Utah team name polling opens, list of potential names revealed

[Macman]

How about the Utah Cannibals after the Donner party? Now there’s a team that would do anything to win.

 

[powerbomb]

It is neither exaggeration nor hyperbole to say that literally every single one of the suggested names are downright horrible.

With the recently rebranded Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians, why does it seem impossible for any sports ownership group to tender a non-atrocious moniker for their club? It's like they shrug and collect a bunch of middle school suggestions into a hat...

 

[Sgt Schultz]

The issue with Yeti is that the Avs already have a Yeti for mascott and they have the big foot on their shoulders.

Call them the Fury and use the Mammoth as logo. I mean I love the Mammoth as an emblem but not for a name.

The Avs removed the big foot on the shoulder yokes back around 2015. I have no idea if they have a Yeti as a mascot anymore or not.

Of the names on the list, I guess Outlaws is probably the one I would (grudgingly) support. That gives rise to the statistical analysis that "the Outlaws are the most penalized team in the league."

Utah's state bird is a condor (California Condor, technically), which gets me to the observation that every time I see Utah Blizzard on the list I think of the old El Paso Buzzards. If I am not mistaken, a condor is in the buzzard family.

The state reptile is the gila monster, which wold be a tough one although the logo could be good. But, gila monsters are apparently slow.

Unfortunately, I have the sinking feeling that whatever name they ultimately choose, it is going to be met with a sigh on this end of my keyboard.

 

[Mosby]

I don't support Yeti but if they adopt it they will go from being the Jets to the Yotes to the Yets

Coyetis

The fact that "Utah Raptors" wasn't even an option is both unsurprisingly and incredibly disappointing. As another poster said, clearly the people making this list were 60+ year old suits whose knowledge of pop culture ended in about 1992. "Blizzard"? "Ice"? WTF is this, the IHL in the 1980s? Absolute bush-league garbage, and whoever even suggested that poop should be fired.

The least bad option is Yetis, IMO, though I'll still dig a trench and die on the hill that Raptors would have been best.

EDIT: They should just hoist the black flag and name them the "Utah Underwears".

Two issues with Raptors that I see:

1. Toronto Raptors trademark. Who knows if it extends into other sports. Still, tough to build a brand when the name already exists, especially in a major market like Toronto. The Utah brand would always be the smaller of the two.

2. Smith is close to Tanenbaum and likely doesn't want to "steal" his name for really no good reason.

 

[Hunter Gathers]

The lake is gonna be gone in a few years

Once the lake dries up, they can just be the Utah Salt.

 

[Mosby]

The issue with Yeti is that the Avs already have a Yeti for mascott and they have the big foot on their shoulders.

Call them the Fury and use the Mammoth as logo. I mean I love the Mammoth as an emblem but not for a name.

Colorado has not used the bigfoot shoulder patch since 2015. They now use the Colorado state flag C there.

Colorado's mascot is a St. Bernard dog. It has been in place since 2009. The Yeti mascot went away in 2001.

 

[QuizGuy66]

The Donner Party like the Condors are both California things. Maybe they can be the Utah Californians?

How about Utah Talons? Then you can go with the Condor theme w/o mentioning the other state

And then they can hire Dale Tallon to run the team

 

[MichaelFarrell]

The bees that exist to have sex and then die?

That’s why we all exist

 

[Macman]

How about Utah Rattlers? Or any other animal names — Pumas, Mountain Lions, Bob Cats, Cougars or Scorpions — would be better than the suggested ones.

 

[BTO]

How about we name George Parros president and GM and call them the DIPSHITS?

 

[BTO]

These are so so so bad

Agreed. WTF is wrong with Coyotes?

 

[viper0220]

Agreed. WTF is wrong with Coyotes?

I don’t think they can use Coyotes.

 

[BTO]

I don’t think they can use Coyotes.

Ain't that who they are?

 

[Mosby]

How about Utah Rattlers? Or any other animal names — Pumas, Mountain Lions, Bob Cats, Cougars or Scorpions — would be better than the suggested ones.

This is just the Florida Panthers with a different name.

 

[viper0220]

Ain't that who they are?

I think the name stays in Arizona.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

How about the Utah Cannibals after the Donner party? Now there’s a team that would do anything to win.

“We really take a bite out of the competition….”

 

[Macman]

This is just the Florida Panthers with a different name.

That’s right. A different name.

 

[Eyeseeing]

Utah Ice Holes

 

[Bizz]

Those are all cringe. Hopefully team management does the right thing and dismisses those sad choices and comes up with something on their own.

 

[Chan790]

I've never seen a survey so in need of a "none of these" option.

 

[Bjorn Le]

Coyotes would have been better than all of these but alas.

Not one of these rolls off the tongue well. Salt Lake City instead of Utah would've worked better with a bunch of these names.

 

[Kimota]

Colorado has not used the bigfoot shoulder patch since 2015. They now use the Colorado state flag C there.

Colorado's mascot is a St. Bernard dog. It has been in place since 2009. The Yeti mascot went away in 2001.

Why? that mascot was dope.

 

[Reality Czech]

Not a great list.

If they actually go with Utah Powder will it be too late to reverse course and just move 'em back to Arizona?

If they name themselves the Powder are Kuznetsov and Nikushkin allowed on the team?

 

[Indrid Cold]

It NEEDS to be the Utah Aspen.

 

[D34DLYB1RDS]

Call them the Utah Thrashers.