How did major sports teams get their names?

Some people ask why a team has chosen their name. Well today I will tell about how a few teams got their name, and why they chose it.
One major sport team the Green Bay Packers has chosen the name because one of the founders had asked his employer, the Indian Packing Company for money to buy uniforms. The company gave him the money for the uniform, but on the condition that the team would be named after the company. The founders named them the “Packers” after the donation from the Indian Packing Company.

The St. Louis Cardinals had a few names before the “Cardinals.” Those names were the “Brown Stockings”, and then the “Perfectos.” One day the owners had heard their future name by a group of fans saying “what a lovely shade of cardinal” so then they officially changed their name to the “St. Louis Cardinals.”

The Vancouver hockey team “Canucks” had gotten their name in an unusual way. They had made their logo and name after a Haida-styled killerwhale. The killerwhale had a shape that formed like a “C” and was breaking out of a patch of ice.

The Utah “Jazz” had got their original name from the New Orleans. This team originated in New Orleans, and then had relocated to Utah. The New Orleans named them the “Jazz” because that style of music was a big part of that town.

One of the older teams in football, the Detroit team the “Lions.” Had chosen their lovely name because their tradition to keep a jungle cat related names started by the Detroit Tigers (baseball.)

Our closest state to us, Washington has a superb soccer team called the Seattle “Sounders.” They choose their name because their team lives life seeing the “sound” as in the type of body of water. Also people think it reflects the city of Seattle. Those are some of the different ways that different sport teams have gotten their names.