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Worst Pro Sports Team Names
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By Lars Hindsley
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Let's start with the old saying:"What's in a name?"
Well, to start with: Everything.
For a professional sports team, a name is pretty important,
and a bad name can be downright embarassing. For this list,
we are sticking to professional teams. If we included colleges,
universities, or high school teams, we'd have a field day.
Here are a few names that may not suck but really needed
to be changed. For instance, did you know the Los Angeles
Lakers were once the Minneapolis Lakers? Pretty strange to
have a team named Lakers in a city without a lake. Same thing
for the Jazz - that name made sense for New Orleans, but when
the team moved to Utah, the name probably should have been
changed. At least the Baltimore Colts took the name to Indianapolis
so Baltimore could rename their team something that made more
sense for their city. They used Edgar Allen Poe's Raven as
their new team name, because Poe penned the classic in his
home town of Baltimore.
If more fans knew the Green Bay Packers were named after
meat packers, would they feel silly rooting them on? And last
time anyone checked, Rams don't come from St. Louis either,
but of course it wasn't any better when they were in Los Angeles.
Still, for all these innapropriate names, they are not the
worst.
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| Hiroshima
Toyo Carp |
Sport: Baseball
City: Hiroshima, Japan
Why: For a country that takes its baseball VERY seriously
...Carp? Come on! Who is the least bit intimidated when they
here "the Carp" are coming into town for a three
game set. Get out your fishing rods, you don't need a bat
or glove.
Details: In defense of this name, the Toyo Carp is
carnivorous. But honestly, big fish eat smaller fish. This
is not a big fish. And what's with their mascot? Someone needs
to have a talk with the Phillie Phanatic about trademark infringement.
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York Red Bulls |
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 Sport:
Soccer
City: New York, NY
Why: I think Chuck Palahniuk said it best in Fight
Club, when he spoke of sponsors of space missions getting
to name planets. Imagine Planet Budweiser. Well, with the
NY Red Bulls, we're getting there. It's bad enough we have
to play in stadiums named after office products. Red Bull
bought the team in 2006 and quickly named the team Red Bull
New York.
Details: The team started as the Empire Soccer Club.
That is a cool name. Then as Major League Soccer developed
they took the name MetroStars. That was a step down.
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| King
Faisals Babes |
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 Sport:
Soccer
City: Acra Kumasi, Ghana, Africa
Why: For starters, it's not a woman's team. Men being
referred to as 'babes'? Must be lost in translation, you say?
The spelling is correct.
Details: In Ghana's Premier Football League. Hours
of research turned up no information in establishing how this
team got its name or if 'babies' is just a bad translation.
Of course, we don't know what to make of the their opponents
names either, with names like The Gamba All Blacks.
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