New Zealand rugby, cricket, and basketball teams are respectively called the All Blacks, the Black Caps, and the Tall Blacks. The New Zealand badminton team call themselves the Black Cocks. (This is not a joke, look it up.) When asked why by the press, the NZ badminton chief shrugged and replied that in fifteen years of holding that post, he had never seen a journalist. Since the rebranding, he has seen over twenty. As the Americanos would say, go and figure.
