# Help name the Sacramento United Football League Team **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 4, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239 "2010-03-04T03:32:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/1 "2010-03-04T03:32:58Z")
Help name the Sacramento United Football League Team Formerly the California Redwoods [link](http://www.ufl-football.com/media/template/sacramento_name_the_team_contest) ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/2 "2010-03-04T03:39:34Z")
How about the Sacramento Gold Rush? Or to be really boring the Sacramento Capitals? ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/3 "2010-03-04T05:38:50Z")
Grizzlies Scorpions Cannibals (Donner Party) :eek: Solons - Solon was an early Greek lawmaker and the term “solons” was often used by journalists as a synonym for “senators.” Used to be a baseball team in Sac. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/4 "2010-03-04T07:59:03Z")
They should be called the Terminators. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/5 "2010-03-04T11:09:32Z")
If the team isn’t ethnically diverse and you want to annoy the local media, go for the Sacramento WASPS. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/6 "2010-03-04T15:48:08Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > If the team isn’t ethnically diverse and you want to annoy the local media, go for the Sacramento WASPS. … and you could claim you were just paying homage to the Sacramento State Hornets (college). ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/7 "2010-03-04T15:50:41Z")
Sacramento Bleu! If Mentos sponsors them, they can be the Sacra Mentos. California Deficits ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/8 "2010-03-05T04:59:16Z")
How about the Sacramento [Bradfords](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Is_Enough)? ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/9 "2010-03-05T07:35:17Z")
The Tule Fogs. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/10 "2010-03-05T07:55:35Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > How about the Sacramento [Bradfords](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Is_Enough)? Nice! How about the Sacramento [Manteeth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Mantooth) after the legendary Sac native ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/11 "2010-03-05T07:56:08Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > They should be called the Terminators. Beat me to it. It’s so obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-the-sacramento-united-football-league-team/531239/12 "2010-04-15T20:59:03Z")
Well, it’s official… [Sacramento Mountain Lions](http://www.ufl-football.com/news/sacramento-mountain-lions) WTF?