# If you could name the next NFL expansion football team ... **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 8, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488 "2013-06-08T18:44:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/1 "2013-06-08T18:44:25Z")
What would your choice of names be … ? Hopefully the next NFl football team will ne in Los Angeles AFC or NFC I do not know … NFC keeps winning the pro bowl, but AFC keeps winning the super bowl ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/2 "2013-06-08T19:30:13Z")
I’ve already mentioned my choice: The Los Angeles Lobos. A cool name, it’s alliterative, and its Hispanic derivation gives it some local character. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/3 "2013-06-08T20:19:55Z")
The Honey Badgers. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/4 "2013-06-08T20:32:42Z")
Earthquakes ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/5 "2013-06-08T20:44:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’ve already mentioned my choice: The Los Angeles Lobos. A cool name, it’s alliterative, and its Hispanic derivation gives it some local character. Everybody’s a Lobo Woof Woof Woof. You have to do the barking wolf hand gesture at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/6 "2013-06-08T21:40:58Z")
Supposedly the LA Stars is taken from some past endeavor, but I think that would fit pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/7 "2013-06-08T22:40:05Z")
> [@gazpacho](#): > > Everybody’s a Lobo Woof Woof Woof. You have to do the barking wolf hand gesture at the same time. LA Toros works well for all the same reasons, too. Except you’d have the crowd doing lawnmower noises instead. ---
**Author:** ![Boogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Boogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boogly)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/8 "2013-06-13T03:34:33Z")
LA Wasps or LA Crackers? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/9 "2013-06-13T03:45:43Z")
> [@Mr\_Quatro](#): > > but AFC keeps winning the super bowl The Saints, Giants (x2), and Packers say nuh-uh, as the NFC has won 4 of the last 6, and 25 of 47 overall. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/10 "2013-06-13T05:52:54Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’ve already mentioned my choice: The Los Angeles Lobos. A cool name, it’s alliterative, and its Hispanic derivation gives it some local character. They could use Me and You and a Dog Named Boo as their theme song. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/11 "2013-06-13T14:28:33Z")
Well, maybe they’ll be in Anaheim. So, the O.C. Dees. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/12 "2013-06-13T20:53:48Z")
If Colorado gets a team I’d call them the Aspen Questions. If it’s Ohio, I’d go with the Canton Bees. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/13 "2013-06-13T20:59:46Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > They could use Me and You and a Dog Named Boo as their theme song. I’m thinking they’d hear a lot of “Will the Wolf Survive?” too. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/14 "2013-06-13T21:20:12Z")
The LA We’re-Not-The-lakers-So-Celebrities-Won’t-Be-Caught-Dead-Watching-In-The-Stadium. Lobos actually sounds kind of cool. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/15 "2013-06-15T01:39:35Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > If it’s Ohio, I’d go with the Canton Bees. Better yet, if Cleveland was given a second team, the Cleveland Steamers. ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-name-the-next-nfl-expansion-football-team/660488/16 "2013-06-16T02:01:31Z")
The London Loo’s?