how long will they keep calling it "soccer"?
a mini-thread in the comments of the previous entry had us coming up with fake Euro-style (aka Euro poseur) names for MLS clubs fictitious and real in the style of Houston 1836, FC Dallas and Real Salt Lake. then today, the NYTimes got into the act , wondering how long it will be until MLS gives us Dynamo Cleveland. i will grant that even these farcical names are better than the "Dallas Burn" and the "Metrostars", but how far can you take this? below are some suggestions i'm compiling. feel free to contribute your own. then we can sell them to MLS for $25,000 apiece.
Bayern Minneapolis
Boston Albion (thanks, Weasel)
Dynamo Cleveland
PSV Albuquerque
NAC Boise
Spartak Detroit
Inter Milwaukee
Atletico Miami
those with a stomach for more soccer/footie/futbol (i'm just not comfortable with any of those names) should check out Jon's musings on the state of the U.S. World Cup squad. those who are sick of this crap can get a laugh out of this old Forbes piece i stumbled across that includes this actual quote: "the XFL is already a huge success."
Comments
Scranton Wednesday.
Posted by: wisdomweasel | February 1, 2006 08:27 PM
Word in the bigsoccer community is that Toronto (coming into the league in 2007) is looking at Euro style names as well including Athletico Toronto, AC Toronto, Inter Toronto and Sparta Toronto. I kind of like the last one, but that's just me.
I still say that if you are going to go Euro, do it with some of the obscure clubs like Go Ahead Eagles (Neth), Grasshoppers Zurich (Swiss), and Young Boys Berne (Swiss. Africa has a crap load of great club names as well including Kaiser Chiefs, now popular b/c of the British band of the same name.
Posted by: Jon | February 2, 2006 09:31 AM
Decent article in this week's New Yorker about Malcolm Glazer's purchase of Manchester United in case you haven't already seen it.
Posted by: mas | February 2, 2006 11:40 AM
Menlo Park Rangers, Albuquerque Thistle, Intercourse Wanderers, and Memphis for Queen of the South?
Posted by: WisdomWeasel | February 2, 2006 02:22 PM
Walla Walla Wanderers?
Kings County?
Posted by: Dave Nelson | February 2, 2006 03:00 PM
Racing Santa Monica
Deportivo Lafayette (their version of the Ultras can also be the Ragin' Cajuns)
Manchester (NH) United (natch)
Ajax New Amsterdam (replacing the MetroStars moniker)
DC United (already taken, but you gotta admit it's a little Euro poseur)
Posted by: Jake | February 7, 2006 04:07 PM
Jamie old son,
I reckon you would find some inspiration in these photos: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4690194.stm
Posted by: WisdomWeasel | February 8, 2006 10:53 AM