Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I still have an LA Rams keyring.

I have a LA Raiders sweatshirt around here somewhere. Its a youth small, maybe I can wear it as a hat.

The London Cromwells? The London Haggis?

I like the redcoats idea with the nod to a game with the patriots. In similar vein the NFL should expand to Mexico City at the same time and have annual Houston Texans vs. the Mexico City Banditos.

 Pacific wrote:


PS - I think it's criminal that LA, a city of that size (is it 10m people?), not having an NFL team. When I was a kid and started watching the game the LA Raiders were always one of the most entertaining teams to watch, not least because of the absolute lunatics you used to get in the crowd (and I mean that in the nicest possible way!)

As Austin said, most of the people there are Raider's fans.

Further, people won't go to the games there. There is a reason there no longer is the LA Raiders or the LA Rams. People wouldn't go to the games. At all. Two failed teams in 20 years? Nah, they had their chances.

Some venues are simply terrible to have a team.

Long Island for instance hosted the NY Islanders since their inception. They had a good run of four solid NHL championships, but in the over 20 years since that happened, the stadium is all but falling apart and the county to which the team belongs in has all but abandoned it.

Hence they are now moving to Brooklyn in three years and waving goodbye to LI (technically, Brooklyn is on LI geographically, but I digress).

 AustonT wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Not like the NFL can't afford it either. I think expanding the NFL overseas would be much more profitable then adding a franchise back to Los Angeles.

Can you imagine the sheer GAK STORM that would occur is a British team won the super bowl? It's beautiful I tell ya!

Eh I don't expect much of a gakstorm at all if the London Fog took home the Vince Lombardi trophy anymore than there's an uprising in Canada when an American team has the Stanley Cup. In fact that brings up a good point if London gets a team the Maple Leafs should change over to football; they'd have a better chance of winning the super bowl than the cup, but I digress. I'm pretty sure that the NFL is the ONLY pro sport league in the US without at least one international team.
.

You were saying?

Auston, I thought about London Fog before you wrote it. I can't prove it, but if you want to settle it man to man get a rowing boat and meet me halfway in the Atlantic!

Frazz, Haggis land is 400 miles north of London. I like the Cromwells idea, but Cromwell has become somewhat of a dark character in British history. Some people are trying to airbrush him out of the books.

More ideas:

London Crowns, London Palaces, London Blitz -ers London Beefeaters, London Ravens of the tower of London, West Ham Slam, Thames Titans, London Lords, London Legions, Nodnol Ninjas etc etc

I like the London Blitz-ers idea, because it fits in with American football, and it's a nod to London's heritage of showing the Luftwaffe who's boss!!


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Forgot to mention the emblem. Remember the old patriots emblem of a, er, patriot running with the ball tucked under his arm? The London Blitzer's emblem could be something similar, but the player would instead be swatting aside Henikel 111 or stukas

Don't know how that would go down with NFL marketing chiefs!!

No we already have the Ravens, and Titans.

I like the Beefeaters and Blitzers, but just call them The Blitz.

The London Churchills? The London Spams?
Oh wait, I'm forgetting, the London Knights, the London Longbows (or Archers). To be ironical they would have to have nothing but a running game. Just saying.
The London Dreadnoughts?

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:




You were saying?

He was saying that the NFL was the only league without an international presence. I mean, baseball has the Bluejays, Basketball has somebody I dont care about, and hockey has the Loafs, Whiners (Montreal), Vancouver (the BC type, which is in Canada), the Oilers, and the Jets (again).

I honestly can't see the NFL putting a team in Canada, since they have their own professional league that has done well enough on its own.


Just to show our American "ignorance" they should be the London Highlanders

Or another nod to heritage, the Saxons, the Normans, or the Knights.

The London Kilts.

The London Haggis.

The London People that Gave Birth to the Mayflower Pilgrims... That one is a little long.

The London Bridges.

The London Welshmen.

The London Royals.

LA will get the next team... waaay too much money being left on the table there...

However... I'd be all over a team in Canada or London!

I like "The London Red Coats" !

The London Princes?

The London Kings?

The London Primarchs?

I'm all for moving the Patriots to London!

They can change their name to The Yeoman Warders, but I would not balk if they were named after the previous London team, the London (and then England) Monarchs; though that might make their nickname the Kings and Queens and who wants to hear that monicker bandied about?

Yeah, London Redcoats gets my vote. Alternatively:

The Cockney Rebels

The Pearly Kings

The Whitechapel Rippers

The London Monarchs

London Wanderers

The East-end Eels

Whitechapel Rippers? Oy Vey!

Get the license rights for East End Daleks!

...or maybe name them the Home Guard?

Far East Americans?

 kronk wrote:
Far East Americans?

The London Hooligans?

 kronk wrote:
Far East Americans?

Och, that's going to cause a row!

My view after two visits to London in the last twelve months is that the number of Americans and English there is small compared to the number of non-English speaking people. Of course, I was probably in the wrong sections of town to hear the Queen's English.

I vote for East End Daleks. Ready made battle cry "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!..."

The 51st Staters?

lol, that would be funny.

 SilverMK2 wrote:
The 51st Staters?

Here we go...

However, I think the Puerto Ricans have first dibs on that one but they want about 21 years to deliberate it.

Meh, first person to make up their mind gets the title. Its not first come first serve on the statehood thing.

Edited by AgeOfEgos
Or as Rob Gronkowski so eloquently put it
"The little nutcracker dudes."

 Grey Templar wrote:
I vote for East End Daleks. Ready made battle cry "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!..."

That is pretty good actually.

Leyton Orient's tickets are cheaper, it's just down the road, and you'll probably have more fun...is what they should be called.

In the BAFNAL leagues already there is:
London Blitz (Reigning Premier league champs at least 2 or 3 years in a row now)
London warriors (Runners up last 2 years)
London Olympians

I think there's other teams in the London area but they are the 3 that use it (all are Premiership Tier sides)

In the Euro league it was the London Monarchs, along with the Scottish Claymores (Who played at Hampden park in Glasgow)

I still think London Sillynannies is the best name for them

The London Lowlifes. Since they don't subscribe to the rules, of the EEC enforced metric system.

 WarOne wrote:
Some venues are simply terrible to have a team.

Long Island for instance hosted the NY Islanders since their inception. They had a good run of four solid NHL championships, but in the over 20 years since that happened, the stadium is all but falling apart and the county to which the team belongs in has all but abandoned it.

Hence they are now moving to Brooklyn in three years and waving goodbye to LI (technically, Brooklyn is on LI geographically, but I digress).

The Islanders are more complicated than that. The owner's wanted to move the team for a while now, and has basically been putting the plot of Major League into action in real life.