The Albany River Rats of Albany, NY. I think it’s supposed to be like rats from the Hudson River? Who does that?
http://blog.timesunion.com/albany/the-undoing-of-the-albany-river-rat/3514/
It’s a moot point. The team has been purchased by ECHL franchise owners in Charlotte and are re-locating the team.
Be careful what you wish for.
Well it’s better than sewer rats.
One of our local university campuses (University of Maine: Farmington) is the Beavers. The girl’s athletics are called “The Lady Beavers”…
[quote]vampz204 wrote:
The Albany River Rats of Albany, NY. I think it’s supposed to be like rats from the Hudson River? Who does that?
http://blog.timesunion.com/albany/the-undoing-of-the-albany-river-rat/3514/
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Have you ever been there?
The name fits.
purple cows
The Nets. I’ve been embarrassed by it for years. HEnce why I’m a Knicks fan.
I’ve seen worse
I think “The Texans” is pretty lame. When they were deciding on what to name the team there were several pretty cool choices, like the Outlaws, but they wound up as the Texans. No shit they’re Texans, they’re in Houston. And maybe outlaws sounds a little too arena league, but it would’ve been much cooler than the Texans. I don’t remember what the other options were, but there were 6 or 7 names they were considering. Also, my rival middle school was the Purple Pups. That’s pretty bad.
Warriors is a cool name in and of itself, but when combined with Golden State, i.e. the Golden State Warriors, it’s pretty lame, but worse is name the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors. Of course the only redeeming quality to the latter is that they are from Hawaii, where the rainbows are badass and prevalent. Of course a combination of the two, the Golden State Rainbow Warriors, would be much much worse than either on their own.
UC Santa Cruz is called the Banana Slugs which is pretty damn bad. F’in’ hippies.
Cleveland chickens.
University of Evansville Purple Aces. Yuck.
The Radio Active Retards
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
I think “The Texans” is pretty lame. When they were deciding on what to name the team there were several pretty cool choices, like the Outlaws, but they wound up as the Texans. No shit they’re Texans, they’re in Houston. And maybe outlaws sounds a little too arena league, but it would’ve been much cooler than the Texans. I don’t remember what the other options were, but there were 6 or 7 names they were considering. Also, my rival middle school was the Purple Pups. That’s pretty bad.[/quote]
x2. The fact if,most of from Houston and Texas are proud to be where were from but even most of us are kinda tired of branding everything “Texan” I was actually disappointed we didn’t have the name “Apollos” Anything to do with Greek Mythology is badass. (Cept for the Titans…)
My cousin plays for a hockey team called The Peach Kings.
A fucking HOCKEY teams called “the Peach Kings”! It’d be like having an MMA camp called “Lord Cupcake’s Frosting Brigade”. What gets me is that they have a reputation for being scrappers.