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Jun 14, 2024
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rotorhead
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I agree with you that "San Diego Beaches" would be an awesome name, AND
I also real with your overall premise; the Euro-type names sound stupid in America
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I really don’t understand why MLS teams imitate European club names.
Senora Featherbottom
Jun 14, 8:25am
I agree with you that "San Diego Beaches" would be an awesome name, AND
rotorhead
Jun 14, 8:28am
They should take out Diego and call them the San of Beaches.
Russell Feathers
Jun 14, 8:30am
I think I might like Wolverhampton Wanderers more than Wolves
CameronG
Jun 14, 8:33am
I would have liked RSL to be Salt Lake Hotspur instead of RSL
TADOW
Jun 14, 8:52am
When MLS first launched, it tried to "Americanize" a lot of things, including
shoganai
Jun 14, 8:54am
I don't think team names like the Wizards or the Clash were the problem
rotorhead
Jun 14, 9:08am
Probably not the main problem, I agree. I'd like to see more unique local and
shoganai
Jun 14, 9:33am
Bring back the shootouts!
vagabonder
Jun 14, 9:49am
That is probably the one single MLS 1.0 element that I think was superior to the
shoganai
Jun 14, 11:06am
Real salt lake is an incredibly lame name.
Longseason
Jun 14, 9:05am
It screams "I'm a pathetic copy-cat amateur with no self-respect"
Mitty
Jun 14, 10:28am
Even San Diego FC, Austin FC, Nashville SC (better) are tolerable for me
RevolutionDeathsquad
Jun 14, 9:11am
Sporting KC really takes the cake for me.
Senora Featherbottom
Jun 14, 12:58pm
Better to embrace American naming conventions than lame faux Euro names
Still Blue
Jun 14, 9:40am
LA Galaxy is monumentally stupid, but yeah good point.
Mitty
Jun 14, 10:27am
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