This is not Carson Daly's idea

For years, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays dwelled as the laughing stock of the American League East. In their first year after dropping the "Devil" from their name, they suddenly won 97 games and marched all the way to the World Series. Three months later, the Arizona Cardinals dropped decades of suck and made a Super Bowl run after moving from "Scum" Devil Stadium into their sparkling new University of Phoenix Stadium. Is it merely a coincidence these two historically bad programs suddenly found success? Or is it karma? Other professional teams seem to think its the latter, and they're making a few changes of their own.

-Even though they had already changed their name from the Washington Bullets, the Washington Wizards thought that perhaps the "Wizard" name promoted some sort of demonic magic. To solve this problem, and to avoid having to change their name again, they will now be known as the Washington 23ers. It's to remind people that Michael Jordan played there. Remember? No really, he did, from 2001-2003. Oh, you tried to block that out of your memory? That's unfortunate. Lets hope it sticks.

-Across town, the Washington Redskins finally gave up their racial-slur mascot. On opening day of 2009, they'll be the Washington It-Doesn't-Matter-if-You're-Black-White-Blue-Brown-Green-or-Red-Skins.

-Tredding down the same path, both the Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves put down the tomahawks and found more current ways to celebrate the Native American people. If there is a repeat of the 1995 World Series, the Cleveland Card Dealers will face the Atlanta Slots.

-The Oakland Raiders took the Cardinals approach of rewarding fans with a new stadium. Unlike the University of Phoenix Stadium, which rolls natural grass from outside the stadium back into the stadium for game time, the Raiders will roll in an entirely new team.

-With a new stadium already on the way, Jerry Jones thought he could reward his Dallas Cowboy fans even more by signing whoever Tony Romo is dating at the time to sing the national anthem before each game. In a bikini. Between each possession.

-Despite three Stanley Cups in the past fifteen years, the New Jersey Devils followed the Devil Rays example as literally as possible. The New Jersey ...s will now be the team everyone at the Prudential Center pulls for.

-Fearing their name might be too specific to one man upstairs, the New Orleans Saints are now the New Orleans Forgive-Us-Our-Sins.

-The Angels kept their name, but stopped with all of the Anaheim/Los Angeles squabbling and settled on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Orange County with surrounding communities of Santa Ana, Huntington, and Long Beach, all located in California.

-To reward their fans, the Los Angeles Clippers played hard for a game. Okay, that never happened.

-A few individual sport athletes are starting to respect karma as well. Michael Phelps decided to connect on a personal level with his fans. Unfortunately for him, many swimming fans are potheads. South Carolina is still undecided on pressing criminal charges.

-Knowing there was no changing Wrigley Field or their long standing name, the Chicago Cubs will just call their one hundred year curse a one hundred year coincidence.

-The Detroit Lions have ignored all signs, and will go on with business as usual.

Much like the Good Lord, you can't make everyone a believer.