So I had a whole post all ready to go about the IFAF Women’s World Championship but I realized that if anyone actually followed the links I put in there, it might ruin the game that’s been amusing me to no end over the past two weeks or so. So let’s get to that now and I’ll post the other stuff later. Deal? Deal.
OK, so: what follows is a list of absolutely real women’s football team names from different parts of Europe, plus a few that the Backseat Coach and I completely made up. Guess which ones are which! (NB: Team USA members who may actually know this would normally be disqualified, but if they’re all still jetlagged and spacey I’m willing to let it ride.)
- Antwerp Harpies
- Berlin Kobras
- Budapest Wolves Ladies
- Cologne Crocodiles
- Duesseldorf Blades
- Helsinki Gargoyles Ladies
- Krakow Mean Cats
- Lower Austria Titans Ladies
- Minsk Express
- Mülheim Shamrocks
- Neuss Frogs
- Nuremberg Hurricanes
- Stockholm Mean Machines
- Stuttgart Scorpions Sisters
I’ll post the correct answers tomorrow; in the meantime, feel free to debate in the comments section…extra points for actually posting your guesses. Answers below!
Absolutely real teams: Berlin Kobras, Budapest Wolves Ladies, Cologne Crocodiles, Duesseldorf Blades, Lower Austria Titans Ladies, Mülheim Shamrocks, Neuss Frogs, Nuremberg Hurricanes, Stockholm Mean Machines, Stuttgart Scorpions Sisters
Teams that the Backseat Coach and I invented: Minsk Express, Helsinki Gargoyles Ladies, Krakow Mean Cats, Antwerp Harpies.
Teams that the Backseat Coach came up with but I refused to add to the list: Stalingrad Revolution, Amsterdam Dikes, Vienna Mighty Ducks.
i hope the mean cats, mean machines and the minsk express are real. cause they’re pretty awesome. but frogs? not so tough. and the first one sounds like herpies so it unfortunate if its real. i guess those aren’t guesses but its what i got.
Fakes:
Cologne Crocodiles (there aren’t any crocs in Europe!)
Helsinki Gargoyles Ladies
Mülheim Shamrocks
Nuremberg Hurricanes
Stuttgart Scorpions Sisters (Backseat Coach just likes the Scorpions)
Here I am! Rock you like a Nuremburg Hurricane! \m//
@Conway, in re: crocodiles: I don’t think there’s many cowboys in Munich either, and yet.
BTW The Vienna Mighty Ducks might have previously been the Vienna Sausages.