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Steveo16220 is a GGTK said 04/28, 04:49 PM
I'll take the New Jersey Nets...

its a dumb reason but what the heck....

Steveo16220 is a GGTK said 04/28, 06:04 PM
Well you are 5% correct, they did make the name the nets, but not becasue the game of basketball was played with one..

It dates back to when the New Jersey nets actually played in New York...
and if you look at the current list of teams in New York you will see the New York Jets, The new York Mets and then moved in from New Jersey was the americans who were renamed to coinside with the rest of the cities teams....

The Nets , the Mets, and The Jets....no if thats not creative then come on! So as you can see it wasn't just named after a piece of the game....you cant really compare it to the goalines or goal posts of other sports BECASUE it wasn't named for the reason of it being a net, but more along the lines that it wanted to connect the cities athletic team names in some way or another...and it did just that.

The Bulls-sounds like some guy had a hard on for the animal and named his team after it

Just kidding....the bulls, is a somewhat creative name...in the end its just a name for an animal...means behind it sounds likea good story in all but at the end of the day it was one man naming his team unlike the Nets who was thinking of their entire state when chosinga name

Steveo16220 is a GGTK said 04/28, 11:25 PM
http://probasketball.about.com/od/newjerseynets/p/njnets.htm

http://www.slamdunkcentral.com/2008/03/04/the-stories-behind-the-names-
how-your-nba-team-got-its-handle-part-3/

theres two references...

It is a really unique thing, to have your state come together ....and try and be alike when it comes to sports...following/ or being peer pressured into that name was not how it went down...no one came to them and said you had to rhyme with the other teams...they wanted to be a friendly organization and do it themselves...
and
Besides who wants to be an outcast in their own city? why would you want fans to not like you or your team? No one wants that and im sure that you wouldn't want that for your team...With that being said im sure you can agree then it was a unique thing to name a team after.. a little more unique then someones man love for a bull...Just kidding again, theres good logic behind your, i just think the nets was a little more interesting...

let the voting begin!