That is fairly common in North American sport as well, teams may be in a suburban municipality but identify with the central city for marketing reasons. The Buffalo Bills play in Orchard Park, not Buffalo; the Dallas Cowboys play in Arlington, not Dallas; the Detroit Pistons play in Auburn Hills, not Detroit; the Atlanta Braves plan to move to a suburb quite a bit north of Atlanta. There has actually been a movement towards teams moving out of suburbs and into cities, but there’s still suburban teams.
Most strikingly, the two “New York” teams in the NFL not only don’t play in New York City, they don’t even play in the STATE of New York. They play in New Jersey.
The most amusing example is that of baseball’s Angels, who started their existence in Los Angeles, as the Los Angeles Angels, but then moved to the city of Anaheim, which is in the LA metro area (most famous as where Disneyland is.) They then called themselves the California Angels, to try to get regional support. Some years later they got the city of anaheim to help pay for stadium improvements on the condition they called themselves the Anaheim Angels, which they did. But then they decided the Los Angeles name was just too good to not use again, but, since a deal was in place to use Anaheim as their name, they styled themselves with the hilariously terrible name “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim,” which is sort of the equivalent of Tottenham Hotspurs called themselves the “London Hotspurs of Tottenham.” It’s every bit as stupid as it sounds.
It’s also not unheard-of in the US for a team to be officially associated with a portion of a city: Witness the Dodgers, who were based specifically in Brooklyn, not in New York City as a whole. Now, admittedly, New York with its five boroughs is a bit unique, but then, all cities of that size are a bit unique in some way or another, and I don’t think NYC is uniquely unique.
Chicago Cubs and White Sox are divided generally northside and southside of town, but I can never remember which is which. For professional teams, LA, Chicago, and NYC are the only place it’s a factor in the US, no?
Brooklyn was actually a distinct and separate city from New York at the time the Brooklyn Dodgers were founded (although they weren’t called the Dodgers til much later). I don’t think Brooklyn become one of Nw York’s boroughs until the 1890s.
There was also a pro football team called the Brooklyn Dodgers in the NFL in the 30s. The NHL’s New York Americans spent their last few seasons before folding as the Brooklyn Americans, even though they continued to play at Madison Square Garden.
The Single-A Brookyn Cyclones (Mets farm team) and Staten Island Yankees are also borough-named teams. Can’t think of a another city with pro teams named after neighborhoods.
New York has five boroughs. London has, IIRC, 30 boroughs, and a lot of the London-based soccer teams are named after boroughs.
No it’s not. The New York Football Giants is a family-owned and run business. It’s not an asset of some huge corporation.
“New York Football Giants” is the team name. “New York Giants” is also trademarked and used in many places in order to stay consistent with the naming convention all the other teams use. But in terms of the actual, official name, it’s the New York Football Giants.
There are a lot of minor league teams with regional names.
Lehigh Valley IronPigs
Iowa Cubs
Mississippi Braves
Northwest Arkansas Naturals
High Desert Mavericks
Inland Empire 66ers
Carolina Mudcats
Brevard County Manatees
West Michigan Whitecaps
Great Lakes Loons
Lake County Captains
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers
Quad Cities River Bandits
Delmarva Shorebirds
West Virginia Power
Hudson Valley Renegades
Mahoning Valley Scrappers
Tri-Valley ValleyCats
Connecticut Tigers
Vermont Lake Monsters
Also, discussing neighborhoods, the NBA team in Brooklyn is the Brooklyn Nets.
How is it the team name? Does the team market itself as such? Is it styled “New York Football Giants” anywhere? Is that how they’re referred to in official NFL correspondence or communication? In what context is this name used besides being the name of the corporation that owns the franchise?
Just like that’s not the official name of any MLB team, “2014 New York Giants” is not the official name of the New York Football Giants.
If, however, you click the “Terms” link right next to that copyright notice you mention, it opens a pdf chock full of copyright information. “New York Giants” is nowhere to be found in that pdf, but “New York Football Giants” shows up multiple times.
And again, to reiterate, the corporation known as the “New York Football Giants” does not own the team. That corporation IS the team.
In Sweden, most cities have their teams in soccer for example. The name of the teams are not always tied to their place of origin, however, but can instead be some name devised by the owner, or have something to do with the origin (stadium played etc) of the team.
Personally I can’t stand soccer, and instead I watch the NFL. Thankful for NFL Gamepass.
