# Great fantasy team nicknames
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [October 30, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300 "2008-10-30T19:30:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/1 "2008-10-30T19:30:28Z")
I nominate two in our fantasy basketball league:
“Hank’s Gatherers” (our son’s name is Hank)
“Yao That Hurtz”
Others?
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### Author:  [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/2 "2008-10-30T19:33:47Z")
“The Fighting Redcocks”
[VFA-22 - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-22) (Motto: “You can’t beat a Redcock.”)
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### Author:  [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/3 "2008-10-30T20:29:04Z")
Perhaps it’s an obscure reference:
“The San Dimas Personages of Historical Significance”
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/4 "2008-10-30T21:28:58Z")
I nominate “Nine Inch Neils”.
Yes, it’s my team.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/5 "2008-10-30T22:06:46Z")
A team called ‘Bruce, Bruce, Bruce and Bruce’ once came 2nd in the British Speed team chess. I know, for I was in it! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/6 "2008-10-30T22:13:52Z")
> [@borschevsky](#):
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> Perhaps it’s an obscure reference:
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> “The San Dimas Personages of Historical Significance”
I’d say that’s a classical reference. Not to mention a most excellent one.
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### Author:  [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/7 "2008-10-30T22:25:51Z")
Ed Gein’s Upholstery.
College intramural basketball team.
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### Author:  [@Dosipede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dosipede)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/8 "2008-10-30T22:33:31Z")
One of my favorites was in a baseball league last year: The Craptionals.
Also, a couple of old standbys: the Hoosier Daddies and Off Constantly (“Yay! I beat Off Constantly!”)
I run a Big Lebowski-themed football league on ESPN, which contains such monikers as the Chino Pederasts, the defending champion Sioux City Sarsaparillas and the Pismo Paraquats.
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### Author:  [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/9 "2008-10-30T22:37:14Z")
Turtle Headers
ETA: For a soccer team.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/10 "2008-10-30T22:37:21Z")
A hundred years ago, my college roommate had “The Daryl Dawkins Revival Society” in rotisserie basketball. What pissed me off was that I was going to make a Chocolate Thunder reference in MY team name! I ended up with some stupud pun based on my last name…
Joe
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/11 "2008-10-30T23:50:57Z")
> [@borschevsky](#):
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> Perhaps it’s an obscure reference:
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> “The San Dimas Personages of Historical Significance”
San Dimas High School Football Rules!!!
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### Author:  [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/12 "2008-10-31T01:05:10Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#):
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> Turtle Headers
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> ETA: For a soccer team.
That one really sticks out. 😃
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/13 "2008-10-31T01:58:27Z")
> [@Dosipede](#):
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> Off Constantly (“Yay! I beat Off Constantly!”)
Reminded me of my college intramural softball team, the Nads (“Go Nads!”)
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### Author:  [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/14 "2008-10-31T17:49:49Z")
The best ever (I wish I’d thought it up, but I read this in SI)…back when Ivan DeJesus was playing MLB…
Jews for DeJesus.
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### Author:  [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/15 "2008-10-31T18:34:52Z")
We named our intramural team “with themselves”.
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### Author:  [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/16 "2008-10-31T19:32:55Z")
I (and another guy who’s last name also began with the letter ‘L’) shared a fantasy baseball team.
The LL Cool Jays
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### Author:  [@E\_I\_R\_It\_s\_the\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E_I_R_It_s_the_Law)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/17 "2008-11-02T21:25:40Z")
I kept trying to name my FF team “The Penis Mightier” from the SNL skits about Jeopardy but it seemed like it kept crashing. When I finally figured out it was a “bad” name, I decided to go with
Inappropriate Team Name
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### Author:  [@whatami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatami)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/18 "2008-11-03T00:05:39Z")
In one of Bill Simmon’s columns recently, he mentioned a reader who had sent in the best name ever.
Two Manning’s…One Cup
If you aren’t really sure what that’s a reference to, doing a quick google will solve the mystery, but you don’t really want to… I’m serious, just take my word for it.
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### Author:  [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/19 "2008-11-03T00:12:24Z")
There is a team in the lower leagues of soccer in Stockholm that call themselves “We’d like to thank”, so after the game the opposing team has to say “We’d like to thank, W’ed like to thank, and the referee”.
Our sucky soccer team at the University was named Lokomotiv Råstock (a pun on a German soccer team (Rostock) with Råstock meaning “raw _sausage_” in Swedish)
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/20 "2008-11-03T00:30:04Z")
I’ve had [Candiru](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru), Overpaid Primadonnas, and Cleveland Steamers for some of my fantasy football teams over the years.
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