# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Burrito\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Burrito\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrito_Boy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/61 "2000-12-22T22:02:33Z")
By the way, it’s Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas that has the “Ichabod” mascot. My alma mater–Southwest Missouri State University (home of the all-too-conventionally-named “Bears”)–used to play them in football and basketball. ---
**Author:** ![sliv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sliv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sliv)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/62 "2000-12-23T01:27:37Z")
My high school was one of only (I believe) two high schools in the United States with the unlikely mascot of “Farmer”. How goofy is that? This is the SF Bay Area… College mascot at the University of Chicago? Maroon. I suppose that’s no weirder than “Crimson” or “Cardinal”. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/63 "2000-12-23T02:05:05Z")
Well it may not be a lower form of life but my school has a demented, retarded looking, glasses wearing, diploma toting, graduate cap wearing, tazmanian devil wannabe for a mascot. We’re the Rebels. It’s better than out tennis team, they’re the TIs TI as in Texas Instrusments, as in calculators. Oh yeah, that’s scary. I’m not sure if it was just for that competition but I do remember the Al Hambra Lab Rats… “What are we going to do tonight, Brain?” Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/64 "2000-12-26T22:27:35Z")
Thanks to all who chimed in. There are some truly strangely motivated people who name high school sports teams. ::::bows, scuffs shoe in dirt shyly, tugs forelock::: ---
**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/65 "2000-12-27T04:57:05Z")
We were the Fremont (Oh) Little Giants. A little confusing when I first heard it, but there was story that made it all better. I save you all. College wasn’t much better: the fearsome Univ of Delaware Blue Hens. Not just chickens, **BLUE** chickens. Jeesh!! ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/66 "2000-12-27T05:00:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shanin \* > \*\*How about the fighting “Yellow Jackets!” Ewwwwww…scary! 😉 The mascot dressed up in a big bee costume with a large stinger sticking out of the back. It was hysterical looking. \*\* Did you go to school in Rockwall, TX by any chance? That was our mascot there. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/67 "2000-12-27T08:02:43Z")
Wow, I think some of you may have got me beat, but here goes. My mother went to school in Big Timber, Montana, home of the Sweet Grass County **Sheepherders**! (Yeehaw!) The Sheepherder was traditionally depicted as an old bearded man with a pipe. However, sometime in the late 1980’s, the Sheepherder must have given up smoking. He also may have given up herding sheep, but not herding entirely…the uniforms started to say just “Herders” sometime around then, too. He might be clean-shaven today, for all I know. My junior high’s teams were called the “Kittens”, after the high school’s much more conventional “Tigers”. Apparently, most of the teams we played (which did not include the Sheepherders, although the high school teams did play them) had had “baby” versions of their high school nicknames at some time (such as “Eaglets” for “Eagles”, and so on), but our school was the only one which still used ours by the time I was in junior high. It was just so darn cute :). ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/68 "2000-12-27T08:11:54Z")
Mine wasn’t an especially weird mascot, but it was extremely coincidental. When I lived in Florida, we were the Lincoln High Trojans. Our colors were green and gold, and our rival school was the Lions, colors red and white. Sophomore year I moved to Massachusetts, where I found myself a member of the Bridgewater Trojans, colors red and white. Nearby school…Lions, green and gold. What’re the odds that I be a Trojan at 2 different schools, with opposing colors? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/69 "2001-03-27T18:46:47Z")
There’s a town in Texas called Forney. Actually, I don’t know what their mascot is, but if it is anything other than the Gators it would be a tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/70 "2001-03-27T18:59:12Z")
We were the **Ingots**. I suppose we got the name because of our being in the steel mill region of NW Indiana. Other schools hated playing us for homecoming because they best slogan they could come up with was, “Melt the Ingots”. ---
**Author:** ![jharding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jharding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharding)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/71 "2001-03-27T19:34:43Z")
A friend of mine who spent one year of High School in some Minneapolis suburb supposedly went to a school where the mascot was the Skipper. I guess there was a lot of sailing going on in this town (land of 10,000 lakes, ya know) and Skippers seemed particularly emblematic of the town. One can only imagine the fear in the opposing teams: “Eeek, it’s the Skippers!!” ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/72 "2001-03-27T20:31:03Z")
The “Nannies” and the “Suns.” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/73 "2001-03-27T20:40:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Palandine \* > \*\*Near South Bend Indiana there’s a town called Mishawaka. > > Boys’ high school teams–The Cavemen > Girls’ high school teams–The Lady Cavemen > > 😃 \*\* Dammit!!! Palandine, you shook down my thunder! However, I will add that the mascot for the Indiana School for the Blind is: The Blind Hoosiers. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/74 "2001-03-28T00:00:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jharding \* > \*\*A friend of mine who spent one year of High School in some Minneapolis suburb supposedly went to a school where the mascot was the Skipper. I guess there was a lot of sailing going on in this town (land of 10,000 lakes, ya know) and Skippers seemed particularly emblematic of the town. > > One can only imagine the fear in the opposing teams: “Eeek, it’s the Skippers!!” \*\* My father went to that high school (gee, guess Mom and Dad both had weird high school mascots). It’s in Minnetonka, which, of course, is on the shore of Lake Minnetonka, where some sailing does take place 🙂 One time when we were cleaning out some old junk, we came across Dad’s old high school yearbook. When I found out that their mascot was the Skipper, I asked Dad if truancy was a big problem there. (In my high school, a skipper was what we called someone who skipped class). ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/75 "2001-03-28T01:27:38Z")
Here in Colorado, we too have a Beetdigger, a Rattler, also a Farmer and even a Mean Moose and in Rocky Ford, Colorado, the Melloneers. Everytime the mascot (a round ball of a watermellon) falls over, he has to be helped up. It’s priceless. Of course there are the Las Animas Trojans. Last year at a football game, a young man came out with the team dressed as a six-foot tall condom. I heard he was suspended. It had such potential as a headline too. Perhaps my favorite mascot story was Troy Aikman’s old high school in Henrietta, Oklahoma. They were named the Henrietta Hens after the old Disney cartoon character. That isn’t the fascinating part. The girls team was called the Henrietta Lady Hens. You mean there is some other kind? I heard they have since changed their mascot. The Hen wasn’t macho enough for the boys. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/76 "2001-03-28T05:36:37Z")
My high school-Deer Park High-creatively selected the deer as a mascot. I used to think it was lame, but now that I’ve read about the Zippers and Bubbles,the deer seems positively fierce by comparison. Needless to say at every football game the opposing team brought a banner reading “It’s deer season!” I think we might be the only Deer in the country. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/77 "2001-03-28T13:14:14Z")
The Oak Hills (OH) Transvestite! no, that wasn’t it… the Guy-in-a-Skirt! no, still not right…The Fighting Scots! Yeah, that’s it, “Fighting Scots”. We didn’t have a big Scottish tradition in Cincinnati, but our mascot was a guy wearing a kilt. Plus he had his “Bagpipes of Doom”. Ooooo…it was scary. He got re-worked when I was there. Put in silhouette, it was a guy wearing a tam with a real big arm flexing his muscles. But he was grimacing so he looked real mean. ---
**Author:** ![jharding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jharding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharding)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/78 "2001-03-28T13:43:49Z")
Not high school, but I went to college at the University of Evansville. Our mascot there was the Purple Aces, the mascot is done up to look like a turn of the century riverboat gambler. Kind of an odd image for a Methodist institution. ---
**Author:** ![Hibbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ce73a5/32.png) [@Hibbins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hibbins)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/79 "2001-03-28T15:20:57Z")
This nickname has already been mentioned, Bluejackets, but in rference to the Columbus NHL franchise. Their actual mascot is actually a blue (yellow)jacsket. Hibbing High School while also having the nickname Bluejackets has an anchor as a symbol, and has used “Popeye” as a mascot at various times over the years. That seems a little strange. ---
**Author:** ![dwala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dwala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwala)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757/80 "2001-03-28T15:56:39Z")
School for Applied Individualized Learning Tallahassee, FL Mascot: Dolphins Colors: Rainbow We weren’t encouraged to be aggressive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-high-school-team-mascots/46757.md?page=5)