Incidentally, those are both references to Newcastle, UK as the people of Newcastle are known as Geordies (and the 'dialect' of English that they speak is also called Geordie) apparently because during an attempted takeover by the Scots, the people held off an attack and legend has it that some bloke chose to make their warcry "We're Geordies!" or something to that effect as a means of swearing fealty to King George, the Protestant King. Pons Aelius is actually the name of the Roman settlement that was the precursor to Newcastle, the capital of the Kingdom of Northumbria. The team mascots "Billycocks" and "Sharkpies" also reference elements of the Newcastle culture. "Billycock" hats (also known as Bowler hats) were and still are popular in the region. The Newcastle football team, Newcastle United is often referred to as the "Magpies" in reference to their jersey colors, and since my second football league is called "Geordie Football Hell" I thought it appropriate to look for an image that would be something to the effect of a zombie magpie. The closest image I found via Google Search was a shark-pidgeon, which I dubbed a Sharkpie for my devious purposes ...
In the interest of wrapping things up, this was a thoroughly useless post, but I hope that some Geordie history has been roughly maintained.
As a side-note, pun and play on words "faux-faux football" is in fact American football, as the Europeans refer to American football as fake football. Fantasy football just takes fake football to a new level. Faux-faux also sounds an awful lot like fufu which has been defined in several ways including high-end and snobbish, a metrosexual male, a woman's lady parts and an edible vegetable root paste made and eaten in many African countries ...
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