There's a MLS team called the Chicago Fire. Basically they named their team after the worst disaster ever to happen to the city. It would be as if there was a professional sports team called the New Orleans Katrina, or the Boston Massacre, or the Oklahoma Bomber, or the San Francisco Earthquake, or the Los Angeles Riot, or the New York Jets...oh.

To be fair, Go Nads! is fairly hilarious

2:51 I don't know those artichokes look pretty scary

I've got one that's pretty bad: The Ottawa Redblacks of the CFL.

Minnesota Wild have by far the most creative logo in sports. Love the cougar head/sunset, looks cool!

Did anyone else notice that the 'Nads' logo is meant to resemble a penis with balls?

Most people outside (and even inside) the United States don't know this, but Indian is accepted as the politically correct term by most Indians themselves. They don't like Native American because that's also the collective name for native people on the whole continent, and Indian is now unique to Natives of the US.

For those who want to know, Wanka, also spelled Huanca, is the name of one of the pre-columbian civilizations of Peru.

I was a public address announcer in college in the 1990s and my school hosted the Banana Slugs a couple of times for basketball. There were peals of laughter from the crowd when I made the announcement of the team nickname. Not that I blamed them! 🤣

I think the Denver Nuggets, is the worst name in basketball...... I mean....... Nuggets... Nuggets of all things. I get its related to gold but all I can think of when I hear that name is chicken nuggets from McDonald's xD

If you haven't done one already, I think a video on the worst stadium names would be a great follow-up. Some of them are direct results of corporate ownership, and while you can't turn down money, that doesn't necessarily instill athleticism.

the wild shouldn't be on here

I call the Browns the brownies

I graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1985. Back then, the university had no formal sports. The students jokingly suggested the name "Banana Slugs," which the chancellor later nixed. He relented when the school's (informal) athletes loved it.

Young Boys of Bern.

The last time anyone conducted a poll to actually ask the indigenous peoples of the USA what they'd prefer to be called, in 1995, a plurality of nearly 50% answered "American Indian". The term "Native American" was invented by US government statisticians in the 1970s, to standardise the terms for "natives" of Hawaii, Samoa, or mainland America. They chose 'native' because it was short enough to fit on any chart.

Funny but true fact since you brought up "Iowa Chops." There's a team called the Cedar Rapids Kernels, they're a minor league baseball team affiliated with the Twins. Naming the team after food I guess is a tradition.

76ers? 49ers? that strikes as much fear into me as a wet napkin.

Very funny video. What about the Real Salt Lake? "Real" in Spanish means "royal", hence the crown in Real Madrid etc. This title is given by the king, but there is no king in USA!

awsome video ! you should do one with the best or worst sports logo :)

Huanca (also written as Wanka) is a city in Peru, that’s why they called themselves that way.

Rio de Janeiro has had a small lower state league side called Futuro Bem Próximo (Really Close Future is the closest English translation I can think of) for a decade or two so far, I believe.

In the ipl (Indian premier league) there is a team called the Mumbai Indians. There is another team which used to be called the delhi daredevils (very intimidating) but then changed their name in December 2018 to Delhi Capitals.

Rugby has some "colorful" names. The "Maggots" (Missoula), is a favorite. In my own home state we have the Poca "Dots" football team.

I've got one Manchester United Shots fired

"Fighting...Artichokes" lmao

2:35. Kid: “Mom, what’s that mascot?” Mom: “That’s a uh, uh rocket ship!”

Portland OR has two minor league baseball teams, the Hillsboro Hops and the Portland Pickles. Actually I kind of like the Hops - it's beer related.

There's some college in North Carolina with their mascot as the Fighting Pickles. As for pro, almost any name sounds stupid when you think about it. For example: New England Patriots, watch out, somebody who loves their country.

im, Denver nuggets?

I always thought that the Dallas Stars NHL team should have been called the Dallas Snipers because when you're a great goal scorer in hockey they call you a sniper - and you know, the other thing that happened in Dallas.

They say that the name of the Toronto Raptors (NBA basketball) was chosen only because at the time the franchise was first awarded the most popular movie in theatres was Jurassic Park. But this is only half the story. The franchise ran a contest to name the team, and one of the suggestions that raised a few eyebrows was "Toronto Saurus Rex". No doubt it was this, more than anything else, that inspired the name that was finally retained.

I don't like names that have nothing to do with the town/city. Rugby League is the main offender. There are no Wolves in Warrington, and I have yet to see a Viking longship sailing up the Mersey at Widnes.

Chorrillo F.C {Panama) Chorrillo is a commonly used slang term for diarrhea in Latin America. It gets even funnier, their supporters call themselves "El corre que te alcanza" another slang term that can be translated to English as "Hurry up before you poo your pants"

In Rugby League there's a team called The Gloucestershire All Golds. Not only is it a sad attempt at comparing themselves to the All Blacks (even their logo is a recoloured fern), but their shirts do not contain the colour gold.

NRL State of Origin's New South Wales Blues "AKA The Roaches" And Queensland Maroons "AKA TOADS"

How about the Delta State University Fighting Okra?(Cleveland, Mississippi) Okay, their actual mascot are the Statesmen, but the Okra is a much loved mascot of DSU.

Savannah Bananas

The Artichokes was a protest. I went to Scottsdale community. A few years back. K...Back in the 70’s the school was predominantly an arts school. A new director came aboard and wanted to cut the art programs to build a football team. Naturally, students were pissed their arts classes were gonna get cut for a sports team. There were a bunch of protests, but the director went with it anyways. They held votes to pick the team mascot, things like the bears, the sharks, etc., and left a few spaces to write in your own mascots. Kids just wrote down the dumbest thing they could think of and thus Artie the Artichoke was born. I love our mascot.

LOL, once the chops left another AHL club moved from Houston and were called the Aeros, but now they are called the Iowa WILD and have the same logo as THE WILD, also the reason they changed from stars to chops is that Dallas Stars stopped affiliation and Anaheim Ducks took over, then Dallas came back and moved the club closer to them in Austin and now are called the Texas Stars

Wild is my second favourite team!

In my father's hometown there are high school teams the Rock Island ROCKS (their swim team goes by 'Dolphins' for obvious reasons) and the Moline MAROONS. Along with tonnes of generic animals of course. Also not sure how you'd feel about the cricket team Mumbai Indians..

Can you explain Tour races like Tour de France or La vuelta à España I dont understand the shirts, the peloton and if it is a race why they just send one specific to win. I dont get it After 20 years watching it.

Minor league baseball team in Jacksonville, FL used to be called the Suns. Unfortunately renamed to the...(wait for it)….The Jumbo Shrimp.

You missed most of the team's in minor league baseball. There's the Iron Pigs, Bananas, Chihuahuas, Mud Hens, Wingnuts, Owlz, Nuts, Tin Caps, Beach Bums, Cornbelters, Train Robbers, Rubber Ducks, Flying Squirrels, Isotopes (named after the team from the Simpsons), Biscuits, Yard Goats, Muck Dogs... You know what? Just do an episode solely on minor league teams...

Nice s/o to risd! this is what happens when you let art students name a sports team

Although not the "official" names but in Australian State Of Origin rugby, the New South Wales rugby team has a cockroach as a mascot and the Queensland rugby team has a cane toad as their mascot.

The worst sports team name of all time is the Raton, NM Swastikas. They played part of the 1912 season in the Rocky Mountain League, a class D minor league. Class D was similar to the Rookie level teams of today - young players trying to make a name for themselves, but who are far from Major League caliber. The league existed for only the one season and is so obscure that baseball-reference.com doesn't even list the names of the players. Basically, we know it existed but nothing else. Of course, the Nazi party did not yet exist in 1912, and the swastika had no sinister connotations, so the name wasn't as unbelievably tactless as it sounds today, but in retrospect it is a pretty awful name for a sports team.

I live in MN and support every single one of our professional teams. So when I saw the Wild for honorable mention I was like “ehm, excuse me”

I love how they have the wild in there :)

Hey now! You better leave my beloved Texans alone hahaha Liked, Favorited and long ago Subscribed! Enjoy your content immensely!

For Lincoln Way High School, theres 4 schools. North (Phoenix), West (Worriers), East (Griffins), and Central (Knights). They use to have a Rugby team comprised of all 4 Lincoln Ways and needed a mascot that wouldn't discriminate against any Lincoln Way. They were, i shit you not, the Lincoln-Way Penguins.

Yuma High School Criminals

high schools in america have some pretty great ones. cant remember from where they hail but there are the nimrods. here im texas we have the springtown porcupines, the grandview zebras, the cuero gobblers (turkeys) and everyone else is the panthers it seems. south carolina gamecocks (refering to roosters) always made me laugh. i like the wild! strange name but the graphic designer for that logo is genius.

there was a CFL team called the Edmonton Ekimos, but now they have no name.

You killed me with with the picture of Rambo

Mighty Ducks. Now just Ducks. Banana Slugs are great. Wild due to the wild country of MN. Nads because they are bunch of artsies. Needs a part two. Iowa Ribfests maybe. Need one of the sporting wanka shirts ...

Pelicans is a great name, there are tons of them near NO.

More videos of this please!!

0:49 actually native Americans come from northern India and Siberia they crossed over to the Americas during the ice age when it melted there was no going back they already had dark skin but there skin got darker due to the heat of the americas so calling them Indians isn’t offensive but calling them red skins is extremely racist especially when some of them had more clear skin like Brazilian native Americans

I'm a browns fan and they don't sound threating

Am I the only person who likes the pelicans name?

Here in Germany one of the the most famous American Football teams is called "Unicorns" :)

On the other hand, the most awesome hockey team name belonged to the Macon Whoopee in Macon, Georgia, that played in the now defunct Central Hockey League from 1996-2001.

WTF is wrong with New Orleans Pelicans

0:46 the logo of indians face looks evil lol smiley evil xd

Here in Mexico there's a team named Atlas. But their nickname, although now is Foxes, originally were daisies. And they were not ashamed of that, one player said once "yes that's our name, so what?"

Among high schools in the U.S., the worst might be the Yuma High School Criminals, which was a cross-town rival of my high school. I'm also aware of a school elsewhere that calls itself the Bunnies.

Virginia Tech Hokies... the fuck is a hokie

The green bay PACKERS?

The Rhode Island school of design's basketball team is called the Balls. The cheerleaders cheer for the jockstraps because they support the balls XD

There used to be a minor league hockey team in the US called the Macon Whoopee. In the US, the phrase "making whoopee" means having sex.

Can you please do The BEST team names in history? Pls!!

Philadelphia Phillies?

There's an American Minor League Baseball team called the Modesto Nuts. Their mascots are literally an anthropomorphic almond, walnut, and pistachio. Well, maybe it's threatening to people with nut allergies.

Can you make a video of you favourite sports?

Notre dame fighting Irish is also a name stepped in derogatory historical stereotype

The Dolphins is pretty bad

Artichokes are dangerous AF...they try to let you know by tasting so bad. Choking hazard too. Why BROCCOLI isn't a mascot name, I will never know.

One I think is dumb is the Indy eleven just in case you forgot how many men from one team are on the pitch in soccer. Also any team called the Red Bulls because the product placement isn’t even remotely hidden

The Montreal Canadians

How do you think the wild is a bad name when there is penguins.

Me and my friends have a basketball team named:Szeged(the city) Scissors. Is it weird or not? I came up with this idea when I saw the San Antonio Spurs logo

Iowa High School has the Sheldon Orabs (combination of their school colors - orange and black) Also used to have the Everly Cattle Feeders and the Ocheyedan Mounders but they are now gone due to school consolidation.

As a Cleveland man I'll give you a pass for the Indians (that was hilarious btw) but you gotta consider how important Paul Brown was. Theres a reason the pro football Hall of fame in just outside Cleveland. You can't change it anyway. I mean whats in Ohio worth naming a sports team after?

the worst name in basketball are the clippers in my opinion

Is Cleveland Brown named afther the Cleveland Browns? Btw another name for your list: NAC (Breda), which means in full: Noad (Nooit Opgeven Altijd Doorzetten) -- Advendo (Aangenaam Door Vermaak En Nuttig Door Ontspanning) -- Combinatie (Breda is the City)

While most NZ rugby teams have cool names (chiefs, crusaders, hurricanes, highlanders) The team based in Auckland has the most unimaginative name " Blues". And by their record over the last few years they may as well be singing the blues

Minor correction, among most Native Americans "Indian" isn't considered a racial slur. Some have embraced the term (ie, the American Indian Movement, National Congress of American Indians, etc). They claim it didn't come from a misidentification of their land as India, but rather is a corruption of the Spanish "en dios", meaning "of God" refering to their spirituality. It's complicated: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_name_controversy But yeah, the Cleveland Indians is still a really stupid name and the racist logo doesn't help.

What about the Red Sox that is an awful name

If they do go with it, in a few years we can add "Seattle Kraken" to this, for the same reason as the Minnesota Wild. It's trying too hard to be cool, like it's a bunch of middle-aged marketing execs arguing over what the 'hip young people' like. "It was in that show with the dragons! There's a drink called that! They'll love it!" and then a few years later the name will sound really lame and dated. A bit like when the Avs were going to be called the "Rocky Mountain Extreme", until fans rebelled against it. You basically have three waves of North American sports team names. Firstly, the traditional teams, which either have completely ingrained identities (NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Toronto Maple Leafs, Cincinnati Reds) or 'trader' identities, intrinsically linked to the working classes of that city (Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Houston Oilers, Milwaukee Brewers) or their self-identity (NY Yankees, Boston Celtics, Dallas Cowboys, Montreal Canadiens). Then you have the "strike fear" names, after types of people (Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Raiders, Golden State Warriors) or animals (Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia Eagles, Carolina Panthers) that are intimidating or predatory in some way (the former probably explains names for teams using ranking titles, like the LA Kings, Kansas City Royals, and the supernatural people like the New Orleans Saints and the New Jersey Devils). There are a few exceptions in the animal category (Miami Dolphins, Miami Marlins, Pittsburgh Penguins), and one notable one in the people (Minnesota Twins). After that you have the recent trend towards abstract concepts or try-too-hard 'cool' names. At least names like the Panthers and Jaguars work. Nashville Predators is vague but at least we know a predator is supposed to intimidate. Now we're left with things like Utah Jazz, Minnesota Wild, Orlando Magic, and the majority of the MLS teams.

'Mumbai Indians', 'Delhi Capitals' and 'Pune Warriors India' in the Indian Premier League, 'Minister Dhaka' in the Bangladesh Premier League, 'Manchester Originals' and 'Oval Invincibles' in the 'The Hundered' (the dumbest name for a tournament). Worst names in all of CRICKET.

Packers is the worst name ever

The mascot at my university is the blugold. They couldn't decide on one after deciding to change it from the normals, so they put together the school colors: blue and gold.

i lived near the fighting artichokes and my dad used to joke that I should go to there as a student and "become a fighting artichoke"

I'm of Irish descent and I hope Notre Dame never changes the name of 'The Fighting Irish'.

Well we got the Spokane Empire now in the IFL. It sounds more like they were trying to bank in on the star wars hype.

The wild used to have the best name of them all "The North Stars" and we also has the "The Lakers".

Dartmouth is another one. Their unofficial mascot is literally a beer keg 😂

u need to update this list. theres a new Australian basketball called the tasmania *jackjumpers* horrible name. its also an ant is well