ATLANTA -- Over 10,000 people cast votes, and hundreds of names were selected. Now, Atlanta's largest soccer club has narrowed down name possibilities for the city's new soccer team to five.
Chief Marketing Officer of Terminus Legion, JR Francis, the voting isn't binding, and "in no way do we feel entitled to demand any name". But he said the club has been meeting with Darren Eales (president of the Atlanta soccer team) and the Atlanta MLS front office.
"He loves that we have gotten so many people interested in it," Francis said.
When the leadership at Terminus Legion calculated the results of the voting, they found five names that stood at as drawing the most support:
1. Black Harts
2. Empire
3. Firebirds
4. Resurgents
5. Terminus
Final voting will be active for about a week. The results will be handed over to the Atlanta MLS team. Francis said the voting process has proven opinions on the team name are all over the place: "We've found that it will be unlikely for the team to possibly make a majority of people happy, so we will re-establish that we will be fans and in the stands wearing the colors, no matter the name."
