If you’re in a fantasy league with a bunch of high schoolers you could go with the 69ers.
Then there’s my personal favorite, the Bootleggers.
RickJay: “Toronto Saurus-Wrecks”
Too bad Toronto blew their chance to do this themselves… this is a much more creative choice than the Toronto Raptors.
Dignan: “69ers”
Nope, we’re not high-schoolers. Although most of us were in high school in '69. Hmmm. Actually, the double-entendre might work.
I believe Dave Letterman once had a top ten list of rejected NFL expansion team names.
My favorite was “The Fragile Porcelain Mice”
Then everyone can do the “Go Mice!” rallying cry they’ve been yearning for.
He got that from a band that had a popular song at the time, right? Going with that, how about the Limp Bizkits? Smashmouth? Football-related, but not a very good team name. Ok, let’s look at the Billboard charts…Ooh! How about Various Artists?
The Letterman list was also the source of the above mentioned Fightin’ Amish. I have the book with the whole list at home, I’ll post the rest tonight if i remember to.
I’ve Alway been fond of the
“PEPTO BISMARCKS”
One just gets the image of an sequal to operation petticoat
Buffalo Wings
L.A. Riots
I found the letterman list here.
Here’s the list:
Top Ten Rejected NFL Team Names
10. The Opticians
9. The Groinpullers
8. The Fagile Porcelain Mice
7. The Fightin’ Amish
6. The Blood Swollen Ticks
5. The Velveteen Rabbits
4. The referee killers
3. The Soft Angora Sweater-Wearing Debutantes
2. The Greasy Ferrets
- The Highly Paid Dumb Guys
Thanks for posting the list 5-HT (and thereby bumping the thread so I can post guilt-free).
Good suggestions one and all. Alas, I might not be able to use any of them.
The commissioner of the league I’m joining (a bunch of old friends) tells me that the existing teams have the duty and privilege to pick the name for any new team. He tells me that the tradition is to pick a name that is not only clever and devious, but deliciously cruel (but fortunately, not maliciously cruel).
I might have to also join some other online league just so I can use one of these great names.
FWIW, smegmum v’s suggestion of the *Pepto Bismarks * inspired The Bismark Sinks as another possibility.
Okay, we’ve got another situation here. Someone in my league isn’t going to be present for the draft, and has asked me to sign him up in our Yahoo league. Not wanting to chastise him again for not simply logging onto Yahoo and plugging a name in, I’m going to stick him with something either embarrassing, or pretty funny.
His last name is Klaus.
I’m thinking:
The Klaus Encounters
Send in the Klaus
Klaus But No Cigar
But after that, I’ve got nothing. I’m thinking maybe something from a song lyric, but I can’t think of anything. The only limit is that it can’t be longer than 20 characters.
Gracias!
Pubic Klaus?
Klaus Trophobias?
The Orlando Cepedas
not mine, but I like it.
Klaus Trophobias!!!
HaHaHaHaHa!!!
Munch, Max Torque got this one perfect!!!
(I think this is the first time I’ve ever used exclamation points in a post… apparently I’m making up for lost time!!)