I get that teams nowadays like to name their sport franchises after something that is important to the area or city. It makes sense, a little weird, but it makes sense. You want something to bind them all together.
However, enough already. I don’t believe teams like the Chicago Bears would feel any different if they called themselves the Chicago Wind. Then again the San Diego Padres the San Diego Wildfires or Illegal Immigrants. Please enough with this. Just name a team because it sounds good. Period.
Teams like the Houston Texans, Washington Nationals, and now the stupid sounding Seattle Sounders. What!!!? The Sounders. I get it. It’s because of the Puget Sound. Aw, that’s cute, but enough already. There’s nothing wrong with naming your teams after random wild life, or natural disasters. It’s nice, it’s great. Plus it allows people in other cities actually want to root for you. Like the Dallas Cowboys have a fan base all over America.
But who in their right mind would root for the Sounders, living in Saint Louis. No one. In case you don’t know, the Sounders is a new MLS team. But I notice the MLS have a bunch of random names. My hometown has the Crew. Because “they’re the hardest working team in America.” Stop It!! That’s awful. They look like a bunch of bees, so I figure go with the Hornets or something. DC, Tornoto, Salt Lake, Dallas, and some random team named Chivas (wherever that is), don’t even have nicknames. I guess because world cities do it that way. Good idea MLS do something that we as America even more don’t care about. You want us to care and you do that. Wonderful. Just great. Then there are the Galaxy, Dynamo and Revolution. What is a Dynamo?
Who sits around making these names up. I can’t believe these people have important jobs and create and think of stuff. How do they make money. And so much money that they can buy teams and put dumb names to them.
So maybe it’s just the MLS? Naw, it’s everywhere, but this particular sport, seems to love crazy sounding names. I guess they figure it’s one way to make a name for themselves. I just hope that some of the future teams (Philly, Portland, and Vancouver) will have great team names. Then again, if you have a great name and no one watches your sport, do any one really care.
So thanks Sounders for the unbelievable bad name. The Sounders, you can do better then that. Then again, as I look at the rest of your MLS brethren, maybe not.