This past week's Car Talk episode started off with a subject near and dear to my heart: names of sports teams. Here's a brief description of the show:
http://cartalk.com/ct/review/show.jsp?showid=201030
Tom & Ray threw out some great names, for international teams:
- Brussels Sprouts
- Taipei Personalities
- Amsterdam Yankees
- Vienna Sausages
- Belgian Waffles
- Manila Folders
- Czech Bouncers
- New Dehli Catessens
- Bolivia DeHavillands
- Prague Tologists
Back in the day, by buddy and I researched this topic extensively ourselves. We were thinking of U.S. based teams, though. I can't remember our complete list but we had these, among others:
- Boston Chickens (since changed to the Boston Markets)
- New England Clam Chowders
Recently the Seattle Supersonics basketball team moved to Oklahoma. Before they announced their new team name (the Thunder? really???), we came up with some suggestions of our own. This was a very tricky case, though, as you will see. First suggestion was...
But it depends on whether the team wanted to be named after the city or the state. For example, some teams name themselves after a whole state, e.g. the Minnesota Twins, rather than a city. But if the Cities wanted to be based in Oklahoma City, that would make them...
Of course, it is popular to name teams with collective nouns nowadays (Miami Heat, Utah Jazz, etc.). In which case, they would be...
Or if they use a collective noun as a team name, but base their team in the state of Oklahoma, rather than just one city in that state, they would then be...
- The Oklahoma City (my favorite)
You can see how tough this is.
Or, for Emory University, maybe they could be called the "Boards."
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