Name that WNBA team

The link listed to go and vote for the name doesn't seem to be working for me :( Is it just my computer being an idiot like usual?

that women's teams have mushy crap names like "The Sparks" or possibly "The Dream" .... I find the mascot/name representation in the WNBA to be apalling, frankly.

Why can't we have "The Amazons"? Or "The Praying Mantii" .... something that is at least female identified that doesn't sound like cosmetic products? There's absolutely no reason why we can't have reputable and fierce mascots in the NBA .... "The NY Liberty?" Really?

Lame.

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I'm right there with you, Pirategrrrl. I hate the names of most modern teams, especially those that refer to some sort of generic, cataclysmic event (Shock, Sizzle, Fever, Crash, Bang, Burn, Boom... you know). It ends up sounding like some cheesy indoor soccer league, or a comic book gone wrong.

I'm of the opinion that team names should adequately reflect the regions/cities they represent.

New York Liberty and Phoenix Mercury? Good. They both make perfect sense (even Seattle Storm makes a certain kind of sense, although it fails the first test).

Indiana Fever? No. Do chills, night sweats and vomit really represent Indiana's most important contribution to the world? Please... (unless they're referring to Indiana as "Land of Indians", in which case "fever" is cryptically sensible - white men brought disease upon the Indians, stole their land, and called it Indian-a - but is also a major faux pas).

 

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but Lauren Jackson does not know how to make a fist. She could woop my ass in basketball but I think I could break her thumbs in a fist fight. She could probably woop my ass in a fight even with the broken thumbs, though.

Regarding team names, when the WNBA started, it relied heavily on NBA money, and most of the women's teams had names that were related to those of the men's teams (ie: Detroit Pistons/Shock, Washington Wizards/Mystics, Miami Heat/Sol, Sacramento Kings/Monarchs, etc). That has changed as the years have passed, and now there are WNBA teams in cities that don't have NBA teams.

I do like when a team name reflects its city (the now-defunct Cleveland Rockers was probably the best), and it would've been nice if that effort had been made in Atlanta. It looks like the powers that be in Atlanta took about two minutes coming up with those four finalists. It's great there's going to be a team there, but it would be even better if said team had some distinct identity.

the names suck, the uniforms suck, the halftime shows suck, the lack of lesbian representation sucks, did i mention the names suck!

that being said i still enjoy a good game...and i'm just wondering if they're really serious about the hot pink.