# Worst Mascots (High school - Pros) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670 "2003-09-15T03:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/41 "2003-09-16T00:24:40Z")
A suburban school district in Philadelphia, Abington Township, has as it’s High School mascot the Abington Galloping Ghosts. As I peruse their web pages, I see a faux menacing ghost floating around. When I attended a nearby High School, the Abington H.S. Mascot was a hooded figure on horseback with a sword. It was for all the world, a Klansman. It sure as heck looked it, and at some point since 1980, public sentiment forced a change in artwork…heh. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/42 "2003-09-16T00:50:58Z")
Remember when Nebraska was The Bug Eaters? (now they are Corn Huskers) My sister’s HS: Fort Collins, CO The Fighting Lambkins ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/43 "2003-09-16T00:50:58Z")
Live Oak high school, home of the… [acorn-type guy](http://www.centralcoastvolleyball.net/acorn.gif). I take great pride in the fact that I was almost expelled for creating the homecoming slogan “Live Oak has nuts”. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/44 "2003-09-16T01:11:43Z")
I dont’t think I am getting whooshed on this one [Yuma (AZ) High Schools Criminals](http://www.yumahighschool.com/) Hard to believe. 😕 Speaking of Arizona-- the Arizona Cardinals might be the dumbest NFL nickname ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/45 "2003-09-16T01:41:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > \*\*Stanford used to be the Indians but changed it to make the name more politcally correct. > > The ones that came out during the hippie days are pretty bad such as the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs and the UC Irvine Anteaters. > > My High School was also pretty bad. I went to Venice High School and the school knickname was the Gondoliers. The mascot was Gunther Gondolier. He wore a blue and white striped shirt and carried an oar. > > Haj \*\* I went to Venice too! (Class of 1994, went there for my junior and senior years.) I always thought the gondolier guy was kind of cute. And I like the Banana Slugs. I mean, would YOU want to mess with one? Ewwwwww… ---
**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:** [September 16, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/46 "2003-09-16T01:45:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonmarzie \* > \*\*I still think that professional sports teams named after years (SF '49-ers/Phili '76-ers), colors, (Alabama Crimson Tide/Harvard Crimson) other sports (Indiana Pacers), jobs (Packers/Steelers) or car parts (Pistons) were just rather dumb. > > Not as dumb as the Lakers, but still dumb. \*\* The Packers and Steelers are from the earliest days of professional football. Both of these teams started out as company owned teams and the players really and truely were meat packers and steel workers. Seems appropriate to me. The Lakers originally came from Minneapolis which is how they got their name. I assume that they didn’t change it when the team moved to L.A. because the alliteration sounded cool. Haj ---
**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:** [September 16, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/47 "2003-09-16T01:49:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \* > \*\*I went to Venice too! (Class of 1994, went there for my junior and senior years.) I always thought the gondolier guy was kind of cute. \*\* Cool! Another Gondo on the Dope. I was in the Class of '82. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/48 "2003-09-16T02:10:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ccwaterback \* > \*\*Freeport, IL High School - Pretzels > > Savannah Sand Gnats > > Macon Whoopie \*\* Let me be the first to say that the Sand Gnats in GA are worth fear…seriously. ~J ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/49 "2003-09-16T02:16:38Z")
I liked that school, silly mascot or no silly mascot. 🙂 **Inky-** , that is well worth being proud of. Heh heh heh… ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/50 "2003-09-16T02:16:46Z")
I don’t know what their mascot is, but I remember seeing Polk Middle School in Albuquerque, NM, and thinking about cheerleaders with PMS on their backs. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/51 "2003-09-16T02:38:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 5 time champ \* > \*\*I dont’t think I am getting whooshed on this one [Yuma (AZ) High Schools Criminals](http://www.yumahighschool.com/) Hard to believe. 😕 \*\* It’s legitimate. The school held its first classes in a [vacated prison](http://www.yumaunion.com/history.html) when Arizona was still a territory. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/52 "2003-09-16T02:44:05Z")
I went to a small, private all-girls school. The mascot: the beaver. Uh huh. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/53 "2003-09-16T02:47:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*My high school’s mascot was the Cavalier. Which sounds good and there are a bunch of teams with it. But the Cavaliers lost the English Civil War… \*\* Yeah, but vanishingly few people have any clue about that…and yet there are doubtlessly dozens of high schools across the south (my own Jack C Hays included) whose mascot is the Rebels… ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/54 "2003-09-16T02:51:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \* > \*\*I went to Venice too! \*\* BWAA HAA HAA HAA HAA! Gondoliers! Fear the _Palisades Dolphins_! Class of '76 here. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/55 "2003-09-16T02:57:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \* > \*\*I went to Venice too! \*\* BWAA HAA HAA HAA HAA! Gondoliers! Fear the _Palisades Dolphins_! Class of '76 here. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/56 "2003-09-16T03:56:38Z")
My dad used to play in a community lacrosse league, which is not really on topic, but the names of the teams were wonderful: A Boxful of Kittens (my dad’s team) The Mulleteers Fighting Cocks The Flying Monkeys ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/57 "2003-09-16T04:10:47Z")
In high school we were the Bluejackets. However were weren’t named after a strange bee or sailor. I guess sometime back in the 1920’s a guy gave our basketball team a bunch of blue warm up jackets, and the name stuck somehow. Now in college I kinda have the same deal. We used to be the Fighting Methodists (pure intimidation!). Then, some newspaper reporter referred to us as ''Wildcats" and we’ve been that ever since. ---
**Author:** ![dinoboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dinoboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinoboy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/58 "2003-09-16T04:46:57Z")
H.S.: I have always wanted to see the mascot for the Robstown (Texas) Cotton Pickers (ah yes, the south has come a long way…) Now for college: [Mascots](http://www.smargon.net/nicknames/) A few highlights: - Mary Baldwin College (VA)- Squirrels (yet another awe inspiring monster) - Whittier College (CA)- Poets (nothing says ‘tough guy’ better) - Brooklyn College (NYNY)- Bridges (get it?) … and a personal favorite - Rhode Island School of Design- Nads (Really) I gotta get to one of their games, “GO Nads, GO, Nads!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/59 "2003-09-16T05:58:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jaade \* > \*\*Let me be the first to say that the Sand Gnats in GA are worth fear…seriously. > > ~J \*\* I have to agree. Although Sand Gnats sounds like a docile little critter you don’t ever want to find out what it’s like dealing with a gang of “noseeums” without appropriate repellant. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670/60 "2003-09-16T06:06:18Z")
Key West, FL High School - Conchs I played on a volleyball team once called the Hog Ballers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-mascots-high-school-pros/201670.md?page=4)