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What we used to call Dayton Tire is history, but I definitely didn’t anticipate this:

Tire production has stopped, but the Bridgestone Firestone name will live on in western Oklahoma City after the company donated 60 acres of land Monday for a new elementary school and a nature reserve.

The school, to be called Bridgestone Firestone Elementary, is scheduled to open by 2010, said [Western Heights] district Superintendent Joe Kitchens. It will teach pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.

I guess what I really want to know is this: What will the athletic teams be called? The Radials? The Firehawks? The Blizzaks?

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5 comments

  1. Dwayne "the canoe guy" »

    28 August 2007 · 8:19 pm

    Too bad it’s not a high school. Then when the sports teams lose, the news could say it was a ‘blowout’.

  2. triticale »

    28 August 2007 · 9:53 pm

    Students who fail a grade and need to repeat will be known as “retreads”.

  3. Rob "Flack" O'Hara »

    29 August 2007 · 3:29 am

    There’s a “don’t tread on me” team motto in there somewhere.

  4. McGehee »

    29 August 2007 · 3:27 pm

    I can see the headline now:

    [insert rival team name here] Flatten Bridgestone-Firestone in Huge Blowout

  5. mike »

    30 August 2007 · 6:20 pm

    “Roadkillers” has a nice punch to it.

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