How did the Winnipeg Blue Bombers get their name?
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The name of the Blue Bombers team came from then a young (now legendary) Winnipeg sports writer Vince Leah. Playing a 1936 exhibition game against the University of North Dakota, Leah remarked in an article that, “These are the Blue Bombers of Western football”. \n\nThe phrase was in part referenced from then heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis who was known as the "Brown Bomber". \n\nFrom that day, the Winnipeg Football Club has been known as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Contrary to some TV and local radio commercials, no beer company had any part in naming the team.
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Parcells earned the nickname "The Big Tuna" when he responded to a statement from a player with the incredulous "Who do you think I am? Charlie the Tuna?" Link below).\n\nor\n\nFrom "The Tuna" himself........(interview).\n\n[Coach Parcells discusses how he got the nickname ''Tuna'' at a 1997 press conference.] \nBill Parcells:   I think it goes back to my first time with the Patriots. There was an old commercial from StarKist with Charlie the StarKist tuna. So my players were trying to con me on something one time, and I said, 'You must think I'm Charlie the Tuna,' you know, a sucker, and that's kind of how it started. We started with it that year and [Charlie and the other fish] used to wear those little tuna helmets, you know, tuna pictures on their helmets. That's where it all started.
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The Blaze\nThe Stars\nThe Blast\nThe Champions\n\nI think u should maybe get the whole team togther and vote on a name
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Here's the answer you're looking for.\n\nhttp://www.all-sports-posters.com/historyoficehockey.html
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On November 16, 1959, Boston executive William "Billy" Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise of the developing AFL.  They were first called The Boston Patriots. Hope this helps you.
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Parcells earned the nickname "The Big Tuna" when he responded to a statement from a player with the incredulous "Who do you think I am? Charlie the Tuna?"\n\nhttp://www2.jsonline.com/packer/arc/13097/opp/patn121.html
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Their jersey's are blue because their team name is Azzurri meaning "The blues" in Italian, hence the blue jerseys.FORZA ITALIA!!
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Winnipeg Jets\nIn 1996, the franchise was moved to Arizona due to financial troubles and became the Phoenix Coyotes.
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There are so many urban legends about why the team is referred to as the Habs that is hard to believe which one is true. Habs, in and of itself, is a shortened version of Les Habitants, a French word.\n\nIt seems that during the 1920s, Madison Square Garden owner Tex Rickard was falsely told by someone that the "H" on Montreal's uniform stood for "habitant", a French word that in those days was used to denote the farmers of Quebec. Rickard was told that the French players on the team came from the farms and they were therefore "habitants" or "habs". \n\nAt the time, the Canadiens were recognized as the French team of Montreal as opposed to the Montreal Maroons, the English team. In reality, the "H" in the Montreal crest, which is inside a "C," stands for Club de Hockey Canadien. Hope that helps.
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It means that they chose that name as their ID.
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Most historians say that Nov. 22, 1917 was the birth date of the NHL, although it wasn't until four days later on Nov. 26, 1917 that the original 5 clubs officially joined the league, namely the  Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs  and the Toronto Arenas, which was the only team with artificial ice. The Quebec franchise did not operate in the 1918 season. In 1918 the Montreal Arena was destroyed by fire and as a result the Montreal Wanderers withdrew from the league, reducing its membership to three teams. Also in 1918 the Quebec franchise was sold to P. Quinn of Toronto, but the franchise had to play in Quebec. It did not participate in the 1918-19 season. For the 1919-20 season the Quebec Bulldogs  franchise was reactivated. Toronto Arenas changed their name to  Toronto St. Patricks. In 1920-21 the first of many NHL franchises was transferred, from Quebec to Hamilton Ontario. During the 1923-4 season a franchise was granted to the first American team, the Boston Bruins, and also a second Montreal team called the Maroons. As can be seen the first six team NHL occurred in 1924-5 but varied greatly from the six teams promoted today as the  original six.
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The original name of the Pittsburgh's National League franchise was the Pittsburgh Alleghenies. Some contend this is from the county in which Pittsburgh is the seat of government. Others say that it was named after the mountain range in the region. Others maintain that Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which became Pittsburgh's northside after a 1907 annexation, was the tale behind the moniker. In the 1890's, the club was referred to as the Pittsburgh Innocents before the Pirates name stuck by the end of that decade.\n\nWhen the renegade Players League dissolved after the 1890 season, most of the league's player contracts were assigned to National League and American Association clubs, mostly to their previous clubs provided they had been "reserved" by their former teams' owners. Highly-regarded second baseman Lou Bierbauer, who had previously played with the Philadelphia Athletics of the Association, was awarded to the Pittsburgh team on the grounds that the A's had not reserved him. This led to loud complaints by the Athletics that the Pittsburgh club were "pirates". This incident (which is discussed at some length in The Beer and Whisky League, by David Nemec, 1994) quickly accelerated into a schism between the leagues that contributed to the demise of the A.A. The colorful epithet stuck with the Pittsburghers, and eventually became the club's official nickname. It was first acknowledged on the team's jerseys in 1912, but even by the 1903 World Series, "Pirates" was in common usage.
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It's "minkey" after the whaler who first named it.\nhttp://www.geocities.com/~kcdreher/minke.html
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Hi, \n\nMost French Air Force Squadron originate from WWI. The naming process at the time was quite simple, it was made of a group of letters and a number. The group of letters was determined by the type of aircraft the squad was using, in this case a SPAD http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/spadxiii.htm\n\nsee this link (in French) which explains everything\nhttp://gaubs.free.fr/ESCADRILLES/CadreEsc.htm
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Lake Huron was indeed given that name by the French because the Huron people lived on its shores (Georgian Bay, technically).  However, the Huron people were given THAT name by the French as well.  They actually called themselves "Wendat," which means, basically, "people of the peninsula."\n\nWhere did the French get the term "Huron" then?  The best theory about this is that when the French first encountered the Wendat people, they called them by a French idiomatic term: "les hures," which literally means "wild boars," and metaphorically means "barbarians," or even "hicks."  This was an insult, and this is why the Wendat people prefer their own name for themselves.   \n\nSo, technically, Lake Huron is named for "wild boars!"
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The Team's Name\nThe original name of the Pittsburgh's National League franchise was the Pittsburgh Alleghenies. Some contend this is from the county in which Pittsburgh is the seat of government. Others say that it was named after the mountain range in the region. Others maintain that Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which became Pittsburgh's northside after a 1907 annexation, was the tale behind the moniker. It is also one of the three major rivers in the city. In the 1890's, the club was referred to as the Pittsburgh Innocents before the Pirates name stuck by the end of that decade.\n\nWhen the renegade Players League dissolved after the 1890 season, most of the league's player contracts were assigned to National League and American Association clubs, mostly to their previous clubs provided they had been "reserved" by their former teams' owners. Highly-regarded second baseman Lou Bierbauer, who had previously played with the Philadelphia Athletics of the Association, was awarded to the Pittsburgh team on the grounds that the A's had not reserved him. This led to loud complaints by the Athletics that the Pittsburgh club were "pirates". This incident (which is discussed at some length in The Beer and Whisky League, by David Nemec, 1994) quickly accelerated into a schism between the leagues that contributed to the demise of the A.A. The colorful epithet stuck with the Pittsburghers, and eventually became the club's official nickname. It was first acknowledged on the team's jerseys in 1912, but even by the 1903 World Series, "Pirates" was common usage \nThe Pirates are called the "Bucks" because a Pirate was also known as a Buccaneer.
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Used as a nickname for a native or resident of Indiana.\n\nWord History: We know where Hoosiers come from: Indiana. But where does the name Hoosier come from? That is less easy to answer. The origins of Hoosier are rather obscure, but the most likely possibility is that the term is an alteration of hoozer, an English dialect word recorded in Cumberland, a former county of northwest England, in the late 19th century and used to refer to anything unusually large. The transition between hoozer and Hoosier is not clear. The first recorded instance of Hoosier meaning “Indiana resident” is dated 1826; however, it seems possible that senses of the word recorded later in the Dictionary of Americanisms, including “a big, burly, uncouth specimen or individual; a frontiersman, countryman, rustic,” reflect the kind of use this word had before it settled down in Indiana. As a nickname, Hoosier was but one of a variety of disparaging terms for the inhabitants of particular states arising in the early 19th century. Texans were called Beetheads, for example; Alabamans were Lizards; Nebraskans were Bug-eaters; South Carolinians were Weasels, and Pennsylvanians were Leatherheads. People in Missouri might have had it worst of allthey were called Pukes. Originally, these names were probably taken up by people living in neighboring states, but belittled residents adopted them in a spirit of defiant pride, much as American colonists turned the derisive term Yankee into a moniker for their spirit of rebellion. Today, most of these frontier nicknames have disappeared from the landscape. A few like Okie still exist with much of their original animus. Others survive as nicknames for the sports teams of state universitiesthe North Carolina Tarheels, the Ohio Buckeyes, and so onfighting words only on the playing field or court.