One of the fun parts of being a fantasy football manager has nothing to do with strategy - it's coming up with funny or clever fantasy football team names. These fantasy football team names can range from NSFW options to monikers that make references to pop culture or even take a good-natured shot at one of your competitors. The idea is to make your fellow fantasy managers laugh when your team's name shows on their schedule.
Whichever way you go, make sure your fantasy football team name fits your style and sense of humor. After all, we may put in a lot of time studying fantasy football rankings and pouring over our fantasy football cheat sheet to get an edge over our opponents, but in the end we all play fantasy football to have fun, and creative fantasy football names are a part of that!
Inappropriate Fantasy Football Team Names (NSFW)
Let's start this discussion by noting that the following section contains adult humor that is NSFW (Not Safe For Work). Reader discretion is advised.
With that disclaimer out of the way, it's clear that some managers prefer to take a page from history, looking at you Dick Shiner and Fair Hooker (two actual NFL players from the 1960s and '70s), to find inappropriate fantasy football names. Other team names include creative double entendres or other risqué references, some of which are drawn from the recent NFL news reports.
A sampling of the most inventive recent examples of this type of humor includes the following:
- WAP (Watson Ain't Playing)
- Hurts So Good
- Happy EndZone
- Mahomes Alone with Your Mom
- Baby Got Backfield
- CeeDeez Nutz
- 50 Shades of Trey
Funny Fantasy Football Team Names
Fantasy managers who prefer having SFW names have just as many naming options available. These clever fantasy football names can include puns, sarcasm and league inside jokes.
The key to inside jokes is that everyone in the league should understand the humor. I once knew a fantasy manager whose team name was "I'm Drafting Eddie George" because every manager knew he was going to draft Eddie George no matter what it took. He was the type of manager who started his research (using his fantasy football draft kit of course) with his team's second pick, not its first.
Pun examples and sarcasm offer wide-ranging opportunities for humor. Here are some recent instances of these types of team names:
- Tua Legit to Quit
- Lamar the Merrier
- Josh Jacobs Jingleheimer Schmidt
- Hot Chubb Time Machine
- Amon on a Mission
- AutoDraft Just Beat You
Clever and Original Fantasy Football Team Names
Fantasy managers were already using wordplay fantasy team names well before Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce hit the NFL scene and popularized this type of thing with a new group of NFL fans.
What makes this work is making sure people understand the reference. Take the team name Olave Garden. Pretty much every fantasy manager has eaten at Olive Garden, so they know what this is in reference to. Here are some other examples of clever fantasy football name ideas:
- Pitts Creek
- League of Ordinary Gentlemen
- Prolate Spheroid (i.e., the geometric shape of a football)
- Bijan Mustard
- Walker Texas Rusher
Pop Culture-Inspired Fantasy Team Names
This may in some ways be the best type of fantasy football team names 2025 has to offer because there are so many directions to go.
A shortcut to do this is to take a popular TV show or movie name and change one word. This method was used with the It's Always Sony in Philadelphia team name that combined former Patriots and Rams running back Sony Michel with the hugely popular "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" show. You can scan your custom fantasy football rankings for a player who's skill-set you like, but who also provides a good name to riff off of. For example:
- Run CMC
- The Mandalorian Moores
- Breaking Badgley
- The Dingo Ate My Brady
- This Gronks for You
- Dak Side of the Moon
- The Jeffersons (Justin Jefferson)
NFL Player Pun Names (QB, RB, WR, TE Specific)
Fantasy managers are used to navigating player specific fantasy football auction values. That same player position dividing can be done when creating NFL player pun names.
The best part of this approach is that it allows you to name your squad after your favorite player. That may let people know who you are aiming for in drafts, but let's get real – if you like the player that much, your fantasy football buddies already know this. They'll already be taking your preferences into account whenever they use the RotoWire fantasy football mock draft simulator to prepare for your draft.
- QB Examples: Hurts So Good, Burrowito Supreme, Murder Shedeur Wrote
- RB Examples: Bijan Mustard, A-Chain Reaction, Last Ashton Hero
- WR Examples: Addison Rae Route, Jeudy Duty, Tetairoa Dactyls
Tips for Choosing the Perfect Fantasy Team Name
Just as subscribing to RotoWire and using the best fantasy football draft assistant can get you set up with everything you need to win your league, here are some tips you can use to figure out the perfect fantasy football team name.
The most important tip is, as noted earlier, to choose a team name that fits your sense of humor and your style. It should ideally be something relevant, lasting and funny. It can fall into any of the categories discussed here, but you can also go in another direction if that suits you better.
Here are some other hints to help you create the ideal team name.
- Use your favorite NFL player as a base
- Keep it short enough to display fully on leaderboards
- Don't reuse last year's top names
- Try Using AI to generate a list
