When I first read this, I thought ricepad was making a racist joke and should be flamed for it. Turns out, he or she wasn’t. The Compton Tarbabes. Good God. I’m all for taking a slur and making it your own a la “Spear-chucker Jones” but … Good God. What does their mascot look like?
The Giants brought back Crazy Crab for a few games during the last season at Candlestick in 1999. Pretty fitting way to say goodbye to that old dump.
Why on earth would they do that? Not only is geoduck a silly sounding word, they’re rather, um, phallic. Upon preview and actually visiting the link, I see that they even include a cartoony version of the appendage in their logo. I didn’t really expect that.
My HS teams were called the Mariners, which isn’t all that bad, but our mascot dressed up as a seagull. People threw fries at him during games.
My favorites.
The Kansas City Wiz MLS team. I mean, really.
Nebraska Cornhuskers don’t take a lot of shit for husking corn. I think that they should.
Nippon Ham-Fighters is a truly classy name.
My beloved South African cricket team renamed from the Springboks to the Proteas. That is the national flower of South Africa. Not much the picture of intimadation…
After reading everyone’s submissions, I’d like to say that at least they all have the quirk factor going for them. I think it’d be fun to be a Hippo or a Whoopie or a Banana Slug.
MY high school team’s name was the Wilbur Cross Governors, and they were symbolized by…
[SPOILER]A top hat and cane.
A TOP HAT AND CANE, people.
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We were practically inviting rival schools to give us terminal melvins and steal our lunch money!
Although if the school in question was our archnemesis Hillhouse High and their team the Academics, we might have stood a chance, 'cuz their mascot was…
An Aladdin-style magical lamp thingie.
I work with a guy who went to college at Heidelberg college in Tiffin Ohio. Their mascot: the Fighting Student Princes. Apparently this mascot was so embarrassing that they changed it a couple years ago to something only slightly less stupid: The Berg.
The NSW Rugby Union team is called the Waratahs, named after the state flower. Probably because the far superior title of Blues belongs to the far superior NSW Rugby League team.
I guess as far as local football goes, the St George team (named after the Sydney suburb they’re based in) is fairly incongruous if you think about it. Their mascot is a dragon, normally fairly awe-inspiring, except for the fact that this particular mascot is famed for being slaughtered by St George… the name of the team.
The basketball team where i live has a cyclone with an angry basketball with arms as their logo.
Decent, but he doesn’t translate well as a mascot. Last time I saw him, he looked like a guy with a basketball for a head.
Winnipeg goldeyes and winnipeg jets deserve honorable mentions, since who gets scared by fish(even POd fish with baseball bats) of airplanes, or whatever kind of jet they are?
Remember too, a lot of high schools have been under pressure in recent years to adopt nicknames that are much more politically correct. (Not just high schools, I know, but it seems to be more prevalent there.) And they try to avoid picking names that are already in use, which is naturally becoming harder and harder all the time.
After all, how many “Wildcats” are there? 
Well, my alma mater’s teams are a COLOR. Woo hoo! It was somewhat made worse by the fact that the Big Red also sounds like gum. At least our mascot was a bear, but I’m not too sure how Big Red = Bear. It seems that Ivy schools like colors. Dartmouth = Big Green (worse), Harvard = Crimson.
Of course, it could be worse: Below Cornell on the hill sits Ithaca High School…home of the LITTLE Red. Ouch. They make up for it though, being NYS hockey champs every couple years.
Jman
I’m surprised nobody mentioned the Lubbock Cotton Kings, whose mascot is a giant pissed-off looking cotton boll …
The small town of Hutto, down close to Austin, has the Hippos. I’ve always felt kind of sorry for their cheerleaders.
In in West-by-Ghod-Virginia the is a highschool in a town named “Poca”
The mascot...
the Dots:smack:
Preview is my friend!!!
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My undergrad is the fine home of the awe inspiring White Mules (about halfway down the page).
My elementary school had the black-eyed Saints, but as the school no longer exists, I can’t provide a link.
My favorite, the Macon Whoopie, has already been mentioned.
Another one from South Georgia is the Cairo High School Syrupmakers which might not be so funny if it wasn’t for the fact that in South Georgia, “Cairo” isn’t pronounced like that city in Egypt but like Karo syrup.
There’s a smallish town in southern Minnesota called Blooming Prarie, and the high school mascot is the Blooming Prarie Awesome Blossoms. Teehee.
Thread kinda, sorta tangentially related … maybe
My baseball team the New York Negros and my football team the Houston Hebes
The thread title immediately brought to mind the Oregon highschool team The Tillamook Cheesemakers.
Butte Pirates… hee…
I started high school in Cuero, Texas where the mascot was a Gobbler. Yep, the Cuero fighting turkeys.
I ended high school in Victoria, where the mascot was a Stingeree. The mascot that ran around at games was a huge, floppy, red stingray. I don’t know why we were the stingerees, rather than the stingrays.