Houston team name: the new version

"Space City".... ...Please....G-d...don't allow BS posters in the MLS focus groups!

Houston SC Rovers...Not bad.

 

How about the SAM Houstons

 

my vote is for Apollo Soccer Club Houston. You can be either Apollo Houston or ASC Houston based on that; it refrences a unique name most cities would not have the right to use; and it mixes a traditional naming style, 'Club,' with the American word, 'Soccer.'

 

That's an interesting approach.

I also think the name will have to work in Spanish - it doesn't necessarily have to be in Spanish, but it has to translate easily.

Sharpstown HS, btw, are the Apollos.

 

I am starting to like "Apollo" as the nickname of the team. It has a lot of historical significance, very connected to Houston (NASA, etc), cool logo for the Apollo project that can be emulated, and easy to say in English and Spanish.


Houston Soccer Club "APOLLO"



Too bad it's not in the top three.

 

Obviously as a New England fan this isn’t my team, but I’d hate to see a “Western” name (Wranglers, Gunslingers, etc) be used. That’d be so cartoon-ish and silly. The more I think about it the more I like the idea of Rovers because you get the “traditional” theme as well as the NASA connection (Mars rovers). Of course, being from Texas you know the rest of us will have to call you the Karl Rovers. Sorry, it’s just going to happen.

 

In order to pay respect to our NASA patron "Saint".....





we will be called the "Johnsons".

 

Apollo or Rovers should be in the top two, IMHO.

 

I voted for HOUSTON FC (nice and simple), but the more I hear APOLLO the more I like it

 

I like Houston FC...but it almost sounds too much like Dallas but something with the "Apollo" sounds good

 

Sorry, naming a name after Blues music has been done. That's our hockey team here in St. Louis.

Also: no using Rangers for Houston. I'm a fan of the real Rangers (the club from Glasgow) and I don't want to see the name used in the States (unless it's here in my home town).

 

These are Texas Rangers, some of the most badass law inforcement officers in American history.


If the good people of Houston want to name their team the Rangers, It won't be because of a bunch of Scots.

 

The NASL had the Stars and the Hurricanes. When in SJ this team reused an NASL name ... actually I used to like the Dallas Tornados as a name

 

I got mad respect for those St Louis Rangers, that's a wonderful law enforcment body with a fantastic history.

 

Apollo Houston would be my choice. I would incorporate the Greek god in the logo - kind of like Ajax Amsterdam.

 

Hate to break the news to you, but Texas beat Glasgow to the name by fifty years. Steve Austin founded the Texas Rangers in 1823 to police, well, the range. The Glasgow club was founded in 1873, and so far as I can tell the name was picked out of a book about rugby and has no natural connection to Glasgow.

So, Houston Rangers would be classic the same way DC United is. It relates to the city's history and has a tip of the hat to a storied club, but as a scion of a family that's been in Texas since the 16th century, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out to you that Texas has dibs.

 

My name, you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, but you doesn't have to call me Johnson

 

Hey, that's a pretty cool thought too!

 

Kool. First picture I've seen without the sheets and hoods.

 

With respect to that great Virginian, Stephen Fuller Austin (Steve Austin to his friends) the team can be called the 1.7 Million Dollar Men.

 

1. Glasgow's team is not named after law enforcement. It may surprise the Texans on the board to learn that the term "Ranger" was not invented there. It implies a wandering fighter (think Aragorn from Lord of the Rings), just like Rovers or Wanderers (also soccer team names).

2. As a high school history teacher, I should tell you that the Texas Rangers' "proud" history includes an awful lot of killing innocent Mexican-Americans. (Rangers fans in Glasgow have traditionally saved their racism for the Catholic fans of their rivals Celtic).

 

Great, but that has absolutely no bearing on the fact that there were Texas Rangers and so the name would be appropriate for a team in Houston (as it is for the baseball team in Dallas), despite your feelings towards that team in Glasgow.

So I guess that means we need to change the names of the Tennesse Volunteers, the Golden State Warriors, UMass Minutemen and hundreds of other sports teams named after groups of questionable moral character. Or....we can recognize that this is just sport and entertainment and not something worth this kind of angst. Whaddya think?

 

Rangers would also have killed arsehats from St. Louis.

 

So much ignorance, so little time.

That would mean it's your first time to have seen them, period.
You're welcome for the little history lesson. Now kindly....
1. Find the East river.
2. Find some dry concrete.
3. Bring plenty of water.
4. Find a plastic tub.
5. Mix #2 & #3 in #4 along with your feet.
6. Drool for a while. Don't think too much. I'm sure it comes naturally.
7. Fling your worthless self into #1.

So, the Catholics are a race, now? I'm sure they'll be interested to hear it. Gotta love High School history teachers....
...smarter than 15-year-olds, so they think they know everything.