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2016 fantasy football team name suggestions

Attendees of the NFL party during NFL Fantasy Draft Week enjoy themselves on August 22, 2013, in New York City. (Brian Ach/AP Images for NFL)
WASHINGTON — It’s nearly time to kick off the NFL season, which means fantasy football is already in full swing. Whether you’ve already had your draft or are still scrambling through rankings, there’s always time to come up with a great team name before the season starts. In that spirit, just as we did last year, here’s a handful of fantasy team name suggestions for 2016. We’ve updated the references for this season, and as always, we aim to avoid the generic, lazy jokes you’ll find elsewhere in your search. Hopefully one of these resonates, or at least inspires you to come up with your own name. Oh, and a word of caution: the sense of humor gets darker the deeper you go down the list, so click through at your own peril. (Brian Ach/AP Images for NFL)
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Attendees of the NFL party during NFL Fantasy Draft Week enjoy themselves on August 22, 2013, in New York City. (Brian Ach/AP Images for NFL)
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his wife, Giselle, left, stand in a box during a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Fenway Park in Boston, Friday, April 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Washington Redskins defensive back Josh Norman (24) reacts after a play during the first half of an NFL preseason football game against the Buffalo Bills, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicker Roberto Aguayo (19) kicks a field goal against the Washington Redskins during the fourth quarter of an NFL preseason football game Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
El quarterback de los Cowboys de Dallas Tony Romo es atendido por un entrenador tras una caída durante una jugada contra los Seahawks de Seattle, en la primera mitad de un juego de pretemporada el jueves 25 de agosto de 2016, en Seattle. (AP Foto/Elaine Thompson)
A visitor touches a picture of Harambe, a male silverback gorilla, at a makeshift memorial outside the Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Tuesday, June 7, 2016, in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Zoo reopened its gorilla exhibit Tuesday with a higher, reinforced barrier installed after a young boy got into the exhibit and was dragged by the 400-pound Harambe, which was then shot and killed. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
FILE - In this March 11, 2013, file photo, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt, left, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell listen during a news conference in New York, about GE partnering with the NFL, the US Military, and others to further research on head injuries. Commissioner Goodell enters his second decade in charge on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. A few years into Goodell's tenure as NFL commissioner, a grad school professor polled students on who was the most effective leader in the major sports. Goodell romped. 
That was before the league locked out the players in 2011. Before the Saints' bounties scandal. Before the behavior of Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson _ and so many others _ led to a stricter player conduct policy.  Before game officials were locked out. Before Tom Brady's suspension in "Deflategate." And before issues over head trauma and concussions brought player safety questions to the forefront.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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