News: Nashville Lands MLS Expansion Franchise

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  1. Burr

    Burr Member+

    Boca Juniors
    Argentina
    Jul 8, 2014
    Tampa, FL
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Call them Appalachia FC if trying to appeal to a region I guess.
     
  2. Len

    Len Member+

    Club: Dallas Tornado
    Jan 18, 1999
    Everywhere and Nowhere.....I'm the wind, baby.
    #227 Len, Jan 7, 2018
    Last edited: Jan 7, 2018
    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.
     
  3. harrylee773

    harrylee773 Member+

    Jul 28, 2004
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
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  4. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    That and Northwestern University is in Chicago and not Walla Walla
     
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  5. JasonMa

    JasonMa Member+

    Mar 20, 2000
    Arvada, CO
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Replacing Western Washington University in Bellingham would be a better option
     
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  6. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  7. Stan Collins

    Stan Collins Member+

    Feb 26, 1999
    Silver Spring, MD
    It'll really blow your mind when I tell you that Pensacola is in the south and Miami is not.
     
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  8. NashSC

    NashSC Member+

    Nashville SC
    United States
    Jan 3, 2018
    #233 NashSC, Jan 8, 2018
    Last edited: Jan 8, 2018
    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.
     
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  9. newtex

    newtex Member+

    May 25, 2005
    Houston
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    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.

    [​IMG]
     
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  10. don gagliardi

    don gagliardi Member+

    San Jose Earthquakes
    Feb 28, 2004
    san jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Buffalo is about 30 miles outside that map, too, but its team is not named the Hill-Bills. :)
     
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  11. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    If you've seen anything from the Bills Mafia, it probably should be.
     
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  12. VBCity72

    VBCity72 Member+

    Aug 17, 2014
    Sunny San Diego
    Club:
    Plymouth Argyle FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  13. NashSC

    NashSC Member+

    Nashville SC
    United States
    Jan 3, 2018
    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.
     
  14. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    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.
     
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  15. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    Sounds like someone educated in Appalachia to me.:whistling:
     
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  16. Ismitje

    Ismitje Super Moderator

    Dec 30, 2000
    The Palouse
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    To really confuse things, Northeastern University (yes, the one in Boston) has a graduate campus in Seattle.
     
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  17. jayd8888

    jayd8888 Member+

    Aug 22, 2006
    Denver CO
  18. NashSC

    NashSC Member+

    Nashville SC
    United States
    Jan 3, 2018
    #243 NashSC, Jan 8, 2018
    Last edited: Jan 8, 2018
    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.
     
  19. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    I always enjoyed how Pacific International University (a sham college) was located in Missouri.
     
  20. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Virginia College (also a sham) is based in Birmingham and has a campus in Lubbock. Only 1 of their 23 campuses is in Virginia.
     
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  21. JasonMa

    JasonMa Member+

    Mar 20, 2000
    Arvada, CO
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    University of South Florida being in Tampa while University of Central Florida is in Orlando always gets me.
     
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  22. ElJefe

    ElJefe Moderator
    Staff Member

    Feb 16, 1999
    Colorful Colorado
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You know Mark Sanford?
     
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  23. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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!
     
  24. Nuke1990

    Nuke1990 Member

    May 21, 2008
    I played college soccer and tennis against both California University (Pennsylvania) and Indiana University (Pennsylvania). Very confusing.
     
  25. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Long road trips, eh?
     

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