Team Fill-in-the-Blank

[Alice Faber]

Charles Doyle wrote:
> And this (unAmerican?) pattern seems to be spreading. For example, the Atlanta zoo called Zoo Atlanta.
>

If the earliest specific "Team X" citations are, indeed, with reference
to hockey teams, could this be an expansion of the Canadian pattern of,
for example, Grade Seven (where the US form would normally be Seventh
Grade)?

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