USA "what"

[gyallop]

spat his dummy out

spinner has said it had nothing to do with David Niu seems they just want to start afresh.

Maybe the Tomahawks would rather their name end on a high of the RLWC and beating Samoa anyway if they were asked

 

[alien]

bombers,minutemen,militia,generals......no need for the war-mongering

:roll:

 

[IowaRL]

It's not nui, it's star group I believe. Amnrl Sold the name as an asset to them, and hard to find the exact owner now.

 

[alien]

its a shame they cant use the tomahawks name. i liked that name

 

[Choo Choo]

A national team called the minutemen? Wtf?

Minutemen were private colonists who independently organized to form well-prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics and military strategies from the American Colonial Militia during the Revolutionary War. They provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that allowed the colonies to respond immediately to war threats, hence the name.

Actually not a bad name really.

 

[Craigo]

go back to the future with USA Patriots.

 

[photomarv]

go back to the future with USA Patriots.

Yes, that's a good name. Gets my vote.

 

[DC_fan]

go back to the future with USA Patriots.

My only thought with that is that the Patriot name is so identifiable with the New England NFL team.

 

[hutch]

Minutemen were private colonists who independently organized to form well-prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics and military strategies from the American Colonial Militia during the Revolutionary War. They provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that allowed the colonies to respond immediately to war threats, hence the name.

Actually not a bad name really.

It's horrible. This is a national sporting team.

 

[The Partisan]

Was thinking on the weekend that probably the best known rugby brand is the 'All Blacks'; so no animals or other objects to be used a imagery.

Warming to Stars and Stripes ...in the lack of other better options !

Only other thing i can think of is Discovers or Explorers honouring the USA scienific and frontier heritage.

 

[Big Picture]

The USA also invented all the Cool and Unique name as well. Think of all the Cool names in pro-american sports teams. The range is very wide across many of them. And from a marketing POV, Stars and Stripes is limitless when you put it with the Flag, Anthem, pretty much anything american. I am surprised at the attachment to animals rather than patriotism I guess

You've been drinking the Usonian koolaid there Spinner. There are few more unique nicknames in sports than Canadiens, Argonauts or Eskimos, and all of those are Canadian. The first two go back more than 100 years too. I can't think of any Usonian pro team nicknames which can even hold a candle to them.

 

[Big Picture]

Team America.

Considering that America is a continent and not a country, that would be a thoughtless and arrogant name for them to use, one guaranteed to insult everyone in the other 34 countries in America.

 

[Big Picture]

Being an American, off the top of my head; some names could be: Colonials, Yankees, Revolutionaries or Revolution, Independence, Liberty, Bison, or Constitution.

Revolution is taken, it's the name of the Usonian national Aussie Rules team.

 

[Craigo]

Revolution is taken, it's the name of the Usonian national Aussie Rules team.

And how good are they going!!!

 

[miguel de cervantes]

Stars and Stripes will get it, and on second thoughts it is a very good name, something I never would have thought of. Better than Tomahawks I reckon.

 

[alien]

Considering that America is a continent and not a country, that would be a thoughtless and arrogant name for them to use, one guaranteed to insult everyone in the other 34 countries in America.

North America and South America are continents. Most people call the country America and the people that live there Americans. Would you call a Canadian or a Mexican an American???

 

[gyallop]

what most people call "americans" is irrelevant , the "americans" refer to their national sports teams officially as USA.

 

[Choo Choo]

It's horrible. This is a national sporting team.

Your opinion is noted. LOL!

 

[Big Picture]

North America and South America are continents. Most people call the country America and the people that live there Americans. Would you call a Canadian or a Mexican an American???

I am a Canadian, and I do call myself an American too. That is, a resident of the continent of America. Mexicans and others who live in the Latin part of America all consider themselves American, because in Spanish and Portuguese América is a continent and therefore americano isn't a nationality but a continental identity. Those languages have other words for the US national identity, estadounidense in Spanish and estadunidense in Portuguese. That's what people in Latin America learn in school.

This is because for a few hundred years after the voyages of Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci made America known to Europeans, everyone considered all of America to be one continent. It would be stupid for America to mean something different from Amerika, América, Amérique, etc. since those are just different linguistic forms of the same word, and those other forms all refer to the whole continent in the western hemisphere. When North Africa is obviously in Africa and south Asia is obviously in Asia, it would also be stupid to say that North America and South America are not both in America.

I reject the arrogation of the words America and American by the US as being totally wrong. In Canada's two official languages I've adopted the English and French equivalents of estadounidense and estadunidense for the people, places and institutions of the United States, which are Usonian and états-unien and I only use American and américain in their correct, continental sense.

 

[joshreading]

I also don't particularly like the name. I get the significance of the stars and stripes as a symbol in the USA but I am not sure how narrowing your branding to something dominated and claimed by everyone can be helpful. All US teams are surely playing for the 'stars and stripes' whatever sport.

From a marketing point of view I am not sure it is particularly distinct either as all USA teams have the clear right to use the 'stars and stripes'. The imagery is going to get lost in the blur of activity around it.