# Name that team! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 12, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567 "2009-02-12T18:02:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/21 "2009-02-12T19:17:27Z")
**Jack Batty** \*Harchester Rovers \* was name of the team in “Dream Team” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/22 "2009-02-12T19:17:36Z")
Monstars: Space Jam, basketball ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/23 "2009-02-12T19:22:25Z")
Ridgemont Wolves–_Fast Times at Ridgemont High_–basketball? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/24 "2009-02-12T19:35:03Z")
**Polk High School Panthers** Football - _Married with Children_ **Los Angeles Diablos** Gonna guess Basketball - _Bedazzled_ ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/25 "2009-02-12T19:47:15Z")
Okay, because Basin City is the fictional city from Frank Miller’s “Sin City”, I’ll venture that there’s where the Basin City Blues hail from. And I’ll say it’s… football? ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/26 "2009-02-12T20:06:29Z")
**chowder** , if you mean this [Dream Team](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Team_(TV_series)) I think you mean Harchester United, not Harchester Rovers. **Munch** picks up another point for Monstars. **want2know** , the Ridgemont Wolves were indeed from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. They were football, not basketball — but I suspect that like most schools, all the teams would have the same mascot. You should probably get the point. **spooje** gets 2 points. Good call on the Diablos. **Sr Siete** , right city. Wrong sport. 🙂 What remains: Basin City Blues Brentwich United Brooklyn Bimbos Charlotte Banshees Gotham Goliaths (not football) London Kings London Silly Nannies Moose Knucklers Pittsburgh Ironmen Renford Rejects San Francisco Saints Swindon Mallets ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/27 "2009-02-12T20:14:15Z")
Damn, I wanted to get Tank McNamara for ESU > [@Fish](#): > > London Silly Nannies _Family Guy_, (American) football ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/28 "2009-02-12T20:14:22Z")
Peter Griffin was traded from the New England Patriots to an NFL EUrope football team called the London Silly Nannies in an episode of “Family Guy” Yay, me! I got it! Now, how should I celebrate? I know! “Shipoopi! Shipoopi! Shipoopi! (Do re me fa sol la ti do…)” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/29 "2009-02-12T20:16:07Z")
Personally, I’m disappointed that the Gashouse Gorillas and the Hoboken Zephyrs weren’t on the oriignal list. ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/30 "2009-02-12T20:27:58Z")
Missed this one on the first read-through. The Renford Rejects are a soccer team from the TV Show, Renford Rejects. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/31 "2009-02-12T21:04:11Z")
I just want to say that these two threads have been a blast - thanks Fish! ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/32 "2009-02-12T21:14:23Z")
> [@](#): > > **Sr Siete** , right city. Wrong sport. 🙂 What? Did I say football? I actually meant… um… basketball. Yeah. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/33 "2009-02-12T21:25:45Z")
No problem, **Munch**. I wish I could say it was brilliance on my part, but Wikipedia has _great_ resources for this: just look up List of Fictional (noun). ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/34 "2009-02-12T21:45:47Z")
Cheating with wikipedia, it appears that the [Pittsburgh Ironmen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Ironmen) were a real professional basketball team in the BAA, the forerunner of the NBA. Not what the OP was referring to certainly, but kind of interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/35 "2009-02-12T21:53:18Z")
The London Kings was a baseball team that once included the legendary Harmon “Buck” Bokai of _Star Trek: TNG_ and _Deep Space 9._ > **[Buck Bokai](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Buck_Bokai)** > > Harmon "Buck" Bokai was a Human baseball player during the 21st century, considered by many to be one of the greats. Bokai was born on October 31, 1998 in Marina del Rey, California. (DS9: "The Storyteller") Playing for the London Kings, Bokai began... ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/36 "2009-02-13T01:29:27Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > **Marley23** gets 2 points. If the “Roswell Aliens” are from X-Files then I don’t know that one. It was from an episode late in the show’s run, a flashback thing. But the team was actually called the Roswell Grays, now that I think about it. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/37 "2009-02-13T04:52:21Z")
> [@](#): > > a Steve Bochco show whose name I dodn’t remember It was _Bay City Blues_. The team name was actually the Bluebirds. Considering the show ran for only eight weeks back in 1983, I’m amazed I came that close. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/38 "2009-02-13T15:09:31Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Personally, I’m disappointed that the Gashouse Gorillas and the Hoboken Zephyrs weren’t on the oriignal list. Nor the Pittsburgh Pythons, nor (my favorite) the Ruppert Mundys and the rest of the Patriot League. (Hoboken Zephyrs: Twilight Zone episode where players are replaced by robots) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/39 "2009-02-13T15:39:31Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > **Jack Batty** > > \*Harchester Rovers \* was name of the team in “Dream Team” Ah well … shots in the dark. It is pretty easy to peg the soccer team names. And truth be told, \*Dream Team \*was the only footie show I could think of. By the way, I hereby bequeath a full 50% of my points to **Munch** , provided we can work out agreeable visitation rights. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567/40 "2009-02-13T17:47:52Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > the Ruppert Mundys and the rest of the Patriot League. Who, if it helps were (from memory): Tri-City Tycoons Tri-City Greenbacks Independence Blues Kakoola Reapers Aceldama Butchers Asylum Keepers Terra Incognita Rustlers Gil Gamesh and Big John Baal belong in the Hall of Fame, dammit! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-team/485567.md?page=3)