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NAGA

The NAGA (National Australian Gridiron Association) is a two league American Football competition played across Australia.

The two Leagues, the Capital and the Regional, both contain 8 teams, which compete to be named top of their respective Leagues in order to play off in the Ochre Bowl.

All teams were encouraged to be bold and inventive with their names and mascots (some were more so than others) leading to some interesting monikers.
 
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CAPITAL LEAGUE

Adelaide
Sea Dragons




Adelaide took the instruction to be bold with their monikers very literally. The Leafy Sea Dragon is a beautiful and rare occupant of the states waters, but is hardly a common mascot for sports teams.
 
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Brisbane Toads



While Adelaide were bold with their moniker choice, Brisbane might have been slightly..... misguided with their choice...
 
Canberra Greens




For Canberra, a green with blue and gold colour scheme was obvious. What was clearly not obvious to the marketing team was that naming a club based in a nations capital after a political party was perhaps not a sensible idea..
 
Darwin Devils



The Devils were very nearly put into the Regional League upon the inception of the competition. However, the teams leaders were able to successfully argue their way into the league to stand astride other great cities like Canberra and Adelaide.
 
Hobart Bounders



The Bounders name came out of a board meeting, where names such as the Kangaroos and Wallabies were rejected for one reason, and names like the Hoppers, Bouncers, Skippers and Skippies were bard for a whole different reason.
 
Melbourne NightWings



The club was actually intended to be named after their cities co founder. However, the naming rights to that particular title were taken, and the moniker NightWings was considered far more inkeeping with Melbournes trendy young coffee drinking, fashionable populace, or "w***ers" as they are known in Sydney.
 
Perth Exiles



Perth stayed true to current trends in that cities sporting landscape, by staying to true to tradition with black and gold as their colour scheme, and kept with their states current trend of adding blue and white for some reason.
 

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Sydney Gulls



Sydney chose the Gulls as their name to invoke images of beaches, soaring over the harbour, the bridge, the rocks and Circular Quay. Victorians claim it's because their annoying and just want to shit on everything, but the name is still unique and gives fans a great rally cry of "mine."
 
Perth Exiles



Perth stayed true to current trends in that cities sporting landscape, by staying to true to tradition with black and gold as their colour scheme, and kept with their states current trend of adding blue and white for some reason.
Are we Exiles just because we are isolated?
 
Melbourne NightWings



The club was actually intended to be named after their cities co founder. However, the naming rights to that particular title were taken, and the moniker NightWings was considered far more inkeeping with Melbournes trendy young coffee drinking, fashionable populace, or "******s" as they are known in Sydney.

Love this as one of my best memories of Melbourne is all the bats flying around one of the towers at night which I thought was sick.
 
REGIONAL LEAGUE


Geelong Lyons




But Damo FC, surely even with your terrible spelling and editing, you can see that Lion is misspelt? SURELY you don't mean Lyon as Gary and Nathan?

Well, in fact, I mean the Mayor of Geelong.
No, not Bill Brownless. OR Cameron Ling.

I mean Darryn, the flamboyant and enigmatic mayor who fought to get a team put in Geelong in the first place. He did also fight, unsuccessfully, to get several Adelaide Crows players to join the team, but after several confused letters of reply from Walker and Sloane he decided to quit while ahead.
 
Jagera Brown Snakes



The Brown Snakes are based in Queensland's South east, around the Logan region. Jagera is the name of one of the local indigenous groups, the totem of which is the Brown Snake.

Yeah. There was no funny way to tell that story.
 
Gosford Pelicans



Ha ha ha, what a shit name.


But no seriously, Gosford wanted a vaguely American name for their American Football team, and took inspiration from New Orleans
 
Gold Coast Dolphins



Gold Coast decided to go against so many either teams from that region and actually choose an appropriate name. There. I said it.
 
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Illawara Flame Trees



The founders of this club really wanted to attract the kids who drive on saturday afternoons and would otherwise just pass them by. The hope was to make the club a familiar sight to be savoured, which would share some history, with their town. They would also be sponsored by one of two hotels, and refused to travel far so that they wouldn't often have to book a room to stay the night
 
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