Misnomers....sports teams names that missed the mark.

[Blansky]

As a hockey fan I remember back in the 1980s when Atlanta Flames of the NHL moved to Calgary. Atlanta couldn't support a hockey team at the time and hockey crazy Albertans wanted a NHL team in Calgary.

So there was a contest to name the new team and since Calgary is famous for the Calgary Stampede and cowboys the usual names were included in the contest selections process that featured cowboy stuff. And the name they ended up choosing ......wait for it.....The Calgary Flames. WHAT?????

The Atlanta Flames was so named because of the civil war burning of Atlanta. There is and never was anything in Calgary that had anything to do with flames.

The Atlanta logo had a large A with flames in it, so the geniuses in Calgary changed it to a C with flames coming from it. Some guy won a bunch of money for his ingenious idea of naming the team the Calgary Flames.

Anyways here's an interesting article on the misnaming of sports teams usually that at one time had a connection with their area but were moved to somewhere else.

I'm sure you can include lots more from your area.

Please lets not get into the name changing for cultural/PC reasons.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...d-sports-teams

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