Well, you'd have to be careful and considerate of history. Say, for example, the Micmacs (where my bit of Native American heritage comes from) played against the Nipmucs (the tribe that inhabited my hometwon before white folks settled it (the third time) I'm pretty sure the Nipmucs would "slaughter 'em" every time. They wiped out the first two attempts by immigrant white folk to settle my town ...

and, by the way, our high school teams were "Pirates" - but with our orange blazers and black pants, we called ourselves the marching pumpkins!

Hey, I know! Lets rename all teams with the names of diseases or bacteria - far more deadly than Pirates, "Indians" or Vikings, and more successful over the long run!

"Gooooo Small Pox! Yeah!"