FOLLOWING YESTERDAY’S NEWS that the Lingerie Football League will be setting up in Ireland we couldn’t help but put our thinking caps on in TheScore.ie HQ.
Imagine if Ireland got an NFL team? Where would they be based and what would they be called?
Here are some of our suggestions:
The Irish Rain
What better way to describe an Irish team than by the weather they’re likely to play in most of the time?
The Cowboy Builders
We’ve had plenty of these represent us over they years, why not honour them?
The Galway Armada
The West would have a viable claim for a team given their, em, proximity to the States.
The Tullamore Thundercats
Offaly can lay claim to the ancestral home of the current US president, putting them in the frame.
The Dingle Dolphins
As one Ireland’s most famous tourist destinations for American visitors, Fungie would want in on the action.
The Dublin Bus
But, of course, the most likely location for an Irish NFL franchise is the capital city.
Well that’s what we think but what about you?
What would you call an Irish NFL Franchise. Let us know in the comments below.
The Celtic tigers
Limerick Layabouts
The Tullow Tanks – made up entirely of Sean O’Briens offspring
The Flying Columns
The Galway Hookers anyone?
The Leeside Langballs.
Corkonian langers.
The navan numptys
who cares gridiron isnt wanted here
Ignoring the irony of you reading a story about a sport you allegedly don’t care about, it’s worth pointing out that, to a growing number of people, it is very much wanted here.
Exhibit A: The 50k people who turned up in the Aviva last September to watch a college football game.
Exhibit B: The GAA and others extensive moves to get an NFL game played in Croke Park.
Exhibit C: The Irish American Football League has a record number of teams and players taking part this year.
But you don’t like it David, so obviously nobody else in the country does.
Completely agree
The Blarney Bailouts
Newry mighty ducks
The Dingle Dolphins surely.