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I am convinced.

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Sold.

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I'm sold on #4. Alliteration, for sure.

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And I guess Houston Texans is real imaginative and creative. "Oh, I've got an idea, let's name the team after the state!!!" /sarcasm

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Creepy. Uber creepy.

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But what does Kige think?

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Also, before the NY Jets became the Jets, they were the NY Titans, so it's not like Tennessee is the only team to ever have that name.

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Pedro-

The difference between the NY Titans and the Tennessee Titans is when they picked their name. The Titans did it in the 90s, knowing that people in other parts of the world think of TN as hillbilly folks. The NFL is big business now, they could chose any name they wanted to and chose that one.

So, I am not buying your argument. But thanks for reading and commenting.

-Steph

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What? No, Houstonians aren't still bitter about the Oilers leaving. Why do you ask?

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You've sold it to me.

Just been browsing through some of those College nicknames. Banana Slugs - University of California-Santa Cruz. Now unless that has some sort of hidden meaning, that has got to be up there with the worst. It's not really going to make you quake in your boots is it?

I like the paragraph that starts 'Tennessee is a lovely state...' ..really put things into perspective

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unfortunately, your post highlights your lack of knowledge about tennessee and nashville, in particular. nashville is known as the 'athens of the south' because of the concentration of universities (vanderbilt, tsu, belmont, fisk, meharry, david lipscomb, peabody, etc.) had you ever been to nashville, you may have noticed the replica of the parthenon just west of downtown. the name 'titans' is a tribute to this heritage. sadly, not a heritage of in-breeding and misinformation, but of education.

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Joe-

I am quite aware of the "Athens of the South" reputation, and really believe that Tennessee is a nice place to live. But there's tons of Greek mythology out there, and I am not sure it is a great idea choosing a Greek myth that is filled with inbreeding, child eating and defeated gods.

The video simplifies the mythology a bit, but the mythology is what it is. To say that the Titans were heroic is not true.

Thanks for reading and commenting.
-Steph

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its better than the texans...i bet that took hundreds of manhours to come up with.

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ufortunately steph, this article shows how backward and uneducated you are. what a freakin idiot.

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Chris-

I know you didn't particularly care for what I wrote, but what about it wasn't the truth? Please look up the Greek mythology of the Titans yourself.

I would also kindly suggest that if you are going to call someone "backward and uneducated" that perhaps you should consider mixing in a spell check. The Firefox browser does it automatically, and has a lot of other good features. Try it, you might like it.

Thanks all for reading and commenting,
Steph

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I remain unconvinced that the Titans have the "Worst Name in All of Sport." Its quite the leap to make a connection between the inbreeding of Titans in Greek Mythology and the hillbilly stereotypes of Tennesseans. Anyone who knows enough about Greek mythology to associate the Titans with inbreeding rather than their more obvious qualities of strength is probably intelligent enough to not think of Tennessee as a state full of extras from Deliverance. By the same line of reasoning you could have called out the new Browns for choosing to keep that name, when brown is also the color of poop! Oh man, what a buncha idiots!

I also like that teams with older names are given a pass because the Titans spent "Time, Consideration, and Money" choosing their name. If only it was the good old days, when a team name was chosen on whim just before kickoff of their first game.

And Joe is right, Nashville is known as the Athens of the South, which is where the inspiration for the name came from. You could have highlighted the fact that a Titan is a high ranking post in the KKK though. But that probably would have made the Barbie video alot more uncomfortable.

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Isn't being a Texan like being a Titan? You marry your sister, and you hate people not like you. The titans hated Zeus and his buddies, and the Texans hate anyone with skin just a shade off of their own, especially our brothers to the south. Names are equally as bad.

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sablesma-

Thank you for the time for your thoughtful comment. I can't say that I ever associated the name "Titans" with strength though. The connection to Nashville was always the Greek one, and anyone with a passing familiarity of that mythology would not have thought of the Titans as "heroic."

The Titans name is associated with the ugly Greek myth, and the origins of the Browns name is obvious and traditional. You can't have it both ways. You can't say yes, we are proud of the Greek history of the name because of the "Athens of the South" connection, but then say to everyone else not to pay any attention to the origins of that mythology.

As for the time, money and effort that comes up to naming teams in the modern time, I do think that comes into play. It's a multi-million dollar business. You would think someone from the advisory group might have told Mr. Adams "uh, hey, the Titans were some pretty awful gods."

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"You could have highlighted the fact that a Titan is a high ranking post in the KKK though. But that probably would have made the Barbie video alot more uncomfortable."

The video was about the Greek myth because that's what the team was named after. I wasn't aware of the Titan-KKK connection though. Are you trying to come up with ideas for a sequel? ;)

Thanks again for your comments,
Steph

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So the Titans is the worst name in sports? Stacked up against an open racial slur of the Redskins and the lack of imagination of the Texans I think the Titans stacks up pretty well against those two. And I didn't have to make a boring Barbie video to think of those.

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Never associated the Titans with strength? I think, for most, that strength is the single most defining characteristic of the Titans. They were the big bad ballers of Greek mythology which is why Zeus had to lock their asses up. I mean, Atlas is a Titan. The guy holds up the world! That means he's at least twice as strong as Leonard Davis. Maybe three times.

And they weren't all awful either. Prometheus was a Titan, he stole fire from the gods and brought it to man! Great move. Then for his trouble, he's chained to a rock for eternity, getting his liver eaten out by a big bird. He's not such a bad guy! In fact, I honor him every time I watch a Titans game by being as hard on my liver as possible. Of course, I don't have a giant bird, so I just use dark liquors and beer.

While I will admit that the Titans aren't going to win any "best name ever" contests, I will defend them until Zeus locks me up for all eternity too.

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