Why is the professional football team in Maryland named after a bird?
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Two reasons: 1) Edgar Allan Poe lived in Maryland and wrote the poem "The Raven", and 2) the same reason teams in Arizona, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Seattle are named for birds
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In early newspaper accounts of Alabama football, the team was simply listed as the "varsity" or the "Crimson White" after the school colors.\n\nThe first nickname to become popular and used by headline writers was the "Thin Red Line." The nickname was used until 1906. \n\nThe name "Crimson Tide" is supposed to have first been used by Hugh Roberts, former sports editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald. He used "Crimson Tide" in describing an Alabama-Auburn game played in Birmingham in 1907, the last football contest between the two schools until 1948 when the series was resumed. The game was played in a sea of mud and Auburn was a heavy favorite to win. \n\nBut, evidently, the "Thin Red Line" played a great game in the red mud and held Auburn to a 6-6 tie, thus gaining the name "Crimson Tide." Zipp Newman, former sports editor of the Birmingham News, probably popularized the name more than any other writer.
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While The Tree is the visible mascot, the official mascot is the color Cardinal.  Prior to the early 1970s it was the Indians.  After this name became politically incorrect, Cardinals was the temporary fill in.  Student ballots favored Robber Barons, but the administration did not follow the recommendation.  The Band liked Trees and the athletes liked Gryphons, but the administration punted and settled for the color Cardinal.\n\nP.S.  I liked Gryphons.
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http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/Why_do_they_call_football_'football'
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I don't know if there's a city called Maryland, but there was a small country called the Republic of Maryland in Africa for a few years in the middle of the 19th century. It was founded by freed American slaves and quickly came under attack from local tribes. Liberia defended it from the tribesmen and then incorporated Maryland in 1857.
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no I don't recall but the Ravens were the Baltimore Colts
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It is a shortening of Philadelphia.  It would be like the San Francisco team to be called the Friscos or the Cincinnati team being called the Cincies.
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Tukki in Hebrew (תוכי) means parrot.\n\nThis bird is known by the Brits (and later on by the Americans) as "turkey" for they wrongly recognized it as "Guinea Fowl", a chicken that was led from Madagascar to Britain through Turkey.\nIn Hebrew we call it "Hodu" (Indian), in Arabic "Chabashi" (Ethiopian), in Malaysia it is known as the "Dutch" and in India they call it "Peruvian".\n\nHebrew, anyway, is not the source.
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hey back. the REDSKINS!!! why? cause they're awesome!!! ok, in my head, but seriously. and they're famous because they're the country's capital's team. I hope you are or are soon to be a Redskins fan. its really the best team. (=
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Yup!!  Grew up here in Northern Virginia, and even though there's a team in DC, I'm still sticking with the birds.  They had a pretty nice day yesterday again Philly!  They might actually get a sweep!!!
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Hi Sebas, here's your answer with a few extras.\n\nWhere did Maryland Get Its Name??? \n\nThe charter that Lord Baltimore received from King Charles I of England specified a name for the new colony. It was to be called Maryland to honor King Charles’ wife Queen Henrietta Maria (Queen Mary). \n\nhttp://www.mdkidspage.org/History.htm\n\nColonial Maryland\n\nhttp://www.timepage.org/spl/13timeline.html\n\nhttp://colonialancestors.com/md/maryland.htm\n\nThe American Colonies\n\nThe history of the original 13 colonies is a tangled tale indeed. There are many ways to view the events and, in hind sight, it is easy to think you understand. But no one knew where they were headed at the time and it could have ended up very different.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm#colonial\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html\n\nhttp://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/index.html\n\nhttp://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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The team was to be named the Cleveland Panthers, but a semi-pro team was using that name and threatened to sue if the AAFC club used it as well. McBride then named the team after its first head coach, Paul Brown. Brown was uncomfortable with the idea of having the team named after him, stating publicly that the team was named after boxing champion Joe Louis who was known as the "Brown Bomber.
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If you truly are talking about the mascot, then since there is only one it would be called in the singular, i.e. Cardinal\n\nI suspect you are mixing up the Louisville Cardinals with the Stanford Cardinal.  The latter is not plural because it refers to the color, not the bird
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Yes they are called birds.
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Baltimore Ravens.  Ray Lewis is the man.
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I think the L.A. Stars had a nice ring to it, while being somewhat apporopriate for the locale.\n\nHowever, in keeping with the more traditional theme of animals, some that are native to L.A. that would make good team names in my opinion are:\n\nCoyotes\nBobcats\nMountain Lions\nGray Foxes\nRed-Tailed Hawks(shortened to just the L.A. Hawks, perhaps?)\nSea Lions\n\nThere are plenty more on the California Wildlife Center site at the following link, but not many of them would make good team names (The L.A. Striped Skunks, anyone?)  Link:http://www.californiawildlifecenter.org/\n\nIt's worth noting that a couple of these are already used in other pro sports and college teams as well, so they should be plenty suitable for a pro football team.\n\nLastly, if irony is on the new commish's agenda, he can name them the L.A. Temps, since they'll surely move out in a few years anyway...\n\nHope this helps-\n--J.
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According to the USGA museum:\n\nIn American slang of the 19th Century, the term "bird" was applied to anything particularly great. "Bird" was the "cool" of the 1800s in the U.S.\n\nSo on the golf course, a great shot - one that led to an under-par score - came to be known as a "bird," which was then transformed into "birdie." The term birdie was in worldwide use by the 1910s, and it's believed it debuted in the U.S. in 1899.\n\nAn "eagle" simply followed "birdie," being added to the lexicon in keeping with the avian image of birdie. And "albatross" later came along for the same reason.