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skjl47 said:
Hello; I have been watching college football this year. Sometime I watch replays of conference games from far away places. I saw a game the other night and one of the teams were called Cardinals. I am familiar with the Louisville Cardinals and the Cardinals baseball team.

For no good reason I began to wonder why teams are called the Cardinals and I cannot think of any other songbird names used by sports teams. So am I wrong about that? Are their sports teams named after other songbirds?

Also why would so many teams be named after a Cardinal? Since the cardinal is the state bird of KY it made some sense to me that a KY team might use the name.
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Arizona Cardinals NFL team.
 
tlindsey said:
Arizona Cardinals NFL team.
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Hello; Yes another one. My pointless question is something like why the songbird cardinal name is used by several teams. Many teams use animal names but they are rarely songbirds. (the Warrington Waterthrushes being the exception given to me so far).
Put another way there are a number of teams using the same nickname (wildcats, mustangs, trojans come to mind). But there are lots of songbird names that are not used at all unless I am simply out of touch.
Another thing being why cardinals is so much more popular?

Anyway a silly question that came to mind while watching a replay of a football game between two teams. One of which I had never heard of before but used the Cardinal nickname). It may just be because I started watching college ball this past season and have been out of touch. There may actually be a lot of songbird names used by teams and I have simply missed this over the years.

Part of my initial thinking was that songbirds are not bold, strong nor aggressive like tigers, rams, gators, wildcats and such. Then I wondered why the name cardinal is used by several. Perhaps a question that does not need or even have an answer.
 
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skjl47 said:
Hello; Yes another one. My pointless question is something like why the songbird cardinal name is used by several teams. Many teams use animal names but they are rarely songbirds. (the Warrington Waterthrushes being the exception know of by me so far).
Put another way there are a number of teams using the same nickname (wildcats, mustangs, trojans come to mind). But there are lots of songbird names that are not used at all unless I am simply out of touch.
Another thing being why cardinals is so much more popular?

Anyway a silly question that came to mind while watching a replay of a football game between two teams. One of which I had never heard of before. It may just be because I started watching college ball this past season and have been out of touch. There may actually be a lot of songbird names used by teams and I have simply missed this over the years.

Part of my initial thinking was that songbirds are not bold, strong nor aggressive like tigers, rams, gators, wildcats and such. Then I wondered why the name cardinal is used by several. Perhaps a question that does not need or even have an answer.
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I have had the same thought and most names are voted or picked by the fans. The Baltimore Orioles is another song bird named team but actually the state bird.
 
Hello; I think there is a team called the "Ravens" but those are not songbirds. Falcons, eagles and hawks but not song birds either.
 
skjl47 said:
Hello; Is he/she going to stay around for dinner?
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He would be tasty, but someone def put in the work raising. I sent out a fb post. Someone needs to claim this thing before night fall or thanksgiving is going to come early for the coyotes.

I wish I could tie it to a stake and pile up the coyotes as they come in.
 
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He would be tasty, but someone def put in the work raising. I sent out a fb post. Someone needs to claim this thing before night fall or thanksgiving is going to come early for the coyotes.

I wish I could tie it to a stake and pile up the coyotes as they come in.
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Hello; You might try the local police. When my neighbors cow got loose and was in my back yard the police must have been called because they knocked on my door. I had not seen the cow back there. I knew the owner so called him and we with the police got her back.
Anyway some one may have reported the pig missing.

Saw a dead coyote on the side of the road when riding my bicycle a while back. They are in TN now.
 
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