I would rebrand the Portland Pythons. I like the idea of both Portland and pythons, just not together. After all, Pythons are not native to Portland. After doing some research, I would like to introduce to you the Bangkok Pythons. Pythons are native to Southeast Asia, and Bangkok is one of the largest city’s in that region. The introduction of another international team in the league in the team also adds some spice, and would join the newly rebranded Osaka Kaiju team as the only Asian teams. However, if one wanted to keep the Portland aspect, I could see a rebrand towards the Portland Elk. Elk isn’t exactly the first animal you would think of, however they are quite large and extremely dangerous if provoked. I think I could take a python in a fight, but an elk would be much harder. Anyway, no offense to Portland, and I appreciate the alliteration of their name.
While I am a fan of the location and branding in isolation, I have always felt that it was out of place that one of the teams in the ISFL relied on branding from an existing professional/semi-professional team, this team being the San Jose Sabercats.
Choosing to relocate and rebrand this team gives us a lot of opportunities to expand the international reach of the league. I wrote an article a long while ago about the best possible locations for expansion or relocation teams and highlighted in this strong reasoning for South American team, especially in Brazil. This region is a big area of growth for fans of American football in our time, especially in Brazil which has some of the highest NFL viewership numbers as well as one of the most robust domestic leagues in the continent. My specific recommendation for a city at that time, which I would stand behind today was for a team in São Paulo, which is the largest urban area by population outside of Asia. While I listed a couple of options for mascot at that time, if I were to relocate the Sabercats I would prefer to try to preserve or pay homage to the long history of this founding team in the league, so I would suggest the team could be named the São Paulo Pumas to retain the branding under a wildcat mascot. This would allow colours and mascot to stay very similar to the current great logo, with perhaps the change from the current dusty gold to a brighter gold option akin to the country's current national association football team's main colour.
Relocation is always a tricky thing. There’s almost a sweet spot you want to hit for the least amount of controversy from the community when moving a team and changing their branding. Too early? People will get annoyed that a team didn’t get the chance to make use of their imagery. Too late? People will dislike moving a team with so much history. If you see the reaction to the move of Philly compared to Chicago you’ll see what I mean. Both the Liberty and the Butchers were long established franchises with baggage from histories of recent failure, and it was decided that in both cases a change was necessary to clean the slate. The reaction to Philly, however, a team that had been around since season 2, was much more pronounced and negative than the movement of Chicago who had existed since season 16. With that said the only team I would even consider moving would be either Sarasota or Honolulu. I wouldn’t like the change but every other franchise has either been around too long or, in the case of Berlin and New York, not long enough.
Relocation is rarely a happy topic. Often times teams will look to relocate if their current theme has gone stale. Perhaps they did not have much success, and the team was viewed as cursed. Perhaps they were not viewed as a favorable location for free agents, so they think a rebrand / relocation will help bring some life to the team. Whatever the reason, it is rarely done. So, what team do I think should be relocated? The Austin Copperheads. These fools hit every single one of the above categories. The team stinks, can barely win any games. They are full of old veterans who can barely walk on to the field from the lockers, and the only "young guns" on the team are pitiful and lack talent. In addition, Austin is a painfully boring location. Who cares about Texas? They have enough football teams. So on that note, I believe we should send them international - you know, put the "I" into the "I"SFL. As such, I propose the "La Paz Lanceheads". I think that this relocation will send @omg and @modpro down to somewhere where they'll be appreciated: Bolivia. Bolivia has a rich history of football, despite their relatively small population. Surely anything beats Austin.
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I would personally say that NOLA needs to relocate as they are stinking up the entirety of the town with how smelly the team is. I know the smell has spread throughout the city and has caused many casualties. I would relocate them to a remote island in Hawaii. This was the Honolulu rivalry would spark and we can reutilize an island that was also used for quarantines in the past in Molokai. They can be the Molokai Mountains as they will be forced to live up there in isolation, so the wildlife is not harmed by their stench. I think this would be very beneficial to society as we need to save the city of New Orleans and salvage what we can. Obviously their primary color would be gray as a mountain is that color. Their secondary color would be green, not because of the lush wildlife but rather their smelliness.
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I've written about these kinds of topics so often at this point that it's harder to come up with original ideas lol. And I'm sure this idea isn't original either and has probably been written about 1000 times, but it's new for me so let's go up north, north, north to the North Pole because WHY NOT. So obviously, the main colors will be red and green and don't come at me about these colors being too opposite or whatever. The socks and pants will be like red and white striped candy canes obviously. For the mascot I'm between the Reindeer and the Elves. Honestly either one could work and could be really fun. I mean imagine staring down the muzzle of the reindeer that ran over grandma. Nope, I wouldn't want to that's for sure. A North Pole team would also have the advantage of being a perfect fit for one of my previous players, Adrian St. Christmas. He would get some kind of sponsorship role for sure just based on his name.
The only time that I would ever choose to relocate a team or rebrand a team was if there was some type of conflict with location corresponding to other teams. To have a team change cities and a new name and all, I think is silly for no reason. Yeah, a change up is cool, but having the original team is more Iconic. I think that Logo redesigns over a various amount of seasons can fulfill that urge to make a whole new team, and is good for the team and the league. A mix up in logo's can bring a new life to a team, more media coverage, more graphics made for players on your team, or even yourself as a GM, if this was the case. Obviously, if it was set in stone that there will be a relocation, I don't think there could have been a better concept than the butchers, as it is cool, entertaining and new, not bland.
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