Politely Naming Sports Teams

One of the hot-button political correctness issues nowadays is whether certain sports teams have socially or ethnically team names. Thus, the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins have generated a lot of ire; less so the Kansas City Chiefs. And there's inconsistency: the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the University of Louisiana - Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns, and the Maryville College Fighting Scots evoke nary a quibble. Maybe Hibernians and Acadians have thicker skin?

For the record, there was once an Atlanta professional baseball team called the Atlanta Crackers. And the old Negro League had a team called the Atlanta Black Crackers. Presumably, neither had to do with Saltines.

Anyway, the focus has largely on professional and university sports; though the Pekin (Ill.) High School Chinks have been criticized, rightly so. But the most wild and wooly sports teams names are found in ladies' amateur softball team names.

For your edification, here are a few of them:

The Pussy Cat Dolls

Ball Busters

Salsa Girls

Farmers' Daughters

Chicas

Mall Rats

Dead Bunnies

Clichés

Ponytail Express

Whale Tails

Underwear with Special Powers

The Spandex Squad

The Other White Meat 

Tomboyz

Masterbatters

Runs Not Buns

Leather and Lace

Here for Beer

Fast Girls

7th Inning Kegels

Beaches

Honeymoon's Over

Hit Squad

Mean Girls

Nasty Girls

Saddle Soars

The Overeasies

The Tight Ends

Beer Nuts

Beer Goggles

Very clearly, having two X chromosomes is no impediment to having a sports sense of humor!