My frisbee team wants a new name. Up until now we’ve been called Pen Fifteen, AKA PEN15—you know, like, that “penis club” joke from fifth grade? Yeah. I personally love the name and think it’s hilarious (yes, I know, I have the sense of humor of a 12-year-old, so what?). But there has been a motion to change our name to something less, um, juvenile.
Apparently some people on my team are embarrassed about the name PEN15, and are ashamed to show their parents pictures of the team because of it. Naturally, I can’t relate to that at all—I only talk to my mother about once a month and our conversations hardly ever involve my hobbies. Generally speaking, we stick to topics like What are you going to do with your life? and You’re not getting any younger. Moreover, if we were to broach the topic of my frisbee team’s name and its etymology, it is unlikely that she’d either a) get it or b) care.
But regardless, we need to pick a new name. And this is where I need YOU: To help generate suggestions. Here are some Portland team names to give you an idea of what’s out there:
One Mississippi
Shotgun
Whor$hack
Swizzle
Soylent Green
Loki (as in “low key”)
Dirty Thirty
Coltrane
Bug on Jugular
My summer league team named itself “PFD” last year, which stood for “Poison Fart Dogs.” You get the idea: No Tigers or Lions or Bears, oh my. Something creative. Better yet, something that lends itself to good costumes and contains a play on words.
Any ideas?
10 responses so far ↓
1 Boo // Mar 21, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Most of the tried and true clever cool areas have been covered. Smarty pants and political areas are vacant though. So are all the uncool ones like etiquette and grammar but will people be able to pull that off with a grin?
How about a symbol like pi and another word to make it pie ( as in the symbol over a cherry or something) or an equation? At physics days in the theme park nearby they go over like mad and frisbee can be all bout it too.
Manners – I’ve seen it used for a team, but not exactly a sporting one.
That’s all I have for now, sadly, I have cephalopods on the brain. They have many hands.
Oh, there are Greek gods, giants with a hundred hands, live near the sea, cast off Titans. I can’t seem to find their name. It might be good though.
2 TimsHead // Mar 22, 2007 at 2:24 am
I’d recommend the name Duck!
Not only does it play on the University of Oregon’s nickname — and the school has done great athletically the past few years in some sports — but it definitely applies to a sport with flying objects. And the costume possibilities are also pretty good.
3 nokona1012 // Mar 22, 2007 at 4:12 am
Captain Ahab and the Killer Whales
4 James Cooper // Mar 22, 2007 at 7:38 am
Slipped Discs?
LOLWTFOMGBBQSauce?
The Plastics?
Whippet Goodes?
5 rubyblue123 // Mar 22, 2007 at 7:56 am
The recent bubble hockey champions team name is the Badabings. I liked it.
6 michael5000 // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:14 am
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7 michael5000 // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:15 am
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8 fern_forest // Mar 22, 2007 at 4:52 pm
how ’bout Goat Rodeo?
9 Greg // Mar 23, 2007 at 4:29 am
I played on an intramural team in college called “Ron Jeremy: Legend.” Before games, while the fraternity teams were chanting their names, we just yelled out “Hedgehog, Hedgehog, Over a thousand served.” Still somewhat juvenile, but Ron Jeremy is an ADULT film star.
10 cousin kathy // Mar 23, 2007 at 11:52 am
Herding Cats