A new Eastern League minor league baseball team. I have read that more than a few people hate the name. I myself kinda like it. With a unique and marketable logo they might just have hit a homerun with this one. Beats the hell out of "Sockers" or "Thunder" IMO.
Better than calling an indoor soccer team "the Sockers" or an indoor football team "the Thunder" How's that? I hate generic names and / or logos.
I wouldn't call Sockers a generic name. It's been used several times in San Diego and by at least one team in Chicago and one team in Midland, Texas. It can't be generic. It isn't even really a word. Thunder and Lightning have been used extensively. Partly because they are so cool. In fact, Baltimore has had a Thunder (NLL) AND a Lightning (CBA).
Um, yes...there was (is) a Chicago Sockers club team that played a year or two in the PDL. I'm not sure if the club program is still around.
According to Thor. Thunderstorms are cool. The imagery is cool. They've just been used probably more than any other name in sports.
Top 5 goofy team names. 5. Staines Removers - British American Football team. 4. Rhode Island School of Design Nads. Check out their mascot. 3. The Butte Pirates (Im not kidding) High School in Butte Montana 2. El Paso Cow Patties. (El Paso Buzzards changed their name for a game). 1. The Macon Whoopee. (I liked the Macon Bacon - with 2 amorous pigs in the logo)
I like the Trenton and Albert Lea Thunder logos. The Oklahoma City Thunder might be the worst of all the Thunder logos. Talk about uninspired. Not a lot of great Lightning logos surprisingly and the NHL team's logo is pretty lame.
Albuquerque got it's name from the Simpson's. There was an episode where the Springfield Isotope's were all set to move to Albuquerque. The episode aired before the current Albuquerque team joined the PCL.
The El Paso Diablos have a cool logo We used it for my sons 5 year olds t-ball team All these little guys with a schwarzenegger pepper on the front was cool
I googled silly soccer names Here are a few of the many Thailand Tobacco Monopoly Chaco for ever - aregentina Botswana Meat Comission Deportiva Wanka - Peru RobinHood - Suriname Motor Action - Zimbabwe King Faisal Babes - Ghana Blue Hens - Delaware Anteaters - UC Irvine GlenBuck CheryPickers - Scotland Auckland Kingz
Much aware of that. I seem to recall someone denying that the name had anything to do with The Simpsons, but I can't find that reference now. Great names: - The Strongest (Bolivia) - Sheffield Wednesday (England) - Chivas ("goats," Mexico)
Kenya's Premier League is fertile ground for such names Agro-Chemicals Chemilil Sugar SonySugar Red Berets