One of the hardest things in beginning fantasy football can be coming up with a team name. There are way too many Joe Bob’s Team and so forth in fantasy football leagues. One problem with that is it usually brands you a novice owner to competitors.
Even veteran fantasy fotball team owners can tire of their old team name and want a fresh start but don’t know quite what to call their 2011 fantasy team.
Here are some more suggestions for 2011 fantasy football team names, some topical and current, some just (hopefully) clever:
Benson’s Bail Bonds or Benson’s Bengal Bail Bonds
This is a reference to Cedric Benson of the Cincinnati Bengals. Both Benson and his team have often appeared on a police blotter in recent years. In the old days, when a football player was described as a “triple threat”, it meant the player could run, catch the ball and either throw or return kicks. In Benson’s case it has another meaning as Cedric Benson has had DWI arrests while driving a car, a boat and possibly even a plane.
Barry’s Bail Bonds
The guy whose head grew 3 sizes after the age of 35 due to “flax seed oil” may be headed off to Club Fed at some point unless Bonds can figure out a way to raise Johnny Cochran from the dead. I can hear it now: “If the hat don’t fit, you don’t have $#!+”.
He Haith Me
This is a reference to Rod Smart, a running back who played in the spring football league a few years back as “He Hate Me” and later in the NFL under his given name and the first year basketball coach at the University of Missouri, Frank Haith. It seems Haith told Missouri officials in his job interview he had no dealings with convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro at Miami. Then pictures popped up all over the ‘net of the two men together at a Miami strip club and other locales…
Tiger Woods’ Driver
Tiger Woods needs a new driver in more ways than one. When he’s not driving his golf ball into the woods, he’s driving his SUV into the woods, or at least into a fire hydrant. Maybe Tiger is having to use the club ex-wife Elin Nordegren broke out the windshield of his Escalade with while “rescuing him”. I’ve heard of “rescue clubs”, but that is ridiculous….
Bush Lite
With Texas Governor Rick Perry trying to follow W’s cowboy-booted footprints into the White House, maybe the tea partiers will change their beverage of choice as Perry, their fair-haired boy (with the help of Just For Men) seems to be just a watered down version of George W. Bush.
Bachman Birther Overdrive
Bachman Turner Overdrive was a 70s band and Michelle Bachman is a slightly loony Presidential candidate who was among the “birthers” clamoring to see Barack Obama’s birth certificate. If you think that is one of Bachman’s more nutty positions, “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet”.
The Twitter Critters
Time and time again, we see athletes and celebs get themselves in trouble with asinine comments on their Twitter pages. Many college coaches have banned their players from tweeting in season and there is talk the NFL may follow suit to keep players from sticking their keyboards in their mouths.
The Washington Deadskins/Dreadskins
Take your pick of these two as the whole town seems to be a subject of fear and loathing throughout the U.S.A. with the completely dysfunctional situation oozing from the nation’s Capitol.
Now to the football team, the Redskins. Mike Shanahan and his son Kyle seem to take their PR tips from the likes of John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Ryan and the other clowns masquerading as public servants in the U.S. Congress.
The Shanahans dumped Donovan McNabb for the likes of Rex Grossman and John Beck? John Beck. Isn’t he the singer who sang “I’m a loser, baby?”