Top 10 Worst Sports Team Names

[Evan!]

How about Delta State University? Technically, the Statesmen, in the last decade or so they have become the Fighting Okra with a goofy looking vegetable mascot.

And who can forget the Toledo Mud Hens or the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane, which just sounds wrong on more than one level.

Hey, okra can be pretty intimidating int he right context. Especially if them there's fightin' okra.

And there's nothing more terrifying than a muddy chicken.

Speaking of golden hurricanes, it looks like one of the 3 guys at BATF whose IQ is above the "mentally retarded" range finally figured out the reference in DFH's imperial pilsner, "Golden Showers", so they had to change it to "Golden Promise". haha.

 

[shunoshi]

How does "The Mighty Ducks" not make the list? Naming your professional sports team after a bad kids movie has to be the worst marketing decision of all time.

That's because the team was owned by Disney. Luckily Disney sold them in 2005 and they quickly shed that name and are now known simply as the Anaheim Ducks.

Damn, I hate that team....

 

[Rhoobarb]

Almost forgot the UC Davis Anteaters Yes. Anteaters!

 

[olllllo]

My city name, Phoenix, is itself a mascot. I'm struck by the incongruence.

My mascoted named city has a mascot?
[Old] Phoenix Cardinals
Phoenix Coyotes

Makes no sense.

When MLB came to Phoenix, I campaigned for them to be Phoenix. That's it. Just Phoenix. It would be the only one named sports team in history and really ****ed up the boxscores, etc.

 

[c.n.budz]

This was on Foxsports today, seems to fit the discussion

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/7267388

 

[Old Worthog]

The Redskins were originally in Boston, and like many Pro Football teams, were named for their baseball counter parts, in this case - The Braves.

The Pirates were named that because they "Pirated away" a star player from another team - please forgive I can't remember the player, team or originator of the comment.

The Los Angeles "City of Angles" Angels of Anaheim was a name arrived at in court - so fitting this one stinks.

Kansas City Royals were originally in Montreal as a minor league team - or haven't you seen those old photos of Jackie Robinson before the trolley Dodgers called him up?

The Houston Texans probably got their name from the old Dallas Texans of the AFC which moved to Kansas City to become the Chiefs. If you haven't seen the NFL video of this team it is awesome!

It goes like this: the Texans had lost every game in their inaugural year and such went broke. The last game of the year their coach came to the locker room and after bemoaning their low status said there was still something they could do as a team that no NFL team had done, or would ever do before.

He said that were so few people in the stands, that each player would introduce themselves PERSONALLY to each fan before the game started. Then they beat the best team in the league, the Bears...who just happened to be named after the Chicago Cubs.

Go Cubs

 

[the_bird]

Isn't that the official sport of Wisconsin?

Only with deer.

And only if they're dead.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Only with deer.

And only if they're dead.

So is 'Packers' short for 'Deer Packers'?

 

[Evan!]

Only with deer.

And only if they're dead.

Now THAT's a good name for a team. The Deer Carcass Fuc*ers!

 

[user 574]

I always figured they were named after the good ol' assf*ck.

butchering and packing meat or just packing meat. Either analogy works fine.

 

[Focus]

Saved this gem for all of you:

http://www.evergreen.edu/athletics/geoduck.htm

The Evergreen State Geoducks.

Their fight song:

The Geoduck Fight Song



(words and music by Malcolm Stilson, 1971)

Go, Geoducks go,
Through the mud and the sand,
let's go.
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.

Go, Geoducks go,
Stretch your necks when the tide
is low
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.

Oh... my... gay. And what's worse, it's actually pronounced like "gooey-duck."

 

[JohnBarleycorn]

Watersmeet Nimrods

 

[1ill_Biscuit]

Binghamton University Bearcats...

Why the F*** name a school in the North east Us after an asian tree rat?
They used to be The Colonials, and when they went from SUNY Binghamton to Binghamton University they changed.
Every time I take my wife to campus I see signs that say WFT is a Bearcat?
Though for those who want to see one, the zoo just got so e...

 

[gaffrig24]

Here's one of the BEST sports team names. The hockey team from Macon GA

Macon Whoopie

 

[todd_k]

OK....I'll say it. the Red Sox (White Sox too). What a horrible world it must have been before spell check. (queue all Sox fans to come to their team's defense with a hundred year old story on the origin of the word sox). Bottom line is, it's lame.

 

[c.n.budz]

Yeah, it's kinda lame but t least spelling it with an "X" makes it seem a little tougher... right?





Life long Sox fan here!!

 

[Brewtopia]

Originally Posted by Cheesefood
Saved this gem for all of you:



http://www.evergreen.edu/athletics/geoduck.htm

The Evergreen State Geoducks.

Their fight song:

The Geoduck Fight Song



(words and music by Malcolm Stilson, 1971)

Go, Geoducks go,
Through the mud and the sand,
let's go.
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.

Go, Geoducks go,
Stretch your necks when the tide
is low
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.

I love Geoducks and eat them daily.


You have to as a Washingtonian

 

[Adolphus79]

Buckeyes? I never understood why my favorite college team was named after a damn nut. "Hey, look! This buckeye tree just dropped a nut on my head. I know! Let's name the Ohio State football team after these nuts that are two shades of brown!"

I'ts the official state nut, or fruit, or something... I like the little buckeye candies... Peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate, wrong on so many levels, but oh so tasty!

Go Bucks!

Speaking of Ohio and crappy team mascots, how about the browns... what's a good mascot for our team? Oh... A COLOR!

 

[HarvInSTL]

We had a pretty bad mascot at my high school. The Kewpies, our mascot was a freakin' naked baby! Nothing instills fear into your opponents heart than a naked baby mascot running around the sidelines!

Now what about the top 10 Best Sport Team names? Wichita State Shockers (Look at everyone throwing up the shocker!)

 

[ohiobrewtus]

That might just be the coolest (and possibly the sluttiest) cheerleader ever.

titp-oits

 

[rdwj]

Now what about the top 10 Best Sport Team names? Wichita State Shockers (Look at everyone throwing up the shocker!)

Ok, that's obviously the greatest name EVER! But, I'll throw down a couple that I think are pretty cool...

Crimson Tide - I have no idea what it means, but it's just plain cool

All Blacks - Ya, This selection might be met with more distain than indian names if it were a US team, but it still sounds pretty bad-ass

Arsenal - Ya, I know that nobody really likes soccer in the states and most of you don't know one team from another, but you have to admit that's a great name.

Ravens - you have to give them a tip of the cap for being the ONLY newly named team that didn't pick something completely lame. I mean, how many cities are going to name their team after one of the big cats? ...or pull a name off the shelf from years gone by?

 

[Buford]

Crimson Tide - I have no idea what it means, but it's just plain cool

I'd figure the name is based on red tides, which kill off a good many sea creatures in their wake.

The school I went to has an odd name: University of Richmond Spiders.

 

[BrianP]

Butte Pirates. Nice. Gotta like that.

 

[olllllo]

There's this:

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[rfidd]

The Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, John Trovolta had on their tee shirt in Pulp Fiction.

Rick

 

[SwAMi75]

I'm partial to the Montgomery Biscuits. A name so lame, it's awesome.

 

[Steiner]

There are some pretty awful college teams out there. How about the New York University Violets? Pretty tough being a flower or the color purple.

 

[Orpheus]

Crimson Tide - I have no idea what it means, but it's just plain cool

Hmm.. what's red and comes once a month... menstruation? Who names their team after menstruation!?

 

[Steiner]

I don't know, but it'd keep me back. The red tide thing makes sense though, since they say "Go Bama, roll tide". Then again they have an elephant mascot. I have no idea.

The University of California schools all have weird and terrible names: I went to UC San Diego (Tritons, like Little Mermaid's dad), but there are also anteaters and gauchos (mexican cowboys). But I think you're right, rfidd, Banana Slugs is definitely tops them all.