When's The US Going To Come Up With A Cool Nickname For Our Soccer Teams?

In this FIFA Women's World Cup tournament, for those of us watching ESPN's tournament coverage we've had the pleasure of not only hearing announcer Ian Darke call the games, but discovering the nicknames of the various women's national squads.

The English squad is called the Three Lionesses.  The Brazilians are called the Samba Queens.  Nigeria as you know from the posts of me slamming them on the regular for their off the pitch phobic hijinks are called the Super Falcons.   Australia is referred to as the Matildas and their New Zealand neighbors are the Football Ferns.

The Japanese are the Nadeshiko Japan, and their official nickname was chosen after a contest conducted by the Japan Football Association in 2004 and while the South Africans aren't in this tournament, their women's national team is known as Banyana Banyana.  

So when is Team USA going to come up with a cool official nickname for our women's national squad and what should we call them?   The Spirits of '76?    The Eagles?   The Red, White And Blue as ESPN's Bob Ley calls them?    The Football First Ladies?

Maybe the US Football Federation should do what Japan's Federation did and have a contest to come up with an offical nickname.
 
Whatever we call them, the nickname needs to reflect our national heritage and the winning legacy of this team and be done as soon as possible.

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