TAS Tassie team nickname
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The Thylacine would mak the best mascot for any club, (excet of course for a dragon)
Only problem is that Tigers is taken,
Thylacines sounds too cumbersome
Wolves may work, but the name isn't as common as Tigers. Do any Tasmanians actually refer to them as Tassie Wolves?
I voted devils, but only because wolves wasnt an option.
Only problem is that Tigers is taken,
Thylacines sounds too cumbersome
Wolves may work, but the name isn't as common as Tigers. Do any Tasmanians actually refer to them as Tassie Wolves?
I voted devils, but only because wolves wasnt an option.
im just guessin but doesn't it coem from their previous name, van demons land? correct me if im wrong
What like a Cat, Lion and a Tiger are too similar all being felines? Or maybe Swans, Magpies, Eagles, Crows and Hawks, since they are all birds, are too similar? Or is it because they start with the same letter like the Blues and Bulldogs? Or Saints and Swans?
I doubt Tassie Devils would work because of licensing and copyright issues.
I will. It was not Van Demons land, It was Van Diemen's Land. Nothing at all to do with demons or devils.
The Hawks 
You think a supernatural malevolent specter branching from folklore and religious beliefs is similar to a small extant carnivorous marsupial mammal of the genus Sarcophilus?
I want whatever you are smoking.
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Tasmanian Royals
The DAFL could run the team, Mary can be coach
The DAFL could run the team, Mary can be coach
Van Demons Football Club = V.D. F.C.....don't think so...
Hobart Huskies
Islanders F.C.
Tassie Giants (after those giant trees)
Thylacines F.C. (con: leaves club open to "extinction" jokes)
Outlaws (Penal colony reference...sounds better than "convicts" )
Whalers (shoulda been Fremantle's logo , but anyway...)
Hobart Huskies
Islanders F.C.
Tassie Giants (after those giant trees)
Thylacines F.C. (con: leaves club open to "extinction" jokes)
Outlaws (Penal colony reference...sounds better than "convicts" )
Whalers (shoulda been Fremantle's logo , but anyway...)
Cleavy
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Tassie Vampires
It would be a southern team, so I'm torn between the Derwent Drunks and the Hobart Hookers.
I'd prefer not to see the name "Tasmania" used, but there's not much else that could refer to the location and not have half the state, or more, begin a civil war. Its all a futile exercise as any such club simply will not happen.
I'd prefer not to see the name "Tasmania" used, but there's not much else that could refer to the location and not have half the state, or more, begin a civil war. Its all a futile exercise as any such club simply will not happen.
The mappers
There's an 8yo VFL team called the Tasmanian Devils run by AFL Tasmania...there won't be any problems...
Their NBL side was the Tassie Devils if I remember right. But they are long extinct. I don't know any other major Tasmanian sports sdes.
Maybe they should be THe Tasmanian Beers. I'd take an interest in them.
It can't be anything but Devils. The marketing experts say so, according to an article I read a few months ago...by a street, the Devil is the single most synonymous word with Tasmania in existence, and the Tasmanian side would need to be the most business savvy sporting organisation ever to come from the state...they would need to extract every cent from the brand and sponsorship, because there won't be much in the way of handouts from anyone else...they'll operate nothing like the Tigers, who are guaranteed their existence by Cricket Australia, and will be a far more costly organisation than the hockey, basketball and whatever else sides we have...
There hasn't been a problem but there could be. Warner Brothers actually own (or think they own) the global copyright to the term "Tasmanian Devil" and apparently to cartoon images of such an animal - which could affect the use of logos, etc.
I seem to recall they threatened to sue the make of "Tasmanian Devil" modems in the 90s; and had a tourism campaign by pulled because it used a group of cartoon devils. The head of Warner Brothers Australia at the time (mid 90s) seemed surprised there was actually such an animal. To paraphrase, as I can't remember the actual quote, "You mean, you've actually got those things running around down there?"
Yup, we had Launceston Casino City (who won the NBL in 1981), and the Devils started up a few years later, getting axed in the mid 90's alongside the Geelong Supercats and the Gold Coast Rollers...funny how things are parallelled...we're up against the Coast this time, and alternatively Geelong are as far as you can get from being in AFL danger...
The other basketball sides are based in Launceston, Devonport and Hobart, and have had about as many name changes as Imelda Marcos has changed shoes...they love their hockey down there, and the name is usually the Van Demons, although they were the Tigers once (before the cricket sides adopted nicknames)...we also have a lot of women's sporting teams, but they change like the weather too...
The current Devils logo has two heads(!), and is shaped like Tassie...I think it's a winner, looks mean and stylised, has the right colours...I like the two heads - subtly takes the piss out of itself, but I'd like to think it's also a warning to the mainland it's looking at above (East and West) that 2 heads means one extra to rip you to pieces with, and also represents the two interests that through and through are Tasmanian sport - cricket and footy...we just need to get the footy head working properly...!
I was stopped by a bouncer in Hawaii in 1994, who spent a good 30 seconds looking at my Tassie driver's licence and me, before grunting "wow, there really is such a place..."...
Not only is "Devils" the obvious choice, but the other two are already in use (or almost so).
Haha, Hawaii is more American than they'd like to admit.
Difference was, this guy was based in Sydney.
Then again, my sister got asked for her passport in Sydney once at a Medicare office - because you must have one if you're from Tasmania and in Australia. And it wasn't just one person, a few of the office thought Tassie wasn't part of Australia.
No wonder Sydney media types all say "Lorn"ceston rather than "Lon"ceston.
