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[slice slice baby]

A friend & I were talkin' as he was impatiently trying to get home this evening while driving through Norwalk.... said he was going to slow down 'cause he wasn't sure he would not get pulled over for speeding for 5 mph over the limit there.....but, stated that if he did, he'd say, " Thank you very much, you mother Trucker...." ~~ which just happens to be one of the coolest school nicknames around, imo......that led to this topic....We've had best/wost mascots before, but, nicknames are a bit different....

I have plenty of others too, but, for the sake of the thread to hopefully create a li'l more off-season chatter in this forum, I won't list.....


So, what do think are some of the best & worst team nicknames? <figured I'd throw in 'worst' too, 'cause there's some pretty stinkin' ones, as well, out there!

[ADog]

Maybe not the worst..but it has to be in the running

The Poca Dots of Poca West Virgina....are you kidding me?

[oberhaus]

I love Glenville's Tarblooders. Also Unioto's Sherman Tanks. Collingwood Railroaders.

I dont like the East Canton Wizards. Shelby Whippets (dog not the brain scrambler)

[polkhigh33]

South Webster Jeeps

Mifflin Cowpunchers

Crooksville Ceramics

[Pulitzer]

Maryville (Mo.) Spoofhounds
Teutopolis (Ill.) Wooden Shoes (and their girls teams, the Lady Shoes)
Hickman (Mo.) Kewpies
Pekin, Ill., used to be the Chinks (think about it a minute, you'll get it) but changed to Dragons

Around NW Ohio, I like Locomotives (Montpelier). At least it's not yet another boring Wildcats or Tigers or Bulldogs.

[oberhaus]

I think changing your mascot name for the girls team is stupid. Unless its a gender specific name like Avon Lake Shoremen and Shoregals. There is no reason to change Wildcats. Even adding "lady" before the mascot (Lady Patriots) is dumb. We all see they are girls. They are the Patriots. They are the Wildcats.

/rant

[slice slice baby]

oberhaus, on 20 May 2012 - 06:39 PM, said:

Whippets (dog not the brain scrambler)

'the brain scrambler'......that's a new one!

[dhsdawg06]

95 Z Out, on 21 May 2012 - 09:29 AM, said:

One of the most clever is Upper Scioto Valley Rams - Roundhead/Alger/McGuffey.
Lima Bath "Wildkittens" for the girls' teams is also clever.

Any gender specific nickname where they tack "Lady" on the front for the girls team is problematic (e.g., "Lady Rams").

That's cool, reminds me of how they got the name "Tinora." Took the first letters from the 4 townships that make up the district(TI- Tiffin, NO- Noble, R- Richland, A- Adams) and combined them into the name of the new high school.

[Pulitzer]

95 Z Out, on 21 May 2012 - 09:29 AM, said:

Any gender specific nickname where they tack "Lady" on the front for the girls team is problematic (e.g., "Lady Rams").

Central Missouri State Univerisity's men's teams are the Mules. Since there's no such thing as a female mule, their women's teams are the Jennies.

Here's another good one: The University of California-Santa Cruz are the Banana Slugs. That is awesome.

Edited by Pulitzer, 21 May 2012 - 01:57 PM.

[dhsdawg06]

Arkansas-Monticello Boll Weevils


Centenary College are the Gents. So they call their women's teams the Ladies.

[Teddy Malone]

Agree on the girls names, and why is Wildkittens clever? I never understood why they would want to be known as baby cats. Dumb.

[40time]

A kittem is not even necessarily a female, that is dumb! Hmm or possibly this tells us of thier reason for winning so many games!

[roadtoC-town]

The colors of Wayne Trace Raiders.

RED WHITE BLUE.

WTF

They are Raiders not Patriots.

[oberhaus]

roadtoC&#045;town, on 08 June 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:

The colors of Wayne Trace Raiders.

RED WHITE BLUE.

WTF

They are Raiders not Patriots.

What color should they be? Are Tigers Yellow and Purple? Are bulldogs Green and White, Orange and Black, or Blue and Silver? Are Wildcats Blue and Yellow?

[PHDigger]

What about Stanford? WTF is that thing?

[Duh Huh Dull Sucks]

Heidelberg University Student Princes.

And their women's teams? Pretty sure they are the "Lady Student Princes" (even though I think most people, even the people on campus, refer to the female teams as the "Student Princesses" anyway).

Perhaps the worse nickname ever...

[Badlands]

PHDigger, on 10 June 2012 - 04:15 PM, said:

What about Stanford? WTF is that thing?

A Tree

[lepiota]

Anybody know what a Hoya is?

[ADog]

lepiota, on 12 June 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:

Anybody know what a Hoya is?

Googled Hoya and came up with this:
http://www.google.com/search?
q=hoya&hl=en&prmd=imvnsr&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=afvXT7SXOK7D6gHDiKGlAw&ved=0CHMQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=623

So does this mean PAtrick Ewing was a pansy?