There is a high school around these parts whose male sports teams are called the Bulldogs. The female teams are called the Lady Dogs. No kidding. I drive past their billboard. People have Lady Dogs stickers on their cars.
In addition to being rather risque for a very uptight suburb, it strikes me as something that Hank Hill would call a particularly detestable woman.
The Minot State University’s male athletes are the Lumberjacks; the female athletes are the Lady Jacks. I’d want to be a Lumberjane, myself.
Wouldn’t the ‘Lady Dogs’ be ‘The Bitches’?
Wouldn’t that be Lumber Jills?
Or a particularly fine canine.
Sure, I guess. But Lady Jacks is silly.
I grew up near a school whose team was “The Trojans.”
I always wanted to be in a position where I could pretend not to remember the team name, and think aloud: “Ramses? Lifestyles?.. Trojans that’s it!”
Alas, no such opportunity ever arose.
Precisely. I would love to go to a home game waving a sign that said ‘GO BITCHES!’ But I’d probably be thrown out of the city. And, by virtue of being a middle aged man at a girls’ sporting match, with no relatives on the team, I would be some kind of creep.
Never mind.
My high school’s mascot was the Horsemen. The girls’ teams were called “Lady Horsemen”.
Lady. Horsemen.
Okeydokey then…
One of my (college) alma maters is the Bulls. The women’s team is not the Cows, sad to say, but the Lady Bulls. Try wrapping your head around that one.
It was much simpler back when they were the Brahman, but it got updated in the 80s.
The big rivals to my high school were called the Cadets. But, for some reason, the students at that school pronounced their team name “CAY-detts”, rather than “cah-DETTS”. So, of course, being high schoolers, we always referred to them as “GAY-detts.”
Our crosstown rivals were Trojans. Much high school level comedy ensued at those football games. Very one sided–we were the Mustangs. The jokes about the Trojans pretty much wrote themselves while jokes about Mustangs were just not funny.
There’s a small high school in Idaho called “Butte County High School”, and their mascot is the “Pirates”.
Making them the “Butte Pirates”.
I can’t imagine the teasing and ribbing those kids get.
The problem is that Butte is not pronounced the way you think it is.
That’s true, but I doubt most high scholers will notice the difference. 
My high school. Our mascot was a guy in a green helmet, not a banana. though.
I wanted desperately to get the company to sponsor our float, but that was before AIDS, so the idea never got anywhere.
Regards,
Shodan
We were the Statesmen, and I don’t remember that there was a female version used.
One local high school is the Highlanders. My daughter attends a rival school and they refer to the Highlanders as “Men in Skirts”.
My high school was, I wish I was kidding, the “Golden Tide”.
No amount of aping Alabama cheers could reduce the hilarity from that.