An Ode to Bocce Team Names

By Jan McEvoy

Bocce ball is a very popular activity at Monterey CC and has been a growing entity since 2018. We currently have 36 teams (that’s a whopping 315 players) playing in our Monterey Bocce league. Each team has their own unique and clever name. Below is a quirky little ode to very fun and creative team names. It stands for the enthusiasm and joy that bocce brings to each team individually and to our club as a whole.

Monterey bocce is here to stay

Chewbocce and Goombas are ready to play

Piasanos and Primo wait in the queue

While Bada Bing and the Rat Pack ready their crew

The Bocce Squad is in the zones

To take on Just Us and The Bowling Stones

But don’t be fooled by the Olive Crushers

They will run you over like a team of mushers

While Courting Disaster is quite uncertain

Meatballs and Bocce Vino are only aflirtin’

But Mission Imbocceball is rolling the dice

As High Rollers and Team Amici vie for a price

Bocce Brigade enters like Rolling Thunder

We’re Here for Beer and don’t you blunder

Or the Bocce Burglars will raid your court

Son of a Bocce - we’ll settle for port!

8 Is Enough, Bella-Bocce declares

As Bocce Balboa runs for the stairs

You’ll hurt yourself, my Bocce Mi Amore

La Dolce Vita, if you don’t slow down I’ll call in the Gladiators to take you down

Andiamo & Fireballs are the craze

But Bocce Versace will be fashions next phase

And Nothing to Botch About is on their game

Though you’d never know it by their funny name.

Bocce Newies is really a name

And they strive to belong to the bocce hall of fame

Then there’s Bocce Paisanos & Reckless Rollers

And La Bocce Vita & Rolling Stones bowlers

Those are the team names for Monterey’s Bocce Ball

Created by the captains and their team members all.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this ode to all of bocce’s team names. If you have an interest in playing with our league, please contact us at mccbocce@gmail.com. A golf membership or sports membership is required to be eligible.

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