# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/81 "2002-07-23T06:55:23Z")
Well, my high school was the fairly prosaic White Oak High School Vikings, college was a bit more interesting with the North Carolina State University Wolfpack, but I have to love the high school my little brothers went to, in Atlanta, TX: The Atlanta Rabbits. Yes, the rabbits. I submit proof. [http://www.atlantarabbits.com/SPICS/COMPLEX.asp](http://www.atlantarabbits.com/SPICS/COMPLEX.asp) ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/82 "2002-07-23T16:33:06Z")
9th Grade - The Admirals 10th-12th - The Fighting Scots On a side note - In the town I live in now, the school’s team is known as the Knights. Mascot is a knight in full armor, all that sort of stuff. Their fight song, however, is… _Anchors Aweigh_? (mind you, this IS a Navy town, but still…) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/83 "2002-07-23T18:23:52Z")
Are you from Northwest PA, **lawoot**? ---
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/84 "2002-07-23T18:43:03Z")
the **Pretzels**! GO BIG ORANGE! We had a mascot for one year…looked like a giant candybar covered with spitballs. Guess no one was a contortionist… ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/85 "2002-07-23T18:44:16Z")
The Fighting Daylillies ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/86 "2002-07-23T18:46:23Z")
The Flowering Pansies. Our rivals? The Mesquite Toes. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/87 "2002-07-23T19:09:17Z")
The Jack C. Hays **REBELS** of Buda & Kyle, Texas. The NAACP hated us, but they didn’t get their way until after I graduated. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/88 "2002-07-23T21:36:20Z")
I went to a Catholic High School. We were the “Knights.” I only remember the _unofficial_ anthem: We’re the Alma Mater Protectors of the Knight The Horny Sons-of-Bitches That’d Rather Fuck than Fight Hady-Hidy God Almighty Who the Hell Am I? Bim Bam God-Damn I’m from Alter High. ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/89 "2002-07-23T22:46:34Z")
St. John’s Cadets here. We were a Catholic military school in D.C. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/90 "2002-07-24T00:21:29Z")
The North Beach Hyaks. The school was just south of the Quinault reservation on the Washington coast, and the student body was a bit over a third native. Hyak is a word in the Coastal Salish language, meaning “swift.” It’s also the name of a mountain in the Cascades. Our symbol was a foot in a winged sandal, which we called a “fleetfoot.” Since I graduated many years ago, the Quinault nation built it’s own school, and North Beach is now in a new building 15 miles farther south. But they still honor the original locals by the team name. My junior high team was the Seahawks, and we had the name for about 50 years before Seattle got a pro football franchise. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/91 "2002-07-24T00:33:28Z")
Franklin Pierce High School Cardinals. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/92 "2002-07-24T02:19:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Moto \* > \*\*Are you from Northwest PA, **lawoot**? \*\* Nope. When I was in High School I was in KY and NC. Now I live west of Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![XCchick22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e19b73/32.png) [@XCchick22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XCchick22)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/93 "2002-07-24T03:21:24Z")
The Eagles, also known as the War Eagles. We just won some semi- or quarter-final thing in the state last season. Apparently the team was good, but I never made it to a game. ---
**Author:** ![Calliope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Calliope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calliope)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/94 "2002-07-24T04:03:31Z")
Oh, I’ve got you all _so_ beat! How about a cheer for the Live Oak **Acorns**?!? I was a nut. A freakin’ nut. Ahem… Hit 'em high, hit 'em low hit 'em where their acorns grow! ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/95 "2002-07-24T04:15:05Z")
Randallstown Rams. ---
**Author:** ![\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/977dab/32.png) [@\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Roger_the_Shrubber)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/96 "2002-07-24T04:46:46Z")
I was a Tiger… But oh, how I wish I could have been a Dingo. ---
**Author:** ![TonyD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@TonyD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonyD)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/97 "2002-07-24T05:00:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AskNott \* > \*\*I grew up in Anderson, IN. \*\* It’s a small world…I grew up in Anderson, IN! I don’t know if it’s just me but coming from a relatively small town it’s kind of shocking to find people that even know where it’s located, let alone someone who grew up there themselves. Sorry, I got a little too excited there. In keeping with the topic…we were the Scots. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/98 "2002-07-24T17:48:34Z")
Albia Blue Demons, Albia Iowa. Fight song: Notre Dame Victory March. There has been occasional complaint over the years about the use of “demon.” I think in recent years they’ve downplayed it and the unofficial nickname now is Big Blue. Maybe they should have spelled it daemon and claimed it was taken from…Plato, I think. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141/99 "2002-07-24T17:50:08Z")
Oh, also, University of Northern Iowa Panther. IIRC, we also used Notre Dame Victory March there. Colors Purple and White. Saaalute! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-high-school-football-team/120141.md?page=4)