Have you ever wondered why it’s weird that certain teams have weird names that are uncommon to their location? We’ve always watched our favorite sports teams on the television or at the event and cheer them on passionately but have no clue what the name of the team has in common with the city or state that they live in. Usually, sports franchises are moved because of poor fan support or a bad economic situation (debt problems or a recession). In addition, teams can move because another city or state offers a brand new arena or stadium to the current owner which makes it very tempting for them to pack up the franchise and move somewhere else. Moving a team can be controversial. Fans get upset when their favorite team moves to another city but sports franchises are treated like any other business (under antitrust laws) and are free to move as they wish even at the rejection of other league owners or sports league executives. Some franchises (Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Browns,Winnipeg Jets) have seen the team relocate to a new city only for another team to move back to the same city at a later date and keep the same franchise name. Let’s look at a few good and bad team names and figure out what’s the issue with them.
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Professional wrestling has been around for a very long time. It has gone from being a sport that was witnessed at carnival events and transformed into the sports entertainment spectacle that you see today. Former wrestlers were viewed as superheroes and people that could save the day in an action flick. Since then, wrestlers use their real name more often than not and we’ve lost some of that childhood innocence that wrestling used to have. Wrestling is more like a soap opera where the wrestlers play the role that they’re told to play and use real life drama to try and get the fans attention. This new reality has made it hard for the wrestling fan to accept certain characters based on preconceived notions of the individual or based on the fact that the wrestling fan has been conditioned to watch wrestling in a certain way that they no longer understand how to form a logical thought and cheer or boo for what they prefer to see inside the ring. This makes it hard for the creative team to come up with new ideas or to push new wrestlers because the fan simply isn’t buying into what’s being given to them anymore. Therefore, we offer up a few examples of story lines that have been overused or simply won’t work anymore in the modern world.

– There was once a time when a wrestler being fired meant something in this industry. In the territory days, a wrestler firing could have signaled a legitimate disagreement between the promoter and the wrestler and meant that the wrestler was being blackballed from a certain region. During the Monday Night Wars, a wrestling firing meant that an individual might be jumping ship to another promotion and this was their swan song by the booking team. A wrestling firing today usually means that the individual is being fired to take time off from an injury, personal reasons (rehab) or needs time off to go and shoot a movie. When wrestlers get fired and then show up on television after only 2 weeks then you lose all credibility with your fan base.There is no competition for a company such as WWE and the wrestling fan knows that if the wrestler gets fired then there is nowhere else to go. Where is the wrestler going to end up? The Indy Scene? Mexico? Japan? This story line has been done to death and simply isn’t believable anymore.
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There are many sports out there that are very physical and the chances of getting hurt or potentially killed in one of them increases every time that you participate in one of them. Some sports such as hockey are easy examples but there are some death traps out there that might not be so easy to spot upon first glance. Let’s take a look at some sports hazards that are lurking every corner whenever you decide to participate in them.

-There have been an estimated 376 injuries from 1948-2004 and 25 reported deaths since 1976 from alligators attacks. Statistics have proven that 10% of these injuries have occurred as a result of golfers trying to retrieve their golf balls in alligator-infested waters. Many golf courses in Florida and Louisiana are home to the American Alligator. Most golf courses are forced to hammer down signs that instruct golfers to be aware of Alligators that are present in the area but other than the signs there is not much that is keeping you from coming face-to-face with an alligator. As more and more golf courses are being built on alligator territory and less is being done to kill the reptiles due to animal conservation requirements; we urge people to never go into the water in these areas and to simply grab a new ball and continue playing with it and avoid the water at all costs.

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