# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/41 "2009-02-12T04:06:15Z")
> [@The\_Superhero](#): > > One of the schools in the next town over from my hometown, in honor of the agrarian history of Northern Colorado, has as its mascot the Lambkins. > > Not just the Lambs, mind you. The Lambkins. Awww… I just want to pet them, that sounds so cute - not exactly what one looks for in a high school sports mascot, I would think. I remember seeing the school ID of a woman who attended a high school in Arizona whose mascot was the Prisoners. On the part of the ID where the picture of the mascot goes was a little cartoon head of a bald tough guy, like someone Popeye would be seen beating up or something. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/42 "2009-02-12T05:46:12Z")
Man, I thought one school in the state with Pretzels was bad enough. I didn’t know about New Berlin. Of course, there are always the Joliet High School Steelmen, not bad considering the history of the town. But then there are the Lady Steelmen. Unfortunately for the funny part of it, Pekin High School has changed mascots. They’re Dragons now. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/43 "2009-02-12T05:48:55Z")
My high school’s teams were called the Colts (and Lady Colts). A j.v. cheerleader typo at a game once rendered the name as “Clots,” which was much more appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/44 "2009-02-12T05:56:14Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > We were the Vikings. I don’t recall any Lady Vikings, but there may well have been some. Or the Viqueens. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/45 "2009-02-12T12:01:22Z")
There is a local Trojans team that many people refer to as the Rubbers. My high school was the Bulldogs and yes, we had Lady Bulldogs. It never seemed funny to me at the time. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/46 "2009-02-12T14:10:57Z")
In the town where my husband grew up, the high school team was called the Demons, and the nearby middle school had the Imps. Also, in our town we have a road called Hog Liver Road. We jokingly call the school located on that road “Hog Liver Middle School: Home of the Fighting Viscera”. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/47 "2009-02-12T20:27:03Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > Wouldn’t the ‘Lady Dogs’ be ‘The Bitches’? I like that better than “Lady Dawgs”, as with a certain high school I know of also with the Bulldogs mascot. Yes. **Lady Dawgs**. ---
**Author:** ![warmark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/58f4c7/32.png) [@warmark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmark)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/48 "2009-02-12T21:00:16Z")
Around here, we have the Bulldogs (and Lady Bulldogs, of course) and the Crusaders and Lady Crusaders. My HS, we were the Rangers and girls’ teams were the Lady Rangers, but I guess that’s not too bad. We were the only school in our district without an animal mascot, though. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/49 "2009-02-12T21:13:37Z")
> [@KnitWit](#): > > Hi, I was an Illini too! Small world. > > There’s a small town in Illinois that consolodated when I was in high school. The kids got to vote on their mascot and school colors. So now they’re the Fischer Bunnies, in their pink and blue uniforms. Kids are hilarious. Another Illin . . . (a?) here. Beat me to it with the Fisher Bunnies. Not sure who would win in a Cardinal v. Bunny deathmatch. ---
**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 12, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/50 "2009-02-12T21:27:46Z")
> [@The\_Superhero](#): > > Back in the day, Greeley High School (now Greeley Central) were the Spuddiggers. One of my college roommates was from Waupaca, WI, which is apparently the potato-growing capital of Wisconsin. His high school teams were known as the Comets (and Lady Comets), but he told me that “Spudsters” had been seriously considered as the team name. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/51 "2009-02-13T16:57:22Z")
I actually went to 2 different high schools with trojans for mascots. One year they passed out condoms at graduation. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/52 "2009-02-15T06:33:53Z")
> [@jay-c](#): > > In high school, our rivals were the **F** airfield **U** nion **C** harging **K** nights in Lancaster, Ohio. I was quite disappointed to find out that they’ve now changed their mascot to a falcon. Ha! I was going to mention them. I was a Little Muskie (lame), so if your memory is good, that will tell you exactly where I went to high school. The Little Muskies are fish, which isn’t exactly threatening. Our colors were Maroon and white. One of the teachers loved to tell a story from the 1980s where the home-ec teacher made a big production out of crafting a new mascot outfit. She kept it a big secret and ultimately unveiled “the Maroon Goon” at a pep rally. It was a faux-fur and hula-hoop monstrosity that very closely and quite unfortunately resembled a furry condom with a student running around inside it. The whole school took one look and had no idea what to make of it. The teachers all giggled nervously. They used it for a while and retired it as soon as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/53 "2009-02-15T07:10:24Z")
Here’s a fun thread about mascot names from the deep past: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=52169&highlight=high+school+mascots](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=52169&highlight=high+school+mascots) OK, it’s the only thread I ever started that had any serious response ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373/54 "2009-02-15T09:36:39Z")
There’s the Lady Bulldogs, The Clippers (and the Lady Clippers, I was unaware airplanes had gender) and the Quakers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sophomoric-fun-with-high-school-team-name/485373.md?page=2)