Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Quarter I cannot discard

Last week, while at lunch, someone put a quarter in my that I have not fully been able to discard so... here is a brief rant to the subject.

I was chatting with a Red Sox fan, yeah, I don't know why either, when the question of the name of the Angels as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim came up. He questioned whether, I as a fan objected to the name change or found it as obserd as he did. Now, I grant that the "of Anaheim" bit is nutty, but the team has merely reverted back to its original name. Besides (hear the quarter drop now) there are plenty of teams with similar name issues that you don't hear much about. Here are the examples that came to my mind (feel free to add any I miss):

  1. New York Giants/Jets - Play in New Jersey
  2. Golden State Warriors - Not ever the actual name of a locality
  3. New England Patriots - What Boston not enough for you or Massachusets for that matter (Why not just let Jerry Jones do what we all know he would love to do and rename the Cowboys the "Cowboys of America")
  4. Any team named after a state - Need I explain?
  5. Any team named after a non-thing - What is a Wild, a Magic, or Heat?
OK I feel better now. Time to move on.