Going to get back to basics in today's post. The early days of Stacker Sports on Meta was essentially me asking the community to shill me their ideas on a given topic. I want to get back to doing one of those type of posts a week. So get your shilling fingers ready, I think I have a good one for you today.
But first can we all just take a moment to relish the fact that the Leafs lost to the Ottawa Senators. The Leafs are oh so close to falling out of the playoff picture.
Anyways, the Leafs loss, besides being wonderful, indirectly led me to the idea for today's post. I was watching the last few minutes of the game and the tv broadcast was promoting the second game of the night coming up after the Leafs game. The second game of their "doubleheader" was the Seattle Kraken vs Calgary Flames.
Finally, we get to the gist of the post. The Seattle Kraken is a simply awful name for a pro sports team. Now, I know if we got into minor leagues and college teams we could really find some doozies but let's stick to the major four pro leagues and:
Shill me your list of the worst team names in pro sports. As many or as few as you would like.
Sats for all, GR
Washington Commanders is pretty terrible, largely because it was immediately shortened to "Washington Commies" and "Washington C-Words".
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Haha so true. Still better than the Redskins though. They should have left it as Washington Football Team.
Washington has a history of poor naming decisions. Who thought the Wizards was better than the Bullets?
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Having it be the Washington Redskins was especially bad. I'm struggling to think of an analogously bad combination of city and team name: The Beijing [whatever the slur is for Tibetans or Uighars].
I always thought the Bullets was a hilarious name for a DC or Baltimore team. Very on brand for those cities.
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I don't think anyone became a gang banger because the team was called the Bullets but I understand not wanting to be seen as promoting gun violence. Bullets is a cool name though.
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I'm sure it didn't cause gang violence either, but I imagine those cities weren't exactly proud of the association.
"Baltimore Bullets" > "Washington Bullets"
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Pistons almost took down the Celtics
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WFT WTF
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Washington Team Football. Sounds great.
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Montreal expos lol
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Expos? Why you gotta kick 'em when they are already dead?
Expos game was the first mlb game I ever went to, even though I don't remember it because I was 2 but I still have fond memories of the Blue Jays v.s Expos rivalry series when they brought in interleague play.
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Hahaha but expos is a terrible team name. I just remember when they had vlad lol one of the worse bad pitch hitters at the time. Also Pedro was an expo
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Not of fan of Buckminster Fuller and the geodesic dome?
It is kind of odd to name a sports team after a world's fair.
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