# Sports teams that should have had better names

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 25, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-teams-that-should-have-had-better-names/769710 "2016-10-25T18:47:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-teams-that-should-have-had-better-names/769710/121 "2016-11-03T18:25:14Z")

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> [@RickJay](#):
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> 1. North American soccer teams that use weird European naming conventions, like Toronto FC, D.C. United, Sporting Kansas City, what a bunch of crap.

I’ll allow these, but if they ever try to foist off a “Oklahoma City Hotspur”, there will be trouble.

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**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-teams-that-should-have-had-better-names/769710/122 "2016-11-03T18:52:53Z")

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-teams-that-should-have-had-better-names/769710/123 "2016-11-03T20:40:31Z")

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I am really disappointed in Easter Michigan University. What kind of person would pass up the chance to be the EMU [Emus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu)

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