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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.
 
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?.
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I used to play for the Warrington Waterthrushes!
 
no idea what that is.

best guess a sword getting quenched.
 
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.
 
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