Ooh, the Kentucky Thoroughblades! Very high up in the bad logo standings. Not quite as amateurish as the Toledo and Cinicinatti team I started the thread with, but soooo bad! The mascot looks like a furry fetishist’s wet dream. The color scheme and logo script are also hideous.
I went to Kennesaw for a few semesters back in 90-91; they were “officially” the Fighting Owls back then, but everyone called them the Hooters, and I think the word was incorporated into the logo somehow.
There was talk even back then about changing the mascot; I clearly recall an interview in the campus paper in which someone (a professor?) was complaining about it, saying something very similar to “It may have been about owls at one time, but these days the word ‘hooters’ means one thing, and that’s breasts.” We had a big laugh over it. “Ha ha! She said breasts!”
I suppose the mascot change came along with the switch from “Kennesaw State College” to “Kennesaw State University”?
I wondered what happened to Mr. Horse after Ren & Stimpy was cancelled.
“So tell us, Mr. Horse. What do you think the chances are for the Thoroughblades this year?”
“No, sir, I don’t like them.”
My nomination: the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. How can you be “of Anaheim” when you’re from Los Angeles?
I’m with you on Real Salt Lake & DC United, but I don’t see what’s wrong with FC Dallas (aside from a lack of personality).
Why not?
Maybe it would be bad if anyone in Santa Cruz cared even the slightest about athletics. But they don’t. I once overheard someone ask “do we even have a basketball team?” (We do!) Having a stereotypically fierce mascot would be a joke. There’s a persistant rumor that the administration is going to change the mascot back to the Sea Lions (the original mascot) and start a football team. Neither are popular ideas.
Just what I came in to say. And I’m very disappointed in the baseball media for actually using “Los Angeles” when referring to the Anaheim Angels.
I think “Giants” and “Blue Jays” are two of the best names in sports; Giants because of its history, and Blue Jays because it fits baseball’s naming traditions so well.
“Atlhetics” is okay, but their white elephant mascot is the best symbol in sports.
But Devil Rays… dear lord Jesus.
Well, what are the Poets gonna do to the other team? Write a sarcastic sonnet about them?
In the tradition of the Banana Slugs, how about the Evergreen State Geoducks? However, I’ll reserve judgment on whether it’s worst team name and/or logo simply because it’s so … different.
It’s not the case with all, by any means, including Man Utd.
True, it’s not nearly as bad as Dallas Burn, as they were until this year.
Well, for one thing, it’s kind of silly to have your club called FC, when the league is called MLS. It wouldn’t be so silly if they had called it SC. Second the naming convention in English speaking countries would be to have the city first. So, it should be Dallas SC. As it is, it’s just a silly rip off of some European league, most likely FC Barcelona. Not as bad as Real Salt Lake, mind you, but still silly.
Why shouldn’t the media call them by their name? The Angels are hardly the first team to refer to themselves using a city they don’t play in. The New York football teams don’t even play in the state of New York, for goodness sake.
Or the Los Angeles Lakers.
As far as the Chivas USA thing goes, that’s practically a thread in itself. The team’s true name is Club Deportivo Chivas USA. They are owned by Jorge Vergara, the same guy who owns the Chivas team in Mexico. They have very deliberately made themselves into an ethnically-centered team. The team’s slogan is “Adiós soccer, el fútbol esta aqui.” The team’s owner, said “It’s the Latins versus the gringos. And we’re going to win.” The team is made up of almost entirely of Latino players. The team went out of its way to avoid taking non-Latinos when creating its roster. They are also a very bad “fútbol” team, losing nearly all their games. Their attendance, not-surprisingly is almost all Mexican.
I can understand why a team would want to appeal to Latino soccer fans, but to be so divisive and insulting is hard to comprehend. It’s not working either. Not yet anyway. Attendance is not near what was hoped for.
As far as Banana Slugs go, the urban legend is that the banana slug is the male animal whose… ah… “maleness” represents the ratio of… ah… “maleness”-to-total-body-mass of all animals.
In other words, the banana slug’s junk makes up a higher percentage of its body than everyone else.
Which, given the nature of intercollegiate athletics, is pretty intimidating.
Didn’t the Angels originate as the Los Angeles Angels in the early 60’s?
Well, because it’s stupid. Much like…
When they played in Dodger Stadium.
I don’t understand why, if they don’t want to be the Anaheim Angels, they can’t just go back to being the California Angels. As it is now, they are Los Angeles de Los Angeles de Anaheim (or The Angels Angels of Anaheim.)
Well it may be a stupid name, but it is their name and the media is just reporting the news and using the team name as they should.