Palisades Dolphins… can’t you just hear their theme, er, fight song? They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning…
My high school mascot were the Pioneers. Talk about your non-intimidating nicknames! Lions will eat you. Eagles will scratch and peckl your eyes out. Hell, even the Criminals are scary–no telling what they’ll do! But the Pioneers? What are they gonna do, squat on your land? Build a log cabin? Give you blankets with smallpox on them?
And this from a woman who uses cadolphin as her username?
My own wife - turning against me…<sigh>
I dunno, I think the Pioneers are potentially scary. Think Donner Party.
Who turned against who first?!?!?!?!
I’ll toss your bedding out in the back yard for you. 
Kathy
Ha ha, can’t let your woman push you around like that. Beg for mercy, like this:
EEEEEEEEEEEE! Eeeeeeeeeee!
And clap your fins together.
My elementary school was the William Frangus Jazz with a saxophone as our mascot, granted we didn’t have a guy in costume I’ve neve been more struck by how awful that mascot is.
On an ironic note, the mascot for my middle school was George the grizzly bear, and the mascot logo was drawn as a “cool” bear - with his hat backwards, and a big gold G on a gold chain around his neck. 4 years after the school opened and he was their mascot, the new principal had the mascot logo changed to a kodiak bear because George “Wasn’t in Dress Code”
Morton Sr. High, Hammond In. “The Governors” Our logo, a tophat,white gloves and a cane. Our mascot? A guy running around wearing tophat, white gloves, tux with tails, and toting a black cane, calling himself “Li’l Governor”! I kid you not!
Hey now, as a Banana Slug, I stand here to defend our mascot.
Um, it’s a joke. A JOKE. No one at UCSC cares one iota about athletics, but we’re technically part of the NCAA (Div-III, independent), so we had to have a mascot. Having a ferocious mascot at a school where no one could care less about the games would be ludicrous. So…we went with the ludicrous mascot.
I, for one, am proud to be a Banana Slug. It’s a lot more entertaining and lends itself to more amusing apparel than yet another Bears or Lions or Tigers or Bulldogs. Booooring.
OTOH, in high school we were the Trojans. Terrible.
Depending on who you talk to from Ireland of course, the Orangement were not true Irish. They were Protestants, and the sons of English.
So there are two high schools in Illinois with a pretzel as a mascot? As a previous poster mentioned, Freeport also has the Pretzels. I was told that it was because there was a pretzel factory in town.
Muscatine, IA has the high school mascot of the Muskies. Not very imaginative, and it’s a fish.
Wisconsin seems to have a thing for colors. Beloit High School is the Purple Knights (because a regular knight just isn’t good enough). Madison East HS are the Purgolders (their colors are purple and gold) and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire are the Blugolds (guess what their colors are?).
Centralia, IL - Orphans
Monticello, IL - Sages
Red Rud, IL - Musketeers (Hey man, where did you go to HIGH school? Red Bud. Oh yeah? Red Bud? Me too man.)
Teutopolis, IL - Wooden Shoes
Vandalia, IL - Vandals
I still think that the worst mascot has to be for Lansing’s minor league baseball team. They are the Lansing…Lugnuts. Okay, maybe the name isn’t that bad, seeing as how the city takes pride in its automotive industry, but the mascot…yeah.
The Big Lug, as he is called, is a large purple dinosaur-thingy (the resemblance to Barney is, in fact, uncanny and rather disturbing). The only link to the team name is the pair of lugnuts shoved into his nostrils. I swear I’m not making this up.
The team recently won the Midwest League Championship.
Hey, I’m an Acorn, too! 1983 grad.
Hit 'em high, hit 'em low
hit 'em where their acorns grow!
Gooooo Nuts!
Horay! Another poor soul who put up with that subtle hint of garlic for a few months every year!!
Keep in mind, my little “nuts” faux-pas involved school funds and a couple hundred silk-screened t-shirts…
Syracuse is also the Orangemen.
The worst pro name has to be the Utah Jazz, a left over name from when the team was in New Orleans. Its almost , but not quite, works on an ironic level. This is one reason complain that teams should leave the name in the original city if they move. Some pro teams do this. It really makes sense. Shed the old identity, start a new tradition.
I am not quite sure what a Pacer is, either, despite living in Indianapolis and supporting the Pacers all my life. Something to do with car racing, I guess, given the towns reputation. Or maybe its some horse reference. Not sure.
I think a team in Alburquerqe (spelling ?) renamed themselves the Isotopes due to a Simpsons episode with such a reference. I always use this name for my fantasy teams.I went to Hutchinson-Central Technical High School in Buffalo, New York. It’s the Upstate equivalent of Brooklyn Tech.
Want to know what the Hutch Tech mascot is?
I went to high school at Robert E. Lee in Montgomery. We were The Generals, which wasn’t all that bad. The crosstown Sidney Lanier teams were The Poets. Inspired such fear and trembling.
For college teams, it’s hard to rival The Commodores at Vanderbilt. They’ve even tried to jazz it up a bit with stuff like “Go 'Dores!” which has always made me think they’d do just as well with “Go Windows!” To top it off, their football team has rarely had a winning season, and has never won a conference title. I guess people just can’t work up any real enthusiasm for such a wimp mascot.
Hey now, the only reason the name had to change was because the old name went with the old team to Portland, which was promptly renamed the Beavers, and the Dukes name was either not sold or not offered back. Trust me, I still prefer Dukes over Isotopes and you still see lots of people at the game wearing old Dukes hats and such.
Minor League Hockey:
Albany River Rats
Kentucky Thoroughblades
Lowell Lock Monsters
Syracuse Crunch
Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies
Florida Everblades
Greenville Grrrowl
Louisiana IceGators
Cape Fear Fire Antz