So the 76ers are literally just named after the highway that goes through Philly... Is there a worse team name in existence?

It's clearly Ohio State. Buckeyes. A nut.

Moran

Are the Bills named after Buffalo Bill?

Are the Jets named after the gang in Westside Story or was the gang named after the team? (What is the answer to: What came first the chicken or the egg?)

Are the Browns named after their original owner? (Ironic that their best ever player was Jim Brown.)

Despite my handle, I am a native Philly person. And while some people harp on our name or wonderful recent history of tanking or coming up perpetually short in playoff runs, I think we can all come together and agree--Republican and Democrat, cis/trans/equi/poly/hexagonal gender and gender essentialist--that the stupid blue dog mascot needs to be publicly beheaded and replaced with something indicating my home city's true worth, say an orange monster on ice skates that looks he emerged from a Phish concert after 30 years or a nuclear-experiment animal gone wrong with green fur and a streamer for a nose.

Now excuse me, I have batteries to pack inside my snowballs, before I go shovel TastyCakes into my mouth to numb the futility of my existence.

Well, you're embarrassingly wrong here.

However, a local well known track club in my area is named for their area code (757) and there is nobody finds that odd as far as I know. In fact, it beats some hackneyed name any day.

The Browns are named after the family that founded the team.

As Alan said, 76ers are name because of where & when the Declaration of Independence was signed.

In other news, and for tomorrow’s Super Bowl, the Kansas City Chiefs are changing their name to the 70s & the San Francisco 49ers are changing their name to the 80s.

Stupid thread.

The LA Lakers are named after the lakes. In Minnesota.

It’s Ohio’s state tree, Nancy.

That makes perfect sense since they were the Minneapolis Lakers before they were the LA Lakers.

Let me guess……you think Trump won the 2020 election?

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The Lakers to me are one of three choices for worst nickname. The other two are the Utah Jazz, a name that made perfect sense when they were in New Orleans, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. When they were in Brooklyn the nickname was chosen because pedestrians had to deal with so many trolleys when they were crossing streets. I guess it kind of works in Los Angeles. There is a lot of traffic to dodge but there generally aren't as many pedestrians as there probably were in Brooklyn. The Memphis Grizzlies is probably a good candidate too. The name worked well in Vancouver but at least there are bears around Memphis even if they aren't Grizzlies.

Oklahoma University "Sooners". Named after cheaters. Those who jumped the gun during the Oklahoma Territory land runs. Tar Heals anyone?

The Dayton Triangles…played in the first NFL game ever

I’m well aware of the history of their terrible name. What else would it have been named after.

The blue dog is better than Hip Hop the rabbit. Hip Hop was the previous mascot.

I have a very odd affinity for Hip Hop. On one hand, he looks like the lovechild of Run DMC and Three Mile Island. On the other hand, he was so grotesque he felt like he belonged in Philly. He's like the Pelican's Baby King Cake: hideous and fascinating.

Personally, IMHO, they should have never gotten rid of Big Shot. Now that was a mascot.

What is a Tar Heal? Is that something you cure or heal by putting tar on it?

I’ve heard of a Tar Heel but never a Tar Heal.