Voting time: Worst Moniker in global sport! (Poll Added)

[NorthernLights]

Chelsea FC - The pensioners

Manchester City - The Citizens

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Manchester City - Team of Divvy Blooze

 

[WCErevival]

Surely the Dockers get a nomination. May as well call yourself the construction workers or baggage handlers.

 

[Dave Stevens]

Seriously. It's a colour.

 

[Grin]

The colour of sadness

 

[chefmeister]

Just imagine if we had a club monikered as the "Aboriginals" or "Noongars"...

Erin Riley and Adam Goodes - come on down...

 

[Bennett.]

Fighting Artichokes ftw

 

[GWBogan]

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or is that too obvious?

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Just imagine if we had a club monikered as the "Aboriginals" or "Noongars"...

Erin Riley and Adam Goodes - come on down...

God please don't invite Adam Goodes to this thread. I can't stand any more Goodes melties.

 

[Smeg Head]

Surely the Dockers get a nomination. May as well call yourself the construction workers or baggage handlers.

Dockers is worse. Don't look it up on urbandictionary.

 

[Ok Boomer]

Throw a dart and see which American sports team it lands on.

 

[WCErevival]

Dockers is worse. Don't look it up on urbandictionary.

I liked this one

An afl team experiencing currently in white hot form. most commonly known as the underachiever, finally "kicking ass" in the league but still receiving feeble negative comments from supporters of rival homosexual club the west coast eagles, such as "eagles are better cos we won the premiership 12 years ago".....need i say more

Posted September 4 2006 If only he waited a couple more weeks.

 

[Smeg Head]

I liked this one


Posted September 4 2006 If only he waited a couple more weeks.

Ha that is one pathetic purple ****s fan to post that.

 

[the_interloper]

What the hell is a Laker?

 

[royals1922]

What the hell is a Laker?

LA were from recollection originally from Minnesota so carried the name Lakers across.

 

[the_interloper]

LA were from recollection originally from Minnesota so carried the name Lakers across.

Again, what the hell is a Laker?

 

[Chief Ten Beers]

Again, what the hell is a Laker?

Everyone apparently;

[ley-ker] noun: a person associated with a lake, as a resident, visitor, or worker.

 

[royals1922]

Again, what the hell is a Laker?

Minnesota from all reports had a few lakes and a laker presumably is someone or an expression connected with lakes. A locational term if you will totally unrelated to its present location.

 

[royals1922]

Again, what the hell is a Laker?

An AFL example would be if the purple proofs moved to GWS and called themselves the GWS Dockers

 

[royals1922]

Cleveland Browns.

What are they named after, a turd?

From what I recall they were named after Paul Brown a president of their club. FFS I don't know if I'm right but Google is your friend.

 

[Spongebob]

Minnesota from all reports had a few lakes and a laker presumably is someone or an expression connected with lakes. A locational term if you will totally unrelated to its present location.

Minnesota is called the land of a thousand lakes. So lakers are from there.

They even have Land'o'Lakes butter

 

[Spongebob]

I can't imagine why my old college mascot -- or spirit leader as some called him -- Chief Illiniwek was banned.

Here are some of the culturally sensitive portrayals, and even a rationale to retain him

 

[craffles]

Poll added to OP with best options that have been put forward.

Vote away germs!

 

[NorthernLights]

I can't stand team nicknames that don't end in 's' and aren't really a tangible thing (eg; Heat, Magic, Thunder, Galaxy, Victory, Glory, Storm)

If you can't call a player "A/an [Insert team name]" then it shouldn't be a team nickname.
For example: "Dustin Martin is a Tiger" makes sense, whereas "Kevin Durant is a Thunder" does not.

 

[Morganashlee]

I can't stand team nicknames that don't end in 's' and aren't really a tangible thing (eg; Heat, Magic, Thunder, Galaxy, Victory, Glory, Storm)

If you can't call a player "A/an [Insert team name]" then it shouldn't be a team nickname.
For example: "Dustin Martin is a Tiger" makes sense, whereas "Kevin Durant is a Thunder" does not.