Talk:Misnomer/Archives/2009/March

Sports teams

A team that moves and does not change its nickname (e.g., Brooklyn Dodgers became Los Angeles Dodgers; New York Giants became the San Francisco Giants) is NOT a misnomer. It's simply a team that moved and didn't change its name. There is nothing inherently a misnomer in the nickname a team decides to use. A team can call themselves anything they want, so if the Dodgers decided not to change it when they left Brooklyn, that's simply keeping a name, not a misnomer. Now, if they use one city in their name but their home field is in another city, that might be a misnomer, depending on the specifics. Thus, "The New York Jets and New York Giants play in East Rutherford, New Jersey" might accurately be described as a misnomer. Ward3001 (talk) 23:32, 9 March 2009 (UTC)