CFL: Chicago Franchise Nickname Contest

[Neuqua]

The front office and ownership of the Continental Football League's franchise based in Chicago.

We have finalized the nicknames, and the fans will be asked to help select the final decision. We have decided to go with the old school "Al Capone/Mob" feeling to tie in with Chicago's great underground history.

So what will it be folks?

1. Chicago Mob
2. Chicago Mobsters
3. Chicago Mafia
4. Chicago Hitmen
5. Chicago Gangsters

If the fans come out with a nickname not listed, Chicago ownership will take said name into consideration.

[vtbub]

Cubs

[JonInMiddleGA]

Nah vtbub, I assume the new franchise would actually like to win a championship at some point ;)

[Schmidty]

The Chicago Schmidty's Bitchez

[Bee]

Where's the trout option?

[Neuqua]

Originally posted by Bee
Where's the trout option?

I'm a fool!

[johnnyshaka]

I've always fancied the Chicago Blues...but, I don't see that as one of the options. Hmmm...

[WSUCougar]

I always liked the Chicago Flames myself.

[Honolulu_Blue]

We have spoken to a number of residents in the Chicago area and they have expressed concern over the limited range of names given. Mainly that they are all synonyms for some sort of Organized Crime Syndicate. The people of Chicago have expressed a desire to put this unfortunate part of the city's history behind it and would ask the ownership of the club to perhaps choose a less inflammatory/more positive nickname for the new football team.

Please find below a number of interesting facts about Chicago:


Chicago Superlatives
World's largest commercial office building: Merchandise Mart, 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza

World's largest indoor marine mammal exhibit: Chicago Oceanarium, 1200 S. Lake Shore Drive

World's largest aquarium: Shedd Aquarium, 1200 S. Lake Shore Drive

World's largest illuminated fountain: Buckingham Fountain, Grant Park

World's largest public library: Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St.

World's largest bakery: Nabisco, 7300 S. Kedzie Ave.

World's largest ice cream cone factory: Keebler, 10839 S. Langley Ave.

World's largest candy factory: Brach & Brock, 401 N. Cicero Ave.

World's largest free public zoo: Lincoln Park Zoo, 2200 N. Cannon Drive

World's tallest masonry building: Monadnock Block, 53 W. Jackson Blvd.

World's largest food festival: Taste of Chicago, Grant Park

World's largest collection of impressionist paintings outside Paris: Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave.

World's largest modern art museum: Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave.

World's longest street: Western Avenue

World's largest convention facility: McCormick Place, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive

World's busiest roadway: Dan Ryan expressway

World's highest steeple above ground: United Methodist Church, 77 W. Washington St.

World's highest residence above ground: John Hancock Center, 875 N. Michigan Ave.

World's tallest building: Sears Tower, 233 S. Wacker Drive

World's busiest futures exchange: Board of Trade, 141 W. Jackson Blvd.

World's busiest airport: O'Hare International Airport, 10000 W. O'Hare Road

World's largest municipal harbor system: Chicago Park District

World's largest stand-alone theater: Uptown Theatre, 4810 N. Broadway

World's largest Tiffany dome: Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.

World's largest parochial school system: Archdiocese of Chicago

World's busiest sit-down restaurant: Berghoff Restaurant, 17 W. Adams St.

World's largest water filtration plant: Jardine Water Purification Plant, 600 E. Grand Ave.

SOURCE: City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, 2003
Guinness Book of World Records, 2001 World Almanac and Book of Facts, 2000




Chicago firsts
Chicago produced the first...
Roller skates, 1884
Steel-framed skyscraper, 1885
Elevated railway, 1892
Cracker Jacks, 1893
Zipper, 1896
Window envelope, 1902
Hostess Twinkie, 1930
Pinball game, 1930
Blood bank, 1937
Rotary Club, 1905
All-Star baseball game, 1933
Malted milkshake, 1922
Automated bread factory, 1910
Spray paint, late 1940s
Comprehensive municipal Plan, 1909
Mail order business, 1872
American Nobel Prize-winner, 1907
Controlled atomic reaction, 1942
Planetarium in W. Hemisphere, 1930
Municpal Cultural Center, 1897
Zoot suit, 1920s
Car Race, 1895
Oscar Mayer "Wienermobile," 1936
Cafeteria, 1895
U.S. meat slicer, 1909
Daytime TV soap opera, 1949


Noted personalities born in Chicago
Gillian Anderson, 8/9/68
John Beck, 1/28/43
Jim Belushi, 6/15/54
Tom Berenger, 5/31/50
Shelley Berman, 2/3/26
Tempestt Bledsoe, 8/1/73
Tom Bosley, 10/1/27
Andre Braugher, 7/1/62
Carol Moseley-Braun, 8/26/47
Dan Castellaneta, 1958
Michael Crichton, 10/23/42
Robert Conrad, 3/1/35
Richard M. Daley, 4/24/42
William M. Daley, 8/9/48
Clifton Davis, 10/4/45
Bruce Dern, 6/4/36
Phil Everly, 1/19/39
Dennis Farina, 2/29/44
Betty Ford, 4/8/18
Harrison Ford, 7/13/42
William Friedkin, 8/29/39
Mitzi Gaynor, 9/4/30
Maria Gibbs, 6/14/31
William Goldman, 8/12/31
Virginia Graham, 7/4/12
Michael Gross, 6/21/47
Herbie Hancock, 4/12/40
Jessica Harper, 10/10/49
Marilu Henner, 4/6/52
Hugh Hefner, 4/9/26
Henry Hyde, 4/18/24
John Jakes, 3/31/32
Quincy Jones, 3/14/33
John Landis, 8/3/50
Alison Lurie, 9/3/26
David Mamet, 11/30/47
Joe Mantegna, 11/13/47
Mary Matalin, b 8/19/53
Curtis Mayfield, 6/3/42
Jenny McCarthy, 11/1/72
Donna Mills, 2/11/42
Mr. T, 5/21/52
Martin Mull, 8/18/43
Mandy Patinkin, 11/30/52
Aidan Quinn, 3/8/59
Lou Rawls, 12/1/36
Pat Sajak, 10/26/47
Ben Savage, 9/13/80
Gary Shandling, 11/29/49
Bernard Shaw, 1940
Sidney Sheldon, 2/11/17
Maria Shriver, 11/6/55
Shel Silverstein, 1942
Gene Siskel, 1/26/46
Shelby Steele, 1/1/46
John Paul Stevens, 4/20/20
Mel Torme, 9/13/25
Robert Townsend, 2/6/57
Scott F. Turow, 4/12/49
Peter Ueberroth, 9/2/37
Marsha Warfield, 3/5/54
Raquel Welsh, 9/5/40
George Wendt, 10/17/48
Robin Williams, 7/21/52
Robert Zemeckis, 5/14/51


Chicago quotes
'I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.'
- Sarah Bernhardt

'It's a 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sun glasses. Hit it!'
- Jake and Elwood Blues

'Perhaps the most typically American place in America.'
- James Bryce

'Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together. If the city was unhappy with itself yesterday-and invariably it was-it will reinvent itself today.'
- Pat Colander

'I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.'
- Gary Cole

'Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin' town.'
- Fred Fisher

'You walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Rolling Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago Stockyards smell clean and good by comaprison.'
- Tom Fitzpatrick

'A lot of real Chicago lives in the neighborhood taverns. It is the mixed German and Irish and Polish gift to the city, a bit of the old country grafted into a strong new plant in the new.'
- Bill Granger

'Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have -- Cincinnati sounds worse.'
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

'I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. . . . I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.'
- Rudyard Kipling

'I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.'
- Irv Kupcinet

'Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.'
- Nelson Algren

'Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.'
- Fred Allen

'Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.'
- Dave Barry

'Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.'
- Leonard Louis Levinson

'Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.'
- A. J. Liebling

'Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.'
- Norman Mailer

'There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.'
- Groucho Marx

'I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.'
- H. L. Mencken

'Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.'
- Ralph Metcalfe

'Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.'
- William Vaughn Moody

'Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.'
- Claes Oldenburg

'Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.'
- Lincoln Steffens

'There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.'
- Noel Perrin

'Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.'
- Carl Sandburg

'It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago...'
- Dan Quayle

'Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.'
- Carl Sandburg

'It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.'
- Mark Twain

'Chicago, mistress of the lakes, Controller of our inland trade, The freest city of our states, What wondrous strides thy fame has made!'
- Charles Frederick White

'Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.'
- Oscar Wilde

'My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.'
- Oprah Winfrey

[Wasabiak]

The Chicago Flaming Pack of Haemorrhoids :D

[Bee]

I refuse to vote unless there's a trout option. I'm starting a write in campaign.

Chicago Trout

[WSUCougar]

Chicago Deep Dishers

[vtbub]

Cubs

[MrBug708]

Chicago Chokers

[RendeR]

I would recommend the "Chicago Pulse"

tons of things you could do with a logo for that, and it connects with the city info above. you could even link it up with the Mobster past by marketing them as the "living heartbeat of Chicago's history of strength and intimidation"


I dunno, its an off day for me...

[Neuqua]

I like Pulse...

Hmm....

[RendeR]

Great idea for a logo/helmet image:


take the helmet, make it either a darl blue/purple, or even black, and have a neon green heart monitor line going across it with a heartbeat peak in it......wish I had a quick image to throw up, god what a KEWL logo that would be!!