How to Name Your Ragnar (or Tough Mudder) Team

The Tough Mudder was a blast last year, but in hindsight, the one thing I wished I'd done differently was to get a really comical theme for our team and some funny costumes.  So this year, as I'm training for the Ragnar Relay - our team officially adopted the name "Bow Tie Beer Mafia". It's easy to imagine the black costumes, AK-47 squirt guns, and van antics that will take place! If you need help naming your Ragnar or Mudder team - here are some concepts to get you started...

Concept: Executive by day, beer drinker (or partier, or tough guy, or dog lover, or international spy) by night

• Work hard, play hard _______(bandits, beer guzzlers, gurus, squad...)
• The "Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult" team
• Blood Sweat n BEERS
• Beer Pressure
• I beer, therefore I am

Concept: Proof that beer is a better way of life (or bacon)

• The Black and Tans - Possible outfit is spray tans!
• The Brewski-nators
• The Baconators
• The Beer and Baconators
• The Bacon Brewinators
  
  

Concept: My bad ___ is badder than your sad ___  (i.e. smack talkin' ego mongers)

• My ____ is bigger than your _______ (leg, peeps, dogs, vans, shoes)
• Eat #%&* and Run

Concept: True Grit hard core (i.e. I wish I had a Harley, and yes...I love black leather)

• Dirtbag Hardcore
• The Down and Dirty _________ (motorheads, bulldogs…)
• (or irony) The Down and Dirty _________ (pink faeries, sunflowers, pansies…)
• The Mother Truckin’ Raginators

Concept: Gross is really funny

• Scum sucking bottom dwellers - just think, what would the costumes be?
• Mud Eaters

Concept: We’re cute but we’ll still mow you down

• Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy (as in “Ragnar Run, I barely noticed that...I feel like running 100 miles today by myself…”)
• Goody Gumdrops - Take that!
• Pink Pansey Pickers
• The Fabulous Frolicking Fairy Flappers (Tuu tuus required)
• The Marvelous Merry Mafia Mongers (Tuu Tuus with big guns)

Concept: Get a crazy theme  (i.e. who is going to organize costumes????)

• The Hula Girls (grass skirts, preferrably short, with coconut bras - it might chaff though!)
• The Parrot Heads (buffet flower shirts)
• The Palm Pirates ( Hawaiin garb with eye patches - which of course, conveniently double for sweat headbands.)
• The Pirate Rat Bastards (Black pirate gear, all the way - AAARRRRGH!)
• The Flapper Girls (20’s sequins, boys in dresses….)

Concept: Something with Dozen - for those 12 member teams

• Dirty Dozen
• Dozen in the Oven (What rhymes with dozen?)

Once you've named your team, you might need T-shirts printed. If you build your T-shirts through www.digitalwish.org - you can sell them at cost and the Digital Wish charity automatically gets a donation to support schools.  If you sell them at a profit, you get to pick your favorite school to receive the proceeds. 

Watch this video to get started.