LAist: Are the Saints Marching In?

sam gordo

Sun, 22 May 2005 09:33:00 -0800

the saints would fit here plus we would have them by next year

watts

Fri, 20 May 2005 08:00:10 -0800

Name it whatever you want, no one will care and you'll have an empty stadium in 5 years. LA doesnt know how to support an NFL team. That is a fact.

keith

Thu, 19 May 2005 19:07:50 -0800

L.A. Rattlers? L.A. Chapparal? Nah. L.A. (Commuter) Rage How about the Drive-Bys?

Mike

Thu, 19 May 2005 18:12:05 -0800

Why not the Los Angeles Dons? Back in the 40's we had an L.A. Dons professional football team of the now defunct AAFC. I always thought this was a fantastic name.

Jason T.

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:55:41 -0800

With so many transplanted teams (Dodgers, Lakers, Clippers) in town, it kind of seems appropriate for them to keep their name. Although if the Angeles are going to continue to try to rep LA then that might be too many holy teams in town. Maybe go the exact opposite way and acknowledge our Latino heritage - The Los Angeles Diablos? or maybe the Ranchers? the Wranglers? or that kind of cool alliteration that works so well with the lakers and call them the Lancers? If the NFL weren't so enamored with teams ending in "s", I'd suggest the LA Traffic. Offensive line known as The Jam. Hell, we could do superbowl shuffle 2005.

Linda

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:20:32 -0800

With our luck, they do a play on hollywood and it'd be something cheesy like LA Stars. Umm...no. How bout LA Ballers! :) wait... that sounds like a bball team.

Michael Montazeri

Thu, 19 May 2005 14:10:34 -0800

I've noticed a trend in recent team names, especially in multicultural cities like LA and Miami (where MLS teams are named the Galaxy and Fusion), where the ethnic composition of various communities is highlighted by a name that celebrates the "melting pot" or "salad bowl" characters of modern US cities. Although NFL football tends to focus its marketing more to 18-35 year old white men, for a franchise to survive in LA's Laker-centric sports world, they'll have to come up with something appealing to LA's various communities, while still tying into football's image as a tough guy's sport. So my suggestions would be "Los Angeles Union", "Los Angeles Unit", "Los Angeles Syndicate", something along these lines.

Ted

Thu, 19 May 2005 14:07:51 -0800

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