Top 5 – Adding A Colour To A Bad Team Name Doesn’t Make It Any Better Part 2
5. Lincoln University of Missouri Blue Tigers / Morehouse College Maroon Tigers (NCAA) –
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I’m not an accredited zoologist, nor do I hold a degree in any of the environmental sciences. I'm just an enthusiastic young man with a 6th grade education and an abiding love for all of God's creatures. But I do know enough to call both Lincoln and Morehouse’s bluff here. Each school must have a significant supply of animal grade paint, or possibly mind altering drugs, because those are the only 2 possible explanations for a blue or maroon tiger.
4. Southern Maryland Blue Crabs (Minor League Baseball) –
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Seems odd to me to name a sports team after something Man In The Bush recently contracted… but what do I know?
3. NYU Violets (NCAA) –
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While we’ve established that adding a colour to a bad name doesn’t improve it, I’d like to point out that opting instead to just go with a colour on its own is also a bad idea. Especially when you choose such a wussy colour. I do love how well the mascot relates to the team name though.
2. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Blugolds (NCAA) –
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…and if you thought just choosing a solitary colour for a team name was a bad idea, as Wisconsin Eau Claire demonstrates, combining 2 colours together to form a new word is an even worse idea.
Winner: Gustavus Adolphus College Golden Gusties (NCAA) –
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Now Gustavus Adolphus was known as the “Lion of the North” which explains the logo (you know except for the Golden Gusties having a black and white logo). But rather than do the logical thing and call themselves the Lions, the college for some reason decided to make up a word that closely resembles gusty, which describes the wind. Maybe the decision was based on the fact that GA College blows.
Dishonourable Mentions: Lancaster Red Roses (defunct CBA), Geneva College Golden Tornadoes (NCAA), Bluefield State College Big Blues (NCAA), Colby College White Mules (NCAA)
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