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Originally Posted by Eugene Church
The Fourteeners are OK... you coordinated the colors better than you usually do... the Dark Blue, Light Blue and Tan look pretty good... the design is creative with the horizontal lines and the mountain... but the mountain looks like a poor drawing.
Don't like the nickname.
What is a 14'er?
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Please see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteener
There was a team called the Colorado 14'ers some time back, in basketball, I think. They are now called the Texas Legends. Please see here for more information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Legends
As far as the appearance of the mountain on both uniforms and the peaks hidden inside those mountains, I tried to do my best, and even tried to use negative space while doing so, as best as I can. As you know, I'm clearly not as artistically skilled in certain ways as many others here might be, Eugene. Of course, if anyone thinks they can do better, they're welcome to suggest or create better versions of what I've already produced here for them.
As far as the team names chosen for various locations, I tried to have some original concept ideas that would be reasonably plausible for teams in those areas/locales, that weren't necessarily well-known or previously used by most, if not all, teams in the past and present.
For instance, Arizona has the Grand Canyon, and I don't see many teams referencing it in their team nicknames.
For the Bay Area, I was thinking that a lot of the technology companies are based in that area of the country, especially those connected to the development of and providing servers for the Internet.
Boston, I thought of several well-known and famous institutions of learning in that area of the US. Harvard, MIT, et cetera, most often came to mind for me, most likely, so I thought Brainiacs might be a good team name.
For California, I remembered there was once a football team called the Dons in and around Los Angeles, not to mention Dons is or at least was the name of certain college teams for a school in San Francisco. Don is essentially a noble term in certain European countries which had or do have monarchs ruling and reigning over them, especially in places like Spain, for example. Don is the Spanish equivalent of the term Lord, hence California's team name here.
Chicago is a major urban center. It also has strong ties to cattle and other similar animals, in various ways. So I thought that the nickname of Urban Cowboys might somehow be appropriate here, at least a little.
After some thought, I thought that Fourteeners AKA 14ers would most likely be the best possible name I could use for a team in Colorado here. Other names I might have been considering for the team and may yet consider further are the Ascent, the Summits, the Double-Miles, among others. But of the team name ideas I had for them, I still think the Fourteeners are probably the best of them I can think of at the present time. Especially seeing as Colorado is entirely located no less than 1,000 feet above sea level, and has so many mountain peaks over 14,000 feet in altitude.
Detroit, I thought mainly of the automaking industry there, with a little consideration of the music scene there. But the cars won out here. I didn't want to go with Motors or Gears or any of the usual automotive-themed ideas that people might see, but I didn't want to go too far away from that sort of idea. So I thought of those who make the cars, and how they're often produced. Hence the Assembly Line idea or the workers on them, which yielded the Assemblers and Assembly Liners potential team nicknames.
Florida, I wanted to try to combine certain colors for several known Florida teams, especially the Marlins and the Devil Rays/Rays, but wanted to try and highlight another thing that Florida has long been known for. That thing is the fact that many rocket launches have taken place over the years, not only of unmanned rockets and probes and all, but also of many manned flights. I thought of perhaps using Shuttles or Probes or similar names as the team name, but Launchers still has stuck with me the best so far.
There used to be a lot of Bisons on the Great Plains a long time ago, but I didn't want to necessarily tie down this team to just one specific city. So I decided to call them the Great Plains Bisons, after being unable to think of anything else that might be appropriate enough for a team based there.
Milwaukee, I wanted to reference the fact that the motorcycle industry mainly started in and around the Milwaukee area, if memory serves, and especially because Harley-Davidson is still basically based there, and has been there for ages. Also, I wanted to somehow reference their baseball history, without necessarily mentioning the Brewers and/or Braves' times there. Hence the use of the term Cyclers as a two-sense team nickname for them, seeing as many baseball players collect cycles, and many motorcycles have been and still are produced in and around that area of the US.
Minnesota was a bit more challenging to come up with a name for, even though I've spent all but maybe about seven years of my life living in various areas of it, even until now. I wanted to somehow reference the water, and the nights, and the woods/forests here, at least, if I could, with the team name. And also the skies here, to a degree, as well, come to think of it. The name Minnesota means, if memory serves, "sky-tinted water," in at least one American Indian/Native American language around here. Hence the lighter blue color, both to represent the sky and the water as they often are here. The green is for the woods/forests around here. While the purplish-pink color represents the night and/or the hills/mountains present in this state.
As far as the Missouri Show-Mes, I wanted to use Cardinals and Royals-related colors, and perhaps also reference the agriculture present in the state. Also, my birth state's nickname is the Show-Me State, and I wanted to reference that as well, without leaning too far towards either St. Louis or Kansas City in terms of the team's nickname. I was considering, and may still consider, the idea of calling the team the Investigators, but I'm still leaning towards calling them the Show-Mes, if and when I ever create this prospective league.
As for the Imperial Garden Enforcers, I thought at least partly of the state nicknames of New York and New Jersey, which are the Empire State and the Garden State, respectively. Like with Missouri, I didn't want to necessarily favor one state or city over another, with the team name, too much, so I decided to use the Imperial Garden name for their area designation. I also remembered that there was a team called the New York Enforcers in the World Skating League about twenty years ago, so I took some inspiration from that. Also, I wanted a strong team nickname for the team, so Enforcers came to mind for me, and also there are probably other connotations for the term Enforcers that could be considered here. Their colors were chosen at least in part based on the team colors of many teams in the New York/New Jersey area of the USA, including the Dodgers, the baseball Giants, and the Mets, to name a few such teams. I used at least one site to get the color codes and perhaps blend a couple of colors together, I think, to yield the colors ultimately used for them.
For New Orleans, I may have consulted a couple of sites, and used them to come up with the colors for the Bayous. I was considering the names Bayou Boys and Bayouneers, but they didn't look suitably good on the uniform or uniforms I've made so far for them, or at least they haven't yet. I will probably need to work on them more later, as time permits and all. I didn't want to use a number of the usual team names for this team, because I might want to use those names for other teams in other leagues, even for the aforementioned dynasty.
Nashville, I wanted to come up with an original enough idea for, and hopefully one that could relate to baseball along with something else, and perhaps not necessarily reuse a common team identity for teams from there or its state. Hence the Diamonds identity idea. I'm probably going to have to continue working on that team more along the way, of course, you know.
Ohio and Pennsylvania, I'm going to be re-using ideas I have already made or had made for me, as best as possible. Ohio's state flag is a swallow-tailed pennant, hence the team name there, and the name also references the bird called a swallowtail, for that matter. Pennsylvania's called the Keystone State, and it also has multiple meanings that could be inferred from the term. Second base is the keystone sack, and I think Pennsylvania was either the second or the third state to originally ratify the Constitution of the United States a very long time ago, if memory serves, as well.
As for Portland, they once had a team in some sport called the Buckaroos, and I definitely considered reusing any number of team names that have been used there, but of all them, I'm leaning towards using Buckaroos, which has been rarely used by any teams in that part of Oregon, if memory serves. Especially seeing as I might use other common team names for teams in Portland in various leagues and all, of course.
San Diego, I'm a bit undecided on what names might fit best for a team in the area that haven't yet been used or have rarely been used for teams in it. I'd prefer an unused name that still seems plausible and logical enough for a team in that place or that area of California, if possible, for sure.
I was doing some research on Wikipedia about Seattle and the area around it, and I saw something related to poetry-related competitions, such as poetry slams, for instance, and I thought it could also tie in well with baseball, seeing as we periodically see slams in games, especially grand slams. I thought of using Sounders, but soon rejected that, and was considering Flyers or similar name concepts, until I saw something about poetry and slams being linked together. I thought the connection was interesting, so may try to see what I can come up with for looks using the team nickname Slammers for this prospective team.
Texas, I was thinking since it is a border state in these here United States, that Border Patrol or Border Patrollers might be a good team nickname for a team from there. I'm not totally set on either of those potential names, but am leaning strongly towards using one of them for the team, if and when it's ever created for the applicable league in the future.
Toronto, they had a hockey team called the Aeros a while back, and Toronto has other connections to Canadian aerospace-type things, so I'll probably reuse that team name, not finding any other ones which I might find more appropriate here at this time, at least. Of course, much could still change for a prospective Toronto-area team in this potential league between now and league creation, you know.
As for Washington, I wanted to reference other potential ideas related to them or the area within what many call the Beltway, hence the potential team nicknames at this point of the Washington Swamp Rats or the Beltway Belters. Belters could easily refer to power hitters, for example, while Swamp Rats could reference something else entirely, of course.
Just wanted to share my thought processes here for these prospective teams with you and/or anyone else who might be interested in them here, Eugene. Of course, any or all of the listed nicknames for the relevant teams could certainly change anytime in the future, but for now, at least, for all but one of the teams, I've been able to come up with some ideas that are hopefully plausible enough for the areas in question where those teams might eventually play later on.
Thank you for your input and all, of course, as always, Eugene. CD out.