Most Unusual Mascot/Nickname You've Heard Of.

[UNTLifer]

Rotan Yellow Hammers

[chomp]

Hoopeston Corn Jerkers

[GreenTiger_OriginalAcct]

Caddo Mills Fighting Foxes

Atlanta Fighting Rabbs (Jackrabbits - but for years they used the word 'Rabbs' on their helmets and from a distance it looked like Rabbis

Edited June 28, 2005 by GreenTiger

[stebo]

Check out these links, lol:

http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/mascotdrop.html

and

http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/mascotmisc.html

[UNTFan23]

University of South Carolina Gamecocks.

I can say that on here, right? Gamecocks?

[GreenBrigadeDebbie]

Here are just a few of the oddball mascot/nicknames: (some I have heard of and some that are too funny not to mention...)

Rhode Island School of Design Nads

University of Arkansas at Monticello Boll Weevils

Conneticut College Camels

CSU at Long Beach Dirtbags

Webster University Gorloks

Tufts University Jumbos

I hope you guys get a kick out of these. I sure did!

Edited June 28, 2005 by GreenBrigadeDebbie

[PlummMeanGreen]

Some Texas High Schools:

Itasca Wampus Cats (original home of "I'm Mad" Eddie Chiles, ex Texas Ranger owner who was also ex NT Board of Regent)

Brazosport Exporters (in my home county near Freeport, Tx----uh, exporting what for heaven's sake?!?!?)

Weatherford Kangaroos ('Roos' in Texas?!?!?) Saw one just last night in FFR's neck of the woods!

Groesbeck Goats (bunch of red-neck goat-ropin' son of a guns near Fort Parker in Limestone County)

Lewisville "Fightin' Farmers?" Most farmers I ever knew growing up were Texas good ol boys--not fightin' farmers.

? ? ? ? Uh, I hope high school mascots were OK, too.

Edited June 28, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen

[UNTLifer]

Springtown Porcipines

Conway, Ark Wonder Boys

Hutto Hippos

One of the University of California system schools is the Banana Slugs

[PlummMeanGreen]

Here are just a few of the oddball mascot/nicknames: (some I have heard of and some that are too funny not to mention...)

Rhode Island School of Design Nads

I hope you guys get a kick out of these.  I sure did! 

So the Rhode Island School of Nads main yell is: Go Nads?!?!?

[stebo]

who is the Banana Slugs? some Cali school, right?

[SilverEagle]

who is the Banana Slugs?  some Cali school, right?

California-Santa Cruz

[mhow2]

New Bruanfels Unicorns

Richland Thunder Ducks

[Coach]

Rotan Yellow Hammers

I didn't know a Yellow Hammer was a bird until I read Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer recently and learned it is the state bird of Alabama. That is a great book by the way, and I think most on this board would appreciate it. It is just a season in the life of the RV army following the Crimson Tide around the country. I read it one day and when I put it down, I wanted badly to have an RV and start tailgating right then. It also looks like I will be across the sidelines from the Rotan version this season.

My personal favorite is the Wampus Cats of Itasca.

Others I didn't see from Texas high schools:

Trent Gorillas

Grandview Zebras

Roscoe Plowboys

Progreso Red Ants

Cuero Gobblers

Wellington Skyrockets

Floyoda Whirlwinds

Crane Golden Cranes

Winters Blizzards

[Monkeypox]

Roscoe Plowboys

[Got5onIt]

These are hilarious:

Jefferson Mud Turtles

Scottsdale Artichokes

Delta State Fighting Okra

Yuma Criminals

Tillamook Cheesemakers

Springtown Fighting Porcupines

Explorations Screaming Penguins

[Trojanman]

The Macon Whoopie

Minor league hockey team in Macon, Georgia. It's true, it's true.

[GrayEagle]

So the Rhode Island School of Nads main yell is: Go Nads?!?!?

Good one, Jim. Not to be outdone, the yell of the Austin Peay State University Governors is...let's go Peay!

I also think that there is an air of fierceness in the Amherst Lord Jeffs.

Don't forget the Frost Polar Bears.

And, until Whiteface changed their nickname to Antelopes it was the Hereford Whitefaces and the Whiteface Herefords.

[UNTLifer]

Pampa Harvesters

[eagle60]

And let's not forget the Class A baseball team in Modesto CA, "The Nuts." Yes, the name lost in voting for the new franchise with most votes going to "none of the above.' Now they've made the shirts, hats, etc., a collectors item. Logos have "Al Almond" and "Wally Walnut" on each side of the team name.

[ADLER]

Robstown Cottonpickers, .....now there's a politically correct sounding name.

[untbowler]

Still love UC-Santa Cruz Banana Slugs

UC-Irvine Anteaters

Amarillo H.S. Sandies

Edited June 29, 2005 by untbowler

[EagleD]

It's no longer thier mascot and was only for a few years way back in the day but Longview High School has the distinction of being the only school with "cannibals" as their mascot. As a graduate of LHS I'm glad they changed it to the Lobos.

Other than that I've always thought "Tar Heels" was odd.

GO MEAN GREEN! (Actually, "Mean Green" is kind of piculiar too.)

[letsgiveacheer]

The Tar Heel name came from a statement from Robert E. Lee in response to a Civil War Regiment from NC "sticking" to their postition when others retreated. As NC was a major producer of tar, Lee said "God bless the Tar Heels" and the name "stuck". North Carolina is officially "The Old North State".

The Macon Whopee is out of business...not much call for ice hockey in southern Georgia!

Finally, as the Webster University (in St Louis) Gorloks were mentioned earlier in this thread and as much as I received my Master's there; their name came from a street intersection on campus...Gore and Lockwood.

A lot of useless info here!

[pollock]

California-Santa Cruz

Next time you watch Pulp Fiction, check out the T-shirt that Travolta is wearing in The Bonnie Situation, after they get hosed off in Tarantino's back yard.

[Stan R]

Richmond University Spiders.

SPIDERS! YUK!