# Nicknames for fans of musicians or sports teams **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828 "2008-05-27T23:07:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/1 "2008-05-27T23:07:51Z")
Packer Backers-Green Bay Packers Deadheads- Grateful Dead The Royal Family- Queen Arnie’s Army-Arnold Palmer Parrotheads-Jimmy Buffet Phishheads-Phish Marty Robbins fans had a nick I think,but cant remember it.Was it Marty’s army? ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/2 "2008-05-27T23:24:53Z")
Adding the word “Nation” to the end of a sports team shouldn’t really count, unless it is “Raider Nation” which is the 1st team that used that…i think. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/3 "2008-05-27T23:41:17Z")
I don’t know if this is what you’re thinking of, but there’s the “Black Hole” for the Oakland Raiders and the “Dog Pound” for the Cleveland Browns. However, since I’m not a fan of either of these teams, I’m not positive but I think that both of those terms refer to specific seating areas for the respective teams, and not the teams’ fans as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/4 "2008-05-27T23:47:46Z")
Arsenal (a British football team) fans are Gooners (derivative of Gunners) There are numerous other footie related ones, though can think of any off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/5 "2008-05-27T23:51:44Z")
[QUOTE=griffin1977] There are numerous other footie related ones, though can think of any off the top of my head. [/QUOTE] Oh wait.. I forgot possibly the best of all.. Monkey Hangers - Hartlepool United supporters. Long story, google it if you want 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/6 "2008-05-27T23:57:16Z")
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_English\_football\_club\_nicknames](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_football_club_nicknames) Ipswich fan here, and I’m particularly pleased to be a Tractor Boy, due to it being a former insult which we turned on its head. It used to be that if we we went ahead, it would be the visiting fans who would be singing ‘one nil, to the tractor boys’. Responding to Liverpool fans with ‘I’d rather be a farmer than a thief’\* was a major step to taking it on ourselves. \*Liverpudlians having a thoroughly deserved reputation for light-fingeredness. Or should that say undeserved? Edit for the Americans among us…those songs are sung to the tunes of ‘Go West’ and ‘She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain’ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/7 "2008-05-28T00:01:26Z")
_Packer Backers?_ Try Cheeseheads. The Dawg Pound is the east-end bleacher section in Cleveland (both old and new stadiums). Red Sox: The Fenway Faithful. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/8 "2008-05-28T00:05:33Z")
David Cook’s fans are calling themselves Cookies. I like it. ---
**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:** [May 28, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/9 "2008-05-28T00:19:59Z")
Floyd Freaks – The Pink Floyd (at least, in the early 70s). Sea Divers – Mott the Hoople Apple Scruffs – Beatle fans after the group broke up; George Harrison wrote a song about them. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/10 "2008-05-28T00:25:08Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] Adding the word “Nation” to the end of a sports team shouldn’t really count, unless it is “Raider Nation” which is the 1st team that used that…i think. [/QUOTE] There’s also “Red Sox Nation” which, despite its apparent unoriginality, has caught on. Oakland Raider fans are also referred to with the singular “Raiderfan.” ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/11 "2008-05-28T00:26:43Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] \*Liverpudlians having a thoroughly deserved reputation for light-fingeredness. [/QUOTE] This fact (or slur depending on you allegiance 🙂 ) is a basis for a multitude of awesome British football chants, such as the excellent “We’ve got Di Canio, you’ve got our Stereo”. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/12 "2008-05-28T00:29:20Z")
[QUOTE=griffin1977] This fact (or slur depending on you allegiance 🙂 ) [/QUOTE] I suppose, given that Everton fans are equal targets, they all count as both?! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/13 "2008-05-28T01:42:04Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] There’s also “Red Sox Nation” which, despite its apparent unoriginality, has caught on. [/QUOTE] Thereby inspiring the one-upping management in New York to promote the “Yankee Universe”. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/14 "2008-05-28T01:50:16Z")
[QUOTE=griffin1977] Arsenal (a British football team) fans are Gooners (derivative of Gunners) [/QUOTE] Are these the guys that yell, “Up the Arse!”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/15 "2008-05-28T02:00:36Z")
Sick Things – Alice Cooper ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/16 "2008-05-28T02:06:18Z")
Heavy metal band Manowar’s fans are called The Army of the Immortals. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/17 "2008-05-28T02:10:03Z")
I was gonna give **freakalette** the opportunity to post this one, but Juggalos and Juggalettes for fans of the Insane Clown Posse Hulkamaniacs–fans of Hulk Hogan Brew Crew–fans of the Milwaukee Brewers SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/18 "2008-05-28T02:21:57Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] Apple Scruffs – Beatle fans after the group broke up; George Harrison wrote a song about them. [/QUOTE] The Apple Scruffs were a gang of girls who used to keep a vigil outside the Apple office and/or EMI Abbey Road; it was before the breakup. In fact, a couple of them were invited in to record backing vocals on “Across the Universe.” Richard Thompson fans: Dickheads. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-for-fans-of-musicians-or-sports-teams/450828/19 "2008-05-28T02:30:00Z")
Allman Brothers fans are Peachheads. moe. fans call themselves moe-rons. One of my friends still has his KISS Army ID.