Why did the hornets become the pelicans? They decided that hornets were too cool and they wanted something much dumber? Did they announce this on April 1 by any chance?
Louisiana is the pelican state. The Hornets were named for Charlotte being a "hornets' nest of rebellion" during the American Revolution. Charlotte even has a hornets' nest on its city seal.
I have also heard that the Charlotte Bobcats want to be the Charlotte Hornets again, so it works out. Some of the New Orleans suggested names were hilarious. My favorite...New Olreans Rougarou, which are warewolf like creatures from old French Louisiana folklore. Sorta B.A. if you ask me.
They wanted to establish an assertive, proud image of the city after Katrina, so they chose a mentally challenged animal that mills about sportfishing piers stealing bait. ...And swallows live pigeons on YouTube.
But that wasn't known at the time the team was named. They're explicitly named after the dinosaur, which is explicitly designed after the older, more lizard-like conception of dinosaurs.
It was known at the time of the movie...it was a concept that became fairly common in the paleontology community by the 1960s or so.
What's funny about the movie is that the "raptors" are actually not velociraptors. They are deinonychus--a much smaller, feathery dinosaur. This was supposedly due to a labeling error in a dinosaur book. They had no choice but to run with their error after it was discovered.
I was more curious to see where the Flyers and Red Wings would come into play.
The labeling of birds as dinosaurs is actually a recent thing. Prior to that, paleontologists had only said that birds were descended from dinosaurs.
As for the movie, I'm guessing you're referring to Jurassic Park. Those aren't Deinonychus either, which are actually larger than velociraptors, but nowhere near that large. The ones in the movie are more like Utahraptors in size.
I believe you meant that the Seahawks should have "run" the ball, but I digress.
Marshawn Lynch, for the 2015 seaons, was 1-of-5 running the ball from the 1-yard line. There was no guarantee he was going to score, especially with the Patriots going jumbo down on the goal line.
Carroll's decision to throw on that down allowed the Seahawks 1 extra play, given their timeout situation. From a clock management stand point, throwing the ball was the right call. A better play may have been a fade to the corner of the end zone, where either only the WR can get it, or it goes out of bounds.
But that play ended up in an interception not because it was such a risky play, but because Malcom Butler was so well coached. Even with him making the correct read and breaking on the ball, if Wilson throws that ball lower and to the WR's back hip, no problem. It was simply an amazing play by a VERY well-coached rookie.
Chicago's hockey team is several degrees of separation from being named after a bird. The team is named after a military unit from World War I nicknamed the "Black Hawks," who were in turn named after a Native American of the Sauk tribe of what is now Illinois, named Black Hawk, who was presumably named after the bird. A bit confusing, but I'd say the hockey team definitely does not qualify as named after a bird.
I still think the Blackhawks should count. I know that the team is named after an infantry division. But that infantry division was named after a Native American man. And that Native American man was named after a bird. The mascot of the team is Tommy Hawk... an anthropomorphized bird. Not a platoon of WW1 soldiers. We all know what a hawk is. This is like that silly controversy on the quiz about cities named after saints where Santiago was taken off because Santiago, Chile was named after some other city but that city was still named after Saint James.
The Blackhawks shouldn't count for the same reason the Raptors shouldn't count, because they aren't named after birds. If the quiz was looking for teams "with birds in the names" then I'd agree, but "named for birds" they are not.
The bird is the original namesake of the Blackhawks, going back through the chain of custody I described. The raptors are different, though, technically, birds are dinosaurs.
Not all answers depicted on this quiz match their team's logo. The Ducks' logo is a webbed "D." The Eagles' is a wing, etc. The redwing is in fact a bird (as indicated by mightythor). The fact that they tossed in a wheel shouldn't matter.
The Detroit Red Wings were named in honor of the first-ever Stanley Cup winning team, the Winged Wheelers, on which the new owner (in 1932) played. They are named in honor of Detroit's auto industry and that 1893 team, not a bird.
"The National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks was named in honor of the U.S. 86th Infantry Division, which was nicknamed the "Blackhawk Division" after Black Hawk, a Native American chief; the team's founder, Frederic McLaughlin, having served in that division." (source: Wikipedia)
and this Black Hawk guy must have been named after the act of clearing phlegm from your throat. He probably drank a lot of cocoa and hawked up some nasty dark loogies. Thus, black hawk. Because if his name had something to do with a bird it wouldn't make sense to exclude the team from the quiz.
Turns out you need to know the history (arcane though it may be) to answer this quiz correctly.The BlackHawk is a bird and so is the redwing. And they were birds before the teams were formed and so they were named "after" the birds. Maybe they weren't named "for" the birds, but clearly they were named after the birds were.If this sounds like nit-picking I can only say, you started it! :)
When in doubt, resort to comments. Somehow i forgot about the seahawks even though I had a teacher who was a seahawks fanatic and i somehow forgot the ducks even though my mom has been a die-hard fan... lol
Orioles more guessed than penguins and ducks? I suspect that's more down to the popularity (or lack of) the sport, rather than the bird? I was trying Sea Eagles for ages and it wouldn't accept, but that's Manly Sea Eagles, in the NRL.
Was going to say the team is named after a Native American tribe, but wasn't sure, so I looked it up. I'm glad I did.
The team's original owner commanded an infantry division called the Black Hawks that fought in the first World War. The military unit is what the team is named after.
That unit was named after Black Hawk, a Sauk war chief, who fought alongside the British in The War of 1812 and later against white settlers in what's now Illinois and Wisconsin. That was called Black Hawk's War. You've gotta be pretty formidable to have a war named after you.
What's funny about the movie is that the "raptors" are actually not velociraptors. They are deinonychus--a much smaller, feathery dinosaur. This was supposedly due to a labeling error in a dinosaur book. They had no choice but to run with their error after it was discovered.
I was more curious to see where the Flyers and Red Wings would come into play.
As for the movie, I'm guessing you're referring to Jurassic Park. Those aren't Deinonychus either, which are actually larger than velociraptors, but nowhere near that large. The ones in the movie are more like Utahraptors in size.
(Except for the Pelicans. Ain't nobody got Pelicans.)
Marshawn Lynch, for the 2015 seaons, was 1-of-5 running the ball from the 1-yard line. There was no guarantee he was going to score, especially with the Patriots going jumbo down on the goal line.
Carroll's decision to throw on that down allowed the Seahawks 1 extra play, given their timeout situation. From a clock management stand point, throwing the ball was the right call. A better play may have been a fade to the corner of the end zone, where either only the WR can get it, or it goes out of bounds.
But that play ended up in an interception not because it was such a risky play, but because Malcom Butler was so well coached. Even with him making the correct read and breaking on the ball, if Wilson throws that ball lower and to the WR's back hip, no problem. It was simply an amazing play by a VERY well-coached rookie.
/ˈredwiNG/
noun
noun: redwing; plural noun: redwings; noun: red-wing; plural
noun: red-wings
1.
a small migratory thrush that breeds mainly in northern Europe, with red underwings showing in flight.
2.
any of a number of red-winged birds, especially the American red-winged blackbird.
The team's original owner commanded an infantry division called the Black Hawks that fought in the first World War. The military unit is what the team is named after.
That unit was named after Black Hawk, a Sauk war chief, who fought alongside the British in The War of 1812 and later against white settlers in what's now Illinois and Wisconsin. That was called Black Hawk's War. You've gotta be pretty formidable to have a war named after you.
He was named after a bird though.
Wouldn't it be fun if a team was called Charlotte Tits. It would be the greatest team of South Carolina