The photo that received the most stickers was a shot of the Henry Doorly Zoo. There were also shots of South Omaha, downtown Omaha, the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting and the Capitol building.

“We want to get people’s opinions,” Jason Mims, who will coach Omaha’s USL team, said of name ideas. “Whether it’s funny, or creative, or really good, or makes you laugh, makes you cry — whatever it may be. We want to hear from everybody in Omaha.”

The session also included a guided discussion by Erika Bjork, a consultant for USL Omaha. Bjork asked the few dozen people at Barchen to dig into the roots of Omaha and Nebraska. What does it mean to live in the Midwest? What does it mean for a place to be family-oriented? How much of the state’s history, of the state’s agricultural roots, should shine through the team?

Those answers will come, in part, as a result of the forums. Fans like Liam Keating, who lives in Omaha and attends school at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, say the team needs to be rooted as locally as possible.

Right now, Keating said, Omaha’s soccer community must turn to Sporting Kansas City or national teams for their soccer fix. But soon, no more.