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It’s fantasy football time again, so I’ve decided to give some unsolicited advice on how to choose funny fantasy football team names.

For those of you unfamiliar with the whole fantasy football thing, basically it is some sick obsession with tracking football stats and creating your own virtual team of real, live, breathing point scoring players. You go to a site like NFL.com and join a league and then you pick your players and hope that they outscore all of the other teams you play. If you love football, it’s a lot of fun. If you hate football, well then it probably seems like a pointless waste of time.

One important thing that you must do when playing fantasy leagues is create your own team name. Usually people want something that is funny, creative, unique, maybe even a little raunchy. It can be tough coming up with something witty and something that might sound cool to you but not lame to everybody else. Some people go with generic names – IE, they’ll call themselves the Dolphins or the Raiders. That’s not funny or creative at all though!

So, if you want some fantasy football team ideas that will make people laugh, then try some of my fool proof ideas below:

1. Pick an Obscure Animal: Calling yourself the Tigers is pretty boring. But if you pick an obscure animal that most people know nothing about, then it can potentially be funny. For example, how about a jellyfish? An aardvark? Why not a star nosed mole? If you go with an animal, make sure it’s a good one. Choosing something snugly like an angora rabbit will likely make the other players in your league think you’re a big wimp.

2. Think Pop Culture: I hate pop culture, but lots of people like it. Think to some movies you’ve watched lately or a song you’ve heard. Lady Gaga is really big (and disgusting in my opinion) these days so you could be the “Lady Disgust-ga-gas”. That’s not really funny, but it serves as an example of something wittier and funnier you can hopefully come up with on your own.

3. Something Menacing: It can be really funny if you have a menacing name and then it turns out that your team is totally terrible.

4. An Old Cliche: Simply head on over to the Cliche Finder and pick whatever word you happen to like. Voila – You can be the “Crazy Sack O Cats”.

5. Something Football Related: Pick a player name and find some play on words with his name. I suck at this to give you examples but at least once a year I see a name like Farvenators and I’m sure you can think of something much better.

6. Add in a Ridiculous Adjective: Add more power to your name by picking a very strange adjective. The Handsome Lizards, the Menacing Angora Rabbit, the Precious Flip Flops, the Bamboozling Pandas…you get the idea.

Anyways, that’s all my big ideas for coming up with funny fantasy football names. I do not claim that any of the made up team names here are any good ones or even actually funny. I hold no responsibility if you use one of my ideas and you end up with a lame fantasy football team name. But I have confidence that you can do better than me. And remember: sometimes names are so bad they become funny.

Have any good fantasy football team names you want to share? Tell me your ideas or ones you have seen/heard before in the comments section below!