Do you prefer North American-style or European-style sports team names?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

We discussed high school and minor league team names at Christmas lunch today. The family universally agreed North American names are better and European ones are boring.

[Orwell]

American, especially the Redskins, Chiefs, Indians, Braves, and every other racist team name.

[BaldEagle1991]

North American style, cause it seems better to have a name that you can make a mascot out of or to rally yourself over “I’m a Cowboys fan”, “Go Cubbies”, etc.

Plus you can see European style names in the MLS.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

American, especially the Redskins, Chiefs, Indians, Braves, and every other racist team name.

You forgot the Yankees. 

[Orwell]

North American style, cause it seems better to have a name that you can make a mascot out of or to rally yourself over “I’m a Cowboys fan”, “Go Cubbies”, etc.

Plus you can see European style names in the MLS.

Most Euro teams have a mascot/nickname. Arsenal is the gunners for example

[dead0man]

American, especially the Redskins, Chiefs, Indians, Braves, and every other racist team name.

You forgot the Yankees. 

and the Vikings

[Lechasseur]

European

[Lechasseur]

North American style, cause it seems better to have a name that you can make a mascot out of or to rally yourself over “I’m a Cowboys fan”, “Go Cubbies”, etc.

Plus you can see European style names in the MLS.

Most Euro teams have a mascot/nickname. Arsenal is the gunners for example

Correct, and Arsenal's mascot is a green dinosaur named the Gunnersaurus

[Former President tack50]

European style names, they may be more boring but they go to the point.

Tbf I also feel European leagues are better set up than American ones but I also have a ton of bias there

[T'Chenka]

North American and it's not even close.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

American, especially the Redskins, Chiefs, Indians, Braves, and every other racist team name.

You forgot the Yankees. 

and the Vikings

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Are you North American or European?

[The Simpsons Cinematic Universe]

They both just exist, I don't have a preference in a vacuum.

What I dislike is how MLS teams try to emulate European style team names in a contrived and hyperforeign way. Like "Real Salt Lake". There's no royal family in Utah, bro, and it's not the English word "real." "FC" is questionable in itself, since the game they are playing is something we would obviously call soccer. In fact I count only 7/30 MLS team names that are not cringe in this manner, and of those, one, the Red Bulls, their name is cringe for other reasons. I like soccer - I genuinely do, and I think the European fan cultures around it are great - but the subpar American emulation of it is what it is pretty much precisely for the reason that Americans who like soccer are 9/10ths liberals from the coasts who hate America and wish they were from a "cultured" region like Europe.

It's unfortunate, because a genuinely American soccer culture could be cool.

[Former President tack50]

They both just exist, I don't have a preference in a vacuum.

What I dislike is how MLS teams try to emulate European style team names in a contrived and hyperforeign way. Like "Real Salt Lake". There's no royal family in Utah, bro, and it's not the English word "real." "FC" is questionable in itself, since the game they are playing is something we would obviously call soccer. In fact I count only 7/30 MLS team names that are not cringe in this manner, and of those, one, the Red Bulls, their name is cringe for other reasons. I like soccer - I genuinely do, and I think the European fan cultures around it are great - but the subpar American emulation of it is what it is pretty much precisely for the reason that Americans who like soccer are 9/10ths liberals from the coasts who hate America and wish they were from a "cultured" region like Europe.

It's unfortunate, because a genuinely American soccer culture could be cool.

I thought most American soccer fans were actually Latin American immigrants who kept their love for the sport with them?

There is certainly a big football culture in Latin America after all; Argentina and Brazil are 2 of the biggest national teams and the Boca vs River rivalry is fairly well known

[Lechasseur]

They both just exist, I don't have a preference in a vacuum.

What I dislike is how MLS teams try to emulate European style team names in a contrived and hyperforeign way. Like "Real Salt Lake". There's no royal family in Utah, bro, and it's not the English word "real." "FC" is questionable in itself, since the game they are playing is something we would obviously call soccer. In fact I count only 7/30 MLS team names that are not cringe in this manner, and of those, one, the Red Bulls, their name is cringe for other reasons. I like soccer - I genuinely do, and I think the European fan cultures around it are great - but the subpar American emulation of it is what it is pretty much precisely for the reason that Americans who like soccer are 9/10ths liberals from the coasts who hate America and wish they were from a "cultured" region like Europe.

It's unfortunate, because a genuinely American soccer culture could be cool.

I thought most American soccer fans were actually Latin American immigrants who kept their love for the sport with them?

There is certainly a big football culture in Latin America after all; Argentina and Brazil are 2 of the biggest national teams and the Boca vs River rivalry is fairly well known

Latin American immigrants love soccer, but I don't believe they care about the MLS. I believe they generally more follow clubs in their ancestral homelands or in Europe.

The MLS is very much a league followed by white liberals, and is certainly has the most liberal fan base of any major American sports league.

And yeah for Boca vs River, my best friend at work is from Argentina and he loves River Plate.