# Sophomoric fun with high school team name **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373 "2009-02-11T15:44:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/1 "2009-02-11T15:44:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/2 "2009-02-11T16:14:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/3 "2009-02-11T16:19:27Z")
Wouldn’t the ‘Lady Dogs’ be ‘The Bitches’? ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/4 "2009-02-11T16:27:53Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > 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 that be Lumber Jills? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/5 "2009-02-11T16:48:27Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > 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. Or a particularly fine canine. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/6 "2009-02-11T16:52:27Z")
> [@picker](#): > > Wouldn’t that be Lumber Jills? Sure, I guess. But Lady Jacks is silly. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/7 "2009-02-11T16:53:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/8 "2009-02-11T16:59:53Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > Wouldn’t the ‘Lady Dogs’ be ‘The Bitches’? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/9 "2009-02-11T17:00:37Z")
Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/10 "2009-02-11T17:03:53Z")
My high school’s mascot was the Horsemen. The girls’ teams were called “Lady Horsemen”. Lady. Horsemen. Okeydokey then… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/11 "2009-02-11T17:21:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/12 "2009-02-11T17:31:01Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Convict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Convict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Convict)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/13 "2009-02-11T18:10:54Z")
> [@bup](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/14 "2009-02-11T18:11:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/15 "2009-02-11T18:14:58Z")
The problem is that Butte is not pronounced the way you think it is. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/16 "2009-02-11T18:45:15Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > 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. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/17 "2009-02-11T18:48:21Z")
> [@bup](#): > > 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. 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 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/18 "2009-02-11T18:49:21Z")
We were the Statesmen, and I don’t remember that there was a female version used. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/19 "2009-02-11T19:04:37Z")
One local high school is the Highlanders. My daughter attends a rival school and they refer to the Highlanders as “Men in Skirts”. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/20 "2009-02-11T20:07:59Z")
My high school was, I wish I was kidding, the “Golden Tide”. No amount of aping Alabama cheers could reduce the hilarity from that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373.md?page=2)