Best Team Name

Time to get the creative juices flowing. The annual Best Team Name contest commences with the following rules:

• The day after the draft a poll will be posted to vote for best team name based on these criteria: creativity, originality, comedic value, and poignancy

• An appropriate team logo image must be included to qualify, and it's quality and relevance will also factor in to the above vote

• Coach with most votes will get to submit 3 (or more) punishment ideas for the league's vote, one of which will be inflicted on the team that comes in last place at the conclusion of the season. Punishments will be non-permanent to the victim, approved by the commissioner prior to submittal, and intended to inflict maximum embarrassment. The submitted punishment ideas will then be voted upon by the entire league, and the last place team must comply or else be banished from the league for all eternity.

As our benchmark, let’s take a look at our previous contest winners:

2017 Best Team Name

BRADY
TC'S SICK FANTASIES

Much like the rings of Middle-earth, it is said IFL championship rings carry their own curious powers. Hot off his 2016 IFL Championship, Brady divined a team name so darkly comedic, that it Trumped all other contenders. His ring, I fear, was the source of this darkness, and I personally worry for his long-term mental health. Nevertheless, the peers agreed, and TC's SICK Fantasies took the freaking cake for the 2017 Best Team Name. 

2018 Best Team Name

DREW
SLICK RICK & THE FIREPOLES

Drew said in his wedding speech, that Rick “taught me how to be a man”. But the bigger reality is, Rick taught us all how to be a man. Even if you’ve never met the guy, just the mere image of him, holding his catch like an aquatic trophy, barely allowing himself any outwardly sign of happiness, you know what a man should look like. We all want to be like Rick, and in that way, we are the firepoles. Rick’s teenage funk-punk band name carries Drew to Best Team Name 2018. Drew will get to submit punishments for our 2018 IFL Loser of the Year.

While we’re at it, let’s look at the runner up’s from this contest as well:

2017 best team name runner up

JESSE
HELM'S DEEP ARCHERY CLUB

LotR will always be fertile territory, and the nostalgia and playfulness of Jesse's entry scored big with Tolkien fans.

2018 best team name runner up

JOE
STRANGER BROS

The identical haircut and the remarkably similar facial expression were just too perfect.