Sports Teams named after Birds
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1frahealee
Whether international, national, state or provincial, municipal, tiny regional team … what are your favourites, or those you know of, or care about because your child plays soccer for them?! Books and birds seem to exist in the very fabric of childhood and the themes pop up in surprising places and in 'novel' ways. =)
2frahealee
My father had four daughters, and as the youngest, it made sense to him to designate me resident tomboy. Okay by me! Thus, every hockey or football game that showed up on our 3 channel cabinet tv in the 60s and 70s became our shared hobby. My mother knit.
Sadly, my three sons have zero interest in either, and ran cross country rather than played soccer or lacrosse, but it's still fun to follow old and new teams with imaginative names reflecting the natural world. I have tried to list my 'memories' alphabetically to avoid bias. In thinking about the 'O' film (Othello) in the birds-on-screen thread (where the prestigious private school mascot was a hawk), it made me wonder how many varieties are represented across the world of sports.
Sorry, but as a Canadian, football means the oval brown ball in CFL or NFL, and soccer means the round black/white variety! And by hockey, I mean ice hockey not field hockey. I know nothing about Rugby, but a lifelong friend lives in New Zealand now and it's all about the All Blacks, which had a logo I thought was a feather and turned out to be a fern!
Baseball
MLB:
Baltimore Orioles
St. Louis Cardinals
Toronto Blue Jays
Basketball
NBA:
Atlanta Hawks
New Orleans Pelicans
Football
NFL:
Arizona Cardinals
Atlanta Falcons
Baltimore Ravens
Philadelphia Eagles
Seattle Seahawks
Hockey
NHL:
Anaheim Ducks
Pittsburgh Penguins
Lacrosse
Soccer
Honourable Mention/RIP:
Atlanta Thrashers (NHL), etc.
University/College Teams:
Bald Eagles, Blackbirds, Blue Hawks, Blue Hens, Blue Jays, Bluejays, Cardinals, Ducks, Duhawks (Dubuque Hawks), Eagles, Falcons, Firebirds, Gamecocks, Golden Eagles, Golden Falcons, Gulls (former nickname: Power Gulls), Harriers, Hawks, Herons, Hustlin’ Owls, Jayhawks, Kohawks, Larks, Marauding Eagles, Mountain Hawks, Nighthawks, Ospreys, Owls, Peacocks, Pelicans, Penguins, Purple Eagles, Ravens, Redbirds, Redhawks, Red Hawks, River Hawks, Roadrunners, Running Eagles, Sagehens, Scarlet Hawks, Screaming Eagles, Sea Gulls, Seahawks, Skyhawks, Soaring Eagles, Stormy Petrels, Sunbirds, Thunderbirds, Thunderhawks, V-Hawks, Warhawks, etc.
FYI: Some team names/logos appear to give nods to the bird world, but do not; Toronto Raptors (dinosaur), Blackhawks (Indigenous), Red Wings (a tire?), Flyers (?), etc.
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Sadly, my three sons have zero interest in either, and ran cross country rather than played soccer or lacrosse, but it's still fun to follow old and new teams with imaginative names reflecting the natural world. I have tried to list my 'memories' alphabetically to avoid bias. In thinking about the 'O' film (Othello) in the birds-on-screen thread (where the prestigious private school mascot was a hawk), it made me wonder how many varieties are represented across the world of sports.
Sorry, but as a Canadian, football means the oval brown ball in CFL or NFL, and soccer means the round black/white variety! And by hockey, I mean ice hockey not field hockey. I know nothing about Rugby, but a lifelong friend lives in New Zealand now and it's all about the All Blacks, which had a logo I thought was a feather and turned out to be a fern!
Baseball
MLB:
Baltimore Orioles
St. Louis Cardinals
Toronto Blue Jays
Basketball
NBA:
Atlanta Hawks
New Orleans Pelicans
Football
NFL:
Arizona Cardinals
Atlanta Falcons
Baltimore Ravens
Philadelphia Eagles
Seattle Seahawks
Hockey
NHL:
Anaheim Ducks
Pittsburgh Penguins
Lacrosse
Soccer
Honourable Mention/RIP:
Atlanta Thrashers (NHL), etc.
University/College Teams:
Bald Eagles, Blackbirds, Blue Hawks, Blue Hens, Blue Jays, Bluejays, Cardinals, Ducks, Duhawks (Dubuque Hawks), Eagles, Falcons, Firebirds, Gamecocks, Golden Eagles, Golden Falcons, Gulls (former nickname: Power Gulls), Harriers, Hawks, Herons, Hustlin’ Owls, Jayhawks, Kohawks, Larks, Marauding Eagles, Mountain Hawks, Nighthawks, Ospreys, Owls, Peacocks, Pelicans, Penguins, Purple Eagles, Ravens, Redbirds, Redhawks, Red Hawks, River Hawks, Roadrunners, Running Eagles, Sagehens, Scarlet Hawks, Screaming Eagles, Sea Gulls, Seahawks, Skyhawks, Soaring Eagles, Stormy Petrels, Sunbirds, Thunderbirds, Thunderhawks, V-Hawks, Warhawks, etc.
FYI: Some team names/logos appear to give nods to the bird world, but do not; Toronto Raptors (dinosaur), Blackhawks (Indigenous), Red Wings (a tire?), Flyers (?), etc.
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5John5918
>2 frahealee:
Well, although the New Zealand rugby team, the All Blacks, is not named after a bird, the New Zealanders themselves are nicknamed Kiwis.
Well, although the New Zealand rugby team, the All Blacks, is not named after a bird, the New Zealanders themselves are nicknamed Kiwis.
6John5918
The Ugandan national football team (that, I'm afraid, is the round ball variety!) is nicknamed the Cranes, after the crowned crane, the national symbol of Uganda.
7frahealee
>6 John5918: Gotcha! I thought I'd point that out early, since habits are hard to break no matter where you live.
The Halifax Thunderbirds lacrosse team in Nova Scotia just caught my eye with a very jazzy logo, but I am unsure whether to include it here. It obviously refers to totem pole carvings found usually up quite high if not on top of the wooden structures we know and love.
It's got a beak, so it stays!
The Halifax Thunderbirds lacrosse team in Nova Scotia just caught my eye with a very jazzy logo, but I am unsure whether to include it here. It obviously refers to totem pole carvings found usually up quite high if not on top of the wooden structures we know and love.
It's got a beak, so it stays!
