MLS Fans Suggest Footy McFooty Face as Name for San Diego's Team

Aside from his work as the associate director of the Harvard Cutaneous Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Sam W. Lee also serves as an associate professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School. Outside of Sam W. Lee’s professional life, he enjoys watching American soccer. 

With Major League Soccer (MLS) set to expand their number of teams in the coming years, fans in San Diego, California, are hopeful that the Southern California city will get in on the action. They are also hopeful that the team will be named, “Footy McFooty Face,” according to an online poll. 

If the name sounds slightly familiar, it might be because the series of events mirrors a similar poll last year, where the Internet voted to name a $300 million British research ship Boaty McBoatface. That poll was rejected by the United Kingdom’s Science Minister, who said the important vessel needed a more “suitable” name. 

Still, Footy McFooty Face leads the poll with over 7,000 votes, while the nearest alternative is the less silly San Diego Surf with less than half that number of votes. FS Investors, the group behind the poll, will submit the top 10 results to the MLS for review, but like Boaty McBoatface, fans probably should not expect San Diego’s soccer team to don a Footy McFootyface kit, whether it leads the polls or not.