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Eugene Church · 02-02-2005, 02:55 PM

Here are all of the names considered by the City Nickname Selection Committee...I thought you might like to know a little about the selection process.

"ROUNDERS" was chosen because of its ties to an English forerunner and ancestor of baseball...the game of "rounders"...circling the "posts" (or "bases" in baseball) is called a "rounder" and is award one point in the game...similar to a baseball "run".

Also chosen because Indianapolis is the home of the Indianapolis 500 racing event....where the Cars go "round and round and round"...hence "Rounders". This connection may be a little bit of a stretch, but I will include it here for your edification about the selection process.

Each committee member submits as many suggestions as they would like.
This usually gives us 20 to 30 suggestions.
We then rank all the suggestions in order from best to last...#1 is given 1 point...#10 is given 10 points....#20 is given 20 points.
We then pare this list down to about 15 names...nicknames with the 15 lowest scores.

We then pare this list down to about 15 names.
We rank this list in order from #1 to #15...#1 is given 1 point...#2 is given 2 points...#3 is given 3 points....#15 is given 15 points.
The nickname that gets the lowest number of points is selected as the favorite.

Sprockets (Auto/Cars)
Chieftains (Indians)
Speedsters (Fast Cars)
Invaders (Flows nice with the city name.)
Motor Kings (Fast Cars)
Drivers (Cars)
Roadsters (Fast Cars)
Speed Kings (Fast Cars)
Speed Sox (Fast cars and baseball mix)
Rallies (Rally is a racing term)
Rally Sox (play on above)
Stags (John Deere)
Kickapoos (Indian tribe)
Bucks (Indian heritage)
Engineers (railroad industry)
Smoke (RR)
Express (RR)
Railers (RR)
Senators (Capital)
Solons (Capital)
Lawmakers (Capital)
Governors (Capital)
Aggies (Farming)
Farmers (Farming)
*Cardinals (state bird)...LivnLegend said to not use any current Major sport nicknames
Crossroaders (slogan: "Crossroads of America")
Steelmen (steel industry)
Maulers
Boilermakers
Injuns (play on words: slang for Indians...sounds like "engines" for Indy 500)
Ingines or Injines (play on words again: related to Indy 500 ("engines") and Indians.
Sparkplugs (racing/baseball term)
Speed Demons (racing/baseball term)
Rounders (forerunner/ancestor of Baseball/racing around and around a track)
Indys (reference to Indy 500 and also Indian heritage)
Archers (Indians/alliteration with "a" in "apolis"))
Arrows (Indians/alliteration with "a" in "apolis"))
Midwesterners
Hoosiers
Speed
Wolfpack

02-02-2005, 02:55 PM	#1
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,205	Indianapolis Nicknames considered by the Selection Committee Here are all of the names considered by the City Nickname Selection Committee...I thought you might like to know a little about the selection process. "ROUNDERS" was chosen because of its ties to an English forerunner and ancestor of baseball...the game of "rounders"...circling the "posts" (or "bases" in baseball) is called a "rounder" and is award one point in the game...similar to a baseball "run". Also chosen because Indianapolis is the home of the Indianapolis 500 racing event....where the Cars go "round and round and round"...hence "Rounders". This connection may be a little bit of a stretch, but I will include it here for your edification about the selection process. Each committee member submits as many suggestions as they would like. This usually gives us 20 to 30 suggestions. We then rank all the suggestions in order from best to last...#1 is given 1 point...#10 is given 10 points....#20 is given 20 points. We then pare this list down to about 15 names...nicknames with the 15 lowest scores. We then pare this list down to about 15 names. We rank this list in order from #1 to #15...#1 is given 1 point...#2 is given 2 points...#3 is given 3 points....#15 is given 15 points. The nickname that gets the lowest number of points is selected as the favorite. Sprockets (Auto/Cars) Chieftains (Indians) Speedsters (Fast Cars) Invaders (Flows nice with the city name.) Motor Kings (Fast Cars) Drivers (Cars) Roadsters (Fast Cars) Speed Kings (Fast Cars) Speed Sox (Fast cars and baseball mix) Rallies (Rally is a racing term) Rally Sox (play on above) Stags (John Deere) Kickapoos (Indian tribe) Bucks (Indian heritage) Engineers (railroad industry) Smoke (RR) Express (RR) Railers (RR) Senators (Capital) Solons (Capital) Lawmakers (Capital) Governors (Capital) Aggies (Farming) Farmers (Farming) Cardinals (state bird)...LivnLegend said to not use any current Major sport nicknames Crossroaders* (slogan: "Crossroads of America") Steelmen (steel industry) Maulers Boilermakers Injuns (play on words: slang for Indians...sounds like "engines" for Indy 500) Ingines or Injines (play on words again: related to Indy 500 ("engines") and Indians. Sparkplugs (racing/baseball term) Speed Demons (racing/baseball term) Rounders (forerunner/ancestor of Baseball/racing around and around a track) Indys (reference to Indy 500 and also Indian heritage) Archers (Indians/alliteration with "a" in "apolis")) Arrows (Indians/alliteration with "a" in "apolis")) Midwesterners Hoosiers Speed Wolfpack Last edited by Eugene Church; 02-03-2005 at 12:21 PM.