueTalon]

I hope so. That way we can still show the number 12 and all that jazz, but we can hopefully put an end to this constant Texas A&M bull we have to deal with all the time. Then suddenly it's all about the twelves nationwide people keep talking about, and the Texas A&M 12th Man can just WISH they had the same following.

Don't worry about them. They can get sand in their panties and whine all they want, but they're going to lose any legal battle they get in about restricting NFL teams from using "12th Man".

It won't be us fighting that battle, it will be some other team that wants to get in on the marketing cash cow.