Comments on: MLS Looking at Club Names

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:17:51 +0000

Spark makes a good point. I also think it should be pointed out that we are not Europe and do not need to follow the same type of naming as they did. There is history behind the naming in European clubs that we don’t have here. Real and F.C. don’t really make sense here. I feel like the league thinks it needs to try and appeal to the European clubs by naming teams similar to them and that’s not the case. Though some of the names the league have chosen have been bad, I’m not opposed to keeping traditional American style sports names with the team.

By: MLSRumors

MLSRumors — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:35:53 +0000

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By: spark

spark — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:55:03 +0000

The only thing I don’t like about using AC or SC or whatever is that, unless I’m mistaken, they are used because it was a sporting club where soccer/football was one of the sports they played under this “club” sometimes over 100 yrs ago.
If they are going to use those it should be relevant – unless there is in fact a Seattle Athletic Club, then it just sounds bad. Real Salt Lake is a good example.