Just when I was starting to like ‘1836’
March 2nd, 2006
OK, maybe not. But at least the name had a unique sound (for an American team).
Civic leaders were caught off-guard by the reaction to the new Major League Soccer team’s name, Houston 1836, which commemorates the date the city was founded. The name is being dropped after descendants of the people who lost Texas in 1836 asserted their growing political and economic clout, insisting the name be changed because of its negative connotation for them.