EXPANSION: Seattle Name Will Be Either Seattle FC, Seattle Alliance, Seattle Republic - All Trademarked

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Seattle to Vote on Team Name
Published 3/20/2008 by drew.epperley at WVHooligan - Soccer Blog
... . MLS Rumor seems to think it is down to three names . Seattle FC, Seattle Republic and Seattle Alliance.  While they point out that all three are trademarked, I still think there will be more than those three names on the ballot. Mainly we all know these name voting are a little subjective in a way. The clubs want to see if the fans will pick what name they already have set out for the club. Many should remember how the voting went for other past expanion clubs, I believe RSL may be a good example of this. For a while we thought this club would be called Emerald City Greens ...

Vote on MLS Seattle's club name!
Published 3/20/2008 by The Beautiful Game at The Beautiful Game
... I saw this post over at MLS Rumors and received a press release from the team today, which says indeed the Seattle fans will be choosing the name of the new MLS franchise. ...

Friday Footie Link List, March 22, 2008
Published 3/22/2008 by The Soccer Source at Soccer Source
... is class. MLS Rumors is quality. MLS Rumors does stuff soccer (and other) journalists everywhere should but don't because they're lazy and lack initiative. Case in point: they track down the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office to get us, the fans, the likely names of MLS' next team, which will begin play in Seattle next year. This is stuff that's publicly available, folks. Why didn't anybody else think of that? Why didn't anybody other than Al Gore think of inventing the Internet? We are all mere mortals and they are simply several levels ahead of us. ...