The UFL has moved its New York Sentinels to Hartford. In Connecticut, the franchise will have a new name, and the fans will get to vote on the winner.
The league announced today the four options: the Hartford Knights, the Hartford Guardians, the Hartford Travelers (the players can use red umbrellas when it rains), and the Connecticut Yankees.
“We want to empower the fans of this new Hartford United Football League team to give us their thoughts on the name that they feel has a strong local connection and that they will be proud to chant from the stands at Rentschler Field,” UFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue said.
(Of course, this presumes that: (1) there actually are fans of the team; and (2) any of them will actually show up for the games.)
Either way, cast your vote at CTNow.com through March 4. For those of you who don’t live in Connecticut, feel free to cast one or more votes for the name that you regard as the lamest.
We’re currently leaning “Guardians.”
Why not The Hartford Whalers? Maybe they can trick Hockey fans into watching at least 1 game.
Nice How bout the::::
Connecticut Welfare Freeloaders?
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Connecticut Left Winger’s……..
Free Tickets and Food all paid by the State Taxpayer’s
Why isn’t Whalers an option?!? I understand its a different sport, but how often does Hartford get a “professional” franchise of any kind?
Connecticut Yankees….they can call the Rentschler Field, “King Arthur’s Court”.
Hartford Whalers anyone?
They should be named the Hartford Whalers.
The question is who chose those 4 and why is one after Travelers insurance…..
Only sports name with tradition for that city!
Hartford Whalers.
Travelers
If the team were to be the Connecticut Yankees, they’d have to rename the stadium “King Arthur’s Court.”
They’re all lame. But Travelers is the best. So I definitely won’t be voting for that.
misleading title… UFL gives fan 4 crappy multiple choices
How about: the Hartford “Does Anyone Care if We Actually Play Or Not” ‘s?
The Whalers.
I definitely lean towards the Hartford Knights, if those are the options…although I would have preferred that they bring back the Hartford Blues.
These names are garbage. Name them the Whalers and play Brass Bonanza after touchdowns.
Isnt Connecticut more Red Sox territory than Yankee?
Travelers is gay.
I would vote Knights even though all 4 are weak. They should vote also on uniforms.
What? No Hartford Banana Slugs? This is as fixed and rigged as “American Idol.”
How about the hartford Rusty Trombones?
I’m thinking MLB might have something to say about them naming the team the Yankees…
Whalers.
what’s this we’re…flo you’ve hit the big time ( at least in your mind ) speaking in the third person…re: the story, are you serious?
how about the “Hartford Who Cares”
How about the Whalers?
Gregg Rosenthal thinks the chances of the UFL succeeding even in Hartford are awfully small.
Yankees? Really?
I’m leaning Whalers
Guardians probably is referencing the Coast Guard Academy in New Haven.
ESPN First Take did their Veteran’s Day episode from the Coast Guard boot camp in Cape May, NJ. The CG people were throwing around the term ‘Guardians’ which I found to be awfully lame.
In my day (2000), they just called us ‘Idiot Recruits’.
What a joke.
First, the news that UFL “fans” can pick the team name was announced over a week ago, but this isn’t a remark against PFT. It’s against the UFL.
If you look through the threads, people are clamoring for team names like Whalers, Harpooners, and Hellcats.
Whalers is obvious, Harpooners alludes to the whaling theme. The Hellcat helicopter was produced using parts made at Pratt & Whitney. The CT economy is also supported by Sikorsky and the Groton Sub Base.
Getting back to these final 4 names, I got a bone to pick with all of them. There are no knights in CT. Guardians and Travellers sound weak as it gets for football names. Travellers sounds like a baseball name, at best.
Finally, the Yankees. In CT, the state is split 50-50 between the Yanks and the Sox. Calling the team the Yankees would make it impossible for CT Sox fans to root for them.
If the UFL was serious about keeping a league going, they’d allow fans to choose names created by the fans, not these junk names.
Not Whalers? How about the Hartford Seats…that way everyone will just think it’s a sellout and the fans are all dressed up as their mascot…that was stupid.
Lets hope they come up with something a little more original than the last team to do this, which ended up with the earthshaking moniker, “Texans”
Pauli The Hook says:
February 23, 2010 9:29 AM
Nice How bout the::::
Connecticut Welfare Freeloaders?
Or The ::::
Connecticut Left Winger’s……..
Free Tickets and Food all paid by the State Taxpayer’s
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The retarted idiots that had never heard the word socialisim untill glen beck said it.
I dont like obama much either, but seriously, keep the f–king politics off this site.
Yes, Hartford is definately best known for it’s whaling industry!
Only reason that hockey team was called the Whalers in the first place is because it moved from the huge whaling city, Boston to Hartford where they were called the New England Whalers.
Hartford Patriots since Kraft used the state to get money from Mass. to keep them there!
Hartford Insurers
Hartford Colonials
Hartford Fur Traders
Hartford Settlers
Hartford Constitution
Hartford Union
Hartford Los Solidos
Greg is right, now one in this pathetic state cares about this team. I’ve already got season tickets to uconn football and that sells out once or twice a year. Ill def go watch a game or two but its hard to get excited about another non proffessional team around here. Thank god the strip bars are awesome
To steal a name from a baseball team in the town of Manchester CT, I think they should name the team the Hartford Silk Worms. That’s just as awful as all the other choices.
Hartford Sharks
or
Hartford Hawks
Hartford United seems like a natural
Don’t the real Yankees have a trademark?
the yankees?? i doubt anyone in redsox territory would support a team called the yankees
Hartford Tax Breakers
You won’t see Whalers. It’s passe now to even hint at the activity. Remember this league has another team named after trees.
And oddly, eventthough Connecticut is in New England, the heavy communting population of New Yorkers creates a huge fan base for New York teams. Something similar happened in Providence when a lot of “made” guys left New York and moved there.
I vote for Knights. But the name won’t matter until they do something with those uniforms.
I’d love to see the Whalers back, that logo was awesome.
The Hartford Asylum (in honor of one if its neighborhoods).
Bring back the Whale.
Hartford Insurance.
The Hartford Accordions because the franchise will fold like one in the near future. Some other possibilities:
The Hartford Wannabes
The Hartford HasBeens
The Hartford Brokers
The Hartford Policyholders
The Hartford Actuaries
The Hartford Deductibles
A yankee was something the Dutch colonists in New York called the people in the Connecticut colony. So for all you red sox fans saying that you couldn’t follow thus team because of the baseball Yankees…grow up. Travelers is stupid, and I’m not even sure how the other two are relevant (maybe Guardians b/c of sub-base and Sikorsky)…I vote Yankees…and I am a red sox fan.
I vote for the Hartford Florios.
topcide says:
February 23, 2010 10:18 AM
Pauli The Hook says:
February 23, 2010 9:29 AM
Nice How bout the::::
Connecticut Welfare Freeloaders?
Or The ::::
Connecticut Left Winger’s……..
Free Tickets and Food all paid by the State Taxpayer’s
————————————————-
The retarted idiots that had never heard the word socialisim untill glen beck said it.
I dont like obama much either, but seriously, keep the f–king politics off this site.
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Couldn’t agree with you more, topcide.
Rump Rangers
Booty Bandits
Fanny Pirates
Fairies
Queens
Yankees (oh wait, they used that one)
Traveler’s Insurance HQ is in Hartford. Naming a team after a company is super lame. I also think all the names suck.
Oh and….
New Haven > Hartford
How about Hartford Blues, the name of the city’s 1926 NFL team?
I don’t care what they’ll be called in Hartford – but if they move again next year, would they be the Disconnect-icut Sentinals?
The Hartford Whalers is reserved for the hockey team when it returns (not if, but when). Pat Verbeeeeeeeeeeekkkkk!
sevenwords says:
Oh and….
New Haven > Hartford
AMEN to that.
By the way, All of these names SUCK.
I did a google search typing in “The Hartford” and the most relevant search suggestion IMO was “The Hartford Courant obituaries” because, with the level of fan support they are likely to receive that is where the franchise will end up anyway.
Knights, definitely. Suggested crowd chant – ‘Mid-EVAL on their ASS, Mid-EVAL on their ASS’, repeat until nauseated.