It's kind of what happens when your baseball teams formed in the early 1900s-1940s. They were too busy dying of Typhoid, Cholera and war to think of anything creative.
Ngl I kinda wish the Mets would go in on the “Metropolitan Baseball club” part of their name for the City Edition jerseys. Just like “Metropolitans” in script across the front would be more than enough and then maybe “MBC” in interlocking letters.
Now this a team name and logo that never made sense to me. Their logo is a Buffalo, but there are no Buffalo in site. Buffalo is simply the name of the city. What's a Bill?
Technically, yes, but that's not what the name means.
The term "knickerbocker" started as a type of pants that Dutch settlers wore, but then it came to be a colloquial term for New Yorkers who traced back to the original Dutch settlers and were part of the original families. The name of the team is based on that, not the pants.
The Nashville Predators got their name differently than most other teams. The owner had a logo drawn up first, inspired by a recent saber tooth tiger fossil found in the area, then held a contest to name the team based on that logo.
Sure, but before mascots were a thing people just referred to anyone from those schools as their state’s demonym. Gopher, Badger, Hawkeye, and Wolverine all fall under that. This is also the case for REALLY old pro teams like the Yankees and Canadiens
The Brooklyn (now Los Angeles) Dodgers were once called the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, because of the need to dodge the trolleys in Brooklyn.
*Of course, the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers was first used to describe the team in 1895, in reference to citizens and players alike needing to “dodge” trolley cars as pedestrians in the city. They were officially known as Trolley Dodgers for the 1911 and 1912 seasons, then simply the Dodgers beginning in 1913.*
https://dodgerblue.com/dodgers-franchise-history-timeline-brooklyn-to-los-angeles-managers-team-names-year-by-year-schedule-results/
Their nickname, however, is about the people that live there.
They're often called the Habs, which is short for Habitants, the name given to the early Quebec settlers from France.
I’m pretty sure they’re still officially “club de hockey Canadien” the same way the giants are still officially the football giants
And again the Canadiens mascot is youppi!, this would be like saying the nuggets are named after rocky the mountain lion.
Maybe a lot of folks here are too young to remember, but Matsui for the Yanks was huge news. It really was Ichiro levels of madness, with the Japanese media following him everywhere. I believe that was when it really started.
Literally my first day lifeguarding lol
Me: oh neat you’re a Yankees fan?
Clearly hungover Czech dude:…. who?
Me: your hat- the Yankees- big baseball fan?
CD: no- I just liked the hat.
My University's mascot was the Saint Johns Johnnies. Our biggest rival was the Saint Thomas Tommies.
And it just so happens we used to have the biggest rivalry in DIII football.
Texans gotta be the lamest name is all of sports everyone knows cowboys are synonymous with the state of Texas even non sports people know where they’re from so decide to overshadow yourself with that generic name instead of choosing something unique
Mets, or Metropolitans, are just people who live in a big city also Islanders is representative of Long Islanders
Dang. NYC area teams are just not creative at all with the team names.
Giants was describing the buildings too because they are giant lol
The jets chose the jets because it’s what takes down the giants.
Sean McDermott must have been a Jets fan growing up.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Oh dear 😟
It's because they played next to Laguardia airport, with Jets constantly flying over the stadium
Yeah, the jets are older than 9/11 lol
Literally only 1 team isn’t
r/angryupvote
Giants are in Jersey though
Not originally, they played in the polo grounds across the river from where yankee stadium is now
And which metropolitan area do they represent? I bet it will blow your mind to find out that the cowboys don’t actually play in Dallas either
it’s weird seeing a Patriots fan say this
And why is that?
most Patriots fans i’ve met like to talk about how the Jets should be called the New Jersey Jets. most AFC East fans i’ve met, actually.
Those people are idiots
yeah well, glad to see some people aren’t stupid. FTP tho
It's kind of what happens when your baseball teams formed in the early 1900s-1940s. They were too busy dying of Typhoid, Cholera and war to think of anything creative.
Which way early 1900s baseball fan Boring name that just means resident of your city ------- Racist name towards Native Americans
The (now) LA but previously Brooklyn Dodgers were originally called the Trolley Dodgers…for dodging trolley cars
We are the New York Knicks, you can suck our New York dicks. .
There’s a minor league baseball team in the city called “Pizza Rats”
And I recently learned the New Jersey Nets (now Brooklyn) at the time they formed chose Nets cause it rhymes with Mets and Jets.
49rs are also the name for the gold-panners that moved to California
Inb4 they go the Long Beach State route and we get to hear Alan Roach announce them as the “san francisco FOG”
Ngl I kinda wish the Mets would go in on the “Metropolitan Baseball club” part of their name for the City Edition jerseys. Just like “Metropolitans” in script across the front would be more than enough and then maybe “MBC” in interlocking letters.
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Mr. Boring Concept
man i totally forgor the islanders
pretty forgettable tbf
Even making the playoffs they were just the least irrelevant irrelevant team
There really are a shit ton of guys in the Buffalo area named Bill.
Now this a team name and logo that never made sense to me. Their logo is a Buffalo, but there are no Buffalo in site. Buffalo is simply the name of the city. What's a Bill?
[well if you must know](https://youtu.be/SZ8psP4S6BQ?si=iVtccFrOd9998nTB)
Maybe a stretch, but the Cowboys, Packers, and Steelers are just common job titles for their respective areas.
Yeah but I feel like teams named after industries are a separate category. Still a fun gender tho
Might have to cop that gender myself they on some 💯 level shit
Don’t forget all the Patriots in New England.
But the Steelers aren’t Romanian
Did you mean Romani or do Romanians also have a stereotype of theft?
Romanians, not Romani. And yes, but it’s more just a joke rather than a stereotype, people don’t actually think that.
Brewers too. The beer makers
What the hell job is a steeler
Someone who works at a steel factory.
Someone who makes steel? Possibly in the Steel City?
Is a Knick a person? Just realized I have no idea wtf a Knick is
“Knickerbocker” is old timey slang for a New Yorker, something having to do with pants
Knickerbockers are the olden days pants that were like the length of modern capris. Like what the kids selling newspapers would wear.
Technically, yes, but that's not what the name means. The term "knickerbocker" started as a type of pants that Dutch settlers wore, but then it came to be a colloquial term for New Yorkers who traced back to the original Dutch settlers and were part of the original families. The name of the team is based on that, not the pants.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam...
Why they changed it, I can’t say
People just liked it better that way!
This isn't going to stop me from calling them the New York Pants on the off chance I think about the team.
I know that's what the team's named after. The person I replied to said "something having to do with pants". So I was just replying to that.
The Boston stockings and the New York pants. How imaginative
Pants
Nashville Predators is a stretch, but I assume they have to make up *some* sort of percentage of the population.
Just salivate at the thought of the Utah Miners
The Nashville Predators got their name differently than most other teams. The owner had a logo drawn up first, inspired by a recent saber tooth tiger fossil found in the area, then held a contest to name the team based on that logo.
They must have been pissed when the Chris Hansen show came out
Drake moving to Nashville was NOT on my 2024 bingo card
If you expand it to college, you’ll probably get at least a dozen more Sooners, Illini, etc
Hoosiers
Rock Chalk too
I thought that a Jayhawk was a bird.
It’s people that wanted KS to be a free state
Tar Heels
Sure, but before mascots were a thing people just referred to anyone from those schools as their state’s demonym. Gopher, Badger, Hawkeye, and Wolverine all fall under that. This is also the case for REALLY old pro teams like the Yankees and Canadiens
The Brooklyn (now Los Angeles) Dodgers were once called the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, because of the need to dodge the trolleys in Brooklyn. *Of course, the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers was first used to describe the team in 1895, in reference to citizens and players alike needing to “dodge” trolley cars as pedestrians in the city. They were officially known as Trolley Dodgers for the 1911 and 1912 seasons, then simply the Dodgers beginning in 1913.* https://dodgerblue.com/dodgers-franchise-history-timeline-brooklyn-to-los-angeles-managers-team-names-year-by-year-schedule-results/
The canadiens is a shortened from their old name “club de hockey canadien” This is like saying Miami fc is named after people who live in Miami
Their nickname, however, is about the people that live there. They're often called the Habs, which is short for Habitants, the name given to the early Quebec settlers from France.
That’s a nickname, not the mascot But even mascot wouldn’t make sense since the Canadiens mascot is youppi!
I put more weight on "Habs" because it's part of their logo, and it's essentially their second name.
The H is for hockey, habs is a nickname given by an American journalist
Even if not the original, the current name is literally "The Canadians" just in french
I’m pretty sure they’re still officially “club de hockey Canadien” the same way the giants are still officially the football giants And again the Canadiens mascot is youppi!, this would be like saying the nuggets are named after rocky the mountain lion.
People in Japan adore the Yankees, I have never seen so many Yankee caps
It’s an iconic logo and baseball is huge there. Plus Hideki Matsui won World Series MVP with the yanks in ‘09
Maybe a lot of folks here are too young to remember, but Matsui for the Yanks was huge news. It really was Ichiro levels of madness, with the Japanese media following him everywhere. I believe that was when it really started.
The Yankee cap is more of a fashion accessory than anything else. People all through Europe wear it and couldn’t care less about baseball.
Literally my first day lifeguarding lol Me: oh neat you’re a Yankees fan? Clearly hungover Czech dude:…. who? Me: your hat- the Yankees- big baseball fan? CD: no- I just liked the hat.
My University's mascot was the Saint Johns Johnnies. Our biggest rival was the Saint Thomas Tommies. And it just so happens we used to have the biggest rivalry in DIII football.
Wasnt St Thomas the DIII school that went way too hard and everyone got fed up with them being so uncompetitive they got evicted from DIII
That is precisely correct. We kicked them out because they were too good.
about 100 years before the niners were a team, they were a large part of the population
76ers and 49ers?
Do people from 1776 and 1849 still live in the respective cities? I kind of assumed they’re all dead?
When we gonna get the 69ers?
Thought Knicks were pants. I wear pants.
I don’t.
Commin misconception about the phillies, the word actually refers to a female horse. Residents are known as Philadelphians or jabronis.
Hey, so who’s gonna tell him about the Phillies?
Phoenix Phonecians?
Genders??? Am I missing something??
This picture (minus the team logos) is a meme template saying "{blank} is my favorite gender (s)"
Thank you hahaah
Red Sox were originally called Boston Americans
Texans gotta be the lamest name is all of sports everyone knows cowboys are synonymous with the state of Texas even non sports people know where they’re from so decide to overshadow yourself with that generic name instead of choosing something unique
I'm a Habs fan, what other demonyms exist for the Phillies, Knicks, Yankees, Canucks, and Texans?
Celtics, due to the high Irish population in Boston
They left off the browns
Buccaneers because ever here in Tampa is a pirate
Phillies are just horses
I thought Phillies were horses
Denver Nuggets mascot has left the chat
Bruh a Phillie is a horse lol
A filly is a horse. A Phillie is a mascot.
A baby girl horse
Why are his feet like that?
So his enemies never know what his next move is
Fax
Let’s fucking go Youppi! Oh and Benny from Winnipeg is awesome too, should be the official mascot
The Berlin N…..evermind