Tampa Bay’s pro soccer team reclaims the Rowdies name (St. Petersburg Times)
**Eduardo A. Encina, Times Staff Writer**
Thursday, December 15, 2011
TAMPA — What’s in a name? To Tampa Bay “Rowdies” owner and team president
Andrew Nestor, it is almost everything.
Tampa Bay’s professional soccer team — initially introduced as the Rowdies
before becoming embroiled in a trademark infringement lawsuit that forced the
team to be renamed FC Tampa Bay — can now officially be called the Rowdies in
homage to the old NASL club that filled Tampa Stadium and was the area’s first
championship team.
The club announced Thursday that it has exclusive license to use the Rowdies
name, a successful end to a three-year legal process with Dallas-based apparel
company Classic Ink, which owned the trademark. Nestor wouldn’t disclose terms
of the settlement with Classic Ink, only saying they were “significant but
reasonable.”
Nestor said obtaining the name marked the biggest day in franchise history,
even topping the day when the Boston-born businessman announced he was
bringing a new professional soccer team to Tampa Bay in June 2008.
“If you look at other sports franchises around the world, in any sport, the
successful teams have a classic identity that their community has pride in,”
Nestor said. “At the …
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