Dave's Football blog continues to shock me by showing me how little I know about international sports that involve feet.
In his most recent post he outlines how disgruntled fans of teams such as Manchester United have gone about creating their own teams with similar sounding names.
This. Is. Awesome.
A lot of the success of these teams hinges on the fact that in Europe a team can be promoted to higher and higher leagues by their play on the field. For example, a Double-A baseball team could be promoted to Triple-A and eventually all the way to the bigs if they won enough games.
Marinate on that for a second.
Can you imagine how kerr-aaazy American sports would be if this was possible stateside? I would have thrown my support behind the Bowie Baysox as the heir to the throne (albeit a disheveled heroin addicted throne) that the Baltimore Orioles sit atop years ago. I can only imagine that the same thing would have happened in so many other cities too.
This would bring an unprecedented level of accountability to the front offices of poorly managed teams. Although, if every fan that was ever disappointed with a decision made by a team decided to jump ship (or in this case create a new ship altogether) that would make it almost completely impossible for franchises to stay afloat during bad years.
Still, the look on Dan Snyder's face would be priceless when the Anacostia Native Americans took the field as a Canadian Football League franchise...(especially if there was a way for them to be promoted to the NFL)
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