Funny Sports Jokes to Get Your Friends Chuckling
American Football Themes
Team names are among the biggest differences between American and European sports traditions. While European team names are based on places, American names often draw inspiration from working-class, mythological, Native American, and even pop-culture themes.
In the NFL alone, for example, two major franchises inspired by the fertile world of pirates: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Seattle Seahawks. A buccaneer is a name given to a Caribbean pirate; a seahawk is a predatory bird that spends most of its time in the ocean.
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