# Insulting phrases about sports teams **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 21, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402 "2012-09-21T15:34:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/1 "2012-09-21T15:34:04Z")
With the Washington Nationals clinching a playoff berth I heard this oldy on ESPN this morning.Of course, they aren’t talking about the current team. “Washington…first in war,first in peace,last in the National League.” and another good one… “You can’t spell SUCK without USC.” ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/2 "2012-09-21T15:48:23Z")
I was at the Nats game last night, and after a fight in the stands late in the game which led to someone being ejected, I was reminded of the phrase from my childhood: “Dodger fans leave early.” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/3 "2012-09-21T16:28:56Z")
“[Still no](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkelium) [Stanfordium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium)”. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/4 "2012-09-21T16:36:41Z")
Yankees! \ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/5 "2012-09-21T16:55:29Z")
The exasperating Brooklyn Dodgers were long known as “Dem Bums.” The equally (or more) exasperating New Orleans Saints were long called the Aints. Leo Durocher supposedly made up the term “Nice guys finish last” about Mel Ott’s New York Giants. At different times, the Cincinnati Bengals have been called the Bungles. The Boston/Milwaukee Braves had two good pitchers, then a lot of bad ones. Their motto was “Spahn and Sain, then pray for rain.” Mets fans of the early Sixties often repeated Casey Stengel’s famous line: “Can’t anybody here play this game?” During the Raiders worst days in Los Angeles, their stadium (The L.A. Colosseum) was known as The Mausoleum. During the bad eyars, the New England/Boston Patriots, normally called the Pats, have been called the Patsies. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/6 "2012-09-21T17:13:42Z")
_Texas A&M: Where the men are men and the sheep are scared._ ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/7 "2012-09-21T17:19:29Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Mets fans of the early Sixties often repeated Casey Stengel’s famous line: “Can’t anybody here play this game?” For far too much of my Mets fandom life (including right now) it’s been too easy and too accurate to say METS = “My Entire Team Sucks”. Seriously, they’ve won four (4) home games since the Saturday before the All-Star Game. FOUR. They’re 4-29 in their home ballpark since winning on Saturday, July 7th (at which time they were 5 games over .500, 1 game behind the WC-leading Braves and less than 4 games out of first place). Despite overall pretty decent pitching (until losing 16-1 last night, being down 8-0 before ever batting), they’ve gone 19 home games in a row scoring 3 or fewer runs (including losing 16-1 last night, and being down 8-0 before ever batting). Never mind mailing it in, the Mets haven’t even found the packing tape. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/8 "2012-09-21T17:26:51Z")
Here in the Buffalo area, the Miami Dolphins are known as the Fish and we use the phrase “Squish the Fish” when they play the Bills. Miami fans apparently refer to the Bills as the Buffalo Chickenwings. (I read this in a Dave Berry column.) I don’t know if they have any rhymes based on that. ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/9 "2012-09-21T17:33:58Z")
How do you get a UT grad off your porch? Pay for your pizza. What do KY players get on their SATs? Drool. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/10 "2012-09-21T17:51:18Z")
In the lean years, the Detroit Red Wings were often called the Dead Things. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/11 "2012-09-21T18:19:27Z")
Q: What does the “N” stand for on the University of Nebraska’s football helmets? A: Nowledge (I love the joke, but I genuinely regret posting it… because Husker fans tend to be among the NICEST people you’ll ever meet!) ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/12 "2012-09-21T18:22:54Z")
The Cubs are, of course, “Completely useless by September”. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/13 "2012-09-21T18:23:19Z")
The annual Canadian football game in Winnipeg between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is called the “Banjo Bowl”, after a Winnipeg placekicker called Saskatchewan fans “a bunch of banjo-pickin’ inbreds”. He later apologized, clarifying that “the vast majority of the people in Saskatchewan have no idea how to play the banjo”. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/14 "2012-09-21T19:05:10Z")
The San Francisco Forty-Whiners. The Oakland Traitors (when they moved to L.A.) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/15 "2012-09-21T19:20:36Z")
Though Jets fans have embraced their team nickname, “Gang Green,” it was originally pejorative. The Evil Empire, of course. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/16 "2012-09-21T19:27:00Z")
As a Packer fan, and Wisconsin alumni, some thrown at our rivals: Viqueens (Vikings) (It’s OK, they call our team the Fudge Packers) Q: How do you keep bears out of your backyard? A: Put up goalposts. Ann Arbor is a slut (University of Michigan) ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/17 "2012-09-21T20:08:04Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Q: What does the “N” stand for on the University of Nebraska’s football helmets? > > A: Nowledge > > (I love the joke, but I genuinely regret posting it… because Husker fans tend to be among the NICEST people you’ll ever meet!) I know that is why it is so much fun! BTW did they ever find out if, in fact, Memorial Stadium in Lincoln got astroturf to prevent the cheerleaders from grazing? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/18 "2012-09-21T21:26:57Z")
lol @ Disheavel. That’s good. “You can’t spell Citrus without UT.” - Steve Spurrier from his days at Florida, when Tennessee kept finishing behind Florida in the SEC East. Free Shoes U - Spurrier again, talking about Florida State ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/19 "2012-09-21T21:28:47Z")
Remember when Notre Dame was still good? (I know, a lot of you don’t!)? Back when the annual Notre-Dame vs. Miami game was labeled “Catholics vs. Convicts”? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/20 "2012-09-21T21:40:29Z")
A bit ago (2003ish) there used to be shirts around Detroit the front said “Go Lions” and the back said “And take the Tigers with ya” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402.md?page=2)