Our local AIA chapter has been fielding random league sports teams for the past few years, and I'm always dissappointed in the team names but can never seem to come up with anything better.
The one that motivated this post is a group of young professionals in a local sports and social club kickball league that typically has some pretty vulgar (but hilarious) entries. I won't call out their poor choice (again... no better ideas here), but here's a sampling of their competitors:
Red Balls & Vodka
Shave that Bunt
One Ball Short of Two
We Got the Runs
I'd Hit That
Drunk Again and Looking to Score
and their competitor tonight... who decided to abandon any pretense of tying their name in with kickball...
My Couch Pulls Out, But I Don't
You might be surprised to learn this is a coed league, but that's the level they're competing with. What I'm looking for are ideas that are (A) recognizable as a group of architects yet (B) not horrendously lame (i.e. it should be funny to at least 5% of non-architects). This may be an impossible goal... Fair warning... if you suggest it I may steal it.
I've been on two teams primarily compiled of designers.
The first name was for a co-ed flag football team in college. One of the boys kept bugging the girls to pick a team name. We were in a rush to get our homework done so we told him to pick the name. He muffled, 'You'll be sorry' and walked away. He named our team I (heart) BOOBS. He told the girls our name was the A-Team (as in Architect Team) so we were shocked when he whipped out our jerseys that said I (heart) BOOBS.
The second team was a female soccer team. We called ourselves the Cunning Runts.
That team name is a little more obscure but if you are familiar with the definition of spoonerism (one of my favorite words in the English language), you'll pick up why that team name is hilarious.
Not architectural but the funniest and simultaneously inappropriate team name I heard lately was "Step Dad's". When asked its because "we beat you, you hate us and after this we are going to sleep with your mother."
Not really following the rule about "recognizable by more than 5% of the public", but I went through a list of famous architects and came up with the following...
The Asplund Gunners
Lebbeus' Drivers (for a golf team)
When I first read this, I KNEW you were referring to Charleston, RealLifeLEED! I am from there. We had a softball team called Bottom of the Fifth...get it?
Architecture Team Names
Our local AIA chapter has been fielding random league sports teams for the past few years, and I'm always dissappointed in the team names but can never seem to come up with anything better.
The one that motivated this post is a group of young professionals in a local sports and social club kickball league that typically has some pretty vulgar (but hilarious) entries. I won't call out their poor choice (again... no better ideas here), but here's a sampling of their competitors:
Red Balls & Vodka
Shave that Bunt
One Ball Short of Two
We Got the Runs
I'd Hit That
Drunk Again and Looking to Score
and their competitor tonight... who decided to abandon any pretense of tying their name in with kickball...
My Couch Pulls Out, But I Don't
You might be surprised to learn this is a coed league, but that's the level they're competing with. What I'm looking for are ideas that are (A) recognizable as a group of architects yet (B) not horrendously lame (i.e. it should be funny to at least 5% of non-architects). This may be an impossible goal... Fair warning... if you suggest it I may steal it.
Call your team "Bye Week" and hopefully the other team wont show up thus forfeiting the game to you.
brick bats?
Our intermural team was called the fountainheads. f heads for short.
v...that can not be topped!
Kickball team in undergrad - "architects do it with models"
Not team names, but some very funny imaginary firm names here.
Mies Van Der Ho's
"the straight edges"
I heard that the RISD ice hockey team is called the Nads. Like in Go, Nads.
'drill it then tap it'
"Ballz Deep"
Fountainheads ("F heads") is my favorite!
I've been on two teams primarily compiled of designers.
The first name was for a co-ed flag football team in college. One of the boys kept bugging the girls to pick a team name. We were in a rush to get our homework done so we told him to pick the name. He muffled, 'You'll be sorry' and walked away. He named our team I (heart) BOOBS. He told the girls our name was the A-Team (as in Architect Team) so we were shocked when he whipped out our jerseys that said I (heart) BOOBS.
The second team was a female soccer team. We called ourselves the Cunning Runts.
That team name is a little more obscure but if you are familiar with the definition of spoonerism (one of my favorite words in the English language), you'll pick up why that team name is hilarious.
cntrl z's
Not architectural but the funniest and simultaneously inappropriate team name I heard lately was "Step Dad's". When asked its because "we beat you, you hate us and after this we are going to sleep with your mother."
I always go for "The Super Team that Always Wins" Because it sets precedent.
Windchime Genitals
"...they're as smooth as eggs"
n_... does it make my mind twisted or normal in that i immediately knew what you were doing with your second team name?
(but i guess that's cause i follow unc in bball and all those tshirts say 'duck fuke')
how bout... the loose constructions?
or the ball jacking erection experts?
or we'll kick ur balls ? (not architectural i know..)
6-inch cantilevers.
It doesn't make you twisted for immediately picking up on that. It makes me want to be your best friend though.
Truss me I'm an architect
"Off in public"
because everybody knows that you can't beat "insert team name here"
also not an architectural one, but one i've used multiple times.
"I'm not drunk, I'm a wizard!"
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that's a terrible name. not funny at all.
I just l'ed o.l.
"your name"
When the line becomes a curve after 5 drinks.
HEYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyoooooooooooooo!
Our intramural basketball team name was "The Groin Vaults"
"Form Follows Function ... Very Slowly And Only From Behind"
Not really following the rule about "recognizable by more than 5% of the public", but I went through a list of famous architects and came up with the following...
The Asplund Gunners
Lebbeus' Drivers (for a golf team)
my new favorite:
We.Are. Pei
When I first read this, I KNEW you were referring to Charleston, RealLifeLEED! I am from there. We had a softball team called Bottom of the Fifth...get it?
^new season bump^
Ok... same topic, but for tennis... The Faultlines (too civil-esque)?
Also came up with corny but possibly effective 'Arch-Attacks"
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