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The name is taken from the Rage Against the Machine song of the same name. Bungles: [17] Name referring to the Cincinnati Bengals teams of the 1990s and 2000s, whose string of losing seasons with records 8–8 or worse spanned 14 consecutive years in addition to numerous draft busts. Name also used for any failing Cincinnati Bengals team ...
By nickname "Ain'ts*" – New Orleans Saints, NFL; rhyming play on the non-standard English negative ain't [30] "America's Team" – Dallas Cowboys, by sports media [31] "B.I.L.L.S.*" – Buffalo Bills, by detractors, acronyms for "Boy I Love Losing Super Bowls", in reference to the team's failure to win the Super Bowl in four straight tries during the early 1990s [32]
It is not uncommon for a club to be known in common usage by a name other than its official name, or the name on the badge. Other clubs are more usually known by nicknames or contractions of their full names, for instance, Vasco da Gama is usually called simply Vasco, F.C. Internazionale Milan is contracted to Inter or Inter Milan, Sporting Clube de Portugal is often called Sporting or ...
Nonetheless, if a team's common name is different, it is displayed in parenthesis, for example, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States Military Academy (Army), University of California, Berkeley (California), etcetera.
If there is sufficient content, the article will remain at the old city and team name and a new article will be created at the new city and team name. If there is insufficient content to justify a stand-alone article, then create a redirect to the section of the "History of [new city and team name]," mentioning the former city/team name, or
Team management started with a list of 17 names from an original list of more than 100. From there, focus groups of a total of 200 Baltimore area residents reduced the list of names to six, and then a phone survey of 1000 people trimmed it down to three, Marauders, Americans, and Ravens. [ 9 ]
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Use {{TDteam/name|TEAM NAME}} to generate the standard tribe name. If the tribe has two words in its name, you can either combine the two words ("screaminggophers") or leave it as two words ("screaming gophers"). Capitalization does not matter.