Posted on 01/07/2022 8:36:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Blackhawks.
Really the Expos should have been called the Royals, but somehow the Kansas City expansion team claimed it first.
And this didn’t mention the Lakers. Why is a Los Angeles team called the Lakers? Because they were from Minnesota, the land of lakes, before they moved to LA.
Ha! Have never heard that name.
Very clever.
Oklahoma Sooners
Good to know that the Green Bay name has nothing to do with fudge.
The origin dates back to the early days of the NFL. To capitalize on the popularity of Major League Baseball, the early NFL owners adopted a strategy of giving a name to each team that was associated with the existing MLB team in the same city. In some cases the team names were identical — MLB and the NFL both had the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals, for example. In other cases they were similar — MLB had the Detroit Tigers, so the NFL named the Detroit team the Lions; MLB had the Chicago Cubs, so the NFL had the Chicago Bears; etc.
The Redskins started as the Boston Braves and played in the same stadium as MLB’s Boston Braves. Shortly after that the team ownership changed and they moved into Fenway Park with MLB’s Boston Red Sox as their landlords. The owners changed the team’s name to the Redskins so they would be associated with the Red Sox while retaining an Indian/native connection to their old Braves name.
As Paul Harvey would have said … “And now you know the rest of the story!”
Interesting.
The football Cardinals were Chicago Cardinals before they moved to St. Louis (and now Phoenix).
We had retired coach,(a local Legend) that would visit our team from time to time and tell great stories. One was how Indiana got the name Hoosiers. After one particuliarly vicious football game between Purdue and IU, while cleaning up debri and body parts from the field, one groundsman held up a bloody appendage and shouted “Whose Ear”.
and why are they now known as the Washington Football Team?
cuz the owner is a ball less coward
How about the fighting whites?
Odd I always thought it was the Hosers. 😀
Some nicknames seem obvious, such as Minnesota Twins for the twin cities, Milwaukee Brewers in honor of the city’s beer businesses, Philadelphia Phillies is alliterative, Baltimore Orioles named for the bird of that name, the former Houston Oilers as a nod to the city’s oil businesses, Arizona Diamondbacks as a nod to the snakes of the desert, Phoenix Suns as a nod to the blazing sunshine there, Los Angeles Angels in the city of Angels, and likely others I can’t think of offhand.
All I know is, when I think of Jazz Music, Utah is the first place to come to mind.
The Pacers were actually named mostly for Indiana’s history of famous horse racing pacers. Dan Patch was the most famous Pacer of all time and was bred in Indiana. The reference to pace cars was a nice extra tie in to the Indy 500. It also makes it quite the coincidence that Indiana’s other pro sports team also got its name from the horse racing industry, as the Baltimore Colts were named in honor of Baltimore’s horse breeding and racing history.
Wrong appendage.
The name, The Boaty McBoatfaces, must have come in a close second, if, as you say, it was left up to the fans, those cheeky little buggers!
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