# Unusual sports team names **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 9, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-sports-team-names/574073 "2011-03-09T18:48:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-sports-team-names/574073/101 "2011-03-13T15:59:15Z")
> [@davey77](#): > > Actually, it’s nicknamed “The Kiln.” That’ll do, pig\*, that’ll do. \*In the Scots sense of “an earthenware container”, of course. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-sports-team-names/574073/102 "2011-03-13T21:50:16Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’m interested in finding relatively rare sports team names. > > My interest was piqued by my discovery that there appear to be barely a baker’s dozen teams sharing the name of my beloved Green Bay Packers at present. A cursory search turned up the following: For the OP, there was another Packers, this one in Kansas City of the Federal League (US 3rd professional baseball league, circa 1913-15. Actually, I find the whole league kind of interesting from a nickname pov Chicago Whales - Didn’t know there were whales in the Great Lakes St. Louis Terriers - woof Pittsburgh Rebels - Above the Mason-Dixon Line, so not sure what “rebels” referred to. Kansas City Packers Newark Peppers Buffalo Blues Brooklyn Tip-Tops - owned by the Ward Brothers, makers of Tip-Top Bread Baltimore Terrapins Also, not mentioned: Wheeling Nailers (minor league hockey team) ---
**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:** [March 13, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-sports-team-names/574073/103 "2011-03-13T22:53:12Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Used to be the [Stanford Indians.](http://nacc.stanford.edu/mascot.html) I knew that. I was just wondering if after that they called them the Cardinals, the bird, for a short time before they changed it to just _Cardinal_, the color. ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-sports-team-names/574073/104 "2011-03-13T23:09:58Z")
[quote=“Randy\_Seltzer, post:33, topic:574073”] You know what? I’m just going to follow this up myself. College sports team nicknames beginning with “Fighting”[ul][li]Fighting Camels - Campbell [_]Fighting Christians - Elon University (until 1999 - then the more boring “Phoenixes”)[_]Fighting Illini - Illinois [_]Fighting Irish - Notre Dame [_] Fighting Knights - Lynn[_]Fighting Leathernecks - Western Illinois men’s teams [_]Fighting Scots - seven schools: [list][_]Edinboro[_]Gordon[_]Macalester[_]McHenry County College[_]Monmouth College[_]Ohio Valley[_]Wooster[/ul][_]Fighting Sioux - North Dakota[/list][/li][/QUOTE] Virginia Tech **Fightin’ Gobblers**. Sadly, the team name was changed to **Hokies** sometime in the 80s. Both team names are rare. Does any other team have a **turkey** mascot? ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-sports-team-names/574073/105 "2011-03-14T01:38:06Z")
I should have added the Railhawk is not a real bird, it was a made up name for the team. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-sports-team-names/574073.md?page=5)