What's in a name? Trouble for Rowdies

The identity of the new Tampa Bay Rowdies professional soccer club was intended to be a throwback to the game's local heyday, when they won the North American Soccer League championship in 1975.

It wouldn't seem anyone would take issue, least of all the many ex-Rowdies players who have called the area home since that time.

But nothing is ever that simple. Classic Ink Inc., a Dallas-based producer of apparel items featuring logos and trademarks of bygone sports teams, sued the new team's owners over trademark infringement.