Just curious (and wanting to get some conversation going)... How did you pick your city, and mascot?
I'll start...
I inherited the Davenport Tigers a couple seasons ago, and I only bothered to change last season. I still don't have the vaguest idea of where the hell Davenport may be.
Being from Belgium, I wanted to find something in the region. After throwing a few ideas in the team forum and PMs, from the Brussels Sprouts, to the Brewers, to the Bruges Holy Bloods (which came really close!), I decided to go with my native town of Verviers, which is well known for... well, nothing really. Wool, at some point in history. So I figured that if I wanted a name a bit less shameful than "Wool Peddlers", I might have to go back a little further in time. Hence Gauls. After a quick search, assuring me we'd be the only "Gauls" around (I know that there are two "Gaulois" teams, but no other "Gauls"), I settled for the name. Colors and logo came later (green and white are Verviers' official city colors).
Random Trivia: The helmet logo was "borrowed" and modified from an Alaska Airlines logo: http://www.alaskahorizonlogos.com/Gfx/75/wing_logo/color/jpeg/AA75thWing_rgb.jpg .
I'll start...
I inherited the Davenport Tigers a couple seasons ago, and I only bothered to change last season. I still don't have the vaguest idea of where the hell Davenport may be.
Being from Belgium, I wanted to find something in the region. After throwing a few ideas in the team forum and PMs, from the Brussels Sprouts, to the Brewers, to the Bruges Holy Bloods (which came really close!), I decided to go with my native town of Verviers, which is well known for... well, nothing really. Wool, at some point in history. So I figured that if I wanted a name a bit less shameful than "Wool Peddlers", I might have to go back a little further in time. Hence Gauls. After a quick search, assuring me we'd be the only "Gauls" around (I know that there are two "Gaulois" teams, but no other "Gauls"), I settled for the name. Colors and logo came later (green and white are Verviers' official city colors).
Random Trivia: The helmet logo was "borrowed" and modified from an Alaska Airlines logo: http://www.alaskahorizonlogos.com/Gfx/75/wing_logo/color/jpeg/AA75thWing_rgb.jpg .