Brisbane Bombers

[Mr Eagle]

The AFL owns the word 'Bombers' as a trademark in several classes of goods/services, but only in relation to matters connected with Australian Football.

http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/...sp=D&p_detail=DETAILED&p_rec_no=4&p_rec_all=8

 

[chiwigi]

Why not the Brisbane Bears? Just rolls off the tongue.

They probably would have if North Sydney hadn't been booted and weren't seeking re-admittance as CC Bears.

Brisbane has had two teams in the past. Bring back the Crushers!

My favourite bid is the Brothers bid. Such a great idea to bring all the clubs together.

 

[LB#16]

If Qld based Essendon fans are bi-coders they are more likely to choose a team carrying the Bombers nickname.

I don't think this is the case at all. Following two teams, who play at the same of year in the same country, having the same nickname, would be very confusing for most people.

 

[chiwigi]

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Notts County and every other club that plays in black and white too.

Wests Magpies in NRL.

 

[boncer34]

Yeh, my point is- I get why they chose Bombers when they did but now we know really what happened, is it a appropriate name. Its fair to say that the hierarchy of Bomber Command would have faced war crimes if they had lost the war over events like Dresden. Is it appropriate that we trivialize these events by playing an air raid siren when a football team runs onto the ground? In my opinion its not.
Just my thoughts- off to work. Have a good day.

So why it's chosen doesn't matter? Just the inference that can be drawn from it?

 

[juss]

Bombers is really unique, I like it, would hope it stays unique to Essendon.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Brisbane Bulls would be better. Bulls are cool.

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Pretty sure the Sheffield Shield cricket team based in the same city may have an issue with that...

 

[Riccardo11]

There are most likely zero unique sporting nicknames. If you can find more than one or two nicknames that have been used only once in world sport, apart from the faintly ridiculous old timey ones I'd be shocked.

Borough for Port Melbourne is the only one I can think of still in use that could reasonably be classed as "unique".

 

[Father Jack]

From a sporting viewpoint it matters little, from a marketing viewpoint it would be a different story.

 

[The_Reaper]

There was actually a women's basketball team called the Boston Bombers. Obviously had to change their name after the bombing

Well Boston used to support terrorist bombings

 

[Lensen]

I don't think this is the case at all. Following two teams, who play at the same of year in the same country, having the same nickname, would be very confusing for most people.

Yeah massively so, I know everything g suddenly became clearer when Wests stopped being Magpies

 

[The_Reaper]

It seems that the NRL's MO is to try and annoy the AFL. No doubt this would be one reason they came up with the conflicting name. A Perth side is trying to get a team in the NRL and they have come up with the name West Coast Pirates when Perth Pirates rolls off the tongue.

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It's just pretty stupid as well.

Like we had to use that name because Perth and WA weren't available.

But people identify as living in Perth or being Western Australian far more than they identify as living on the West Coast

 

[waldino]

The Brisbane Bandits has a better ring to it than the Brisbane Bombers

 

[Tiger2709]

Nope, Richmond were referred to by several nicknames in the VFA, including the very old fashioned and unpopular Richmondites and the Wasps, a name they carried into the VFL. They weren't commonly referred to as the Tigers until the early 1920s, by which time several sporting clubs both here and overseas were using the Tigers nickname, usually in tandem with gold/black or yellow/black uniforms.

Most traditional Victorian clubs haven't used a nickname from very the start from what I can find, let alone the same one they carry now as they only really became popular in the latter half 19th century, and were not usually animal nicknames, which is a relatively recent invention. Although Collingwood has only ever been the Magpies, and Port Melbourne has the Victorian era holdover "Borough" but that's really it.

Interesting info, can you recall where you read this, I can see we had the yellow and black stripes on our cap from the start although we had a blue jumper then we switched to a yellow and black jumper in the late 1880's but I cant see anywhere when we first started using the Tigers nickname, it seems we were using it by 1919 but I believe some may have used this term earlier than that?

 

[Tiger2709]

Bombers is really unique, I like it, would hope it stays unique to Essendon.

As I posted earlier in this thread it is not really that unique, one of the biggest sporting clubs in the World the New York Yankees are known as the Bronx Bombers but more commonly the Bombers.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

The Brisbane Bandits has a better ring to it than the Brisbane Bombers

 

[waldino]

no wonder it sounded good, its already around

 

[Proper Gander]

For Gods sakes there are a bunch of B words out there. Leve Bombers to the AFL team.

Lots of B words, Bulls, bullants, burgers, bastards, brains, balls, brolgas, bras, beasts, bums, beauties, bogans, bathtubs, bread, bores, beers, behinds, brigands, bottlebrushes, bollocks

Most if not all of those work fine

 

[DAWESOME!!]

There are most likely zero unique sporting nicknames. If you can find more than one or two nicknames that have been used only once in world sport, apart from the faintly ridiculous old timey ones I'd be shocked.

Borough for Port Melbourne is the only one I can think of still in use that could reasonably be classed as "unique".

Rabbitohs. There would be other rabbits, but not rabbitohs.

 

[waldino]

For Gods sakes there are a bunch of B words out there. Leve Bombers to the AFL team.

Lots of B words, Bulls, bullants, burgers, bastards, brains, balls, brolgas, bras, beasts, bums, beauties, bogans, bathtubs, bread, bores, beers, behinds, brigands, bottlebrushes, bollocks

Most if not all of those work fine

The Brisbane Brolgas hahahaha

 

[hench]

Why does it have to start with a 'B'?

 

[chiwigi]

There are most likely zero unique sporting nicknames. If you can find more than one or two nicknames that have been used only once in world sport, apart from the faintly ridiculous old timey ones I'd be shocked.

Borough for Port Melbourne is the only one I can think of still in use that could reasonably be classed as "unique".

Middlesbrough - Boro
Peterborough - borough or posh
Stevenage Borough
etc.

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

I think the AFL has respected the NRL by not using any of their team names in the AFL expansion clubs. So if this goes ahead all bets are off as far as I'm concerned. * the NRL - Gold Coast Sharks here we come!

 

[EdgeOfReason]

Brisbane Boa Constrictors - Crushing opposition teams one by one.

 

[waldino]

just name them the Brisbane Pademelons and be done with it