Vancouver Marathon team name suggestions

April 2, 2008 8:13 AM

Help me come up with a team name and/or logo for the Vancouver Marathon.

So we actually registered 6 months ago with the name Team Brawndo (the sports drink from Idiocracy -- "It's got Electrolytes!"). Since then, Brawndo has become an actual product. So we aren't going to run 26.2 miles with some lame product splashed across our chest.

About us: We are four guys and one gal, all pushing 40 rapidly. We will be coming up from Seattle. We were all generally non-runners when we decided to register for this thing 6 months ago. Our friendship is largely based on beer drinking and two of us quit smoking 6 months ago to train for this. 3 people have dropped out of the group in the course of training. Our goal is to just finish this thing, running or walking if necessary. We'd like to design shirts or tanks with some kind of team logo (one of us is a graphic designer). We have been wracking our brains for weeks and coming up surprisingly blank.

posted by Slarty Bartfast to sports, hobbies, & recreation (11 comments total)

ragnorok.
posted by ethnomethodologist at 8:48 AM on April 2

I meant "ragnarok."
posted by ethnomethodologist at 8:48 AM on April 2

Maybe something that kind of captures the "just finish this thing" average joe beerdrinker image in a self-deprecating humor sort of way? "Headstrong Underachievers", maybe? "The Whelmers"? A nice shiny can of beer as the logo for a stubborn marathon team would go well with the exhausted grin of an or-die-trying marathoner.
posted by cortex at 8:51 AM on April 2

Sometimes it happens totally randomly -- my friend and I (though no longer running together) called ourselves "Team CLAMS 'N MORE!!!!" because once when we ate out the phrase "CLAMS 'N MORE!!!" was at the bottom of the receipt. Plus we have clams.

Or think along the lines of "Team if you can read this please dial 911" -- like you might not make it through alive -- or something hilariously long like "Team four guys and one girl from Seattle who like beer and two of whom quit smoking to train for this thing" with the lettering getting smaller and smaller as if it might not all fit on the shirt.

Or, something totally random and weird, like an invented product with a stupid slogan: "Team Shoulder (tm): it connects your arm to your torso".
posted by loiseau at 8:52 AM on April 2

Atomic Ape Assault. No reason beyond alliteration (and the logo possibilities are endless).
posted by Nelsormensch at 8:56 AM on April 2

Well, you really have the easiest on.

Team Brando.

Just cross off the W and feature an andre the giant line art graphic of Marlon Brando as your logo.
posted by mrzarquon at 8:58 AM on April 2

Team Under-promise, Over-deliver
posted by OmieWise at 8:59 AM on April 2

Brando is excellent. Captures our athletic prowess: lumbering and unstoppable. Plus people could shout things like "I coulda been a contender!" or "The Horror!"
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 9:59 AM on April 2

Well, now you have your slogan also.

Team Brandon: Lumbering and Unstoppable
posted by mrzarquon at 10:26 AM on April 2

I'm not well-informed about any mutual (or one-sided) rivalry or regard between the two cities, but if there is...you could play on that. Something cheesy like "Team Seattle: Comin' at ya from Vancouver's own Tijuana!" or whatever relationship is appropriate.
posted by kittyprecious at 10:47 AM on April 2

Team Seattle: we have Target
posted by loiseau at 11:12 AM on April 2