Most Tasteless Name for a Sports Team

[nq:1]My nomination: "The Chicago Fire" (soccer (= HBrE 'football')).[/nq]
How long before the Orlando and Washington NBA franchises merge and relocate to Dallas as the "Magic Bullets"?

Ross Howard

[nq:2]My nomination: "The Chicago Fire" (soccer (= HBrE 'football')).[/nq]
[nq:1]How long before the Orlando and Washington NBA franchises merge and relocate to Dallas as the "Magic Bullets"?[/nq]
The Washington Bullets have been the Wizards for several years. But only on the back of their uniforms; they have not made the playoffs since they changed the team name. The gods of basketball ha

Robert Lieblich (Email Removed) wrote, in part:
[nq:1]Time was that both Magic Johnson and Orlando Woolridge played for the Lakers. The question of that era was why the Orlando Magic were named after two players on an opposing team.[/nq]
Nice one. It reminds me of the days when the Boston Bruins defence featured the Hollywood quartet of Bob and Carol and Ted and Dallas.

[nq:1]My nomination: "The Chicago Fire" (soccer (= HBrE 'football')).[/nq]
Some of us still remember them as an (American) football team. The first professional football game I attended pitted the Chicago Fire against the Jacksonville Sharks.
Most tasteless name, though? That's hard. If you allow colleges, I'd probably lean toward the Penn Fighting Quakers. Sticking to pro teams, you had t

[nq:1]Most tasteless name, though? That's hard. If you allow colleges, I'd probably lean toward the Penn Fighting Quakers. Sticking to ... (And also the Blue Sox, Comets, and Redwings.) Honorable mention to the Miami Hooters (1993-1995) of the Arena Football League.[/nq]
Oh, and I shouldn't have forgotten the Redskins of Washington or the Red Skins of Sheboygan. It's hard to know whether to gi

[nq:2]How long before the Orlando and Washington NBA franchises merge and relocate to Dallas as the "Magic Bullets"?[/nq]
[nq:1]The Washington Bullets have been the Wizards for several years.[/nq]
I was applying AUE Posting Rule #8: "Never let the facts get in the way of a good gag".
Incidentally, the widespread belief among non-Americans that you lot "have no history" is only reinforc

[nq:1]Incidentally, the widespread belief among non-Americans that you lot "have no history" is only reinforced by the apparent inability of ... for a century or more AFAIK, not even Bolton Wanderers have ever wandered more than a mile or two.)[/nq]
We actually have a few over the century mark. The Chicago Cubs have been the Chicago Cubs since 1902. (They had other nicknames from 1876, but the

Incidentally, the widespread belief among non-Americans that you lot "have no history" is only reinforced by the apparent inability of American pro sports team to stay in one place or keep the same name for longer than a couple of decades. (Most of our football clubs have stayed put and been called what they're called for a century or more AFAIK, not even Bolton Wanderers have ever wandered more t

Miami Hooters was pretty bad (it was owned by a regional owner of the Hooters restaurant chain though).
Nobody has said the worst one though..
In minor league hockey.. the Macon Whoopie. (I kid you not)

[nq:1]Incidentally, the widespread belief among non-Americans that you lot "have no history" is only reinforced by the apparent inability of ... mile or two.) That brings up a question: were there any professional team sports 200 years ago? Any before then?[/nq]
I was just reading the current issue of Sports Illustrated and an article about a recently turned-up document in Pittsfield MA. The d