
I think it is amusing that national sports teams have nicknames like pro sports teams.
For example:
Cameroon Indomitable Lions
Mexico El Tri (the three colored)
England Three Lions
Algeria Desert Foxes
Uruguay Charruas (Name of indigenous people that kicked out colonialists)
France Les Bluse (The Blues)
Nigeria Super Eagles
Ghana Black Stars
Australian Socceroos
Netherlands Oranje
Japan Blue Samurai
Italian Azzurri (Light Blues)
New Zealand All Whites
Ivory Coast Les Elephants
Chile La Roja
Honduras Los Catrachos (people from Honduras)
There seems to be three ways to go when giving your national team a nickname. One, you can pick the teams color (that would make the US team the Red, White and Blue). Two, you can choose an animal from your country (the US Bald Eagles?). Three you can pick some sort of cultural moniker (the US Minutemen, Patriots, Cowboys, Yanks?).
So what should the US nickname be?
The US Red, White and Blue
The US Bald Eagles
The US Turkeys (Ben Franklin's preferred national bird)
The US Minutemen
The US Patriots
The US Cowboys
The US Yanks
My friend Dan suggested the US Laser Eagles (take that Nigeria).
Also what is the best nickname that one of the other nations has? I personally like the New Zealand All Whites (see picture above). I don't care that the name is a play off their rugby team the All Blacks. I only care that it sounds super racist.
I look forward to your ideas and selections.
How bout the US, Global Dominators!
ReplyDeleteWe still have a soccer team? How is it that the goal to ball ratio is so much bigger then all other goal sports but they can't score more then 2 goals a game?
ReplyDeleteSoccer should become illegal or pushment when we send people to Mexico for prison.
"Kobe!"
US The Mud
ReplyDeleteFrankie says US
ReplyDeleteAmerican Mules
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone here buy David Beckham's perfume? His chiseled features and dynamite areola makes him a great smelling person. I heard it was his natural musk that he bottles after the games.
ReplyDeleteBut he is English, and just like in WWII we are going kick their asses! Go "Frankie Says US"