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Why do they call the L. A. basketball team the Lakers?  They were originally the Minneapolis Lakers and Minnesota calls itself the "Land of 10,000 Lakes."

Why do they call the L. A. baseball team the Dodgers?  Originally, they were from Brooklyn and people used to dodge trolley cars there.

Did you know that when the Minnesota North Stars moved to Dallas they were planning to call them the Lone Stars?  Someone pointed out that "Lone Stars" would be stupid, so they changed it to "Stars."  After all, there were more than one of them, so "Lone Stars" would be kinda stupid…

When the Vancouver Grizzlies moved to Memphis, they wanted to change the nickname after the first season, but the fans said no…
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Excellent!  Remember some of the teams that moved without having enough time to change thier names for a while?  The NFL's Tennessee Titans were the "Oilers" and if you can remember the old but IMO, Much Better American Basketball Association, they had the Pittsburgh "Condors" which would've been better off being called the California Condors.  Oh, and speaking of the ABA, UTAH is not ONLY moronic for the NBA "Jazz" but originally in the ABA there was a team called the Los Angeles "Stars" and that made perfect sense, but when they re-located to utah they kept the name  ??? So IMO, Utah leads in stupidity!

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Montreal Canadians? Talk about obvious.
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yeah...the obvious will happen again with the Houston Texans

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Actually, the name Montreal Canadiens (note: the English name for the team actually uses the French spelling of Canadians) is not as obvious as suggested.  In the early 1900s, the Montréal-based hockey team belonged to the Club Athlétique Canadien so they became known as "les Canadiens de Montréal."  Later, the club changed it's name to Club de Hockey Canadien - hence the CH logo on the team's jersey.  

Since the original thread was about nickmanes, let me mention that the team is sometimes referred to as the Habs.  "Hab" is short for the French word "habitants" which is what the early French settlers of Québec were called.


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Check this out:

http://msn.espn.go.com/magazine/geno_20020521.html

(It also mentions the Colorado Avalanche.)
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Thanks for the Info, Crazydon :) Looks like The Avalanche name makes sense.....now if we could just beat the "Wings"  :(  ;)

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Oh, and speaking of the ABA, UTAH is not ONLY moronic for the NBA "Jazz" but originally in the ABA there was a team called the Los Angeles "Stars" and that made perfect sense, but when they re-located to utah they kept the name  ??? So IMO, Utah leads in stupidity!
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So maybe they should have changed the team name when the Jazz came here, but now it fits.  Don't knock it.  Lots of other teams have kept their original names....yet you are only calling Utah moronic...them's fightin' words.  Maybe we should take it out to the flag pole. >:(

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So maybe they should have changed the team name when the Jazz came here, but now it fits.  Don't knock it.  Lots of other teams have kept their original names....yet you are only calling Utah moronic...them's fightin' words.  Maybe we should take it out to the flag pole. >:(
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I'm Sorry....it will never "Fit" it makes NO sense.  Just like the LA Lakers...(California is NOT the land of 10,000 lakes)...as for the flagpole....you'd probably be able to hang me from it ;) Update....now that the Charlotte Hornets moved to New Orleans and Utah is the Bee-hive state..why not the Utah Hornets...and Give New Orleans the "Jazz" name back  :-/