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May 28, 2008 3:21 PM

Can you create a great fictional team name?

Previously, I commented in the Blue that "San Francisco Values" would make an excellent name for a professional soccer team.

I need more! What other geographical location + noun/verb/whatever would make a great team name, in any sport? Here are some that I'm sure you will top:

1. Minnesota Nice
2. New York Minute
3. Chicago Style
4. Louisiana Purchase

What say you?

posted by Kibbutz to grab bag (47 comments total)

The Vermont Pure.
posted by Mblue at 3:25 PM on May 28, 2008

California Girls. I dunno.
posted by LSK at 3:27 PM on May 28, 2008

The California Dream (or The California Gold Rush)
The Miami Vice
The Waco Massacre
The DC Gridlock
Brooklyn Sliders
Seattle's Best
Seattle Needlers
Dallas Buckles
Boston Cream Pies
Mississippi Spelling Bees
Kansas Tornado Magnets (their home field is Trailer Park, of course.)
Cleveland Dulls

I could do this all day. Time to go.
posted by rokusan at 3:34 PM on May 28, 2008

The Topanga Canyons
posted by fire&wings at 3:36 PM on May 28, 2008

Little Rock Nine
posted by box at 3:36 PM on May 28, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

The L.A. Riots
posted by seldomfun at 3:37 PM on May 28, 2008 [3 favorites has favorites]

Do you just mean cliches or sayings that have a place name in them and would be applicable to naming a team? Like, (not fictional) Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Jazz (befre utah, right?), Nebraska Cornhuskers, etc.? Or is there some specific subtlety to this request that I'm missing?

the Maine Lobsters?
the Oklahoma City Bombing? lol wait you can't have that one. ok fine you can.
posted by cmoj at 3:38 PM on May 28, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Florida Abortion Bombers
posted by box at 3:38 PM on May 28, 2008

The Tulsa Time

I always thought the Frisco Inferno would be good.
posted by Shohn at 3:40 PM on May 28, 2008

California Fruits and Nuts
(Hey, I live here and love it, so leave me alone)
posted by cccorlew at 3:41 PM on May 28, 2008

The 2008 Oklahoma City Bombers
posted by togdon at 3:44 PM on May 28, 2008

The D.C. Macroinvertebrates
posted by Mblue at 3:46 PM on May 28, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Any location can use a team called the Abstract Nouns. C'arn you nouns.
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 3:46 PM on May 28, 2008

The Louisville Lips
The Memphis Blues
The Niagra Falls
posted by asparagus_berlin at 3:46 PM on May 28, 2008

Damn it! I find out about the supersonics now? 10 seconds after my post??
posted by cmoj at 3:47 PM on May 28, 2008

The Boston Accent
The Chicago Hot Dogs
The Idaho Potatos
The Motor City Exodus
The Baked Alaskans
posted by ulotrichous at 3:54 PM on May 28, 2008

The wife came up with a few:

The Mississippi Deltas
The Kentucky Bluegrass
The Boston Clam Chowders
The California Condors
The Texas Two-Steps
The Canada Dry
The Las Vegas Odds
The Alabama Slammers
posted by Shohn at 3:57 PM on May 28, 2008

The Detroit Fire
The Washington Lobbyists

The Liberal Elites
posted by palindromic at 4:15 PM on May 28, 2008

The Philadelphia Cheesesteaks
The Georgia Peaches
posted by phunniemee at 4:19 PM on May 28, 2008

Monterey Canners
posted by tachikaze at 4:27 PM on May 28, 2008

The Chicago Fire (exists)
posted by atomly at 4:39 PM on May 28, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Connecticut Lockjaw
Massachusetts Liberals
Providence Divine
Washington Irving
D.C. Fishbowls
Tennessee Williams
posted by landedjentry at 4:52 PM on May 28, 2008

San Francisco Values farm teams:

The Portland Cement
The Urbana-Champagne Obama Girlz
The SoHo PoMo Mofos (I'm thinking... street hockey)
The Aspen Locovores
posted by ormondsacker at 4:56 PM on May 28, 2008

The Bronx Cheer

Also possibly some inspiration from the movie "Basketball," under the Team Names section.
posted by landedjentry at 4:56 PM on May 28, 2008

C'mon people, the Internet is ashamed of you for missing...

The Cleveland Steamers
posted by Rock Steady at 4:57 PM on May 28, 2008

er, that's supposed to be BASEketball.
posted by landedjentry at 4:58 PM on May 28, 2008

Chicago Machine (exists twice, for ultimate and lacrosse)
posted by true at 5:03 PM on May 28, 2008

The minor league team in Manchester was almost called the New Hampshire Primaries.
posted by Rock Steady at 5:10 PM on May 28, 2008

The Tenessee Williams'
The Orlando Blooms
The Montana Hannahs
The Austin Janes
The Indiana Jones'
The Virginia Wolfs (Wolves, Woolfs)
The Long Island Ice Teas (or Lolitas) (Or Arizona Ice Teas) (or Texas Teas)
The Harlem Renaissance
The Manhattan Transfer
The Staten Island Fairies (Ferries)
The Miami Sound Machine
The California Raisins
The Wisconsin Dontchaknows
The Fort Worth Itsweightingold (eh?)
The Holy Toledos
The Chicago Deep Dishes
Juno Who-I-Am?
The Mississippi Deltas
The Kansas Dorothys
The Connecticut Yankees
The Rhode Island Napoleons
The New Jersey Turnpikes
The Hawaii Five-O's
The Maine Courses
The Maine Events
The Boston Tea Parties
The Boston Creampies
The Boston Massacres
The Washington Monuments
The Washington Beltways
The DC Comics
The Chesapeake Bay Retrievers
The Baltimore Crabs
The Vermont Extra Sharps
The San Diego Riveras
posted by Alabaster at 5:20 PM on May 28, 2008 [5 favorites has favorites]

Ooh, I forgot The Washington Insiders!
posted by Alabaster at 5:29 PM on May 28, 2008

The Susquehanna Hats
The Seattle Slews
The Austin City Limits
The Daytona Beaches
posted by asparagus_berlin at 5:29 PM on May 28, 2008

The Uqbar Hronir
posted by LionIndex at 5:40 PM on May 28, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

The Seattle Slews

Perhaps this should be the Seattle Slough just for a little variety... we do have a number of sloughs in the area.
posted by kindall at 5:41 PM on May 28, 2008

The Metafilter Banhammers
posted by SPrintF at 5:47 PM on May 28, 2008

The Boston One Ways
The New York Scrapers
The Buffalo North Winds
The Miami Hooters
The Pascagoula Squirrels
The Nevada Projects
The Utah Underwear
posted by Mblue at 6:08 PM on May 28, 2008

The Alberta Avengers
posted by T.D. Strange at 7:13 PM on May 28, 2008

The Balls.

Baltimore Balls.

I tried to get a friend to name his sports bar "Balls"

He called it "Deisels" instead.

Lame
posted by DickStock at 7:38 PM on May 28, 2008

Seattle Freeze
posted by sculpin at 8:21 PM on May 28, 2008

The Florida Evans
The Minnesota Fats
The Denver Pile
The Casper Friendly Ghosts
The Delaware Corporation
The Nome Chomsky
The Reading Matters
The Missouri Love Company
posted by MegoSteve at 8:59 PM on May 28, 2008

One more that I like:

The London Calling
posted by MegoSteve at 9:18 PM on May 28, 2008

Wikipedia list of fictional sports teams
posted by lukemeister at 10:20 PM on May 28, 2008

The Madison Liberals
The Milwaukee Sawzall
posted by drezdn at 7:35 AM on May 29, 2008

South Park (for the Kilkenny Hurling team)
posted by Nick Verstayne at 8:38 AM on May 29, 2008

Oh wait, another Irish one

The Galway Hookers
posted by Nick Verstayne at 8:38 AM on May 29, 2008

Thanks to ThePinkSuperHero for alerting me to this thread.

One of the inviolate rules of my fantasy football league is that each team MUST have a team name in the form (fictional or non-fictional) place name + team name. Here's the most recent lineup:

Gotham City Dark Knights (me, I like Batman)
Norman Mailers (my dad, who still lives in Oklahoma)
Fremont Diablos (Fremont, California)
Hammond Lounge Hounds (the Hammond Lounge was a bar in Brookline several of us frequented years ago)
Connecticut PINmen (originally the Connecticut CONNmen, who merged with the Pond Ridge Pinheads)
CONNiption Fitz (the owner's last name is Fitzgerald)
Watts New Pussycats (the owner's full - real - name is Tom Jones)
BellingHam Hocks (Bellingham, Massachusetts)
Mendon Mass Baiters (Mendon, Massachusetts)
MerriMack Daddies (Merrimack, New Hampshire)
posted by yhbc at 8:28 PM on May 29, 2008

The New York Times

The Cleveland Plain Dealers
posted by exceptinsects at 10:46 PM on May 29, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Saskatoon Berries
Canada Geese

(Oh, there really is a team called the Casper Ghosts.)
posted by evilcolonel at 8:50 AM on May 31, 2008