Names for new Seattle team

[bigdirty]

Seattle Nordiques would be great.

 

[Riddum]

*in your opinion

The color scheme is nice. Stripped hockey jerseys are just an eyesore and that's just a fact.

 

[sasha barkov]

Don’t know if this has been asked, but wouldn’t the Cougars be trademarked by Prince George and same goes for Flint? Wasn’t this the reason for Vegas not getting the named “Knights” al0ne?

 

[blue_n_copper]

Thunder Birds, Chiefs, Sea Eagles, Dockers, Totems or Fog.

 

[nucksauce]

Washington Lower Case

 

[GigaChad]

The Seattle Assault Lemmings

 

[blue_n_copper]

Historically professional hockey teams based in Seattle have used the names Eskimos, Ironmen, Bombers, Americans, Stars and Totems among a few others. I like Totems even more after reading that.

 

[Newsworthy]

Seattle Seawolves

 

[Anaheim4ever]

Seattle Grungers - Mascot is a man that looks like Kurt Cobain wearing worn out jeans & long sleeve plaid shirt.
They get surviving member of Nirvana: Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters record a new version of "Smells like Teen Spirit" for their goal song thats called "Smells like Hockey Spirit" with several lyrics changed like "load up on draft picks, bring ur trades" "goals are contagious" "here we are now, in the 3rd period".
Another goal song idea: Change 'Come as you are' to 'Score as you do' with new lyrics

 

[Wolf357]

Any bears in Washington? Seattle Grizzlies?

Boston would Veto this...The Winnipeg Jets were almost called The Winnipeg (Polar) Bears... but Boston mixed it as a Bruin is a Bear...

 

[Lindys Lazy Eye]

Troll everyone.

Seattle Sonics.

 

[VaporTrail]

The Sea Lions

 

[HarrySPlinkett]

Seattle Sonic Boom

Pros:

-Singular not plural
-Alliterative
-Ties to both Seattle sport history as well as local aviation.

Cons:

-May trigger old Sonics fans.
-'Seattle Sonic Boobs'

 

[Jaleel619]

tHE SEATTLE CATTLE

 

[Ratsreign]

The Seattle Chiefs
The name would pay respect to the history of the city and the surrounding area. The logo could be a Chiefs word mark along with a totem pole (featuring a thunderbird and a sockeye?)
Teams nowadays have to have a mascot, though. You get around the mascot problem by using Sasquatch; He came out of seclusion in the deep woods to watch the Chiefs play, and now he never misses a game...
I've always liked the Chiefs as a team name. Although Spokane, in the WHA, already uses it.

 

[Lions67]

The Seattle Fog.
Sounds awesome, is accurate and the logo could be wickedly blurry!!
Black and green uni’s

 

[Swedish Gretzky]

Seatle Starbucks
Seattle Coffee beans

 

[DowntownBooster]

I'd love to hear from Tribal members about their thoughts on Totems as a name. Just my guess but I think it might be a problem.

I often think that claims about appropriation are overblown, but I might get it with Totems. As far as I know, Totem is a general name for a sacred object, like "icon". I much prefer Thunderbirds, which is an example of a specific totem. The reason it seems less appropriative is because people can learn about it rather easily. You only need to know the thunderbird, not about the whole concept of totems in addition to learning about whichever specific totem they happen to be wearing or have depicted on their inflatable banger, which gets complicated. The artistic possibilities are the same but I think Thunderbirds would be easier to negotiate and it just makes more sense as a word.

It's probably best to stay away from anything pertaining to indigenous related themes. Some might be under the impression that it's a way to honor the First Nations peoples but although there may be some in that group that may be okay with it, there will be many others that will be opposed to it. With so many different options available for a team name, there's no sense picking one that will be protested from the start. The individuals that picked the names Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, etc. may have had the excuse that they didn't know those names would become offensive at a later time but we are now aware of the growing opposition to such names. It would be much better for the new Seattle team to get off to a good start publicity wise by choosing a name that has no racial connotations.

 

[cowboy82nd]

Seattle Nordiques would be great.

That's a big NO from me.

 

[Axe Man]

The Metropolitans and Sockeyes work....although sockeyes sound like a baseball team.

Metropolitans sounds like a baseball team too.

 

[sexydonut]

Totems is a dumb name. Totems are stationary, just like pylons.

Seattle Sea Lions or Thunderbirds.

 

[sasha barkov]

Don’t know if this has been asked, but wouldn’t the Cougars be trademarked by Prince George and same goes for Flint? Wasn’t this the reason for Vegas not getting the named “Knights” al0ne?

Bump

 

[nucksauce]

Going with a previously mentioned owl theme
Washington Parliament (a Parliament is a grouping of owls) lol
Seattle Brood
Seattle Talons

With this theme the fans or cheerleaders can be called Hooters

One of the slogans for Seattle is "The City of Flowers" so theres that. Going off of some of Washington state's exports and history I have these:

Seattle Broadleafs
Seattle Gold/iron Coast
Seattle Ironmen
Seattle Thunder Coast
Seattle EverGreen


Or, the same idea as the Golden State Warriors, why not

Pacific Coast Thunder
West Coast Thunderbirds

Or other iterations.

The Mascot better be BigFoot!

 

[ffh]

the super sonics

 

[Llewzaher]

Seattle Sound
Seattle Thunderhawks
Seattle Screech
Sirens
Wraith
Banshees
Rankers
Totems
Valkrye
Electrics