The Oklahoma City Toby Keiths

V.T.'s been trying to be dispassionate about the whole NBA-to-OKC deal. It's bound to fail. Professional sports teams in Oklahoma always fail. The Tulsa Roughnecks, the Oklahoma Outlaws, the Tulsa Fast-Breakers (and they won a championship!). Pick a sport, and the same thing always happens. The okies get all jazzed up and sell out the place for a season. Come next season, the novelty wears off and the okies say, "naw, I think I'll watch a rerun of the 2001 Red River Shootout."

But this uniform extravaganza's getting V.T. worked up. He likes the collective singular nouns: the Frontier, the Storm, the Bison. Maybe it's Bisons. I don't know, spell check prefers Bison. I like the nod to the Grapes of Wrath here with the b-ball in the Depression-era knapsack. I really hope the team embraces its okie-ness. Kinda like the guy who designed the uniform with Toby Keith's fat face on the front of the jersey.

Um, Um, Um, I love this basketball team. The team colors could be red, white, and blue, and TK could sing that "boot up your ass" song. Kevin Durant might not get it, but the rednecks would get fired up!

This Must Be Stopped

Nothing to do with basketball, but V.T. has nightmares about this video..

Watch it like 56 times, as V.T. has, and it only gets worse. Who are these people? What were they thinking? Why does this exist? It's things like this that make V.T. happy to be in Canada.