Name/Rename Your Team

[OscarMadison]

Do you sometimes feel that there are better names for your teams?

@dixiehack posted this yeaterday:



While it's funny in a cringey way, there have been jokes over the years about NSH's mascot.
Some of the alternatives might be more fitting, but they're also clunky. The Nashville Sabre-Toothed Tigers? The Nashville Sabre-Toothed Cats? Around two in the morning, I came up with The Nashvile Apex (as in Apex Predators.) It's a slight improvement. Has anyone else had insomnia/MUD/WTR induced bouts of franchise naming?

 

[dixiehack]

At this point it has been Predators for nearly 30 years and it wasn’t thought of in terms of child abusers back at the beginning. To me it meets the three-prong test of unique, aggressive and plural.

The closest I would come to this would be with Kennesaw State. Back when they were Division II, I would have been fine moving on from Owls, which is a hackneyed cliche mascot for commuter schools past and present. But now they’ve leaned into the branding so much that changing it would be the worse option.

 

[OscarMadison]

Going to disagree with you here. I also want to note that this is a criticism of the name, not the team or the organization. The logo is great. Local sports fans appreciated the continuation of the feline theme and the subtle inclusion of colors from local university programs. It was a nod to the continuity of ice hockey in Nashville. We've had hockey teams here since the 60s'. It was a way of saying this team will take its rightful place in our sports culture and heritage

As a prehistoric megafauna nerd, I was happy to see we weren't getting some other suggestions that were batted around: Mammoths, cave bears, (or Lord help us!) giant sloths. All of those critters have been found around Nashville, but none of them had the element of cool associated with the big cats. When the billboards featuring Amy Grant and her blacked out tooth were replaced with the announcement of the team name and the logo, for many it was, "love that...logo." The name? Not so much.

Just because it's been here for decades doesn't mean it's the best choice. Not advocating for change. Woolgathering, really, and wondering if there could have been a better name.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I have never been to Utah, but you can't tell me there wasn't a better nickname than MAMMOTH.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

The Rice Owls are no commuter school.

 

[Gym Beam]

The Rice Owls are no commuter school.

Who can afford it with their parking rates?!

 

[DanOregon]

Pete Hegseth just announced henceforth Army will just be known as the "Knights."

Was kind of hoping the new Portland WNBA would go with "Rainbows" - joining the other meteorological names in the league and the fact that yes, Portland gets Rain, but also rainbows afterward, throw in a logo of a "rainbow jumper" and of course the name's appeal to a certain segment of WNBA fans, their merch would be popular coast to coast.

 

[dixiehack]

Portland Thorns (women’s soccer) is one of the more underrated names out there.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I have never been to Utah, but you can't tell me there wasn't a better nickname than MAMMOTH.

Well, unless the French Quarter also got moved to SLC, they could do much better than the Jazz.

 

[dixiehack]

If they had just made it Mammoths it would be a great nickname.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Well, unless the French Quarter also got moved to SLC, they could do much better than the Jazz.

Haha true. But why not Coyotes for Utah? Yeah yeah the whole Arizona franchise got mothballed in case it comes back...it ain't coming back.

 

[maumann2]

The Boston Wicked Pissahs
The Baltimore Chops
The Atlanta Sprawl
The Miami Humidity
The Houston Traffic Jams
The New York Bagels
The San Francisco Inferiority Complex
The Los Angeles Superficials
The Seattle Grunge
The Denver Marijuana Haze
The Detroit White Flight
The St. Pete Hover-Rounds
The Chicago Accent
The Dallas One-Stars
The Green Bay Snowplows
The Buffalo Lake Effect
The Winston-Salem Carcinogens
The Indianapolis No Places
The St. Louis Crime Sprees
The Philadelphia Bottle Chuckers
The New Jersey Turnpike
The Washington Monuments

 

[Baron Scicluna]

The Macon Bacon
The Alberta Clippers
The Florida Men
The Portland Mains

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

The New York **** Youze

 

[dixiehack]

The Novi White Flight

Fixed

 

[tapintoamerica]

Washington Gridlock
Missoula Militia
Alabama Artificial Intelligence

 

[DanOregon]

There was an indoor soccer team called the San Francisco Fog back in the day.
During the original run of the USFL, the rosters of the Oakland Invaders and the Michigan Panthers were merged for the final season. The played in Oakland, should have kept the Panthers. Invaders helmet already sported a raised fist.

Would love to see a Portland team call themselves Antifa.

 

[Batman]

The Macon Bacon

There were a couple of minor league hockey teams over the years called the Macon Whoopee.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

There were a couple of minor league hockey teams over the years called the Macon Whoopee.

I know. I was thinking of them, but they are making bacon instead of whoopee.

 

[HanSenSE]

Calling Kennesaw State the Fighting Judges would have been a nice bow to baseball history.

The original name of the Jays AA team in Manchester, NH, was originally the New Hampshire Primaries, until fan backlash eventually led to the nickname Fisher Cats.

I always imagined a team in Nice, France, should have the worst players, just for the headline "Nice guys finish last." You're welcome, Leo Durocher.