![]() Unforetunatly, when they relocated to Dallas, the Stars name still made sense. One of the best team names: Minnesota North Stars. This is the same site that complains about the whole Charlotte/New Orleans fiasco (who exactly are the Hornets, Bobcats, and Pelicans?)… Makes sense they’d want to confuse us even more. One list says that the tie to magic and Disney is okay, but that they should become the Wizards, so that Washington is forced to come up with a new name. So, it was a toss-up between the two and Magic won out because of the ties to DisneyWorld. Out of those the Heat and Magic make the most sense/aren’t amazingly bad. When an expansion team was announced the Orlando Sentinel held, you guessed it, a contest. Here’s a few that were on three of the four: Get an entire church behind your sports team and sell out every home game and insane amounts of merchandise. But what exactly is Utah known for? The Great Salt Lake (Lakers is already a team name) and the Church of the Latter Day Saints. The New Orleans Jazz moved to Utah in 1979 and never changed their name. Or it should follow the political trend of the Capitals and Nationals. Express could have garnered some support if it focused on a rail system… Only thing is that there is no substantial rail system in America. A fan vote took place with the following names as finalists: Dragons , Express , Stallions , Sea Dogs, and eventual winner, Wizards. ![]() They were the Bullets from 1963 – 1997 before the team president decided to change the name because of the violent undertone the name gave. The other choices were awful and at least Predators is generic in the sense that it covers all vicious animals. I’m not a fan of the team name, but I don’t think it’s terrible. The president added his own submission to the vote, Predators, which ended up winning. Their choices were: Ice Tigers, Fury, and Attack. Fans were to vote on a name based off of the logo. In 1997, the team president unveiled a logo that was inspired by the fact that a sabertooth tiger skull was unearthed in Nashville in 1971. In reality the name came after a logo was created. One list said the name reminded them of men in soggy dreadlocks a la Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger while another thought the name reminded them of To Catch a Predator. Surprisingly, no team named after Native Americans made more than two of the lists.įirst, the three teams on all four lists: I decided to focus on the team names that appeared on either three or all four of the lists. Some were obscure colleges (like Scottsdale Community College Fighting Artichokes) while others were overseas sport teams (a rugby and cricket team were listed). Over the four lists (that are all slideshows, no less), there were 50+ names listed. But I decided the topic was interesting, so I looked at the stats of the articles. If you really want to see their opinions, Google the articles. January 30, 2011: “The 20 Worst Team Names in Professional Sports”ĭecember 13, 2012: “The Worst Team Names in Sports Today”įirst, I want to complain that a site would re-write the same article a minimum of four times in three years to get page hits. September 17, 2010: “The Top 10 Worst Team Names in Professional Sports” June 10, 2010: “The Top 20 Team Names That Need To Change Today” ![]() There were at least four articles from 2010 – 2012: That’s when I discovered Bleacher Report’s reports on team names. My friend Abe and I were talking about some teams recently and we did what any person in today’s culture does: google the topic. If you know me, you know that I am a fanatic when it comes to sport team names, logos, jerseys, et al. ![]()
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