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First of all anything referencing any kind of feline tops the list. And Why no dog love? Theres dozens of teams named after cats but very few dogs.

Anyway after all the “cats”

Blue devil, now dook hate aside just wtf is a blue devil? Arent they all red? Why make one blue? Is he cold?

Lakers, doesnt make any sense. Are lakes scary? Why be a lake?

Reds, okay so your color is red. Very imaginative.

Packers, now i’m as big a packer fan as anyone and i know the basis for the name but its still stupid. Bunch of guys packing shit. Shudder.

Browns, was “vanillas” already taken? Was the idea to come up with the most mundane boring nickname possible and to also sentence yourself to the lamest uniform color as well?
 
coolwaterunc said:
You can fill the thread with minor league baseball teams.
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It's all about marketing and selling that merchandise...

Greensboro Grasshoppers* - oooooh, scary, eh?

*my understanding is that the nickname has to do with the cannons used during the battle at the Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War; they were supposedly called "grasshoppers" because they were lightweight and could be moved around more easily.
 
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heelmanwilm said:
First of all anything referencing any kind of feline tops the list. And Why no dog love? Theres dozens of teams named after cats but very few dogs.

Anyway after all the “cats”

Blue devil, now dook hate aside just wtf is a blue devil? Arent they all red? Why make one blue? Is he cold?

Lakers, doesnt make any sense. Are lakes scary? Why be a lake?

Reds, okay so your color is red. Very imaginative.

Packers, now i’m as big a packer fan as anyone and i know the basis for the name but its still stupid. Bunch of guys packing shit. Shudder.

Browns, was “vanillas” already taken? Was the idea to come up with the most mundane boring nickname possible and to also sentence yourself to the lamest uniform color as well?
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Huskies, Lobos, and Wolf Pack come immediately to mind.
 
TarHeelMark said:
It's all about marketing and selling that merchandise...

Greensboro Grasshoppers* - oooooh, scary, eh?

*my understanding is that the nickname has to do with the cannons used during the battle at the Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War; they were supposedly called "grasshoppers" because they were lightweight and could be moved around more easily.
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They used to be the Bats when I lived there (they had just changed their name from the Hornets to the Bats the year I started school in Greensboro). I think they chose that name because of the extraordinary number of bats you would see circling the stadium on game nights. True story - we all got stoned one night and went to a Bats game. So we're sitting there watching and a guy for the Bats was in the on deck circle warming up. No shit, a bat swooped down right in front of his face and he reached up and swatted it out of the air and the bat fell to the ground a couple feet away from him. I watched the dude walk over and look at the bat on the ground, step on it with his spikes and then kick it over towards the backstop. I was so high and it was funny and disturbing at the same time.
 
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Terror Beard said:
They used to be the Bats when I lived there (they had just changed their name from the Hornets to the Bats the year I started school in Greensboro). I think they chose that name because of the extraordinary number of bats you would see circling the stadium on game nights. True story - we all got stoned one night and went to a Bats game. So we're sitting there watching and a guy for the Bats was in the on deck circle warming up. No shit, a bat swooped down right in front of his face and he reached up and swatted it out of the air and the bat fell to the ground a couple feet away from him. I watched the dude walk over and look at the bat on the ground, step on it with his spikes and then kick it over towards the backstop. I was so high and it was funny and disturbing at the same time.
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Haha. I can relate wife got attacked by a bat one time at a Burlington Indians game.... I wasn't stoned, but it was $1 beer night, so I was getting my drink on.
 
heelmanwilm said:
First of all anything referencing any kind of feline tops the list. And Why no dog love? Theres dozens of teams named after cats but very few dogs.

Anyway after all the “cats”

Blue devil, now dook hate aside just wtf is a blue devil? Arent they all red? Why make one blue? Is he cold?

Lakers, doesnt make any sense. Are lakes scary? Why be a lake?

Reds, okay so your color is red. Very imaginative.

Packers, now i’m as big a packer fan as anyone and i know the basis for the name but its still stupid. Bunch of guys packing shit. Shudder.

Browns, was “vanillas” already taken? Was the idea to come up with the most mundane boring nickname possible and to also sentence yourself to the lamest uniform color as well?
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I agree that all of these are lame names. You probably already know this, but the Lakers kept their name from moving originally from Minneapolis, a city with a lot of lakes. But Laker isn't even a thing. They should've changed it. To something California based.

Browns were named after Paul Brown, the original owner. Quite the ego trip. Worst NFL name ever. What do you use for a mascot for a "brown"?

Still - regardless of how they came about, they should've been changed by now.

The Stanford Cardinal (not Cardinals) is one that seems annoying to me.

Regarding pro teams, any team with a mascot name that is longer than two syllables is problematic, because people end up abbreviating them into something hokey, like

Timberwolves (TWolves?)
Diamondbacks (Dbacks that sounds like Dbags)
TrailBlazers - (how bout just blazers)

I also don't really prefer names without an s for the plural: Heat, Jazz, Wild, etc
 
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The Lynchburg, VA minor league team has been known as the "Hillcats" for some time now. A couple years ago, management changed and the new folks thought they might need to change the nickname. So there was a city wide vote that took place in 2016 to possibly rename the Lynchburg Hillcats. They narrowed it down to 6 choices.
- Hillcats
- Doves
- Lamb Chops
- River Runners
- Derechos
- Love Apples

Thank god, people voted to keep Hillcats. As they should have. Lynchburg's nickname is the City of Seven Hills or The Hill City. Hillcats makes sense. There's nothing "Lynchburg" about the Doves or Lamb Chops. And Derechos? Seriously? Do y'all even know what a derecho is? I didn't until we had one come through Lynchburg about 5-6 years ago. It tore our city apart. Why the f*ck would we want a constant reminder of a natural disaster that happened here. Weird.
 
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(I've told this story before but you can't stop me.)

The minor league team in Kannapolis is now called the Intimidators (oooh, scary) but they used to be called the Boll Weevils. It's a region full of textile mills so you could at least understand the connection. Anyway....

Whenever the team made a great play, the stadium announcer would get on the public address system and exclaim, "That was un-boll-weevible!!!"
 
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Terror Beard said:
The Lynchburg, VA minor league team has been known as the "Hillcats" for some time now. A couple years ago, management changed and the new folks thought they might need to change the nickname. So there was a city wide vote that took place in 2016 to possibly rename the Lynchburg Hillcats. They narrowed it down to 6 choices.
- Hillcats
- Doves
- Lamb Chops
- River Runners
- Derechos
- Love Apples

Thank god, people voted to keep Hillcats. As they should have. Lynchburg's nickname is the City of Seven Hills or The Hill City. Hillcats makes sense. There's nothing "Lynchburg" about the Doves or Lamb Chops. And Derechos? Seriously? Do y'all even know what a derecho is? I didn't until we had one come through Lynchburg about 5-6 years ago. It tore our city apart. Why the f*ck would we want a constant reminder of a natural disaster that happened here. Weird.
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I would have gone with Love Apples.
 
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Fun fact. High Point just built a brand new stadium for a new baseball team in the ALPB moving here. They ran a contest to pick their name and these were the options.

Chairmen
Dragon Claws
Hush Puppies
Iron Dragons
Iron Eagles
Pioneers
Rockers
Splinters
 
toophly1124 said:
Fun fact. High Point just built a brand new stadium for a new baseball team in the ALPB moving here. They ran a contest to pick their name and these were the options.

Chairmen
Dragon Claws
Hush Puppies
Iron Dragons
Iron Eagles
Pioneers
Rockers
Splinters
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I'm still irritated that NC has approximately 5,000 minor league teams, but doesn't have a major league team.
 
toophly1124 said:
That would piss off all of the local Braves fans.
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It might piss off the braves organization, but I doubt the fans would have a problem with it. They wouldn't have to drive 4-8 hours to see a game.

The fact that FL has two MLB teams and NC doesn't is stupid.
 
toophly1124 said:
Fun fact. High Point just built a brand new stadium for a new baseball team in the ALPB moving here. They ran a contest to pick their name and these were the options.

Chairmen
Dragon Claws
Hush Puppies
Iron Dragons
Iron Eagles
Pioneers
Rockers
Splinters
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Rockers. Since HP is furniture town...it's a rocking chair. Get it? A freaking rocking chair!
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tarheel0910 said:
It might piss off the braves organization, but I doubt the fans would have a problem with it. They wouldn't have to drive 4-8 hours to see a game.

The fact that FL has two MLB teams and NC doesn't is stupid.
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They would knock Braves coverage out of my area, so NC needs to stay away. Or they could move the Braves to Charlotte. That would be cool with me.
 
coolwaterunc said:
They would knock Braves coverage out of my area, so NC needs to stay away. Or they could move the Braves to Charlotte. That would be cool with me.
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MLB package will show the braves or just move to Atlanta. Whatever is more convenient for you.
 
toophly1124 said:
Fun fact. High Point just built a brand new stadium for a new baseball team in the ALPB moving here. They ran a contest to pick their name and these were the options.

Chairmen
Dragon Claws
Hush Puppies
Iron Dragons
Iron Eagles
Pioneers
Rockers
Splinters
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I love how hush puppies was one haha
 
dadika13 said:
Utah Jazz makes no sense. If you move from New Orleans, you can't keep the "Jazz" name ESPECIALLY when you move to the whitest city in the country.
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I think Adam Silver's first move as commissioner should have been to give the Jazz name back to New Orleans, take the Grizzlies name from Memphis, give it to Utah, and make Memphis the Blues!:):):):)
 
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Huskies, Lobos, and Wolf Pack come immediately to mind.
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Terriers, wolves.I think there's a Great Dane name somewhere. The coyotes in the NHL.

Forgot the Southern Ill. Salukis and Marist Red Foxes
There's a minor league baseball team that changed their name to the chihuahaus, and sold tons of merchandise.
 
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TarHeelMark said:
wolpfack is a terrible nickname... just terrible
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good nickname, wolves are awesome. I went to a Wolf preserve, last week and got to interact with the wolves in their enclosure, not a cage, but acres and acres of woods that they live in. Largest wolf preserve in the lower 48 states, in Chipley FL.
 
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