49ers is a great area-specific name harkening back to the California gold rush of 1849. I love team names that have a direct relationship to the area in which the team is located.
Wolverines are definitely an animal worthy of football mascothood, but they don't live in the DMV.
How about "Copperheads"? They're local, and they're deadly.
Remember when Chris Berman would refer to the "New York Football Giants" as a way of paying homage to the time when there was a baseball team with the same name in New York (before they moved to San Francisco)?
Braves wouldn't be awful.
But let's not do "The Chop". There are already three sports teams using it.
And we could use this logo again: https://content.sportslogos.net/logos/7/168/full/1064.gif
Reposting this from another thread as it pertains to this discussion:
I'm not necessarily married to the Native American theme. I really like when a team mascot/logo/name is directly related to something unique to the city/region in which it is located. Some good examples of this type of...
I suggested "Redfins" half jokingly.
Here's that post:
There is a fish the range of which includes Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. It's full name is the Redfin Pickerel. It could be shortened to "Redfins".
We could still use "HTTR" if the team adopted this creature as its mascot.
I'm not necessarily married to the Native American theme. I really like when a team mascot/logo/name is directly related to something unique to the city/region in which it is located. Some good examples of this type of branding are:
-Lakers-When the team was located in Minnesota, this was a...
There is a fish the range of which includes Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. It's full name is the Redfin Pickerel. It could be shortened to "Redfins".
We could still use "HTTR" if the team adopted this creature as its mascot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfin_pickerel