Goodbye Cleveland Indians

[ameridaddy]

Lets just name the teams after the owners; after all, most of the stadium names have gone commercial.
Cleveland Dolans, Pittsburgh Nuttings, Miami Shermans, Chicago Reinsdorfs sound pretty neutral.
Don't like those names, well, how about naming the team after the ballpark; how do the Cleveland Progressives or the Pittsburgh PNC's, or the Miami Loan Depots, or the Chicago Guaranteed Rates sound?
Some people need to get an actual life and quit whining.

 

[AJ]

Sad, just plain sad! Gotta buy a T-Shirt!!!

 

[Telecaster]

A simple change to the logo and it would have been fine.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I liked what Dan Snyder finally did with the Redskins. The Washington Football Team works for me. Most MLS teams use some version of FC or SC along with the city name. New York already has the Red Bull's, so using the sponsor isn't beyond the pale either . . .

Lets just name the teams after the owners; after all, most of the stadium names have gone commercial.
Cleveland Dolans, Pittsburgh Nuttings, Miami Shermans, Chicago Reinsdorfs sound pretty neutral.
Don't like those names, well, how about naming the team after the ballpark; how do the Cleveland Progressives or the Pittsburgh PNC's, or the Miami Loan Depots, or the Chicago Guaranteed Rates sound?
Some people need to get an actual life and quit whining.

 

[sigp220.45]

Its a privately owned business. They changed their name. Big deal. Don't watch their games. My GAS meter remains at zero on this one.

 

[hittman77]

The American Taliban has won another battle.

 

[Laketime]

Why haven't they renamed Cracker Barrel ? Goes both ways.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I liked what Dan Snyder finally did with the Redskins. The Washington Football Team works for me. Most MLS teams use some version of FC or SC along with the city name. New York already has the Red Bull's, so using the sponsor isn't beyond the pale either . . .

Yep, the MLS team here is FC Cincinnati. It is self explanatory.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Saint Louis City SC here . . .

Yep, the MLS team here is FC Cincinnati. It is self explanatory.

 

[smithra_66]

Yep, the MLS team here is FC Cincinnati. It is self explanatory.

Yup. Looks like we're such pansies now that we can't really give teams nicknames (like we've done for about 150 years) because certain people will be upset.

We'll just generically call them by their cities....until the city names become offensive.

Sounds like a country and culture in ascension doesn't it?

 

[arjay]

The old white guy with nothing to do grievance thread [emoji23]

 

[Rustyt1953]

Yup. Looks like we're such pansies now that we can't really give teams nicknames (like we've done for about 150 years) because certain people will be upset.

We'll just generically call them by their cities....until the city names become offensive.

Sounds like a country and culture in ascension doesn't it?

FC Cincinnati emulated the English Premier League which uses city names.

 

[johngalt]

Joseph McCarthy and others actually pushed for that in the 50's.

Is it a bad sign that this doesn't surprise me?

 

[Muss Muggins]

Well, except for God's team, the Arsenal Gunners . . .

FC Cincinnati emulated the English Premier League which uses city names.

 

[Ματθιας]

FC Cincinnati emulated the English Premier League which uses city names.

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Not all of them.

The teams also have unofficial names, like The Baggies, The Potters, The Foxes, etc. etc.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Yep if we let this cancer spread, I have NO DOUBT IN MY MIND that in a few years, there will be a push to change the name of the capital of our nation from Washington DC . . .

At the risk of making you type entire posts in all caps, this is already in Congress . . .

 

[DWalt]

As my interest in pro sports is, without a single exception, at the bottom level of the Marianas Trench, my feeling about team names is nonexistent.

 

[AJ]

At the risk of making you type entire posts in all caps, this is already in Congress . . .

This whole name changing thing is a sad state of affairs. Guess everyone with a agenda is trying to change history...............

 

[tlawler]

Cleveland Guardians? Sounds like a Rollerball team. It's coming down the pike eventually for all the "offensively" named teams. We're pretty well stocked up on Seminole gear At least the Miami teams seem pretty well offense proofed: Hurricanes, Heat, Dolphins, and Mariners, but you never know

 

[Rustyt1953]

ESPN hasn't gotten the word yet: