The Baltimore Ravens' team name/mascot is a literary reference.
Challenge: Change other NFL team names to literary references.
Challenge: Change other NFL team names to literary references.
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Minnesota Babbitts would also work.
(They'd have to have a strong running game...)
New Orleans Streetcars
Carolina Santinis
New York Dons or New York Godfathers
The Dallas Stellas
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New England Sawyers
-or-
New England Rabbits (or Angstroms)
Genesis 22:18
(Them and Middlesex)
What? Whaling in Massachusetts inspired Melville.
😔
Could also go with Philadelphia Corrections if we to continue a Franzen theme.
(Joseph Mitchell, considered by many one of the great nonfiction writers, was from North Carolina and penned stories about McSorley's Old Ale House in Manhattan's East Village—which, like the NFL, was men-only, until 1970)
The Minnesota Regulars [ref: "Here Comes a Regular," words by Paul Westerberg, from 'Tim' (1985)].
Flows right off the tongue, I like it 😂
LA Confidentials