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Originally Posted by Jay Random
We already have enough of that nonsense in North American soccer.
My particular pet peeve is teams that call themselves ‘United’ because they think it sounds cool, when they were not actually formed by a union between two clubs. So far as I know, the only professional sports franchise in North America that could legitimately call itself ‘United’ is the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Let the Europeans name their clubs according to their customs, and we can name our clubs according to ours.
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I don’t know, I feel like we could use more of that and less “Kraken” and “Venom.”
I’d reject European naming traditions, too, if North American naming traditions over the last couple decades hadn’t skewed toward what 10 year old boys think is cool.