Stupid sports teams nicknames

[Friday on my mind]

The original Ottawa Senators were named in the early 1900s, back when there were teams like the Victoria Shamrocks, Vancouver Millionaires and Montreal Maroons. Names weren't vicious and menacing like they are now. When the new Ottawa team started in 1993, the consensus choice was to resurrect the Senators nickname.


The stupidest nicknames are names that have nothing to do with their city. The Utah Jazz started as the New Orleans Jazz. The name Jazz makes sense with New Orleans, but I don't know of many jazz musicians in Utah. Same goes with the Los Angeles Lakers which started in Minneapolis. The only lakes in or near Los Angeles are swimming pools!

Another one is the Arizona Cardinals of football,made sense in St. Louis but not in Arizona.

 

[low42]

The two I hate the most-

Houston Texans
Washington Nationals

Got to love the redundancy...

Why not name the rest of the sports team like that? How about the Green Bay Wisconsinites? LA Californians?

One word... :lame:

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Any nickname that is used to often.

Bulldogs: Georgia, Mississippi St, Fresno St
Tigers: LSU, Auburn, Memphis, Detroit
Wildcats: Kentucky, Northwestern, Arizona U, Kansas St


Go Buckeyes!!

 

[Yankeefan21325]

In defense of the Browns, they are named after their founder, Paul Brown. The one team that bothers me is the San Diago Padres, what the hell. Diamond Backs and Rays are also dumb. As for the Oklahoma City NBA team, I heard they are to be named the Thunder.

 

[zell]

The two I hate the most-

Houston Texans
Washington Nationals

Got to love the redundancy...

Why not name the rest of the sports team like that? How about the Green Bay Wisconsinites? LA Californians?

One word... :lame:

Amen to that!

Any nickname that is used to often.

Bulldogs: Georgia, Mississippi St, Fresno St
Tigers: LSU, Auburn, Memphis, Detroit
Wildcats: Kentucky, Northwestern, Arizona U, Kansas St


Go Buckeyes!!

You Damn right!

 

[Cubs Suck]

White Sox is the best nickname on the planet.

American teams with Spanish nicknames are stupid. Teams with singular nicknames (Heat, Magic, Fire, Galaxy) are stupid. Nicknames of intangible nouns (Nashville Sounds) are kinda dumb.

I like Calgary Flames and Utah Jazz cos they should keep continuity with sports franchises. So it should be the Oklahoma City SuperSonics, the D.C. Expos, the Tennesse Oilers, etc.

 

[calpoon]

The Los Angels Angels of Anaheim. It reeks of blatant shameless marketing.

the all time dumbest team name, IMO. they called the team (in translation) The The Angel's Angels. how stupid is that?

I think Thrashers is a cool name,becauseit makes me think of musi,c not the bird.

funny, that is exactly what I thought too, but I wasn't going to mention it because I figured no one would get it.

 

[Cubs Suck]

the all time dumbest team name, IMO. they called the team (in translation) The The Angel's Angels. how stupid is that?
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I agree 100%

 

[big_gunz2000]

gunslingingbird kind of touched on this earlier a little bit but I have always wondered if Chris Hansen's least favorite team was the Nashville Predators.

 

[RogueWolf]

My high school mascot was a Quaker... One of our nicknames was the 'Fighting Quakers'.

For those of you who don't get the irony...Quakers are pacifists.

Not stupid...but I had to mention the Fightin' Whites...

 

[Facetious]

Isn't Perdue University the "Boilermakers" ?

Isn't that a mixed alcoholic drink, or some such ?


And just who . . . who . . . Hoo are these Temple "Als" :tongue:

Any nickname that is used to often.

Spartans : SJSU and Mich. SU

 

[Facetious]

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[DukeLaCrosse]

the packers. sounds gay

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

*Ahem*

The Hershey Golden Bears.

 

[TheAdmiral]

Montreal Expos was pretty bad....they could have picked a good name when they moved the team to Washington....but they failed

Expos was taken from Expo 67, or the 1967 World's Fair. The 60's were big for the city of Montreal; the aforementioned World's Fair was a success, Montreal won the bid for the 1976 Olympics, the Montreal Metro was completed, and the Expos were established in 1969.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Expos was taken from Expo 67, or the 1967 World's Fair. The 60's were big for the city of Montreal; the aforementioned World's Fair was a success, Montreal won the bid for the 1976 Olympics, the Montreal Metro was completed, and the Expos were established in 1969.

Not to mention Expos is the same in both English and French.

 

[CRock]

the packers. sounds gay

I heard that the full name had "FUDGE" in it.......LOL!!!! Green Bay fans were on crack when Favre was there. Super Bowl every year... WTF! Best tailgating in the NFL though... HANDSDOWN! Nothin like going to Prime Quarters for steak the night before. People always thought I was a player.

 

[DukeLaCrosse]

best tailgating if you don't mind 40 below zero temperatures

 

[ElStupido]

Cornhuskers

 

[bodie54]

The one team that bothers me is the San Diago Padres, what the hell. Diamond Backs and Rays are also dumb.

I agree it's a lousy name for a sports team.
But at least it's historically accurate in that San Diego was the first of California's mission towns, with the mission founded in 1769.

Isn't Perdue University the "Boilermakers" ?

Well, as you probably know, a boilermaker is literally a maker of boilers.

Origin of the Purdue nickname:

http://www.boilermakers.org/resources/what_is_a_boilermaker/purdue_boilermakers