I think I've answered this question before? Maybe it was in a podcast. But I'd definitely be hard pressed not to go with a fantasy setting, based on Ugarth's lore. Why wouldn't he want to take this sport called football back to the realms of magic and men, along the Sword Coast. Some strong contenders there, obviously.
The Waterdeep Dragons (or Dragon Wards), named for the mythical dragon in their harbor, and for the legendary dragon ward which supposedly keeps dragons out of the city. Maybe the Waterdeep Griffon Riders, for their famed aerial cavalry? Lots of options for Waterdeep, and as it's one of (if not the) largest city on the sword coast, you could easily have multiple teams out of the city.
To the North, in Neverwinter, the obvious choice would be the Neverwinter Knights. Was Neverwinter famous for their Knights? Maybe not so much. But the nights there are stuff of legend, and who doesn't like a play on words?
And finally if we're just concerning ourselves with the big coastal cities, why not the Baldur's Gate Hyena? A famous city, and one of its most famous but endearing pests.
Really you couldn't go wrong with the branding in such a lush and varied world, and in an area where they've never even heard of the game, there'd be no shortage of home team players. Seemingly half the population of these great cities are adventurers, fighters and mages and rogues and scoundrels of some sort. Specimens of both great physical and mental capacity, hardened by a life of literal life and death fights. Football would probably be the least bloody sport in this sort of world.
The Waterdeep Dragons (or Dragon Wards), named for the mythical dragon in their harbor, and for the legendary dragon ward which supposedly keeps dragons out of the city. Maybe the Waterdeep Griffon Riders, for their famed aerial cavalry? Lots of options for Waterdeep, and as it's one of (if not the) largest city on the sword coast, you could easily have multiple teams out of the city.
To the North, in Neverwinter, the obvious choice would be the Neverwinter Knights. Was Neverwinter famous for their Knights? Maybe not so much. But the nights there are stuff of legend, and who doesn't like a play on words?
And finally if we're just concerning ourselves with the big coastal cities, why not the Baldur's Gate Hyena? A famous city, and one of its most famous but endearing pests.
Really you couldn't go wrong with the branding in such a lush and varied world, and in an area where they've never even heard of the game, there'd be no shortage of home team players. Seemingly half the population of these great cities are adventurers, fighters and mages and rogues and scoundrels of some sort. Specimens of both great physical and mental capacity, hardened by a life of literal life and death fights. Football would probably be the least bloody sport in this sort of world.
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