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Is there a worse team name than... (1 Viewer)

Well is it?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 15.2%

  • No

    Votes: 26 56.5%

  • Minor-league baseball, who cares?

    Votes: 13 28.3%
  • Total voters
    46
Da Guru said:
Never liked Houston Texans when the Oilers was a perfect fit and not being used. Be like the Miami Floridians, Detroit Michiganders, Oakland Californians, just does not work.
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Our good buddy Bud Adams still has the rights to the Oilers name, so we got stuck with the dumb name.  But we got rid of him, so thumbs up from here.

And I see we have another Bud Adams fan here.

 
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The Houston Texans is the worst name.  There's so much culture you can derive a name from and you pick something as bland as that?  

 
The Packers.   Just what the #### already?   I mean you are in a division with three Apex Predators and you are the Packers.  Like meat packing.   I love them but that's just a horrible name.  Couple it with absolutely terrible colors and it's amazing they still have a team.  

Maybe it's like naming your kid Sue so he grows up tough.  Its worked too.  The Super Bowl count is all that really matters I guess. 

 
CGRdrJoe said:
BSC Young Boys in the Swiss Super League has to be the worst, I mean I know that Liverpool fans tend to love Young Boys during the Europa games @Kafka am I right....
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Young Boys are soft in the back. It's important to get on top of them early before they stiffen up.

 
JaxBill said:
... the Jumbo Shrimp?

I get the Jacksonville Suns is kind of bland but Jumbo Shrimp? And he's comparing it to the Akron RubberDucks. The difference is that everbody loves rubber ducks.

And if you had to pick a form of marine life, you choose a bottom-dwelling scavenger? That would make more sense for the Jags new name if we're being honest.
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Actually, the RubberDucks name is reflective of the tire industry there, not cuddly bath toys. (It's also an Indians affiliate.)

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
Most American soccer teams that try to emulate European naming conventions are bad, but Real Salt Lake is the absolute worst.  The "Real", prefix "which stands for Royal", in a Spanish team denotes an honorific bestowed by King Alonso XIII.  So Real Madrid is the chartered team in Madrid.  Real Sociedad is the chartered team in San Sebastian, etc.   There's nothing "Royal" about Real Salt Lake. 
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I get that a Real Madrid is actually in Madrid, but shouldn't the bolded be Real San Sebastian?

(I am ignorant of specific Spanish geography, so this question may be stupid.)

 
JoeSteeler said:
found this highly interesting...

The most unusual high school mascot in every U.S. state

http://www.scout.com/story/1593906-oddest-high-school-mascot-in-every-u-s-state
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"Washington state's least peaceful mascot is Richland High School's Bombers. Named after World War II, the Bombers feature a nuclear blast's mushroom cloud on their football helmets. "
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I was going to mention this one. Richland is home to the Hanford Reservation, a nuclear power plant, place where they enriched uranium for bombs and environentmental disaster area.

 
fatguyinalittlecoat said:
Some of you guys have no taste at all.  Mascots like the Banana Slugs and the Mudhens and the Raptors are awesome.  We need more unique mascot names, not 100 teams called the "Tigers" or the "Wildcats".
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Best post in the thread.  Why are we killing teams for originality?  I'm with Fatguy....too many galdarn Tigers and Wildcats.  If I'm Auburn, I say to hell with the Tigers and change it officially to War Eagle.  

 
Tom Servo said:
I get that a Real Madrid is actually in Madrid, but shouldn't the bolded be Real San Sebastian?

(I am ignorant of specific Spanish geography, so this question may be stupid.)
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"Sociedad" means society.  Around 1909, the football club in San Sebastian began calling themselves the Sociedad de Futbol as opposed to any name mentioning their host city (they apparently used several names around that time, which wasn't uncommon).  They got Alonso XIII's patronage the next year, becoming the Real Sociedad de Futbol (or Royal Society of Football). 

 
And really, I thought Minor League Baseball teams were supposed to be corny and kitschy.  We have a low level A ball team called the Hillsboro Hops named after the abundance of great craft beer out here. Awesome logo too.  Jumbo Shrimp makes far more sense to a city by the ocean where delicious shrimp are plentiful than a college in Baton Rouge naming their team after a predatory cat that is about as indigenous to Louisiana as I am to Uganda.  

 
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General Malaise said:
And really, I thought Minor League Baseball teams were supposed to be corny and kitschy.  We have a low level A ball team called the Hillsboro Hops named after the abundance of great craft beer out here. Awesome logo too.  Jumbo Shrimp makes far more sense to a city by the ocean where delicious shrimp are plentiful than a college in Baton Rouge naming their team after a predatory cat that is about as indigenous to Louisiana as I am to Uganda.  
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My problem with the name isn't about being indigenous.My problem is that Jumbo Shrimp is strange but kind of bland at the same time.

If they had named them the Fightin' Shrimp or Cranky Crustaceans, I'd be okay with it. They went to all of this trouble and came up with something that isn't that memorable.

Heck the Montgomery Biscuits are a better name than the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.

 
I like Jumbo Shrimp.  It's tasty.  I like that Jacksonville and Jumbo both start with the letter "J".  I don't order Angry Crustaceans when I go out for seafood.  I order Jumbo Shrimp.  The two words conjure up pleasant thoughts in my burgeoning belly.   

 
TobiasFunke said:
Gotta go Browns, for the reasons that BST states.  It's an ego trip for a rich guy that actually left for a different city, and all it does is make people think of poop.  Hard to top that combo.  Nets is certainly bad, but I'd like to hear fatguy's argument that its the absolute worst.

Related topic I was thinking about a couple nights ago as I watched a Phoenix Suns game for some unknown reason: what's the worst sponsored stadium name?  Smoothie King Center and Sleep Train Arena have to be the frontrunners, but newcomers Guaranteed Rate Field and Talking Stick Resort Arena are pretty awful.
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Paul Brown did not leave Cleveland willingly. I agree, though, that Browns is a terrible name.

 
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