The franchise used in '24 was the Texas Talons (Owls), but I was running out of enthusiasm for that scheme. I wanted to do something "oil related" as a tribute to the big TV show from the 80s .... but drillers, oilers, etc has already been done to death, both for Texas and Oklahoma. So, I started thinking about "dinosaurs" as being a possible link to oil/petro, and T-Rex popped up early on since it starts with the same letter as Texas. A few bad ideas out of the way, and Tyrants as a play on Tyrannosaurus came into view, and I went with that.