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There are several well-known and commonly used nicknames referring to Portland, Oregon.
The official, and also most common, nickname for Portland is The City of Roses or Rose City. The first known reference to Portland as "The City of Roses" was made by visitors to an 1888 Episcopal Church convention.
In 1889, the Portland Rose Society was founded, and promoted the planting of 20 miles (32 km) of Portland's streets with roses in advance of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. The nickname grew in popularity after the exposition, where Mayor Harry Lane suggested that the city needed a "festival of roses."
The nickname is often attributed to Leo Samuel, who founded the Oregon Life Insurance Company in 1906 (known today as Standard Insurance Company). Samuel, who moved to Portland in 1871, grew roses outside his home. He placed a pair of shears outside his garden so people could snip a rose from his garden to take for themselves. This encouraged other people and businesses to plant their own roses outside their homes and business. Today, roses are still planted outside the Standard Insurance Company's home office building in downtown Portland.
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The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Trail Blazers played their home games in the Memorial Coliseum before moving to Moda Center in 1995 (called the Rose Garden until 2013). The franchise entered the league in 1970, and Portland has been its only home city. The franchise has enjoyed a strong following: from 1977 through 1995, the team sold out 814 consecutive home games, the longest such streak in American major professional sports at the time, and only since surpassed by the Boston Red Sox. The Trail Blazers have been the only NBA team based in the binational Pacific Northwest, after the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to Memphis and became the Memphis Grizzlies in 2001, and the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008.
Damian Lillard grabs the mic after clinching the first round series over the Houston Rockets and yells Rip City! Like us on FB: https://www.facebook.com/trailblazers?fref=ts Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/trailblazers Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/trailblazers Subscribe for more Behind the Scenes Content, Highlights, and more.
National pundits left the Trail Blazers for dead in October. Once again, Rip City is showing why they should never be doubted.
Song: Mark Petrie - Richat Two Steps From Hell - Rebirth
Celebrating the Portland Trail Blazers throughout the years and the state of Oregon
Nicolas Batum sets up Meyers Leonard off the glass for the big two-handed slam. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.
Yung Jordan finally brings his City of Roses Anthem to life and provides his city a song to remember for years to come. This visual was released just in time to for the Blazers 2014 Playoff campaign enjoy! ! Download the song for free at: www.iamyungjordan.bandcamp.com Filmed and edited by 503tv Directed by Yung Jordan Song prod. By Dizz @iamyungjordan @biggdizz @503tv Additional Footage Courtesy of Youtube Pages: WeAreMajorDiamond, PortlandTrailBlazers,NBA,BoomAndWatch, GinoongKamote, NBA DailyHighlights, Sama093, Welwyn22, NextStoptv
Music video from the 1990s Trail Blazer team
Damian Lillard grabs the mic after clinching the first round series over the Houston Rockets and yells Rip City! Like us on FB: https://www.facebook.com/trailblazers?fref=ts Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/trailblazers Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/trailblazers Subscribe for more Behind the Scenes Content, Highlights, and more.
National pundits left the Trail Blazers for dead in October. Once again, Rip City is showing why they should never be doubted.
Song: Mark Petrie - Richat Two Steps From Hell - Rebirth
Celebrating the Portland Trail Blazers throughout the years and the state of Oregon
Nicolas Batum sets up Meyers Leonard off the glass for the big two-handed slam. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.
Yung Jordan finally brings his City of Roses Anthem to life and provides his city a song to remember for years to come. This visual was released just in time to for the Blazers 2014 Playoff campaign enjoy! ! Download the song for free at: www.iamyungjordan.bandcamp.com Filmed and edited by 503tv Directed by Yung Jordan Song prod. By Dizz @iamyungjordan @biggdizz @503tv Additional Footage Courtesy of Youtube Pages: WeAreMajorDiamond, PortlandTrailBlazers,NBA,BoomAndWatch, GinoongKamote, NBA DailyHighlights, Sama093, Welwyn22, NextStoptv
Music video from the 1990s Trail Blazer team
This week, Joe Freeman of The Oregonian and Casey Holdahl of the Trail Blazers talk about the Jusuf Nurkic-Mason Plumlee trade, what's going on with the Blazers at the All-Star break and answer questions about the NBA trade deadline and more.
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This week, Joe Freeman of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Casey Holdahl of the Portland Trail Blazers talk about the growing legend of Jusuf Nurkic, the Timberwolves game postponement fiasco and more.
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This week, Joe Freeman of The Oregonian and Casey Holdahl of the Trail Blazers talk about Evan Turner being on the verge of returning and wonder if the Blazers can get to 40 wins.
Rep yo city! Rep yo city! (Rep yo cityyyy!)
Rep yo city! Fuck that shit! (Rep yo cityyyy!)
Rep yo city! Rep yo city! (Rep yo cityyyy!)
Rep yo city! Fuck that shit! (Rep yo cityyyy!)
My niggaz run this bitch! Nah hoe!
My niggaz run this bitch! Nah hoe!
My niggaz run this bitch! Nah hoe!
My niggaz run this bitch! Nah hoe!
Cut loose motherfucker, go bad go hard!
In the club motherfucker, go bad go hard!
In the truck motherfucker, go bad go hard!
Throw it up motherfucker, go bad go hard!
We 30 deep (30 deep) we bleed the block (bleed the block)
We milk the Ave. for damn near e'rythang the Ave. got (Ave. got)
We do the fools (do the fools) we act a nut (act a nut)
We set it off up in this bitch and tear the club up
What it do? What it is pimp juice?
We got a car with the cups in the trunk
For the thugs and the broads with the G-string drawers
up in here straight break it all off (break it all off)
Where the big dawgs at? What city or set ya claim?
Fame, X.O., several drinks of champagne
Hustlers in the game tryna maintain, lost ya chain
outta control, we so cold (so cold)
I'm on another level (another level)
Went head up with the devil (with the devil)
I never been a sucka (been a sucka)
I always been a rebel (been a rebel)
What's your stompin ground? (stompin ground)
What turf you from? (turf you from)
What's you city playboy (what's yo city?) mine 9-4-5-9-1
Vallejo! That's all I yell (that's all I yell)
Speakin of yea' I hope I never have to go back to slangin llello (slangin llello)
We fuckin around (fuckin around) like my niggaz out there in Oak Cliff D-Town
Puttin it down from my house all the way to yo' house
back to the fuckin south!
Could it be the way that I be reppin (WHYYY!) for my niggaz?
Could it be the way that Petey Petey (RIIDE!) for my niggaz?
Showin niggaz love (love) raise up motherfucker!
You need to be reachin down pullin yo God-damn shirt up, that's love!
Wherever you live, wherever you from, wherever you call your home
Wherever you lay yo' God-damn Kangol down motherfucker!
Wherever you cheddar cheese, churn cream, lick that butter
Wherever yo' ass got lots of fat for all that God-damn trunk
Y'all niggaz don't understand the seriousness of what Petey be sayin
I took a unknown piece land (and planted) a God-damn flag!
Say I didn't (DID!) motherfucker I'd die for this
I done my God-damn thang, I brought my folks in this somma bitch
Hot Atlanta! The Bay Area!
Y'all niggaz don't want no noise (noise!) with Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boys
(Boys!) Y'all niggaz don't want no shit (shit) with E-40 & The Click
(The Click) And you can say whatchu want homeboy
(homeboy) I'll always be the one that ill!
From the land of the trill, where the vanity's real
And yo man'll be peeled or at least branded, God-damnit we ill
More horror than "Amityville", no sorrow; hand me the steel
Your tomorrow I can't even feel - oughta be plannin ya will
UGK ain't dropped in a while, but still we stoppin ya smile
Keepin boppers in file, standin on top of the pile
And you'll get popped with a smile, this ain't bout shoppin and style
This bout syrup and candy paint, you see us choppin for miles
Out the black and the 'Lac, swingers clap and if they take yo' flax
You'll get smacked for your packs, paper stacks and you'll crack-back yo' back
Hold up, they got game to sell ya, from drugs to paraphenalia
Gun that'll never fail ya, ask Rollie B, he'll tell ya
Memph', Tenn representer (uhh) Orange Mile nigga (yeah)
Symbol of the south, legendary rhyme spitter (uh-huh)
From Memphis to Mississippi, deep off in the woods (uhh)
From A-T-L to M-I-A, deep off in the hood (yeah)
Twankies on coupes (yeah) money-makin sluts (what)
You trippin if ya ain't got 22's on ya trucks
Dogs in the yard (yeah) pistol on the seat (uhh)
Sticky rolled up for them blunt monkey freaks
My nigga Earl hollered (whassup) big Ball got it poppin (that's right)
Smoked me a couple, hit the studio and dropped it
For all my dawgs who keep it G and keep it crunk