I assume you’re joking?
I like that explanation better than the real reason. 
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Not one bit. I’m not too hip to sportsing teams nor their names’ provenance, generally.
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Sports would be a lot better if teams were named after condiments instead of predatory animals.
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You’d run out of names pretty quickly tho 
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There was a pro soccer team called the Los Angeles Salsa.
Some minor league baseball teams have nicknames taken from local foods.
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predatory animals
You’d run out of names pretty quickly
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Only if you restrict yourself to the ‘cool’ ones, lions, bears, hawks…
Get creative! The Washington Parasitic Wasps has a nice ring to it. The New York Sewer Rats. Heck, why restrict it to animals? The Atlanta Creeping Kudzu has potential.
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Psssst…. I meant condiments 
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The Salt Lake City Fry Sauce? The Chicago Giardiniera?
I’ll allow it
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Some Japanese pro soccer teams have the worst names you can imagine. This one, “Kamatamare Sanuki” is my “favorite”:
“The first part of their name was coined by combining the Japanese word Kamatama (a type of udon noodle bowl) and the Italian Mare (“Sea”). The second part is what Kagawa Prefecture used to be called.
Their name, as well as their crest, that features a kamatama udon bowl, gained a significant interest and recognition, as the club instantly became one of the most-known non-league sides in Japan when their new name and crest was announced in October 2005.”
One predatory animal that’s been missed in naming so far is the human🥴
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The football team currently known as the Washington DC Commander, or the Cleveland Guardians, might have a few things to say about that, given their former name and all.
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Also Raiders, Steelers…
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and in SF: Forty F’n Niners!!!
Next year!!!
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The Mighty Ducks has always quacked me up
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Nothing like a little house cleaning to make life more pleasant, figuratively and literally
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Yah But At Least Them There Ill-Niozians Ain’t Worthless Nuts!
What’s More Worthless A Nut Than A Buckeye?
NOTHIN!
(I grew up scattered between IL, IN, OH)
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So the football team is named after a toxic nut?
It all makes sense now
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Came >this< close to flagging your post @CCE. It’s been a good college football season for B—he went to both UT-Austin and Ohio State.
Go Bucks! @truman
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Coincidentally, in this week’s NYT Metropolitan Diary, there is a cute story about yellow mustard and Ohio (last story).
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