Leave the name in San Francisco

You can take the team out of San Francisco but you can't take the San Francisco out of ... oh, never mind.
With the 49ers looking to leave their hearts but not their franchise in San Francisco, one legislator wants to make them leave the name behind, too.
Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, plans to introduce a bill that would prohibit any professional sports team from using San Francisco in its name if it doesn't actually play in the city.
“The name San Francisco has cachet all over the world as a number one destination spot,'' Leno said. “I don’t think San Francisco’s name should automatically be able to be used by a franchise that is not located in the city."
Hmm. Someone oughta explain that one to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
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Assemblyman, if you want to do something really useful, you should prohibit teams from taking names that were tailored for one geographic region and make absolutely no sense in another.
To wit - the Los Angeles Lakers? The team's name, of course, made sense when they were playing in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes. Can someone tell me why they kept that name in dry SoCal, other than for the sake of alliteration?
And the Los Angeles Dodgers were of course named in Brooklyn, and originally called the "Trolley Dodgers" in a reference to the borough's web of trolley lines. There's not a whole lot of trolleys to dodge in L.A. (Though you might want to watch out for that Orange Line).
And how 'bout that Utah Jazz ...
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While we're at it, why not have a law forcing entertainment writers to stop referring to "Hollywood" productions when everyone knows the studios long ago moved to the San Fernando Valley. Come on Valley legislators -- force 'em to rename that famous song "Hooray for Burbank."