Greatest team name ever?

I pity the PA announcer who has to stumble over that one.

 

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OK, I guess I should have said "most bewilderingly stupid team name"

 

My only experience with the word Cucamonga previously was from the Simpsons. Can't remember which episode, but Krusty is running through wierd words, andone of them is Cucamonga. Might have been the Clown COllege one ...
Regardless it is because of this I thought Cucamonga was part of the nickname. My apologies to anyone from Rancho Cucamonga.
The Quake, not so impressive a nickname now.

 

Like 2MCM said, it's a company. As a Japanese friend of mine explains it, it's like if there were a team called the Oscar Mayer Bologna Warriors. They're not Bologna Warriors, they're just sponsored by the company that makes bologna.

 

--The Hickman Kewpies (a prep team in Columbia, Mo.)
--The New York Golden Blades of the World Hockey Association.
--The Shreveport Steamer of the World Football League (1970s version)

 

I am proud (OK, maybe not proud) to own Champion mesh workout shorts with logos of the New York/New Jersey Hitmen, the Orlando Rage and the Memphis Maniacs. A bunch of us cleaned out the online store when they went out of business.

 

Maniaxx, the team on which Kurt Gouveia was outraced to the end zone by a cameraman on an interception return.

 

Considering the Oxymorons they provide I still like the NBA's Utah Jazz and L.A. Lakers

 

Cucamonga was originally immortalized by a Jack Benny routine about being on a train and having it stop in Anaheim ... Azusa .... and ....... Cu-ca-monga.
I'm sure Birdscribe will check in soon. He's the expert on the Cal League.

 

Albuquerque Isotopes. Asheville Tourists. Are the Montgomery Biscuits still around?

 

Augusta GreenJackets. Batavia Muckdogs. Kannapolis Intimidators.

 

The Albany Patroons.

And the Marshall Thundering Herd.