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Sports teams named after fonts?
Posted by Si_Daniels in
12 Mar 2012 — 1:54pm
12 Mar 2012 — 1:54pm
http://www.impactmontreal.com/en/
Unique, or are there others?
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12 Mar 2012 — 2:43pm
I can think of a bunch of cities named after typefaces, that in turn have sports teams (Alemannia Aachen, that sort of thing), but I suspect that's cheating.
So I'm digging through lists, and the one I've found so far is a team from Macau named after Stephenson Blake's Windsor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Arch_Ka_I
12 Mar 2012 — 2:53pm
Ah, here's another one: FC Swift.
12 Mar 2012 — 2:59pm
I can never remember: were the Cleveland Browns named after Shinntype's font? or was it Lineto's?
12 Mar 2012 — 3:28pm
Dynamo (Kiev/Houston).
Galaxy (no Polaris).
And in the collective noun category: Jazz.
12 Mar 2012 — 4:04pm
I mean, is it really fair to say those teams were named after fonts? Those words are associated with other things besides fonts. Now, if we could find one named Helvetica...
12 Mar 2012 — 4:59pm
There should be some Georgia out there.
13 Mar 2012 — 1:59am
One day I will buy the Dallas Mavericks and rebrand them as Andron Majuscles.
Sounds more manly and sportive anyway.
13 Mar 2012 — 8:21am
Think of all the punning opportunities for sports commentators.
That would be fontastic.
14 Mar 2012 — 5:25am
There is a scripty blackletter named Bayern out there, so I guess that covers B. Leverkusen and B. München. Anyone's up to naming a face Eintracht to give Frankfurt some coverage?
Add.l: Detroit (Pistons)
14 Mar 2012 — 10:01am
> I can think of a bunch of cities named after typefaces, that in turn have sports teams (Alemannia Aachen, that sort of thing), but I suspect that's cheating.
Uhm, I think it is the other way around. They typefaces are named after the cities.
14 Mar 2012 — 2:18pm
There are at least three different faces named Maverick, so the Dallas team has a choice.
14 Mar 2012 — 4:37pm
Helvetica is named for Switzerland. (Sacramento was almost named New Helvetia.)