Board:   [DoveNet] Sports
Subject: Re: Changing team names.
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Wed Jul 15, 2020 08:39

@VIA: REALITY
-=> Andeddu wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

 > The Cleveland Browns went to Baltimore & became the Ravens.  I believe it
 > was the St. Louis Rams that went to LA.

 An> It's still deeply offensive to my sensibilities. I know that English
 An> football teams regularly changed their names back in the late 1800s to
 An> early 1900s. Manchester United, for instance, was founded as Newton
 An> Heath & West Ham United were known as Thames Ironworks F.C. I suppose I
 An> can see why The Hammers changed their name!

 As a long-time Oakland resident, I wish the Raiders would change
 their name. The "Las Vegas Raiders" doesn't do their history justice.

 I always like the story of the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers moving to LA
 and leaving the "trolley" part in NY.



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