# What's the name of your High School Football team? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141 "2002-07-21T23:10:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/61 "2002-07-22T15:50:08Z")
Brooklyn Tech Engineers. We were a geek school, but we kicked ass. Lets go Engineers, **GO**! ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/62 "2002-07-22T16:14:45Z")
The Big Macs. I swear. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/63 "2002-07-22T16:20:53Z")
South Carroll High School Cavaliers UMBC Retrievers ---
**Author:** ![Eran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Eran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eran)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/64 "2002-07-22T16:22:49Z")
We were the Bishop Kearney Kings and Lady Kings (no, really). ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/65 "2002-07-22T16:51:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eran \* > We were the Bishop Kearney Kings and **Lady Kings** (no, really). \*\* I attended the University of South Florida. They had the **Lady Bulls**. I guess that’s better than calling them the cows. ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/66 "2002-07-22T17:35:22Z")
Here in **Maumee** we are the **Panthers** We are the Purple and Gold Panthers. (runner up State Champ, Varsity Baseball 2001, Thanks Mr. D!) Please do not confuse us with the Blue and Gold Panthers down the road at **Whitmer** they are a whole different school system.(Washington Local) What friggin’ idiot gives 2 schools so damn close together the same mascot and damn near the same colours? Luckily we are in two different athletic leagues. \*\* GO PURPLE PANTHERS!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![ignatius\_reilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/db5fbb/32.png) [@ignatius\_reilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatius_reilly)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/67 "2002-07-22T17:41:16Z")
The mighty, mighty Indians of Montgomery County High School. Not very politically correct, I know, but no one has ever made a serious challenge to the name. Our mascot is a lot better than other mascots here in Kentucky. Two college buddies of mine played ball for Somerset High Scool, home of the Briar Jumpers. That’s right, their mascot was a bunny rabbit. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/68 "2002-07-22T18:44:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > \*\*The Falcons. I assume they have a football team. (Yeah, I’m sure they do.) Crescenta Valley High School (“C.V.”) in the LaCrescenta part of Glendale, Calif. (Yes, La Crescenta is really part of Glendale.) \*\* Wow! No kidding? I lived next door in La Cañada for fifteen years and I never knew that. :smack: And **Eran** , be glad they weren’t the Burger Kings (see **sugaree** ’s Big Macs above.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/69 "2002-07-22T19:12:48Z")
Crestwood Colonels (mascot identical to Ole Miss Rebels). The American School in Japan Mustangs. Shawnee Mission South High School Raiders. I also went to Kennesaw State College, now University, for a year back about 12 years ago. Their mascot was the Fighting Owls (which I thought was pretty cool), but _everyone_ called them The Hooters. And Iowa State (where I taught but was not a student) is called the Cyclones, even though their mascot looks like a cardinal. The best thing about the Cyclones is that everyone has merchandise that says “Go Clones!” ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/70 "2002-07-22T19:28:49Z")
Central Cabarrus Vikings checking in… Natrone Means is our most famous grad. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/71 "2002-07-22T19:41:56Z")
South Lakes **Seahawks** , of Reston, VA. And now that I’m a PNW resident, my local NFL team is the Seattle Seahawks. I take that as some sort of sign. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/72 "2002-07-22T20:21:25Z")
The Rhinelander Hodags. What’s a [Hodag?](http://www.newnorth.net/~remiley/hodag.html) If only we’d played as mean as that thing looks… And if only they didn’t call us the “Whore-dogs” ---
**Author:** ![Gopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gopher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/73 "2002-07-22T21:19:13Z")
Falcons!! Still going to that school. Class of 2003. Our team isn’t that good, the school’s more of the brainy type. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/74 "2002-07-22T21:26:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rico \* > \*\*Palisades High School **Dolphins**. > > 1/2 mile from the ocean, therefore the Dolphin was a very appropriate mascot. > > And yes, this was the school written about in the book _Whatever Happened To The Class Of '65?_ \*\* Hey, **Rico**. We used to be neighbors. I will now top you all with the single dorkiest knickname in High School history… The Venice High School …(wait for it)… Gondoliers! Go Gondos! The mascot was Gunther Gondolier, portrayed by a woman when I went there. Even worse, we had “Rowing, not Drifting” painted in the hallways. My 20 year reunion is in a couple of weeks. This post is about all the reminiscing that I’m going to need this decade so I’ll be skipping it. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/75 "2002-07-22T21:39:26Z")
Shattuck Indians! Shattuck, Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![Stavia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Stavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stavia)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/76 "2002-07-23T01:25:39Z")
Hurricanes - Northeast High in Oakland Park, Fl. (a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale). ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/77 "2002-07-23T01:32:34Z")
The **Redmen**. All of our sportsteams are the Redmen… It’s kind of racist, but a lot of our students are Native and as far as I know, the name survived a review on whether or not to change it. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/78 "2002-07-23T02:45:15Z")
the bombers - with an airplane logo GO A-C 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tolyri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@tolyri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tolyri)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/79 "2002-07-23T04:59:31Z")
I was an orange and brown Mansfield (Ohio) Senior High Tyger. Our rivals were the orange and black Massilon Tigers. We adopted our unique spelling after being confused with Massilon one too many times. Our fight song was a version of the Girl Scout song “G S for Girl Scouts.” “T Y for Tygers, T Y for Tygers Someone in the crowd is yelling T Y for Tygers” “Followed by a very Frosted Flakes sounding Grrrrrreat great great, Tygers are great” Whenever we scored, a huge fiberglass tyger (named Ty) would roar and blow smoke while the sound system played Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” Tolyri MSH class of '96 ---
**Author:** ![tolyri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@tolyri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tolyri)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/80 "2002-07-23T04:59:31Z")
I was an orange and brown Mansfield (Ohio) Senior High Tyger. Our rivals were the orange and black Massilon Tigers. We adopted our unique spelling after being confused with Massilon one too many times. Our fight song was a version of the Girl Scout song “G S for Girl Scouts.” “T Y for Tygers, T Y for Tygers Someone in the crowd is yelling T Y for Tygers” “Followed by a very Frosted Flakes sounding Grrrrrreat great great, Tygers are great” Whenever we scored, a huge fiberglass tyger (named Ty) would roar and blow smoke while the sound system played Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” Tolyri MSH class of '96 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141.md?page=5)