wjjordan@watdragon.UUCP (W. Jim Jordan) (03/04/86)
>Would people on the net enjoy suggesting suitable names for teams in the >other cities which have been proposed for expansion -- including Denver, >Miami, Tampa, Vancouver, Indianapolis, Buffalo? I would probably expect a Buffalo team to be called the Bills (if St. Louis can have football and baseball teams with the same name, so can Buffalo). Now that the NASL is gone, the Vancouver Whitecaps is a possibility. If Vancouver does get a franchise, their PCL club would probably be forced to move, and so that name may be free for the taking... if the Brewers let the club owners have it. -- DEFINITION: Honeywell DPS8/49: The world's most expensive print spooler. W. Jim Jordan CANADA POST (3 weeks): c/o Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo, Ont., N2L 3G6 USENET (overnight): ...!watmath!watdragon!wjjordan
klamen@aecom2.UUCP (Martin Klamen) (03/11/86)
> >Would people on the net enjoy suggesting suitable names for teams in the > >other cities which have been proposed for expansion -- including Denver, > >Miami, Tampa, Vancouver, Indianapolis, Buffalo? > > I would probably expect a Buffalo team to be called the Bills > (if St. Louis can have football and baseball teams with the same name, so can > Buffalo). > W. Jim Jordan I usually don't like to nit-pick, but I'd just like to straighten out a mistake that many non-St. Louisans seem to make: The fact that St. Louis has two "Cardinal" teams is nothing more than coincidence. The St. Louis baseball Cardinals have been in St. Louis from the time the the time that team first began playing (late 19th or very early 20th century). The football Cardinals, on the other hand, have only been in St. Louis since 1960; they moved there from Chicago, where they were known as the Chicago Cardinals.