Dumbest sports team name: Houston Texans

[CatWoman]

nuff said!!!

[markdd]

1. I do give them Zero for creativity

Check out the new Kansas City Chiefs -- was Dallas TEXANS

[amber dog democrat]

2. Sports is dumb

anyway.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Speak for yourself.

[amber dog democrat]

24. I am

Its just my opinion.

That is the part of the newspaper I always throw away.

:})

[GOPisEvil]

3. I agree. There's only one name for a pro football team from Houston:

Luv ya blue!!!

[CatWoman]

5. Heh

you've been in the sun too long!!!

:hi:

[Rambis]

6. Los Angeles Lakers? It is in a freakin desert!

I know they moved from Minnihaha-

[GOPisEvil]

8. Any team that can't be pluralized is stupid, too.

"I'm glad to be an Orlando Magic, er, Magician."

"I'm looking forward to being a Miami Heat, er, BTU, er..."

[tcfrogs]

27. How about Houston Humidity?

That would have made some sense, since they couldn't resurrect the Oilers.

[CatWoman]

33. LOL -- Good One!!!!!

:D

[Bamboose]

32. AMEN!

Preach it, GIE . . . I remember Luv Ya Blue from WAY back in the day, yo!

[underpants]

7. The Dallas Cowboys originally were the Dallas Texans

Personally I think that an 8 team league having two teams with the same name is pretty dumb (The Roughriders of the CFL) as is punting on third down.

[ROC]

11. I believe the Kansas City Chiefss were the Dallas Texas

At least I remember going to their games before Lamar Hunt moved them, to KC.

[Droopy]

9. Most ironic sports name: Cincinnati Bengals

It should be the Cincinnati Pussy Cats.

[eyesroll]

10. Freeport Pretzels.

High-school team and mascot in northwestern Illinois.

[hobbit709]

12. Dumb Sports Team Name

How about some of the HS team names. Here in Texas we have the Cuero Gobblers (mascot is a turkey) and the Hutto Hippos

[Bridget Burke]

18. How about the Hogg Razorbacks?

Jim Hogg was a governor of Texas, and father of the famous philanthropist, Ima Hogg.

[UrbScotty]

26. The Detroit Catholic Central Shamrocks (nt)

[sbj405]

My brother went there!

Guess which all girls school I went to?

[maxpower]

13. The Packers

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Is that really their name?....That IS dumb.

Why not "Houston Executioners"
Or "Houston Polluters" ...Or on a related note: "Houston Carcinogens"
"Houston Redistricters"
Maybe the best one:..."Houston Bushes"

At least these names will legitimately strike fear in the opposing team's hearts and minds.

[JohnKleeb]

17. sure is

[JohnKleeb]

15. No, South Lakes Seahawks

:D

[Commendatori]

16. Utah Jazz (n/t)

[KamaAina]

20. Back in N'Awlins, I had a plan to get them back for that

get an expansion team (this was years before the Hornets' move) and name it the "New Orleans Tabernacle Choir".

:-)

[Bossy Monkey]

19. Meanwhile, what's up with the logo?

Is that a T? A steer? If the latter, is this a weak attempt to pretend to be the Cowboys? Just insane as far as I can tell, as Houston was a cotton town before it was an oil town, but never a cowtown. (Neither was Dallas, but Fort Worth was the archetypal cowtown.) I ought to be able to snag it from the avatar list on edit.

Edit:

[Lady Effingbroke]

38. It's a lobster claw.

n/t

[Bossy Monkey]

44. But seriously, a steer combined with the state of Texas, or so they say

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2700_132/ai_108791288

[Ilsa]

21. Can you believe they had a contest for that name?

Someone actually got paid for that weiner, I mean winner.

Cotton pickers is a mascot name for a small town here, I believe. How about the Houston Drivebyshooters? That's all I hear about on their newscasts.

[Meshuga]

22. The Mighty Ducks n/t

[Archae]

28. Ducks rock!

They play pretty good when not clobbering other-dimensional reptiles...:P

[Meshuga]

37. The name sucks!

I remember Canadians scared to see "The Mighty Ducks" engraved on the Stanley Cup. Thank god it didn't happen! :-)

[Spider Jerusalem]

46. This is why letting Disney own a pro sports franchise was a BAD IDEA...

talk about the ultimate lame marketing tie-in.

[bif]

23. Why not the Texas Houstons?

n/t

[UrbScotty]

25. I'm a Detroit Red Wings and West Michigan Whitecaps fan.

What kinds of names are they?

The Red Wings logo is a wing flying from a tire, and the Whitecaps may be so named because Grand Rapids was named after the Grand River.

[Ripley]

29. In the NFL it has to be...

The Cardinals. With that scary aggressive bird on their helmets. :eyes:

[Sparkle]

30. I kinda wished it would have been something else too.

But some conservative probably thought of it and thought it was brilliant.

[Tom Kitten]

31. how about the old American Basketball Association team...

the Miami Floridians, later shortened to just The Floridians? Or the old World Football League team the Honolulu Hawaiians, later shortened to just The Hawaiians? Brilliant examples of creativity there.

the ABA had some really silly names...The Anaheim Amigos (fighting Amigos?) stand out to me. or the Memphis Pros 9more creativity), San Diego Conquistadors (shortened to Qs because the name was too long to fit in newspaper headlines and too hard for people to spell, not that anybody cared), the Spirits of St. Louis (no, not the St. Louis Spirits, that would be incorrect, it was the Spirits of St. Louis), the Oakland Oaks (nice alliteration...but have you ever seen an Oak play basketball?) who later became the Virginia Squires (nice local flavor but does a Squire play good basketball?) Then there were the Baltimore Hustlers, who changed their name to the Claws because of a perceived negative image of the city, and then folded without ever playing a game. Or the Pittsburg Condors, named off a bird (a cool bird though) that feeds off the flesh of dead animals it happens to chance upon, who then changed their name to the Pipers and promptly led themselves off into oblivion...

[Huckebein the Raven]

34. I think I can top that: Memphis Hounddogs

that was going to be the name of the NFL franchise in Memphis when the city was in the running the same year that Charlotte (I think the Panthers play there) and Jacksonville were awarded teams.

[Norbert]

35. Akron Zips

[realisticphish]

43. hey!

the kangaroo is native to northern ohio!

:)



:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[maveric]

36. San Diego Padres

Named a ballclub after catholic priests who led conquistadors to slaughter native americans.

I could think of other names for the team.

The Fleet
The Surf
The Tide
The Grays (california gray whale)

[jbane]

39. My wife asked this very question...

My wife asked this very question while we were watching ESPN "Countdown" last
Sunday. They do have nice uniforms.

[ironflange]

40. Buffalo Bills

I just hate that name, that silly pun. No wonder they've such a long history of underachievement.

[BlueHandDuo]

41. It'll be even dumber if...

...the team moves somewhere else.

The Omaha Texans, anyone?

[Zomby Woof]

42. actually, it is logical

You see, Texans are unbearably proud of the cowboy cesspool they live in, and they live for every chance they get to thump their chests and say "I'M A TEXAN! WAHOO!". So ANY chance they get to remind you they are a Texan, will come across in multiple ways. What better way than to name one of their sports teams the TEXANS? That way, you are reminded constantly.

So it may be dumb, but for another reason entirely.

You can always count on me for the straight scoop. ;-)

(and yes, sports is dumb too, except it is good for helping me win money - that is ALL sports is really good for - GAMBLING)

[bo44]

45. KKKrawford ShitStains with Georgie Pukechunk at quarterback

[last_texas_dem]

47. I agree

Very unoriginal... Oilers was a much better name for Houston's team. Are there any other states that have teams with names like that? (Californians? Mississippians? North Dakotans? I can't think of any...)

Texas has a number of weird mascot names. My sister went to Austin College in Sherman, which has the Kangaroo as their mascot. That one's actually kinda cool... And I knew a girl from the little Texas town of Groesbeck; her high school had the Groesbeck Goats. Of course, I figure other states have just as weird ones... those were just a couple off the top of my head.

[bookman]

48. Disagree...but...

The Texans was the best choice from the five names from the names they were going to pick.

And as Robin Williams said when he was here. "You won't see any Tennessee Texans!" :)