From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Bye-Week's manager said his team chose its name for two reasons: "After about five minutes, we couldn't think of anything else," explained Hartin, 30, of Belleville. "And we liked the aspect of possibly getting a free win out of it."
For that to happen, of course, an opponent would have to confuse the name "Bye-Week" with the belief that there actually is a bye week on the schedule. Teams that don't show lose by forfeit.
...Some aim simply to entertain: We'll Drink Your Beer, the Fighting Bureaucrats, the Southside Honey Badgers.
Some names give a nod to pop culture or news references: Tony Kornheiser's Kids, the Fershizzles, the HGH (human growth hormone) All Stars.
When I still had a shred of beer league talent, I played for the Lab Rats (physiology grad students and lab assistants), the Kamikaze Kowreckers (both co-rec teams, thus the latter's name (and pronunciation of the last word), the Kooler Kings (named for the place my co-workers at Walgreens and I used to like to stock... it gave us prize in which to hide for a few minutes a day) and for Biohazards (mostly vet-med professors and post-docs). I've played for three other teams whose names I can't remember.
The Biohazards tried psychological reasoning in the selection of shirts. We wore tie dyes and we wanted to send the message that we were a bunch of hippies. I don't know if it actually worked, but we could always see our players coming from a mile away, which was good because the parking lot was about a mile away and some of our players were often pushing arriving just at starting time. Even though they weren't always at the field, we could tell the ump we were fielding a full line-up.