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Descriptive/non-geographic names for AFL teams

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GrahamClayton

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I stumbled across a webpage that listed non-geographical names of soccer teams. Some of the more interesting are:

1. Young Boys (Switzerland)
2. Always Ready (Bolivia)
3. Solid SC (Sri Lanka)
4. The Strongest (Bolivia)
5. Mysterious Dwarfs (Ghana)
6. Eleven Men in Flight (Estwani)
7. Naughty Boys (Lesotho)

This got me thinking about non-geographic names for AFL teams. Please post your ideas - the funnier the better!

 

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Theres some decent unoffical ones, the Dwarf Burners was a classic.

Pies could be the toothbrush inventors.

Sydney were the COLAs, now they are one of the Nepobabies.

There's been the Machine and the Foreign Legion and Kennedys Commandos but they were for a certain group

The Family Club works for Hawthorn but probably would fail as a nickname for Adelaide.
That name was coined because you used to be able to fit the Hawks supporter base in a family sedan.
 
Theres some decent unoffical ones, the Dwarf Burners was a classic.

Pies could be the toothbrush inventors.

Sydney were the COLAs, now they are one of the Nepobabies.

There's been the Machine and the Foreign Legion and Kennedys Commandos but they were for a certain group


That name was coined because you used to be able to fit the Hawks supporter base in a family sedan.
I know it's wrong but the Dwarf Burners really cracks me up every time I read it.
 
Prisoners / Prison Bars - Collingwood
Cheese Boards / Providores / Range Rover Tractors / Ski Bunnies / - Melbourne
Hipster Bars Party Crew - vale Fitzroy
Trendy Pubgoers - Hawthorn
Sports Pharmacists - Essendon
Handbaggers - Geelong
Grog Squad - Richmond
Sexty Sexers- St Kilda (‘66 premiers)
Wharfies - Fremantle
Booomers- West Coast
Chardonnay Sippers - Adelaide
Parolees - Port Adelaide
Bad Bears - Brisbane
COLA - Sydney
Surfies / Beach Crew - Gold Coast
Shinboners - North Melbourne
Paper Baggers - Carlton
Dish Lickers - Western Bulldogs
Big Sound / Bevans / Wild Wilds (West)- GWS
 
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Barbarians (rugby union)
Players (19th century cricket)

Minor league baseball goes out of their way to do this. Let's go Ironpigs!
 

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Those teams still have a geographic identifier before their nickmane.
Do they? I just googled Barbarians and it came up as Barbarians FC (no geographic identifier).

Personally, I'd deem both Western Bulldogs and Western United as fitting the bill as they don't say what they are west of.
 

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