We Need More Fire Breathing Youth Teams

Last fall, the Park Cities YMCA volleyball league included a third-grade team known as the Fire Breathing Gummy Bears. Now, the Park Cities Y’s flag football league includes a fourth-grade team called the Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies.

I love this. It’s the combination of the intimidating “Fire Breathing” with the cutesy second halves of the names that makes ’em work. Anybody got suggestions for more?

By Dan Koller Mar. 6, 2013 | 6:02 am | 5 Comments | Comments RSS
5 comments to "We Need More Fire Breathing Youth Teams "
  1. anon @ March 6, 2013 at 9:24 am
    A couple of years ago, with a 4th grade boys flag football team, we did a bracket-style naming competition. The boys voted and we kept eliminating until we came down to the Angry Old Ladies and the Crushers. We were in a stalemate, so we combined the naming to become the Angry Crushers.

    If I recall correctly, other names in the competition included the Flying Pigs, Angry Birds, the Old Ladies, Epic Sauce, Flying Burritos, and Nacho Cheese.

  2. Head Duckie @ March 6, 2013 at 9:55 am
    Fear the Duck!!!!

  3. Dan Koller @ March 6, 2013 at 12:30 pm
    My son and I are participating in the Coppell Baseball Association for the first time. This league supplies the teams’ T-shirts before play begins, so the commissioner sent me and the other coaches a list of names to choose from. It included all of the MLB clubs, plus several minor-league teams. Unless some other coach claimed it first, we’ll be known as the Lugnuts.

  4. Topham @ March 6, 2013 at 4:21 pm
    Many years ago, my daughter’s Chamber of Commerce soccer team was “Fire and Ice,” which, as far as I know, is the only youth soccer team named after a Robert Frost poem.

  5. Z @ March 6, 2013 at 8:49 pm
    Sorry, Topham. I once tended goal for the UP Elementary Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evenings.

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