Primarily it's the team names that are singular like Heat, Jazz, Sky, Wild, Magic, Fever, etc et al. But there are some team names that are plural but are terrible names, like Gamecocks. I'm not making it up. It's the University of South Carolina whose teams are called the Gamecocks. They're OVERDUE for a name change, as are ALL those teams which have singular names like the Toronto Rock.
I have friends who are South Carolina alums. During football season, they literally post "Go Cocks!" on their Facebook pages. And I've also always hated singular team names. Dumb.
Jazz and Magic are good (as a Blues fan I might be biased about the Jazz) (but seriously, a fine genre and look at all those Zs) Wild have a sweet logo so they get a pass Thunder is kinda dumb, no question For the rest, I guess it's about whether they can pull it off with their marketing or not. But I'm biased against singular names too. But sometimes it's a singular name describing what could be a plural or uncountable phenomenon, and I'm more okay with that. Like the Magic, it evokes just an atmosphere full of magic energies all over the place, not a singular magic spell. And Alabama is a Crimson Tide of players running at you to knock you over and carry you out to sea where you will die of drowning or more likely CTE Also, the Ducks should man up and go back to being the Mighty Ducks
I mean, if they aren't allowed to be the Mighty Ducks because Disney owns the name, then so be it. But just Ducks is lame.
Ducks may be lame (I personally don't have a problem with it) , but AT LEAST it's PLURAL. Imagine if they were the Anaheim Cocks!
By far the sports league with THE MOST WORST TEAM NAMES OF ALL TIME is the WNBA. Just look at a list of WNBA teams & their horrible singular names. It's SO STUPID. They have A FEW teams with good names like the Las Vegas Aces, Washington Mystics & Dallas Wings (who I quite seriously think should, MUST , mind you, move to BUFFALO PRONTO!) , & may one or two other teams with plural names. But seriously: Indiana Fever (WTF??) , Chicago Sky , NY Liberty , Atlanta Dream (HUH??) , Connecticut Sun (WTF??) , .... & so on & so forth HOW can these woman athletes STAND playing on such teams with such retarded asinine names??
Strictly the Anaheim team or are you also including the Eugene variant? If so, I don't want to think what Corvallis will pull to modify the Beavers just to one-up UO... Hmmm. I think the Trail Blazers has a ring to it. Too bad I stopped caring after the Stoudamire-Sabonis-Wallace-Pippin seasons.
Toronto Maple Leafs, agree! "Rock" is actually the name of the ball in lacrosse, so it's up there with the NJ Nets, I guess. Not as bad as when we had a soccer team called the Blizzard, or the missed opportunity to call the NBA team the Towers.
