Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh meh. We can do better. Contribute a clever sports team nickname!

The University of Northern Colorado’sFighting Whiteys

You’re not the only one. I once saw them called exactly that in a news story, didn’t realize until much later it was a joke. Since this was before I’d gotten interested in football, it would have been in the late 70’s.

Also- were the Seattle cheerleaders ever called The SeaGals, or was that a gag too?

Topeka Tardigrades.

Go Tards!

Macon, Georgia had a minor league hockey team for five seasons called theMacon Whoopee. I think that’s the coolest pro sports name I’ve ever seen. Their logos were a Whooping Crane with a hockey stick, and a fig leaf.

Some images:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEV7mgqsRXvkAA5_hjmolQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--?_adv_prop=image&fr=goodsearch-yhsif&va=Macon+Whoopee+hockey+team

Apparently it wasn’t a joke.

“Were”? They still are.

Also legitimate names: Buffalo Jills and Cincinnati Ben-Gals.

Starcross Lovers

The Dallas D’lites!

Cartalk did this a while back:

The Bolivia DeHavillands
The Prague Tologists
The New Delhi Catessens

The Stockton Oops!

The AUDL franchise specification for Fargo requires them to name the team the Wood Chippers.

I was more confused than I thought. Thanks for the links.

The Saskatoon Loonies
The Tallahassee? I Told You So’s.
The Port Charlotte Webs
The Charleston Chews
The Toronto Jams
The Montpelier Clothes Off
The Hershey Kisses
The Rochester Molesters
The Corbin Theres, Done Thats

Helena Handbaskets
Walla Walla Bing Bangs

From a world tour across the atlas:

Telluride Her Hards and Put Her Away Wets
Eugene Dancing Machines
Juneau Whats?
Christchurch Goers
Wollongong Shows
Wallaroo Bee Tuesdays
Perth Movers
Broome Hildas
Brunei Sayers
Ipoh Potamusses
Ho Chi Minh Itmen
Olongapo Boy Sandwiches
Manila Wafers
Osaka Mydicks
Sapporo Drafts
Kobe Beefs
Kobe All You Can Bees
Seoul Sisters
Seoul Trains
Peking Ducks
Peking Toms
Shanghai Er Than Kites
Harbin Jers
Chittagong Shows
Kathmandu Wops Doo Wops
Delhi Specials
Bombay City Rollers
Pune Tangs
Kabul Shitters
Tehran Run-Run-Runs the Do-Ron-Rons
Beirut Of All Evils
Cairo Row Your Boats
Mecca Pilgrimmages
Medina Funky Colds
Sanaa Youseeme Now Youdonts
Muscat Tellies
Muscat Loves
Kuwait Your Turns
Amman I Wanna Lay Youz
Tel Aviv La Frances
Tripoli Ward Windwards
Accra Moniouses
Bamako Conspirators
Brazzaville D-Cups
Mogadishu Fly Don’t Bother Mes
Djibouti All Night Longs
Khartoum Raiders
Tunis Fish On Ryes
Rome In Noses
Pisa Cakes
Sicily Tyson Chickens
Gallipoli Amorouses
Pompeii For Plays
Basel Rathbones
Bern In Hells
Brussels Sprouts
Aarhus Your Daddies?
Trondheim Mens Broken

Football teams should be named after local industries, because “Packers” and “Steelers” are cool names. “49ers” is cool too and that’s an industry I guess. Hence:

Los Angeles Actors
Washington Spin Doctors
Houston Oilers… oh, darn.
Miami Vice
New York Brokers

Basketball teams, in the spirit of the LA Lakers and Utah Jazz, should be given names that seem weirdly appropriate to OTHER cities.

Toronto Oilers
Miami Mountaineers
Kansas City Seagulls
Detroit Desert Foxes

Baseball teams should always be named after something weirdly obscure and unaggressive, or failing that, a color of sock or a small bird.

Montreal Blue Sox
Brooklyn Robins (an actual former name of the Dodgers)
Carolina Green Sox
Portland Warblers

Santa Fe Dunaways
Provo Lones
Ogden Nashes
Milwaukee Talkies
Bend Overs (I posted that one in the earlier thread)

I think you mean “moved from some other city where their name was appropriate.” :slight_smile:

The Merovingians

The Balti-Morons
The New York State of Minds
St Louis Louie Louie Lou-EYE

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