How about the US-Santa Cruz Banana Slugs?
Once upon a time my "less than fond of pro sports" wife and I were driving on I35 out of Dallas toward Waco when she espied a billboard advertising a Ranger's Museum. This sent her into a tirade about how they were a relatively young team, and what had they done in their short existence to deserve a museum, and how this showed excessive attention and adulation were devoted to pro sports. I finally got a word in edgewise and explained the museum was for the Texas's legendary law enforcement agency. She paused and said, "Oh".
I'm convinced that the Univerity of MO, Kansas City basketball team, "The Fighting Kangaroos" was actually named from a 1970's college issue of "The National Lampoon!"
Mark
Original name of the Nebraska Cornhuskers was the Bugeaters.