# The Embarrassing High School Mascot Thread. Check in and wear your logo proudly! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941 "2003-12-09T16:02:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/21 "2003-12-09T23:15:53Z")
Not very embarrassing, just kinda weird: [The Riverdale Scottish Rebels](http://riverdalehigh.jppss.k12.la.us/). _Scottish_ rebels in SE Louisiana? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/22 "2003-12-09T23:32:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TV time \* > \*\*I’ve often wondered what Hooker High School in Hooker, OK has for a mascot. \*\* The male student/athletes are Bulldogs, while the females are Lady Dogs. I dug through [this page](http://www.mobcom.com/1999banquet.htm) just to find that out. **cadolphin** : John Marshall High School in Cleveland (Ohio) fields teams of Lawyers. **BrotherCadfael** : Last week, I attended a basketball game at Valparaiso University. You can see the school’s Crusader mascot [here](http://www.valpo.edu/oia/valpo_w01/p27.html). [This list](http://www.ihsaa.org/school_nicknames_new.shtm) of all Indiana High School Athletic Association members and their monikers features some doozies – Brickies, Cavemen, and Frankfort Hot Dogs among them. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/23 "2003-12-09T23:40:05Z")
[Patriotic Johnny Barrister](http://wayman.us/jmhs/johnnyflag.gif) Kathy ---
**Author:** ![AntaresJB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/24 "2003-12-09T23:49:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > \*\*The school I went to had a mascot named the “Red Raider.” That doesn’t _sound_ bad, but…well, [check out the mascot.](http://montasd.org/Default.htm) > > Political correctness has not yet reached my hometown. Nor has common sense. \*\* My hometown (where I still live when not at school) is right across the river from **Duke** ’s, and the two schools have a pretty strong rivalry. (You dirty River Rat, Duke! 😉 ) It’s peculiar, then, that while Montgomery’s mascot is the Red Raider, Muncy skips the really offensive name but has essentially the same mascot. We’re the Indians. Not exactly embarrassing, but still not exactly politically correct. No dressed up mascot, but you can see [here](http://www.muncysd.k12.pa.us/), up in the corner very tiny, the decked-out feather-headressed sterotypical Native American dude in profile that goes on all sorts of things. My and **Duke** ’s schools also use the same fight song, the “Tomahawk Chop,” which gets kind of confusing for the band during the games. Don’t you just love small-town Pennsylvania. 😛 Blech, high school memories. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/25 "2003-12-09T23:59:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mnemosyne \* > \*\*My school didnt have a dressed-up mascot, but the logo and team names were the Pipers. The logo was a guy playing the bagpipes (and not very well drawn at that!) \*\* Ha! We had the same thing and were called [the Highlanders](http://www.wmchs.org/aboutWMC/). That wasn’t masculine enough for the football team: they were the Wolfpack. ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/26 "2003-12-10T00:13:09Z")
The high school I actually attended had the Wildcats, which is remarkable only because EVERY OTHER DAMN SCHOOL seems to be called the wildcats. \ “Who are we?” “The WILDCATS!” “Who are we gonna beat?” "The WILDCATS! \ But a school relatively near home had a great big wooden shoe with tiny little wings on it as its mascot. I have no idea what kind of costumes they had, and I don’t think I want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/27 "2003-12-10T00:22:27Z")
Nobody really thought our mascot, the Fighting Irish, was particularly funny. Until you went down the names of the team members. Acosta, Velasquez, Garcia, Gonzalez, Trujillo, Chavez, etc. Yup, lots of good Irish family names there. Not that I can talk…my family name is Louisiana French. ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/28 "2003-12-10T00:46:38Z")
We were the Louis Riel Rebels. So far, so good. Except the mascot was a bunny. A winking bunny. Good LORD. I must admit that I’m still amused about Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. Gophers. _chuckle_ so big and fierce! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/29 "2003-12-10T00:51:20Z")
Sheesh… Highlanders aren’t masculine enough??? _somebody_ needs to buff up on their history, methinks… Wolfpack is cool too, though… Verbena High is the Home of Mighty Red Devils… we even have a little mascot like the one on the "Red Devil Lye"™ can… nothing to be embarrassed about… ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/30 "2003-12-10T00:57:12Z")
I am a Boiling Springs (PA) Bubbler, Class of 1994. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/31 "2003-12-10T01:00:22Z")
Sadly, I can’t find a link, but we were the **Harriton Rams**. Our cheerleaders were the “Ramettes,” and our slogan “Ram It Up.” ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/32 "2003-12-10T01:23:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > \*\*I went to Venice High School. Our mascot was a gondolier. Gunther Gondolier carried an oar and wore a beret. > > Haj \*\* Beat me to it. I think we ran into each other in another thread like this. I still think the gondolier guy is kinda cute, though. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/33 "2003-12-10T01:32:12Z")
Hampton High School-the Hampton Talbots. What the fuck is a talbot? Apparently, it’s an extinct breed of dog. So all of our logos showed really mean, ferocious dogs. But they’re not dogs. They’re _talbots_. ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/34 "2003-12-10T01:35:53Z")
The Big Macs. Fear our high cholesterol levels coming at you on the field. ---
**Author:** ![Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olive_The_Other_Reindeer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/35 "2003-12-10T01:58:33Z")
Both Fotos and I went to the same high school. Originally, we were called the “Red Devils” and the mascot had a red suit, tail, horns, and a pitchfork. In the 1970’s (while Fotos were there) the religious community said that it wasn’t a good influence for high school kids. The mascot became an American Indian. He says they were still known as the “Red Devils”, but I think he’s just kidding. When I went, we were known as the “Injuns” and the mascot had a red suit, tail, headdress, and tomahawk. But, in the 80’s (while I was there) the PC community said it wasn’t a good example for high school students. Since the school resided on North Parade (no “Street”, “Road”, “Avenue” or even “Lane” - just “North Parade”) we became known as the “North Paraders”. Now, the mascot has a red suit, tail, drum major’s hat and a baton. So far, no community at all has said that it is a bad example for high school students. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/36 "2003-12-10T02:07:37Z")
This isn’t my school, but one just down the road, in Poca, West Virginia. Known, of course, as the [Poca Dots](http://members.citynet.net/calculus/index.htm). Gotta feel for them. ---
**Author:** ![SUPERKARLENE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@SUPERKARLENE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUPERKARLENE)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/37 "2003-12-10T02:22:39Z")
but a middle school in my area. Plaza Middle School. And the mascot of PMS? The Trojans. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/38 "2003-12-10T02:31:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfbabe \* > **The high school I actually attended had the Wildcats, which is remarkable only because EVERY OTHER DAMN SCHOOL seems to be called the wildcats.** Actually Wilcats comes in second in Colorado. The most popular (with 33 of them) is the Eagles. There are 24 Wildcats. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/39 "2003-12-10T02:32:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \* > \*\*Beat me to it. I think we ran into each other in another thread like this. \*\* Yeah, we did. Go Gondos! The football team is actually good now. They’re in the championship game on Friday. Haj ---
**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:** [December 10, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941/40 "2003-12-10T02:41:17Z")
I just remembered the former Dallas Cowboy quarterback Troy Aikman went to Henrietta High School in Henrietta, OK when their mascots were the Hens, named after the old Disney cartoon character, Henrietta Hen. My favorite twist on this though was that the girls’ teams were called the “Lady Hens.” A touch redundent, don’t you think? TV [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-embarrassing-high-school-mascot-thread-check-in-and-wear-your-logo-proudly/217941.md?page=3)