I've never understood this reasoning: The team is in Nashville; call it Nashville. I don't get why people think potential fans in the surrounding states would somehow feel "left out" if the team isn't called Tennessee. If anything, that would be more exclusive. As for their NFL team; they could have called them the "Nashville faux country music Capitals" and they would have sold out. EDIT: "Nashville faux country music Capitals" and they would have sold out. That's some clever word play there; wish it was on purpose.
The whole idea that the part of the country that mostly occupies the upper middle eastern portion of the map is still (and will likely eternally be) referred to as 'the midwest' will probably doom us to suck at geography forever.
I thought it was because the Arizona Cardinals were, and the Dallas Cowboys still are, in the NFC East Division, and the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins were in the West, at the same time the Vancouver Canucks were in the East.
Talking about American's being bad at geography. Here is another example. Nashville and Appalachia...wow! I bet most of you don't know that the very top tip of Northeast Tennessee is closer to Canada (where the border dips south near Cleveland) via a straight line than it is to Memphis, TN.
I would agree that Appalachia FC is not a good name but that is not a case of being bad at geography. According to the Appalachian Regional Commission, downtown Nashville is only about 30 miles outside of Appalachia.
Yup and the tip of Virginia is farther west than Detroit. A lot of the geographical names came before the west was populated. Hence why Northwestern has that name because at the time anything past the Mississippi River was sparsely populated if at all.
I stand corrected. Living in the Appalachian mountains I have never heard of the term Appalachian referring to that large of an area. You learn something everyday. However people dont use that term in practice to refer to the region on the map.
The "AT" or Appalachian Trail is over 2,000 miles and runs from Georgia all the way to Maine. I know a few folks that have hiked the entire trail.
To really confuse things, Northeastern University (yes, the one in Boston) has a graduate campus in Seattle.
I understand this as I live mere minutes from the trail and hike/camp on it very often. The AT however is hundreds of miles from Nashville. The western edges (especially all the way into Mississippi) of that map is what I was referring to...not the north/south areas.
Virginia College (also a sham) is based in Birmingham and has a campus in Lubbock. Only 1 of their 23 campuses is in Virginia.
University of South Florida being in Tampa while University of Central Florida is in Orlando always gets me.
My Alma Mater! They also have a campus in Charlotte NC (I think) and Toronto. Fun fact: The first World Series in 1903 was played on the campus. It was the Red Sox pre-Fenway home, the Huntington Avenue Base Ball Grounds. I once met a Brit who apparently had a soccer scholarship to California College, and he was looking forward to surfing and all the beautiful babes on the beach, etc... Then (luckily for him) someone told him that it was in Pennsylvania!
I played college soccer and tennis against both California University (Pennsylvania) and Indiana University (Pennsylvania). Very confusing.