Which team has the lamest name in pro sports?

1. Houston Texans

2. Indianapolis Colts

The Anaheim Ducks

Cleveland Browns

Lakers. They’re not even by a lake anymore for Christ’s sake!

The Columbus Blue Jackets. Yay BJs?

Washington Wizards
Charlotte Bobcats

Speaking of the Lakers, perhaps the Utah Jazz should have changed their name when they left New Orleans?

Junk: Seriously.

Of course, we can’t forget the old World Football League teams. My favorite was the Memphis Southmen. “Southmen”? Does that roll off the tongue or what!?

the anahigh mighty ducks
its a hockey team

Emm: Harp already beat you to the correctly-spelled punch.
(Look up.)

They’re not “Mighty” anymore, Emmy23. But I thought it was cool when they were called “The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim”. Very regal sounding…

Every MLS team, followed by every WNBA team (is that even still around), followed by the Tampa Bay Rays, now that “ray” means sunshine rather than a sea creature.

Both the New York Giants and New York Jets are lame… they don’t even play in New York!

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Those aren’t even in the same county.

oh and the Mets and the Knicks, if for no other reason than the majority of their fans don’t even know what their names actually stand for. (Metropolitans and Knickerbockers, respectively)

The New York Giants of New Jersey?
The New York Jets of New Jersey?

The Texas Rangers of Arlington
The Dallas Cowboys of Irving (until next year, when they’ll be “of Arlington”, too.)

Good grief.

Minnesota Wild

You are all biased! ;-)

to boxing
why are we all biased lol

@MrItty: I beg to differ. I live in New Jersey, and so I’m surrounded by both Mets and Knicks fans. I’ve not yet met a person who didn’t know what they meant.

Box: All sports fans are biased!

I know, I know…fully expected! ;-)

OK, in the spirit of not being biased, I’ll admit that my hometown Cubs have a lame name.

LOL…

Came across this article.

@Harp: um, not as lame as White Sox! Come on… socks?!

Yeah, but as an erstwhile Cubs fan, I couldn’t exactly claim a lack of bias in insulting the Sox. Glad you said it though

The same applies to the Red Soxes right? I am going to get hate mails for this, haha

Hey, Red Sox is a pretty apt name!

@Nimis: well, I’m wearing turquoise underwear, but my name is still Jess!!

Poof: Hmmm…might have a point there.
Not sure how I’d feel about cheering for the Turquoise Underwears.
Unless, of course, your undies helped you win the World Series! In which case…Go, Undies!

How about the Los Angeles Dodgers? What exactly is it that they are dodging? I remember hearing they were the “Trolley Dodgers” while still in Brooklyn, but kind of like the Jazz they might have changed their name when the changed coasts.

@MrItty, if you’re willing to accept that the Rays as a name because of the sea creature, then that shouldn’t be on the list. The sea creature is still on the sleeve of their uniforms and there is a pool full of them in center field.

The Rays of the Tampa Bay Rays is now referring to a Sun-Ray, as is seen in their logo on the front of the uniform. The pool behind center field is a left over from before the name change.

the detroit lions, they should be called the detroit kittens

Yeah, I’ve seen the ray-like thing on the front of their unis but what about the (sea) ray on their left sleeve.

Charleston, SC used to have a minor league baseball team called the Rainbows.

For reals.

My high school’s teams were the “Brownies”. Apparently because all the teams in the area used to be colors, and we were the Browns. When everyone started changing to real names, we were uncreative enough to just change “Browns” to “Brownies”. I always wondered how our football team felt about being named after either chocolate desserts, or junior girl scouts…

I know of a high school near me called the New Berlin Pretzels.