# Strangest High School Team Mascots **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757 "2000-12-21T21:14:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![avacado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@avacado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/avacado)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/21 "2000-12-21T23:37:33Z")
My junior high mascot wasn’t weird as much as it was lame: The Eaglets (Eagles being our high school mascot). And the colors were blue and orange (???). And there’s always my school’s mascot, the Hokies, as explained by Cecil [here](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhokie.html). ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/22 "2000-12-21T23:42:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by delphica \* > \*\*My high school mascot: The Flames > My college mascot: The Violets > > Very intimidating, both of them. The biggest danger they present is that players from opposing teams might fall down and injure themselves while laughing. > > \*\* The **Flames** are an NHL Hockey Team. It **must** be a tough name. Oh wait, what am I saying? I’ve forgotten about the **Blue Jackets**. “Oo, I’m scared a of a cold weather garment.” Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/23 "2000-12-21T23:57:05Z")
I saw a bumber sticker one for a HS football team–they were the Fighting Cocks. (mdf, could the Chanticleers have originally been the Cocks? The team chanticleer means rooster, not chicken) I have known several schools that were the “Trojans”. Would be a fantastic game. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/24 "2000-12-21T23:57:12Z")
The Monmouth (IL) _Zippers_! Cheerleading has rarely been offered headier (drumroll) possiblities. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/25 "2000-12-22T00:00:15Z")
My elementary school was the **Black-eyed Saints**. Yes, it was a Catholic school, as a matter of fact. 😛 My college had one of the stupidest mascots I’ve ever dealt with: **The White Mules** , with the women’s sport teams known as **The Lady Mules**. Of course, my high school, being named Notre Dame, had the classic Leprechaun/Irish dude. At least one of my schools has a vaguely normal mascot. ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/26 "2000-12-22T00:03:35Z")
I went to a school for a couple of years where the team name was the Rockets. Granted, the entire school only had about 150 kids in it, but seems like they could have done better. My college mascot was the Saluki. GO SIU-C! ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/27 "2000-12-22T01:41:46Z")
I used to know a guy from Blooming Prarie, MN. His high school’s mascot was…ready for this? **The Awesome Blossoms** I believe their colors were black and white or something similar. Not very blossomy…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/28 "2000-12-22T01:53:25Z")
Here in Yuma, Arizona, the teams at the oldest high school in town (Yuma High, of course) are called the Criminals. The mascot is a mean-looking guy in blue-and-white prison stripes. The name comes from the fact that when the school was founded almost a hundred years ago, they didn’t have a school building yet, so they held classes in one of the buildings at the Territorial Prison. And here at Arizona Western College, we’re the Matadors. Dr. Rieux, class of '78 (and '79–but that’s another story…) ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/29 "2000-12-22T01:56:29Z")
This isn’t so much strangest so much as it is just tasteless. I knew a girl from Mullins, South Carolina, and fifty years ago, her school had no money for a sports program, so they got sponsered by a local tobacco company. Their mascot was a cigar store Indian, and their team name was the Aucs, short for Auctioners (sp?), as in the tobacco store auctioners. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/30 "2000-12-22T02:00:45Z")
Buffalo, New York is the Strange High School Mascot Center of the Universe ™. Take, for instance … **Hutchinson Central Technical** Engineers **City Honors** Aces (now Centaurs … yawn!) **Grover Cleveland** Presidents **South Park** Sparks **McKinley Vocational** Macks **Riverside** Frontiers (shoulda’ been “Heshers”) The best, or the worst depending on how you see it … **Lafayette** Violets The one high school in the area that tended to be dominant in most sports, though, also had the most unlikely name – **Sweet Home**. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/31 "2000-12-22T02:10:32Z")
Ok, brace yourselves, because I’m about to reveal the most awe-inspiring and terror-invoking school nickname _ever!_ . . . . . . . . .Ya ready? It was the name of my high school team. . . . . . . . Here it comes! . . . . . **THE TEDDIES!** Oh, yeah, you’re shaking in fear now! I went to Theodore Roosevelt High School in south Minneapolis. Be afraid! Be very afraid! (We always thought that the cheerleaders should wear clothing appropriate to the team name, but even in the sexy 60’s, the school wouldn’t go for it.) ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/32 "2000-12-22T02:10:38Z")
in Utah they have the following: The BeetDiggers The Farmers ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/33 "2000-12-22T02:11:46Z")
My high school in Rhode Island had the ever so brave name of The Clippers. Yep. Our mascot was a boat. ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/34 "2000-12-22T03:02:27Z")
Well, I always found it a bit odd that Burlington H.S. in Vermont (where I spent some time a few years back) was the “Seahorses” when they are not anywhere near the sea. (Unless, of course, there are seahorses in Lake Champlain; I never checked…) ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/35 "2000-12-22T03:14:51Z")
I was a Monroe High School Trojan, which made decorating homecoming floats easy, let me tell you! Here in Columbia, we have the Hickman High Kewpies. It’s possibly the least threatening mascot _ever_. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/36 "2000-12-22T04:29:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nineiron \* > \*\*Well, I always found it a bit odd that Burlington H.S. in Vermont (where I spent some time a few years back) was the “Seahorses” when they are not anywhere near the sea. (Unless, of course, there are seahorses in Lake Champlain; I never checked…) \*\* Similar want of geographical logic hasn’t stopped hundreds or thousands of high schools from adopting “Pirates” or “Buccaneers” or similar nautically themed figures as mascots, much less Oglethorpe University (in most decidedly landlocked Atlanta) from calling their sports teams the Stormy Petrels. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/37 "2000-12-22T05:09:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cher3 \* > \*\*Let us not forget the Santa Cruz Banana Slugs > \*\* As a proud Banana Slug, it is my duty to point out that this is a _university_ mascot, not high school. Like Juniper, my HS mascot was the Trojans. I was in the marching band, and our fight song was “Fight On”, the fight song of the USC Trojans. My dad, who attended both UCLA and UC Berkeley, often bemoaned that his daughter was forced to play that song. ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/38 "2000-12-22T05:17:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lsura \* > \*\* > > Of course, my high school, being named Notre Dame, had the classic Leprechaun/Irish dude. At least one of my schools has a vaguely normal mascot. \*\* Vaguely being the operative word… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/39 "2000-12-22T05:20:03Z")
Pekin, IL’s high school team name used to be the Chinks! It was changed to the Dragons in the late 70’s-early 80’s iirc. My mom and dad live in Morton - whose mascot is the Potter - a weird looking guy with a bean pot for a head. Uh-huh. The girls’ teams are the Lady Potters. –tygre, whose children will be Springfield Senators, as if that’s any less lame… ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/40 "2000-12-22T05:29:38Z")
The Butte Pirates from Butte, MT. I’m not kidding. [http://www.d111.k12.id.us/BHS/BHS.htm](http://www.d111.k12.id.us/BHS/BHS.htm) I think that shows very little foresight. There’s also the Belfry Bats. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757.md?page=3)