Sports nicknames and bands – did you know?

1)…That the Brooklyn Dodgers were so named because hundreds of trolleys zig-zagged the streets so haphazardly pedestrians were constantly artfully dodging them?  Hence, the Brooklyn Dodgers…

2)…that the Green Bay Packers were named for the “Indian Packing Co.” in 1919.  The company went out of business the next year, but the nickname still survives.

3)…that the New Orleans Saints were added to the NFL on All Saints Day…

4)  “Pink Floyd” is an amalgam of two American Blues artists – Pink Anderson and Floyd Council…which answers the question from the classic song “Have a Cigar” – “…and by the way…which one’s Pink?”

5)  Lynyrd Skynyrd was really Leonard Skinner, the principal of the high school who suspended the band for long hair…perhaps The Simpsons may have found that inspiring for the character of Principal Skinner…