From The Ground Up: South Names

The five markets with the most votes to be included in the South Division of our fantasy hockey league are final. Over 4,000 individual votes were cast in the poll.

Here, I'm outlining those markets (alphabetically) along with the acceptable locators (listed below) for your team name nominations — which I'll begin accepting today by comment only.

• DALLAS, Texas
  Texas | Dallas | Fort Worth | Irving


• DENVER, Colorado
  Colorado | Denver | Boulder


• HOUSTON, Texas
  Texas | Houston | Beaumont | Galveston


• NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana
  Louisiana | New Orleans | Baton Rouge | Shreveport


• SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
  Utah | Salt Lake City | Salt Lake

DO NOT SUBMIT NAME NOMINATIONS VIA EMAIL. THEY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Submit your team name nominations by leaving a comment below. Email submissions will be discarded. I will accept nominations for one week at which point new comments on this post will be closed. Up to 20 name submissions that fit within the following parameters will be included in the name selection process which will begin next weekend.

If you want your submission included, DO NOT:
• use any name that has already been selected for this project.
• use the name of any current or past NHL or WHA team.
• use the name of any current AHL or ECHL team.
• use the name or close variation of any current or past professional sports team within the same market or geographical area.
• use the name of any team from Project: IHA.
• use any name that would be considered vulgar, obscene or in any way inappropriate. (Sorry, this is my call.)

If you decide to use a locator not already on the list above, be prepared to have it discarded. I'm not setting that in stone as a restriction, but I'm also not guaranteeing I'll include anything not on the list. Sorry for all the restrictions but sometimes you have to "guide" originality.

It was suggested that when submitting names you also submit a short reasoning for that name. I won't require that but I will recommend it since it might help your submission get votes later on if folks know where you got your idea.

Don't forget to make your submissions for the Southeast Division. You have until September 27.

Start submitting!

Comments

[EPOCH]

Dallas Freeze
Dallas Burn
Dallas South Stars
Dallas Lone Stars
Dallas Blades

Houston Blast off
Houston Blast
Houston Orbits
Houston Apollo's
Houston Launch

New Orleans Blues
New Orleans Rhythm
New Orleans Dice
New Orleans Flush
New Orleans Jacks
New Orleans Gamblers

Salt Lake City Golden Eagles
Salt Lake City Friars
Salt Lake City Fog
Salt Lake City Wake

Denver Frostbite
Denver Windchill
Denver Frost

[Daniel]

Dallas Dragons
Denver Flyers
Houston Hammers
New Orleans Gators
Salt Lake Lancers

[admin]

@ Epoch

Dallas Burn was our soccer team, before they beacame known as FC Dallas.

[admin]

If no-one minds, I'm going to list out the names that CANNOT be used for the Dallas francise

Dallas Cowboys (NFL)
Dallas Mavericks (NBA)
Dallas Stars (NHL, but you guys new that right?)
Dallas Desperados (AFL)
Dallas Burn (MLS)
Texas Tycoons (ABA)
Texas Rangers (MLB)

...Sorry if I sound a bit...asshole-ish. But that should help prevent us wasting time on names that can't be used.

[admin]

Dallas Revolution
Texas Defenders (supposed to invoke Alamo but...)

Houston/Dallas Strikers
Houston Invaders (space invaders)

Baton Rouge Bandits
New Orleans Gamblers
New Orleans Luck

Madri Gras Themes!
New Orleans Party
New Orleans Jesters
New Orleans Jokers
New Orleans Magic
New Orleans Rhythm
New Orleans Blues

If I repeated myself. I'm sorry.

[Big Papa]

Houston Apollos

Dallas Metroplex

New Orleans Crawdads

Utah Wagoneers

Denver Dynamos
Colorado Ospreys

[Troz32]

Dallas Bandits
Dallas Highwaymen
Salt Lake City Wanderers
Salt Lake City Cougars
New Orleans Voodoo
New Orleans Zombies
Denver Milers
Colorado Apex
Colorado Zenith
Houston Starships
Houston Supernovas

[a snowballs chance....]

Dallas Wrath.
The Beasts of Boulder.
Houston Explosion.
Louisiana Swamp Things.
Salt Lake Pelicans.

[Leafers LP]

Dallas Renegades (Western, but not too western)


Denver Peaks

Denver Pinnacle (The Rocky Mountains)

Colorado Turbines (Colorado is the site of three Air Force bases and the United States Air Force Academy)


Houston Geminis (This definitely has to work. Read the history of the MCC and you'll realize why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Control_Center)

Houston Orions (The name of the upcoming mission in 2010. Also, it's a constellation (how fitting) and a Greek mythology character. Orion was a hunter, and slain by Artemis, then put in the sky as a constellation. a perfect logo would include a constellation of a hunter)


New Orleans Founders (Inhabited by the Chitimacha)

New Orleans Bayous (Small streams in an abandoned channel. New Orleans and Louisiana has numerous bayous)


Salt Lake City Ghouls

Salt Lake City Phantoms (Salt Lake Temple, Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, ghosts, ghouls, phantoms, etc. Might be a dumb idea)

[Ian]

I must say I really like "New Orleans Jesters" and "New Orleans Voodoo"...here's a few more, sorry if I repeated any.

New Orleans Magic
New Orleans Magik
Baton Rouge Bayou Bandits (I'm not sure if "Bandits" works best here, if someone has a better suggestion, feel free to jump from it. I like the idea of "Bayou" in the name though, but I don't think just "Bayou" works as a name by itself)
Baton Rouge Blues

Utah Rattlers/Rattlesnakes (inspiration from Bruce Springsteen's "Promised Land"--"on a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert")

[admin]

Again, sorry. New Orleans Voodoo can't be used as that is the New Orleans Arena Football Team.

[Richard]

im also fond of the shreveport brine shrimp

[eRay]

*DALLAS, Texas
Texas | Dallas | Fort Worth | Irving

Fort Worth Herd

*DENVER, Colorado
Colorado | Denver | Boulder

Colorado Coalition

*HOUSTON, Texas
Texas | Houston | Beaumont | Galveston

Houston Sams-Named after Sam Houston

*NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana
Louisiana | New Orleans | Baton Rouge | Shreveport

Louisiana Cajun Kings

*SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
Utah | Salt Lake City | Salt Lake

Salt Lake Keepers-Named after Beekeepers

[gringobandito2]

Denver Altitude
Colorado/Denver Continentals (the Continental Divide)

New Orleans Bourbons

Salt Lake Olympians

[Pace]

DALLAS Ribs (if a team can be named the Chops.....)
DALLAS Smokers

COLORADO Hikers
COLORADO Icemen

HOUSTON Toros
HOUSTON Buffalos

NEW ORLEANS Jazzmen

UTAH Diamond Peaks
UTAH Powdercats (it's my favorite, it referes to the tons of powder snowyou can find in Utah and also the snow cats which groom trails.....but italso can feature some kind of wild cat in the logo!)

[motleybrent]

Dallas Freeze was a hockey team in the CHL

When the Stars came the team folded, not because the NHL came to town but because the owner realized that all team names that dont end with an "s" are insipid.

Regulators is the best I've heard.

[pdjetfan]

Dallas Outlaws (Wild, Wild West)

Denver Blizzard (Cold Rockies in Colorado)

Houston Toros (Bull is toro in spanish)

New Orleans Jazz (Jazz and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, LA)

Utah Swarm (Swarm for the Beehive State of Utah)

[aflbrigade]

Baton Rouge Swashbucklers
New Orleans Jazz
Shreveport pirates or Buccaneers

Dallas Outlaws
Fort Worth Rumble

Houston Roughnecks
Galveston Generals
Texas Raiders

Denver Mustangs
Colorado Rainiers

Salt Lake Sting
Salt Lake Eagles

[Vlad]

Houston Horns
Houston Longhorns
Houston Taurus
Houston Bulls
Houston Bullriders
Houston Bullfighters

joke name:
Houston Ramblers
(I don't know what a 'rambler' is but it sounds like something a Texan might say.)

[Vlad]

Houston Skywalkers

Dallas Dusters

Utah Lakers

Texas Westys

New Orleans Ragin' Cajuns
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
Baton Rouge Ragin' Cajuns

Baton Rouge Men-O-War (the gulf is full of Man-o-war jellyfish that sting like hell.)

[Vlad]

Denver Swoosh (skiing)
Colorado Silver
Colorado Silver Bullets
Denver / Colorado Tops
Boulder Hammers
Colorado Mountain Lions
Colorado Cougars
Denver Skyline

Texas Cavalry
Dallas Riders

[Vlad]

Houston Mustangs

[Ian]

"Ragin Cajuns" is the name of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette's athletic teams: http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/teams/page/LALAFAY

Also, the Utah Jazz (NBA Team) was originially the New Orleans Jazz before moving to Utah in 1979.

If no one suggested these yet...
Utah Yellow Jackets
Utah Wasps
Utah Hornets
Utah Killer Bees

[Matt in NYS]

I humbly submit

Dallas Eclipse
Colorado Flight (alluding to the Air Force Academy)
Houston Sidewinders
Louisiana Solar Flares
Utah Juggernauts

for your consideration.

[Bryan]

Dallas Rattlers- welcome to desert country
Denver Incline- mountainous
Houston Heat- its hot
New Orleans Soul- this city has true soul
Utah WhiteOut- duh
Utah Victory- 02 Olympics