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Brentford Football Club is a professional association football club based in Brentford, West London, England. The team competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Nicknamed "The Bees", the club was founded in 1889 and played home matches at Griffin Park from 1904 before moving to the Brentford Community Stadium in 2020.
The team competes in the National League, the fifth level of the English football league system. The club was founded in Chipping Barnet in 1888. From 1907 until 2013 they played their home matches at Underhill Stadium, then moved to the new Hive Stadium, which is named based on the club's nickname of "The Bees".
The Killer Bees: [46] The 1982 Miami Dolphins defensive team; seven of their 11 starters had last names that began with the letter "B" (Bob Baumhower, Bill Barnett, Lyle Blackwood, Kim Bokamper, Glenn Blackwood, Charles Bowser, Doug Betters, and Bob Brudzinski). They allowed only 131 points in the strike-shortened, nine-game regular season.
[20] 11 new players were signed and the Bees' first-ever Football League match took place on 28 August 1920 at Exeter City's St James Park, [30] which resulted in a 3–0 defeat. [31] Despite 18 goals from Harry King , a lack of goals from elsewhere in the side led Brentford to a 21st-place finish, [ 32 ] but the club were re-elected into the ...
This is an incomplete list of U.S. college nicknames. If two nicknames are given, the first is for men's teams and the second for women's teams, unless otherwise noted. Generally, athletics are mainly branded by their common name , meaning words like "University of" or "College" are usually omitted and only the unique name elements are used.
The school's official nickname became the Hoosiers in 1923, when the program called its football team the Scrapping Hoosiers. Hoosiers are the formal nickname for those from Indiana, as they were ...
Boston Bees, the 1936–1941 name of the Boston (later Atlanta) Braves Major League Baseball franchise; Bracknell Bees, an English ice hockey team; Brentford F.C., an English football club; Burlington Bees, a Class A minor league baseball team; Coventry Bees, an English motorcycle speedway team; New Britain Bees, a baseball team
By nickname "Ain'ts*" – New Orleans Saints, NFL; rhyming play on the non-standard English negative ain't [30] "America's Team" – Dallas Cowboys, by sports media [31] "B.I.L.L.S.*" – Buffalo Bills, by detractors, acronyms for "Boy I Love Losing Super Bowls", in reference to the team's failure to win the Super Bowl in four straight tries during the early 1990s [32]