Sports teams named after fonts?

[Si_Daniels]

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Unique, or are there others?

[Birdseeding]

I can think of a bunch of cities named after typefaces, that in turn have sports teams (Alemannia Aachen, that sort of thing), but I suspect that's cheating.

So I'm digging through lists, and the one I've found so far is a team from Macau named after Stephenson Blake's Windsor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Arch_Ka_I

[Birdseeding]

Ah, here's another one: FC Swift.

[eliason]

I can never remember: were the Cleveland Browns named after Shinntype's font? or was it Lineto's?

[Nick Shinn]

Dynamo (Kiev/Houston).
Galaxy (no Polaris).
And in the collective noun category: Jazz.

[Ryan Maelhorn]

I mean, is it really fair to say those teams were named after fonts? Those words are associated with other things besides fonts. Now, if we could find one named Helvetica...

[Riccardo Sartori]

There should be some Georgia out there.

[Andreas Stötzner]

One day I will buy the Dallas Mavericks and rebrand them as Andron Majuscles.
Sounds more manly and sportive anyway.

[Nick Shinn]

Think of all the punning opportunities for sports commentators.
That would be fontastic.

[Té Rowan]

There is a scripty blackletter named Bayern out there, so I guess that covers B. Leverkusen and B. München. Anyone's up to naming a face Eintracht to give Frankfurt some coverage?

Add.l: Detroit (Pistons)

[Don McCahill]

> I can think of a bunch of cities named after typefaces, that in turn have sports teams (Alemannia Aachen, that sort of thing), but I suspect that's cheating.

Uhm, I think it is the other way around. They typefaces are named after the cities.

[Té Rowan]

There are at least three different faces named Maverick, so the Dallas team has a choice.

[Joe Pemberton]

Helvetica is named for Switzerland. (Sacramento was almost named New Helvetia.)