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  1. #61
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Greenville, SC
    Washington Partisans

    Or Monuments

    Or Mallers


    or the Filibusters, though Philadelphia probably already trademarked that as Philabusters.

  2. #62
    Join Date
    Nov 2014
    Location
    The People's Republic of Travis County
    The Washington Gun-Takers. Tina Fey was onto something!

  3. #63
    Quote Originally Posted by rsvman View Post
    About 18 years ago my idea was this (since they don't even play in Washington):

    The Greater Chesapeake Bay Area Indigenous Persons



    I still think it could work. ;-)
    Greg Easterbrook's ESPN column referred to the team as the "Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons" for years.

  4. #64
    They could do a tribute to Schlereth and call themselves the Washington Foggy Bottoms.

  5. #65
    Quote Originally Posted by cspan37421 View Post

    How about the Maroons? There is precedent:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottsville_Maroons

    Plus, it's a nod to a favorite Bugs Bunny epithet, which will be apropos when the team stinks.

    Carry on, you all are doing well.
    You don't go from one ethnic slur name to a name that, in one usage, has slavery connections...so yeah, maroons has no chance.

  6. #66
    Quote Originally Posted by Bluedog View Post
    You don't go from one ethnic slur name to a name that, in one usage, has slavery connections...so yeah, maroons has no chance.
    I always assumed Bugs was just mispronouncing "moron."

  7. #67
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Raleigh
    Quote Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15 View Post
    I always assumed Bugs was just mispronouncing "moron."
    “What an embezzle! What an ultramaroon!”

    https://futureofworking.com/33-best-bugs-bunny-sayings/
    [redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.

  8. #68
    Quote Originally Posted by Bluedog View Post
    You don't go from one ethnic slur name to a name that, in one usage, has slavery connections...so yeah, maroons has no chance.
    I've never heard of that usage, so thanks for educating me on that. In the wikip article, the football team's name origin is innocuous (they ordered jerseys and didn't specify color - they got maroon as a random choice). The team was originally named the Pottsville Eleven.

    Imagine if they went on to get a basketball team there, too ... they might have been the Maroon Five.

  9. #69
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Winston Salem, NC
    Washington Senators. That was the name of the former baseball team in DC. If not that the Washington Devils.

    GoDuke!

  10. #70
    I suggest either Grandstanders or Bloviators.

  11. #71
    I think the Seattle Kraken is such a great name so why not got with the...Washington Sasquatch! Would probably work better in other areas of the country but I just love unique/weird names. My heart still breaks when I think of the SuperSonics.

  12. #72
    Quote Originally Posted by lotusland View Post
    I suggest either Grandstanders or Bloviators.
    Applause!!!!
    Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'

  13. #73
    Quote Originally Posted by LasVegas View Post
    I think the Seattle Kraken is such a great name so why not got with the...Washington Sasquatch! Would probably work better in other areas of the country but I just love unique/weird names. My heart still breaks when I think of the SuperSonics.
    We have similar emotional based. Still get angry watching the Thunder. Seattle loved the Sonics. Once things return to a level of normalcy, I hope the Sonics return.

  14. #74
    UChicago are Maroons. I do like Generals. I've always called them Foreskins but that's not happening. Forward thinkers might go with 51ers (51sters?) -- not a date like SF but for when DC gets statehood.

  15. #75
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    Undisclosed
    “The Hamilton Compromises”

  16. #76
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Rougemont Nebulae
    The Washington Deep Staters? Let the fiction persist...Washington plays pro football?

  17. #77
    Join Date
    Dec 2014
    Location
    On the Road to Nowhere
    Quote Originally Posted by jimmymax View Post
    UChicago are Maroons. I do like Generals. I've always called them Foreskins but that's not happening. Forward thinkers might go with 51ers (51sters?) -- not a date like SF but for when DC gets statehood.
    DC ain't comin' in without PR!

    Gotta think about the flag design.

  18. #78
    What about Washington Stealth Bombers... that way, if the kinda "disappear", no one will notice.

  19. #79
    Join Date
    Dec 2015
    Location
    northern Virginia
    wishful thinking, I know - but how about the Washington Term Limits?

  20. #80
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Durham, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15 View Post
    I always assumed Bugs was just mispronouncing "moron."
    Ditto. And he was.

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