Fiji
Years ago

Sporting Teams Nicknames

A bit bored today at work and saw a post from Bo Hamburger in another thread that's got me thinking.

He/she raised an interesting point, which is the penchant for sporting teams having an S on the end of their nicknames e.g the 36 ers.

Trivia question - how many teams in the major league US sport DON'T have an S on the end of their nickname.

I can only think off the top of my head of 3 bball, 3 Ice hockey and 3 baseball.

Are there any more, and no I'm not going to tell you the ones I've thought of, that takes the fun out of it?

But the bball ones should be easy for everyone on here.

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Bizzy
Years ago

NBA:

Utah Jazz
Miami Heat
Orlando Magic

NBL:

All end in S.

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Anonymous
Years ago

NHL - avalanche

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anon
Years ago

the majority of "s" come from making the word a plural to make it sound a whole lot better eg atlanta hawk detroit piston etc etc so its no real surprise that the majority end in s

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Bizzy
Years ago

And because there is more than 1 player in the team.

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Bo Hamburger
Years ago

I think a lot of the "no-s" push comes from second-tier sports who think if they develop a really cool name and associated persona, then fans/dollars will come flocking.

A lot of A-league teams have gone the no-S (Roar, Victory, Glory), and so have your WNBA teams (Sting etc) and your US Major League Soccer teams (Beckham's new team the Galaxy, and so on).

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Aloha
Years ago

POWER. and good point there is more than one player in a team!

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Anonymous
Years ago

boston red sox?
chicago white sox?

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Anonymous
Years ago

boston red sox?
chicago white sox?

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Anonymous
Years ago

There is no "I" in team....except when "I'm" playing in the team.