Best sports team names

[Ron Manager]

I know I've mentioned it before, but the NZ basketball team being called the 'Tall Blacks, always cracks me up. Any others.....?

 

[Kenny]

VFS Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga was a funny one, only because their manager used to be Wolfgang Wolff!

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

No "daft sports teams" thread would be complete without the mention of the Peruvian side, Deportivo W*nka...

Here's their 2003 home kit:

Nice shirt...

 

[C C Csiders]

I am sure there is a team playing in the Newcastle Sunday League system called Norfolk Enchance.:D

 

[W4 Shrimper]

Young Boys of Berne...what's that all about?

Spanish team Hercules as well, that's a great name.

But I think Ron M has already come up with the best one. When a Kiwi work colleague told me about the Tall Blacks, I thought he was pulling my leg

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (C C Csiders @ June 17 2005,12:17)]I am sure there is a team playing in the Newcastle Sunday League system called Norfolk Enchance.

Presumably, there must be a team in the adjacent county along the lines of Suffolk Offendai...

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Grasshoppers is a bit odd...

 

[Leeboy]

London Sunday League team Red Star Bromley always makes me smile

 

[Firestorm]

In The sceptre league there is Beer Leverkusen

 

[C C Csiders]

The Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the NHL is pretty stupid, as is The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame US Collegiate American Football team.

 

[W4 Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (C C Csiders @ June 17 2005,14:45)]The Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the NHL is pretty stupid, as is The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame US Collegiate American Football team.

Something about the city perhaps?

Their baseball team are called the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim".

Eh?

And talking of Fighting Irish, there's a rugby league team in Wales with that nickname.

Confusing.

 

[C C Csiders]

Total Network Solutions and Airbus UK in the League of Wales. I know that they are their sponsors, but it would be like us being called Betterview Windows or Col U being called Ginger Tom's Cafe (or whoever they're sponsored by).

 

[Song of the South Upper]

Africa is a great source for team names. Eleven Men In Flight (Namibia IIRC), Stationary Stores (Nigeria), Young Buffaloes (Swaziland), Blue Swallows (Zimbabwe), Wan kie (zimbabwe, and should be all one word but it gets censored by the site), the list is endless...

 

[W4 Shrimper]

Just thought of another one. Bolivian football team....

"The Strongest"

 

[Mad Cyril]

Young Boys
Sport Boys
Everton Chile
Sunshine Soccer club
Newell's old boys
Hearts of Oak
O' Higgins
Supersport
Amazulu

And my favourites

Jackson 5 a side and Team Bergerac.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

If we're onto non-league, the Reading Uni science dept team (I think) is called Chemical Academical; whilst the Obs & Gynae unit at Guy's Hospital had a team with the rather delightful name of Old Fallopians...

 

[DTS]

My fav is a team from Swaziland I think called - Total Big Bullets...

 

[RobM.]

OK so what would you call your team if you had one?

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (W4 Shrimper @ June 17 2005,13:19)]Spanish team Hercules as well, that's a great name.

From Alicante, the Hércules "B" team (essentially the reserve team) play in our league ... they're pretty crap.

But the first team finished as runners-up behind rivals Alicante (they play in the same stadium) in the Segunda División B and have just this weekend been promoted via the play-offs to the Segunda División A, just one rung below La Primera División; Alicante got knocked out in the first round of the play-offs so it was a double celebration for the Hércules fans, especially as they finished 11 points BEHIND their Alicante rivals! Who said the play-offs in England were unfair?!

Other Spanish teams that are quite amusing are:

- Arousa (Third Division Gp 1)
- Choco (Preferente Galicia Sth)
- Crack's (Preferente Valenciana Gp 2)
- Mercedes Benz (Preferente Euskadi Álava-Araba)
- Moron (Preferente Andalucia Sevilla-Córdoba)
- Norma (Third Division Gp 8)
- Terror (Preferente Canarias Las Palmas)
- Titanico (Third Division Gp 2: must be fun for the media if and when they get relegated!)
- Torpedo 66 (Third Division Gp 17)
- Vera (Third Division Gp 9)
- Vulcano (Preferente Euskadi Álava-Araba)

WS

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (RobM. @ June 25 2005,16:08)]OK so what would you call your team if you had one?

Big Fat Gloaters FC

WS