28 sports obsessed british man here. Is there any sports teams in the Us with a british theme or team name because you’ve got lots of Irish teams(Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Celtics etc) and even here in the UK you have USA kinda themed sports teams like Boston United and Plymouth Argyle whose badges feature references to USA colonialism and both nicknamed the Pilgrims and well as any American sport at a semi professional level having some kind of USA themed reference. Like is there any team called the Seattle Beefeaters or the Boston Red phone Box?
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None of the major pro teams have any connection to Britain, but I’d be surprised if there isn’t a team somewhere in the US that does.
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There’s the Boston Bruins. Apparently Bruin is an English folk term for Brown Bear.
I don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of every college team, but I’m sure a few reference early colonists.
And while the names may not reference England specifically, a lot of MLS teams are inspired by the naming of soccer clubs in the UK. There are a lot of “__ United” or ___ FC”.
The only major one would be the university of Virginia cavaliers.
Notre Dame and the Boston Celtics grew out of the same impulses as Glasgow Celtic. A source of pride for a marginalized minority.
Since there’s no similar history for English Americans, there’s also not really a team with that vibe.
Not that I know of dude. I am sure there is somewhere, there’s a lot of sports teams, but nothing I ever heard of.
Well there are the Patriots, they have British connections..
Maybe you could imagine names like Knights, Kings, and Mariners refer to the British. Although we don’t think of them that way. Our good people-themed names usually have a flavor relevant to the particular location and community from where the team is based: San Diego Padres, Minnesota Vikings, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys
My uni was Radford Highlanders. There’s only a couple with that name but not usually good at sports.