Tyrano123 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I remember once that the UFL had a 'Your town, your team-you make the call" name voting contest for each team. But when I go to search for those options I almost hit dead ends every time. What were some of those choices (if anyone knows, if not that's fine) or what were some written in suggestions?Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian in Boston Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 While suggestions for team names for the United Football League's original four franchises were solicited via a "Name the Teams" contest on the league's original website, the reality is that said solicitation of ideas likely amounted to little more than a mechanism for collecting e-mail addresses that could later be used to support ticket-sales campaigns.Press releases that accompanied the unveiling of the team identities for the UFL's "Premiere Season" claimed that 39,000 team names had been submitted via the aforementioned contest. That said, the generation of the names, logos, and uniforms utilized by the California Redwoods, Florida Tuskers, Las Vegas Locomotives, and New York Sentinels was undoubtedly the handiwork of Jeff Sofka at Bendigo, Ron Caruso at Purepartner, and the team at Charley, Inc., with input from various league officials, especially COO Frank Vuono.While Redwoods, Tuskers, Locomotives, and Sentinels were the team names that league officials and their branding partners settled upon for the inaugural four UFL teams, there apparently were other identities that came very close to making the cut. Nation Hahn - the UFL's Director of Digital Media - has gone on record as saying that the Sentinels were almost named the New York Empire, the Locomotives came close to being dubbed the Las Vegas Rounders, and the Redwoods toyed with San Francisco Golden Gators, San Francisco Stellers (the largest species of sea lion), and San Francisco Rockfish, the latter of which the league went so far as to trademark.As for the "Your Town, Your Team, Your Name" contests that took place in conjunction with the relocation of the Sentinels to Hartford, the Redwoods to Sacramento, and the Tuskers to Virginia Beach, as well as the expansion into Omaha, the league provided fans with a list of candidate identities in each market and the option to submit a write-in suggestion. The candidate identities in each market were:HartfordConnecticut YankeesHartford GuardiansHartford KnightsHartfordTravelersSacramento Sacramento CondorsSacramento MinersSacramento PioneersSacramento RedwoodsSacramento SenatorsSacramento StingVirginia BeachFans were asked to choose Hampton Roads or Virginia as the place name, then...CommandersDestroyersNavigatorsTritonsOmahaOmaha MustangsOmaha NavigatorsOmaha SpiritsOmaha StagsLeague press releases in the wake of the "Name the Team" campaigns stated that Hartford Colonials "emerged as the overwhelming favorite" amonst write-in suggestions in Connecticut, while Sacramento Mountain Lions "proved to be the most popular and dynamic" write-in suggestion in Northern California. Similarly, UFL officials announced that Omaha Nighthawks was chosen because amongst write-in suggestions in Nebraska "aviation names proved popular with fans". In addition to these identities that the UFL provided for fans in the "Your Town, Your Team, Your Name" contests, Nation Hahn has also revealed that league officials considered Steelheads as the name for its Sacramento-based franchise, and thought about naming Omaha's team either the Mastodons or Mammoths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4_tattoos Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Yeah. The UFL naming contest were rigged. They could have atleast added the winning names to the nominees to make the outcome less of a shock.The Virginia contest may have been the only legit one. There was a lot of legit support for the names Tritons & Destroyers. Hotter Than July > Thriller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrano123 Posted May 24, 2014 Author Share Posted May 24, 2014 Great stuff! Was there anything on other options of Florida? Just curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Island_Style Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 I like Las Vegas Rounders a lot. The Golden Gators is a hokey name, but I would love to see the logo it would produce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soarindude Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Virginia Beach Tritons is a beautiful name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrano123 Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 Had a hard time while looking through the patent and trademark office for some of these. Florida is a big one I'm interested in. Never saw Commanders in anything that I saw, so that's something new. Really glad California never went with Rockfish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soarindude Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Florida Tuskers is a weird name in itself. Not exactly an "awful" name, but was just awfully branded from the generic UFL looks that all 4 teams were given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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