The Class A Brewers affiliate has staged a “Salute to Cows” theme night annually since 2009, featuring bovine-themed giveaways, displays and competitions. Normally the Timber Rattlers, the Appleton, Wisconsin-based team is located in the heart of dairy country. It’s weird as a celebration of local culture and identity. But Udder Tuggers isn’t weird for the sake of weird. And when you combine the name with its corresponding logo - a hard-charging cow with udders protruding, prominent and pink - it gets even weirder. Wisconsin Udder Tuggers: Udder Tuggers is a very weird thing for a team to call itself. Aside from just the name, the gear is great too - Norfolk offers hats featuring both iced and hot coffee, and the jerseys sport a loud 'Norfolk Coffee' logo as bold as the city's brews themselves. It makes sense then that the Triple-A Norfolk Tides decided to become the Coffee for a game in 2019, bringing to life a fitting homage to their community while producing one of the wackiest monikers in sports history. The Hampton Roads area is often referred to as the 'East Coast Capital of Coffee,' housing roughly two billion cups' worth of coffee in warehouses at any one time. They usually represent something intense, menacing or otherwise fear-inducing: the Miami Heat, the Seattle Storm, the Oklahoma City Thunder. Norfolk Coffee: It seems most of my favorite sports team names are not plural. 17-19, and then a winner will be crowned.īut first, staff combed through all the entrants - from Louisville Mashers to Pensacola Mullets and so much more - and picked their favorites from the first round: Voting for the final round will take place from Nov.

The MiLB Alter Ego Challenge, presented by Stouffer's, will crown MiLB’s best alternate identity while celebrating the game’s innovative spirit.įan voting for Round 1 continues through Friday, at which point four finalists will emerge. These identities, often groundbreaking and wild in nature, represent the cultural, natural and economic forces that define their communities.

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