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Team Names Suck! |
July
2001
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Year after year, I feel as if I've been
assaulted and anally-violated by the sounds and images of too many lame-ass
team names that come down the pipe every season.
Think I'm exaggerating? Read
on, oh ye of warped and limited imaginations…
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Crazed Baboons
"Let's
be wacky, original, and cutting-edge!
Let's take an ultra-forceful extreme adjective and match
it with an unpredictable and aggressive animal!"
Lame.
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Gang Green
Oh,
I get it - they're a gang, and they wear green.
Clever! And
when you say it fast, it's what happens to missionaries and drug
addicts when their arms and legs start to rot and have to be cut
off. Based on their
record, it's obvious a few of these amputees must play on the team…
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Ironheads
We're told this is the name of a clothing company.
Sounds to us like an apt description of the penalty-addicted,
suspension-happy, alcoholic, and chronically short-benched could-a-beens
that make up this sorry-ass team.
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McKenny's
Kings
This
is the title of:
A)
a roller hockey team
B)
a film about an angst-laden scooter gang from upstate Pennsylvania
'just looking for respect.'
C)
A 1950's sitcom about the wacky antics of happy-go-lucky
American GIs in a WW2 Nazi prison camp.
D)
Something lame.
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Rage
Against the Maroon
This
one's my favourite - it's clever and fun; like using a sling shot
to feed porridge to your grandfather.
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Red
Wings
"And
the award for the 'We're too stupid/lazy/stoned to think beyond
NHL hockey team names' category goes to…"
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The Celestial Panthers
I'm
still literally wetting my pants over this one.
Brilliant - they've managed to take a formidable creature
and combine it with the most inane and fluffy adjective possible.
Who's your starting line - Jem and the Holograms?
"They're not just panthers, folks - they're panthers,
from the stars!"' Oh
man, it's running down my leg and onto the floor as we speak!
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The Clamdiggers
You
know, I'm trying to picture some guy in big rubber boots on a beach
somewhere with a shovel, but I keep getting this other clam-related
image in my mind… In
any case, neither have much to do with hockey, so I'm still confused. Therefore, it's stupid.
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The Enforcers
Are
you trying to you picture some ominous post-apocalyptic comic book
cyborg-warrior on inline skates ready to do battle and wreak havoc
on all who stand in his way?
Funny, all I see is an overweight meter maid with acne at
the local Tim Horton's ticketing cars before her coffee break…
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The Mudskippers
It
was funny the first time - when it was a character on the Ren and
Stimpy show. But Ren
and Stimpy aren't cool any more - and neither are you.
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The Predators
"And
runner up for the 'We're too stupid/lazy/stoned to think beyond
NHL hockey team names' category is…"
Rule
#143 - If you're gonna be mindless and bite an NHL team name, at
least pick a team that isn't isht!
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The
Primetime Playas
Let's
play Jeopardy!
Alex
Trebek: The name of this hockey team symbolizes the essence
of the term 'gay,' in all ways except for the associated homophobic
connotations.
Me:
What is Primetime Playas?
Alex
Trebek: Congratulations, you are the Jeopardy Champion of the
Universe. My work is
done - I will now kill myself."
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The
Rollers
"Hey
guys - let's call ourselves the rollers, 'cuz we play roller hockey,
and our wheels roll, and we like to roll over the other teams, and…"
This
is so fromage it actually makes having an NHL team name more appealing.
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The Smoke
In
it's attempt to be intimidating and forceful, this team name instills
about as much terror and foreboding as a mall security guard.
Oh
wait - The Rollers, The Smoke… I get it.
You're
all under arrest.
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The Wraiths
Did
you honestly think it'd be cool to name your team after evil characters
from Lord of the Rings?
Here's some tips, gents - this name sucks, girls AREN'T icky,
and it isn't cool to play Dungeons and Dragons on the bench.
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Vaughan Rockets
This is a pretty cool name - if you're twelve.
And what's this "Vaughan" business? "Houston,
we have a problem - some town in Canada that's really a neighbourhood
outside of Toronto with a Home Depot and 5 Burger Kings is using
the name of our football team."
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Vaughan Thunder
Thunder
- n) a lot of noise with
nothing to show for it.
Perfect.
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Weapon X
Damn - I just changed my shorts after that whole
Celestial Panther schtick, and now this?
I think I saw an ad for the Weapon X 2001on the home shopping
channel last night - it's a vacuum or something, right?
Here's a tip, boys: using the letter X in conjunction with
ANYTHING went out with mushroom haircuts, yellow 5.0 litre Mustangs,
and wine coolers. The
only "mystery" here is what particular solvents you snorted
when you thought of this name…
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