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  2. List of ethnic sports team and mascot names - Wikipedia

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    Allen Americans – Allen, Texas, USA; Houston Texans (National Football League) – Houston, Texas, USA; New York Knicks (NBA), the name "Knick" is a shortened version of the word "Knickerbocker", a term which comes from a pseudonym used by Washington Irving in his book, A History of New York. The term was used to refer to the descendants of ...

  3. List of NFL mascots - Wikipedia

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    Minnesota Vikings: Viktor Viktor is a smiling Viking caricature whose head looks similar to the Vikings logo. Previously, Ragnar was one of two "human" mascots in professional North American sports (i.e. not in any animal or caricature costume), with Lucky the Leprechaun of the Boston Celtics being the other. Ragnar was dressed as a Viking, but ...

  4. List of North American football nicknames - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Religious symbolism in U.S. sports team names and mascots

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    At the time, the athletic teams had red uniforms with a large "D" on the front, the players being called the "D-men," evolving into "Demons." The name change also included the school colors. [ 6 ] The mascot is DIBS (Demon in a Blue Suit).

  6. A Complete Guide to Every Sports Metaphor in Taylor ... - AOL

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    Taylor Swift became a bonafide sports fan after she started dating NFL star Travis Kelce in summer 2023. “Football is awesome, it turns out,” Swift quipped to TIME in her December 2023 Person ...

  7. Logo quiz: Whose starting lineups are these? - AOL

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    This is pretty straightforward: We have put together graphics with the starting lineups of several NBA teams replacing the names of the players with the logos of the squads they last played for ...

  8. List of association football mascots - Wikipedia

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    A club's mascot is a cartoon character, often that of an animal, that symbolises some virtue boasted by the team. Most of them have proper names. Usually mascots come in two versions, a "soft" one, which is the official and a "hardcore" one used by ultras and torcidas , which often contain traces of vulgarity or violence.

  9. Why is SMU-TCU called 'Battle for the Iron Skillet?' History ...

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    TCU-SMU football history. The Horned Frogs lead the all-time series between the in-state foes 53-42-7. The first-ever matchup occurred on Oct. 8, 1915, and ended in a 43-0 win for TCU in Forth ...