Westlake Wolverines. I still think it looked like a bear that needed a trim.
I was a Trojan warrior and believe me, that was odd enough, but These downstate kids had it worse though.
A Bucaneer - yes, that’s right, a pirate; the mascot was someone who dressed up like a pirate, complete with eyepatch. The team logo is a Bucaneer head although they do use a skull and crossbones from time to time.
My high school team were the Crusaders, and the mascot was a knight.
Last month, the forces of PC determined that the image of a Crusader was “potentially offensive to Muslims” and, despite an overwhelming vote on the part of the students, the school board dropped the team name and mascot.
Asshats.
Ours too, though the reason behind it was pretty interesting.
As I understand it Mexican kids were not allowed to attend schools on this side of the border in 1925. So when a parchochial boys’ high school opened its doors, the only non-Hispanic Catholics in all of El Paso were full-blooded Irish (no doubt the sons of railroad workers). Thus, the Fighting Irish, as it is to this day. And I seriously doubt that it will ever change, even though there’s hardly a drop of Irish blood to be found in the student population of today.
Bulldogs.
Guthrie (Oklahoma) Bluejays
I taught at a school whose nickname was the “Red Raiders”.
I’m stunned that they’ve gotten away with still using that these days, given that the graphic is an ugly hook-nosed Indian on the warpath.
Chillicothe (Ohio) Cavaliers, often informally “Cavs.” As team nicknames go, I’ve always liked this one.
Booker T. Washington Hornets (Tulsa, OK). Our sports teams were usually really good. And our school seal depicted a hornet standing up on his two hind legs, brandishing four fists with boxing gloves on them.
We were the Patriots, again fashioned after a Revolutionary War Minuteman. I guess to be PC they’ve had to take away his musket. Maybe he’s armed with Nerf balls or something now.
Barstow (Calif.) Riffians. If you’re asking WTF a Riffian is, you weren’t alone. As it turns out, it is a nomadic tribe from the Sahara desert and, coincidentally, the focus of a bad operetta in the 1920’s. The 20’s was when our high school was founded. Coincidence? I think not. Especially when our fight song was taken from this operetta. Fortunately, it was a kick-ass song.
After California’s Prop 13 killed off adequate public school funding (sorry, editorial there), our two high schools merged and we had to come up with a new mascot. Originally we decided on Desperados, then after a few parents got huffy over being named “desperate” we became The Aztecs. And then immediately regretted not being the Jedi Knights since this was 1977 and we had a legacy of naming ourselves after something from, ahem, “the arts.”
Eagles must be popular in WV, we were the Blue Eagles.
I linked it because invariably the next questions is “What’s a Wyvern?”
Escept here on the SDMB where people are cool and know what a wyvern is.
Vlad/Igor
The Tigers.
Not too bad… you’d think. But they made the school colors brown and orange. Not a good combination.
Most teams either had white and brown uniforms, which a bit of orange to accent. Or orange and white, with brown accents. Or went whole hog with amost all brown and orange, and then just revelled in the ugliness.
It’s not so much a mascot for my high school as an identity. We’re not represented by a geyhound, we are the greyhounds. I’m kind of surprised that the whole school (all 4000 students and hundreds of faculty members) is that delusional.
I really wish we had one like a door. A wyvern would be pretty cool, though.
Yes, I am using present tense. I’m still in high school.
**A Cardinal **was our mascot, nickname was Blackshirts.
Way back when, our colors were and still are Red & black. There were many other schools with the same colors, so we always wore black shirts to distinguish ourselves. Hence our nickname, The Blackshirts.
Now I’m no expert with history, but i believe Blackshirts were fascists under Mussolini, so rather than taking that stance, we choose Cardinals. Whew!
We also got teased when we put our nickname of the nickname, Shirts(Go Shirts!), on our clothes. ‘Shirts’ on our shirts wasn’t so bad, but ‘Shirts’ on our shorts…Oh shit…
The Blue Devils
Well, I thought my brother’s was silly - The Green Wave, but a Door…a little sillier.
My school was The Rams. Deeply orginal, huh?
Stonebow - seriously? A door, like…a door? As in, what you walk through?
snicker Sorry…