Of the four major sports, which teams have the best monnikers..

[FlockOfSeagulls]

do you also like it when a team takes a name that reflects the area such as the Steelers in Pittsburgh or the Avalanche in Colorado

 

[poopies]

The Pistons were originally located in Fort Wayne, but obviously the name worked well enough to fit.

I have nothing else to add to this discussion, because I agree with pretty much everything skeeman said.

 

[Sleepy Jean]

I've always thought the Brooklyn Dodgers was a cool name, Dodger being slang for the young pickpockets Brooklyn was famous for. Now in LA, obviously.
Houston Colt .45's, original name of the Astros. Was changed for political correctness, but a cool name.

I need to correct you on these. Dodgers was short for "Trolley Dodgers," a descrption of Brooklyn residents trying to cross the streets in their borough back in the day. Houston Colt .45s wasn't changed for political correctness, although I know how much you guys like to bash political correctness. The name was a copyright infringement. Colt .45 is a brand name and the arms manufacturer had never given the baseball team permission to use it.

 

[Sleepy Jean]

"Politically correct" is a term that was started by those of us who are politically correct and proud of it. George H.W. Bush decided to turn it into a pejorative and (almost) everyone has followed his lead ever since. Talk about sharpshooting people. Use of "politically correct" has become sharpshooting at its most vile.

Yes, the Washington Bullets changed their name because of the horrific random violence in our nation's capital. Better they should have gotten rid of the bullets than gotten rid of the Bullets.

And I hope you were being facecious (sp?) when you said you suspected there was an Ohio State-Michigan rivalry. It's only the biggest college football rivalry in the nation

O-H...

 

[FlockOfSeagulls]

"Politically correct" is a term that was started by those of us who are politically correct and proud of it. George H.W. Bush decided to turn it into a pejorative and (almost) everyone has followed his lead ever since. Talk about sharpshooting people. Use of "politically correct" has become sharpshooting at its most vile.

Yes, the Washington Bullets changed their name because of the horrific random violence in our nation's capital. Better they should have gotten rid of the bullets than gotten rid of the Bullets.

And I hope you were being facecious (sp?) when you said you suspected there was an Ohio State-Michigan rivalry. It's only the biggest college football rivalry in the nation

O-H...

Michigan and Ohio State is a huge rivalry, great foe college football

But I gotta respectfully disagree... biggest rivalry in college football is Texas vs. Oklahoma thank you very much!!!

 

[nylontickler(m)]

I-o

and for mascots, I gotta say how great it is that Paul Brown named his football the "Cleveland BROWNS" - after himself.

 

[Sleepy Jean]

and for mascots, I gotta say how great it is that Paul Brown named his football the "Cleveland BROWNS" - after himself.

According to a book my husband bought years ago (he's a Browns fan), the team was named following a "name that team" contest. Browns won. PB did not like the team being named Browns but the owner told him to live with it because he wasn't holding another contest.

 

[FlockOfSeagulls]

I believe it is the Twins, please forgive me if it isn`t the Twins farm teams

One is called the Biscuits and another is the Catfish


If I am wrong I am sure somebody out there will be on it like stink on sh....

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

The coolest name for a sports team to never actually exist was voted for by fans in the Bay Area for their new NHL team back in 1991. The team we know as the Sharks was originally selected to be called The San Jose Cansecos.