There's two kinds of people: Thinkers and Doers. Portland is well known for its baseball team, the Thinkers. I'm proposing a team called the Seattle Doers. That's right, two teams in Seattle! By harnessing the municipal rivalry between the two cities, and putting the team in a whole different sport from Portland's (thereby guaranteeing no one can prove one team is better), we can grow the league even more in this key West Coast city.
The Doers will be all about action. Their uniforms and arena will be covered with verbs. Not those namby-pamby verbs that don't accomplish anything, like “to be” or “to want,” but real do something verbs, like “to go” or “to eat.” Those are the kind of verbs that this country was built on.
The mascot will be a big yellow Labrador named “Doobie,” because he's always doing something. The actor that plays him will need to be a long distance runner, because he's always going to be in action.