OT: Cleveland _____________________ Name That Team

[Stinger92860]

Rockers

 

[BPT2Storrs]

The river burned for a reason. Let’s call them the Cleveland Contaminants.

 

[ZachFan]

Cleveland Playa's

 

[Adesmar123]

I'm sure this will eventually get moved to the baseball board, but still no basketball to talk about, so what say you?

Cleveland needs a name for their MLB team. Here's hoping they can do better than the Washington Football Team.

Cleveland Cavaliers for basketball really doesn't make any sense. Save Cavalier for Virginia. Cleveland Browns may be the most perfect description for a city and franchise ever.
I've seen some suggestion making a play on the movie Major League. Disney already gave us the Ducks in the NHL so there is precedence.
Some have brought up R&R HoF being in Cleveland and doing something with that. Count me out. Made no sense to me that a city without much if any relevance to the history of R&R gets the HoF. No need to double down on that mistake.
Me? I look at Cleveland as a port city on the Great Lakes with a long and strong maritime history.

Cleveland Steamers. Perfect for the city and the ballclub.

Cleveland is where Alan Freed starting playing Rock and Roll.

 

[uconnblueinky]

Cleveland Redskins ?

 

[dennismenace]

I'm sure this will eventually get moved to the baseball board, but still no basketball to talk about, so what say you?

Cleveland needs a name for their MLB team. Here's hoping they can do better than the Washington Football Team.

Cleveland Cavaliers for basketball really doesn't make any sense. Save Cavalier for Virginia. Cleveland Browns may be the most perfect description for a city and franchise ever.
I've seen some suggestion making a play on the movie Major League. Disney already gave us the Ducks in the NHL so there is precedence.
Some have brought up R&R HoF being in Cleveland and doing something with that. Count me out. Made no sense to me that a city without much if any relevance to the history of R&R gets the HoF. No need to double down on that mistake.
Me? I look at Cleveland as a port city on the Great Lakes with a long and strong maritime history.

Cleveland Steamers. Perfect for the city and the ballclub.

How about the Edmund Fitzgeralds

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Cleveland Midges

 

[Chin Diesel]

How about the Edmund Fitzgeralds

Love the song, hate the reality.

Much like the river fire I would not want to associate a team name with a failure.

You need something uplifting and strong.

The Fitz was steaming towards Cleveland because it's a port city.

Cleveland Steamers is a great name.

 

[Improviser]

Cleveland Aeros. Pronounced the same as arrows.

Aerospace is one of its key industries.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

Connecticut Firelands

Lets re-establish our claim.

I'm thinking along the same line as you.

Cleveland was established on July 22, 1796, by surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company when they laid out Connecticut's Western Reserve into townships and a capital city. They named the new settlement "Cleaveland" after their leader, General Moses Cleaveland.

So Cleveland Nutmeggers would be nice.
Maybe the Cleveland Cleavelands so we can right the wrong that some newspaper did.

 

[Doginaus]

How about the "Cleveland Chicken Sh_ts" because that is exactly what this has evolved into.

 

[gtcam]

The Cleveland Commies

 

[Waquoit]

Cleveland Redskins ?

Wasn't funny when the first guy said it.

 

[XLCenterFan]

Cleveland Casuals

 

[uconn13]

Cleveland Clavichords

 

[BlueDogs]

Cleveland Cavers.

 

[navery12]

This thread has the least surprising posts from certain posters

 

[Scoe]

The Jews.

 

[SallyH]

How about the Edmund Fitzgeralds

Actually there is a freighter museum - William G. Mather

William G. Mather Steamship

Tour this restored 618-foot historic flagship and see what life was like on board a working Great Lakes freighter!

greatscience.com

 

[storrsroars]

Spiders.

The name does have history. Cy Young pitched for them. However, in their final year of existence, 1899, they finished 20-134.

To put that into perspective, it's only half the wins of the 1962 Mets. A .130 winning percentage.

 

[vtmikeb]

Beavers.

 

[JeannoCT]

Cleveland Brown Sox

 

[CCSUblue]

The name does have history. Cy Young pitched for them. However, in their final year of existence, 1899, they finished 20-134.

To put that into perspective, it's only half the wins of the 1962 Mets. A .130 winning percentage.

Because the owners bought a second team in St. Louis and sent all the best players there.

 

[SallyH]

I had forgotten. The local weatherman suggested the Cleveland Midges! These small insects swarm twice a year - mid June and mid October. There are literally millions of them and they show up on radar. We Clevelanders were thankful back in 2007:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duckGJse-anfk

 

[WeAreUCONN]

Cleveland Sissy’s