Dumbest sports team name?

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**Kid_Kyoto**

Just for fun, can anyone top the Washington Redskins?

I mean just try it with any other race/ethnicity to see how bad it is. The Toronto Brownskins? The New York Whiteskins?

Anyone got a worse one?

**jbunny**

Cleveland Indians

Louisiana's Ragin Cajions

Fighting Illini

FSU Seminoals

What's Your point? Personally I do't see a problem with any of them.

**Lord-Loss**

Are those seriously real teams?

Strange...

**Kid_Kyoto**

I'm fine with names like the Braves which follows the warrior traditions (Vikings, Cavaliers, Pirates) but 'Redskins' isn't a name of a tribe or a group of warriors. It's a skin color. And an insulting term for skin color too.

Anyway for a dumber name I nominate my alma mater's new name the 'Bear Cats'. Since there's no such thing as a bear cat and since 'bear cat' is the Chinese word for panda (xiong mao) it makes me laugh.

Anyone got a worse name?

**Shadowbrand**

...The Washington foreskins?

**Hawkins**

The mighty ducks......

**efarrer**

Montreal Canadians ( but maybe that me being a leafs fan)

**Altered_Soul**

efarrer wrote:
Montreal Canadians ( but maybe that me being a leafs fan)

**Hawkins**

no its an oximoron. everyone knows montreal isnt part of canada (actually it belongs to (read as under) the atlantic) and no from there is a canadian...... its kinda like military inteligence, or friendly fire.
(now stop picking on my favorite hockey team, you meanie. THE HABS rule, its not their fault they beat up on the leafs so often. ;P )

**dogma**

Freeport Pretzels

Ohio State Buckeyes

Thailand Tobacco Monopoly

King Faizal Babies

Butte Pirates

Watersmeet Nimrods

**Khornholio**

The baseball team at one of the schools I work at is called the Tabara Little Giants.

**chromedog**

The netball team at a friend's school was called the "kittens".
Their rugby team were the "tigers".

We have many "fierce" names for our rugby league teams:
the Dragons,
the Tigers,
the Sharks
(we used to have 'the Jets' as well)
etc,

and then we have 'the rabbitohs' - a joke of a team if ever there was. Their role these days is in holding up the comp ladder from the bottom.

**FITZZ**

Sharks & Jets huh,was Leonard Bernstien one of the coaches?

**Quintinus**

The UC network of colleges all have terrible names.

For example, UC Irvine's name for all of its sport teams? The Anteaters.

**chromedog**

Sharks are an offshoot team of the dragons.

the bunnies were a founding club in the league (alongside the bears, dragons, jets, and a few others).

**Envy89**

hows about the "pekin chinks" in Pekin Illinois.

think they changed their name a while back though.

**Sandman**

I'd vote for South Carolina's own USC Gamecocks because not only are we celebrating a brutal and violent "sport" that revolves around the cruel and malicious torture of innocent animals it is seriously the fighting chickens... Wow. Fierce. Also it doesn't help that every 13 year old has had a good laugh about the obvious male anatomy joke.

**Kilkrazy**

Sheffield Wednesday
Mito Hollyhock

**nintendoeats**

There is this one team that everybody in Canada is always talking about...and every time they come up my eyes glaze over. Everything they do seems tso boring. I belive they are called the NHL or something like that.

**KingCracker**

The Ultima Ultramarines?

**Huffy**

Sandman wrote:it is seriously the fighting chickens...

as an owner of chickens. . . or more specifically in gamecocks, roosters they are incredible mean and nasty. . . . .they tend to cut you up really bad, and big they are big birds(one knocked down my 5'8 brother)

but on topic . . . Fighting Irish. . . it seems like every team and their grandmother use this name and the ND symbol, really

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The Australian soccer league is about to get...

The Melbourne Heart!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Heart_Syndicate

Heart... the key ingrediant to call.

CAPTAIN PLANET!

**KingCracker**

Is it just me or does captain planet look alot like Ryan Renolds?

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Yup I think so

**Albatross**

Total Network Solutions.

'...and there's dancing in the streets of TNS!!'

**Redbeard**

UC Santa Cruz - Banana Slugs... (As featured on a t-shirt in Pulp Fiction).

Although, really, I think the Miami Dolphins make the least sense. They're not a water polo team. Every other team's name is land based.

**Kilkrazy**

Heart of Midlothian

**malfred**

http://www.cracked.com/article_15646_the-worlds-most-ridiculous-sports-team-names.html

**sebster**

In the Indian Premier League (cricket) there's a team called Mumbai Indians. It's like being the Sydney Australians or the New York Americans.

**Sandman**

Huffy wrote:
as an owner of chickens. . . or more specifically in gamecocks, roosters they are incredible mean and nasty. . . . .they tend to cut you up really bad, and big they are big birds(one knocked down my 5'8 brother)

Still not the first creature you think of when you want a big, tough combatant. Hmm... who'd win? A Viking or a Chicken? A Tiger or a Chicken? A Titan or a Chicken?

**chaplaingrabthar**

Rushden & Diamonds