New Hartford Team

[SEANKELL9]

I know they are not playing until next season, but lets see what we can come up with. I have the top 5 team names, if anyone feels free to do caps, jerseys and possibly logos that would be great.

[ThatSeventiesGuy]

Those names....yowza. I'd change Praying Mantis to Deadly Mantis, just because A) it sounds cooler, and B) it would honor an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Also, shouldn't it be "Mantises", anyway? I hate singular team names...

Other better-sounding Harford names:

1) Whalers. If you can't bring 'em back for hockey, bring 'em back for baseball!

2) Salesmen. Honors the insurance industry that's so prevalent in Hartford. Just don't play The Monkees' "Salesman" as your fight song. That's about a whole 'nother type of salesman...

3) Maulers. Because the Whalers played in a shopping mall, get it?...yeah, I know, lame, but no worse than most of the stuff on their list.

4) Yuppies. Hey, it is Connecticut...


If I had to pick from that list, I'd go with Hedgehogs, I guess. The least-stupid one on there, and at least you get alliteration out of it.

[jparker2112]

Sponsored by Sonic? Sonic Hedgehogs?? Get it??? Is this mic on?

[Fyrestorm3]

Yard... Goats?

What?

[Rockfan616]

I actually have brought back the Whalers before for a fictional AA team before, it's the only name that makes sense to me for a Hartford based team so I decided to bring them back. :-)

[Manny42]

Yeah those names are just brutal

[Scott Vibert]

Absolutely atrocious... the top 10 was bad.. the only half way decent one (Blue Frogs) was then eliminated leaving these.

Apparently a Yard Goat is used at the railyard to move cars around on the tracks. I'm guessing that will be the winner.

[Isedelyod]

River Hogs should win, in that it celebrates the Hog River, which runs through Hartford. Also, stretching the meaning a litttle further, a River Pig was a lumberjack who drove logs down the rivers. May be able to incorporate that into the logo/uni.

[SEANKELL9]

Im from the area and I thought a bunch of school kids wrote them down, but this Wednesday they'll be picking the team name.

[RMc]

I always use "Dark Blues" to refer to any Hartford team.

[ThatSeventiesGuy]

Yard Goats. It's freaking Yard Goats. Jesus Pedro.

Dear El Paso Chihuahuas: I'd like to issue a public apology. It actually DOES get stupider than that.

[SEANKELL9]

whos going to start creating caps and jerseys? hahah

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by SEANKELL9

I know they are not playing until next season, but lets see what we can come up with. I have the top 5 team names, if anyone feels free to do caps, jerseys and possibly logos that would be great.

These are really bad... but as bad as they are, they are a lot bit better than the Montgomery Biscuits.

(however, I must say Montgomery led the minors in team sales one year... but it's still a stupid name)

The Biloxi Shuckers (a person "who shucks oysters") is another bad name... Biloxi is a very nice resort town with beautiful sand and sea... they could have chosen like Biloxi Blues (Keesler Air Force Base used to be the biggest employer)... or something sea related... like Blue Marlins or Buccaneers... or Sunbirds (for all the Snowbirds that come south for the winter or tourists that come in the summer).

[Fyrestorm3]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

These are really bad... but as bad as they are, they are a lot bit better than the Montgomery Biscuits.

It never really hit me how odd that name was before, and I usually play as the Rays, too. It's a terrible name, I just don't think it screams "ridiculous" the way Yard Goats does.

[Elysian Fields]

Montgomery Biscuits and El Paso Chihuahuas are awesome names. Yard Goats would be great too.

[ThatSeventiesGuy]

Awesomely stupid, you mean. Although admittedly, Biscuits doesn't bother me as much as Chihuahuas or Rubber Ducks. Maybe because it doesn't seem as much like blatant marketing to snot-nosed kids. And hipsters. But I repeat myself.

[frangipard]

Originally Posted by Elysian Fields

Montgomery Biscuits and El Paso Chihuahuas are awesome names. Yard Goats would be great too.

Totally agree.

I hate any name with a extraneous Z ("Dawgz"), and also non-plural names ("Sun"). But Yard Goats, that's just yummy absurdist fun there.

[Elysian Fields]

Originally Posted by ThatSeventiesGuy

Awesomely stupid, you mean. Although admittedly, Biscuits doesn't bother me as much as Chihuahuas or Rubber Ducks. Maybe because it doesn't seem as much like blatant marketing to snot-nosed kids. And hipsters. But I repeat myself.

Haha... I love America and all of its differences. I love all three of those names and I am probably an anti-hipster hipster. I was kind of shocked Akron changed their name and would have loved El Paso to go back to the Diablos, but all three work for me.

[Elysian Fields]

Originally Posted by frangipard

Totally agree.

I hate any name with a extraneous Z ("Dawgz"), and also non-plural names ("Sun"). But Yard Goats, that's just yummy absurdist fun there.

I am totally with you on that awful last z. However, I am not against non-plural names. Some could work, I think.

[Elysian Fields]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

These are really bad... but as bad as they are, they are a lot bit better than the Montgomery Biscuits.

(however, I must say Montgomery led the minors in team sales one year... but it's still a stupid name)

The Biloxi Shuckers (a person "who shucks oysters") is another bad name... Biloxi is a very nice resort town with beautiful sand and sea... they could have chosen like Biloxi Blues (Keesler Air Force Base used to be the biggest employer)... or something sea related... like Blue Marlins or Buccaneers... or Sunbirds (for all the Snowbirds that come south for the winter or tourists that come in the summer).

Biloxi doesn't actually have beautiful sand and sea. There are no snowbirds there. Why? Because the water is brown as the Mississippi River is in New Orleans.

Shuckers is great name and speaks to the whole Mississippi gulf coast. The seafood industry is huge there. Oysters are seafood.