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.
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Remember when Nebraska was The Bug Eaters? (now they are Corn Huskers)
My sister’s HS:
Fort Collins, CO
The Fighting Lambkins
Live Oak high school, home of the… acorn-type guy.
I take great pride in the fact that I was almost expelled for creating the homecoming slogan “Live Oak has nuts”.
I dont’t think I am getting whooshed on this one Yuma (AZ) High Schools Criminals Hard to believe. 
Speaking of Arizona-- the Arizona Cardinals might be the dumbest NFL nickname
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…
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
Cool! Another Gondo on the Dope. I was in the Class of '82.
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Let me be the first to say that the Sand Gnats in GA are worth fear…seriously.
~J
I liked that school, silly mascot or no silly mascot. 
Inky-, that is well worth being proud of. Heh heh heh…
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.
It’s legitimate. The school held its first classes in a vacated prison when Arizona was still a territory.
I went to a small, private all-girls school. The mascot: the beaver.
Uh huh.
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…
BWAA HAA HAA HAA HAA!
Gondoliers! Fear the Palisades Dolphins!
Class of '76 here.
BWAA HAA HAA HAA HAA!
Gondoliers! Fear the Palisades Dolphins!
Class of '76 here.
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
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.
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:
A few highlights:
… and a personal favorite - Rhode Island School of Design- Nads (Really)
I gotta get to one of their games, “GO Nads, GO, Nads!” 
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.
Key West, FL High School - Conchs
I played on a volleyball team once called the Hog Ballers.
