Agree with Dennis. Fascinating story told by a great story teller.

You can tell how old a franchise is by how they got their name.

Green Bay's Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun were working for the Indian Packing Company in 1919. Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, and was given $500 for uniforms and equipment. By 1921, they became the ACME Packers when the Clair brothers bought the team and applied for membership as a professional franchise with the newly formed American Professional Football Association.

Baseball is full of fascinating nickname stories.

The MLB team in Brooklyn played at Ebbets Field, which was surrounded by trolley lines. So fans getting into the game had to constant dodge the trolleys to get into the stadium. Thus the nickname Trolley Dodgers, just later shortened to Dodgers.

The Atlanta Braves started in Boston. The team president in 1911 was James Gaffney, who was a member of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party machine that controlled New York City politics throughout the 19th century. The Tammany name was derived from Tammamend, a Delaware Valley Indian chief. The society adopted an Indian headdress as its emblem and its members became known as Braves.

Boston's team in the newly-formed American League came in with no nickname. Wearing dark blue socks, they were known as the Bostons & the Americans. In 1907, Americans owner John Taylor announced that his team was adopting red as its new color after Boston's National League outfit switched to all-white uniforms. Taylor's team became known as the Red Sox, a name popularized by the Cincinnati Red Stockings from 1867.

Chicago's first professional baseball team was known as the Chicago White Stockings. When the team began to sell off its experienced players in the late 1880s, local newspapers began to refer to the club as Anson's Colts, a reference to player-manager Cap Anson's roster of youngsters. By 1890, Colts had caught on and Chicago's team had a new nickname. When Anson left the team in 1897, the Colts became known as the Orphans, a depressing nickname if there ever was one. When Frank Selee took over managerial duties of Chicago's youthful roster in 1902, a local newspaper dubbed the team the Cubs and the name stuck. When the American League formed, the new Chicago franchise wanted irritate the National League team by using their original nickname, the White Stockings. It was shortened to White Sox later.

Cincinnati had the very first professional team ever, and were the Red Stockings became they wore, yes, red socks. But in 1953, the team removed all mention of "Reds" from their uniforms, just using "CINCINNATI". They didn't want any trouble because of all the "Better dead than Red" slogans during the McCarthy era.

In Detroit, the Tigers were the nickname for the members of Michigan's oldest military unit, the 425th National Guard infantry regiment, which fought in the Civil War and Spanish-American War. When Detroit joined the newly formed American League in 1901, the team received formal permission from the regiment to use its symbol and nickname.

Kansas City became the Royals because of "Kansas City's position as the nation's leading stocker and feeder market and the nationally known American Royal Livestock and Horse Show". However, personally, I think they really wanted to use the nickname of the Negro League's Kansas City team, which were the equivalent of the Yankees in the Negro Leagues. The nickname? The Kansas City MONARCHS.

In 1903, the original Baltimore Orioles moved to New York, where they became the Highlanders. As was common at the time, the team, which played in the American League, was also known as the New York Americans. New York Press editor Jim Price coined the nickname Yanks, or Yankees, in 1904 because it was easier to fit in headlines.

Philadelphia's entry into the new American League was run by Athletic Baseball Club of Philadelphia, thus the Athletics. In 1902, New York Giants manager John McGraw referred to Philadelphia's American League team as a "white elephant." The slight was picked up by a Philadelphia reporter and the white elephant was adopted as the team's primary logo. The nickname and the elephant logo were retained when the team moved to Kansas City in 1955 and to Oakland in 1968.

After the Players' League collapsed in 1890, the National League's Pittsburgh club signed two players, including Lou Bierbauer, whom the Philadelphia Athletics had forgotten to place on their reserve list. A Philadelphia sportswriter claimed that Pittsburgh "pirated away Bierbauer" and the Pirates nickname was born.

The San Francisco Giant, originally the New York Giants, got their nickname in 1885. According to legend, New York Gothams manager Jim Mutrie referred to his players as his "giants" after a rousing win over Philadelphia.

In 1899, the St. Louis Browns became the St. Louis Perfectos. That season, Willie McHale, a columnist for the St. Louis Republic, reportedly heard a woman refer to the team's red stockings as a "lovely shade of Cardinal." McHale included the nickname in his column and it was an instant hit among fans. The team officially changed its nickname in 1900.