Unique Nicknames For High School Sports Teams?

[The Great Escape]

Here Is a List Of 5

Poca Dots Poca, WV
Frankfort Hot Dogs Frankfort, IN
Vincennes Lincoln Alices Vincennes, IN
Northeast Dubois Jeeps Dubois, IN
Graham G Men Bluefield, VA

[JohnKleeb]

1. hah those are good

[HEyHEY]

2. I swear, no joke - My highschool team was called "The Moody Blues"

[The Great Escape]

3. Moody Blues Was Their OFFICIAL Nickname? Wow...

I love the Moody Blues!

[HEyHEY]

4. Well we were from Port Moody - and I guess someone had a sense of humour

They were founded in the 70s - so...

[Tom Kitten]

5. In Oregon...

mind you nothing that weird! But the
Toledo Boomers (a mountain rodent)
Lakeview Honkers (Turok, Son of Stone, anyone?)
Pleasant Hill Billies
Tillamook Cheesemakers

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. Streaks!

[boxster]

7. Omaha has the Benson Bunnies

Opposing teams come up with some pretty humorous cheers, usually stuff like "Kill the Bunnies!"

A football team called the Bunnies just can't be taken seriously.

[The Great Escape]

10. You're Probably Right..But Imagine How That Team Called The Alices Feel...

Potential Mascots

[flamingyouth]

8. My school's was originally the Shingle Weavers

Back in the early 20th century, Ballard was a mill town north of the Seattle city limits. Now it's a part of Seattle, and the school mascot is the Beavers :(

[2bfree]

9. Is this an urban fable.............

I've seen this one before............Butte Pirates. I'll have to check that out though.

[Blaze Diem]

11. and then there's the "Dickinson Midgets"!!

High School kids of all heights are allowed on this Class A State Team. Yes they have taken State championships in Football, Basketball, Golf and in Track..Midgets won the Pole Vault event..!!ha REALLY!
City of about 12,000.
Go Midgets

[SmileyBoy]

19. Ah, the Dickinson Midgets.

I have a friend on the NDSU football team who used to play for Dickinson Trinity, a private school there. He said one of the reasons he didn't want to play for Dickinson was because of the nickname.

Now the Devils Lake Satans. I LOVED that name!!! I wish the overly-PC crowd didn't get rid of it.

[sasquatch]

12. The Middletown "Middies"

There's a team up in northern Ohio called the "Tarblooders" though.

[kskold]

13. not high school, but...

Not my high school team (they were the Panthers) but my college teams were the UC Irvine Anteaters. Our battle cry was "Zot, Zot, Zot!" Happens when you build a college in California in the late 60's.:D

And I believe that UC Santa Cruz has the Banana Slug as a mascot - but I can't swear they have any sports teams.

Kristen
long-time lurker, occasional poster

[Wapsie B]

14. Freeport Pretzels,

Freeport, Ill.

[AntiSmirk]

16. New Berlin, Illinois, Pretzels

Odd that IL would have two pretzel teams. I have lived in both communities by the way.

[dbackjon]

21. Really?

Folks live in Waverly.....

[AgadorSparticus]

15. my jr high school was the Minnie B. Gay Raiders. no joke.

we were the mighty gay raiders. the city eventually had mercy on the kids and changed it to Memorial Raiders.

[AntiSmirk]

17. Polo Marcos

Polo, Illinois is home to the Marcos.

Pekin, Illinois USED TO BE home of the Chinks. I kid you not.

[dbackjon]

22. Interesting story on that.

When Pekin was founded, the founders could not agree on the name. So they pulled out a globe, spun it, and had one of the wives stick a hat pin in it. Landed in China, obliterating the "g". And since the town was named after a Chinese city, I guess the nickname "Chinks" came naturally....


They are now the Dragons.

[SmileyBoy]

18. Wahpeton, ND's high school nickname used to be the "Wops".

Also, the Blooming Prairie, MN "Blossoms".

[Lex]

20. We were called the "Dark Horses"

and a "dark horse" is apparently a saying for an underdog.

[eyesroll]

23. My junior high was the Thomas Trojans

Which as a name isn't so bad, but, well....we were 13.

The school song was to the tune of "On, Wisconsin" (and I'm not kidding):

On, you Trojans, on you Trojans
On to victory!
Cheer on your good old Thomas Trojans
On to victory (rah rah rah).

I fancied myself Weird Al through most of my childhood and adolescence, so of course the song got a makeover:

On, you Trojans, on you Trojans
Preventing pregnancy!
Put on your good-old latex Trojan
Or a daddy you will be...

I hear they're the Thomas Timber Wolves now...

[underpants]

24. Fluvana County High School (Va.) Flucos

Apparently that is the best they could come up with.

[VelmaD]

The Beetdiggers...from Sandy, Utah...

Jordan High school.

I remember hearing about them from my favorite morning sports radio guy in Dallas - Norm Hitzges.

[bif]

25. The Screaming Nipples

[LDS Jock]

26. From the Arkansas Ozarks... Deer Antlers

in Deer Arkansas

[ronnykmarshall]

27. The Drillers

Bakersfield High

My parents alma mater.

[tsakshaug]

28. Mounties

Mt Greylock Mounties.

What we mounted is another story

[alphafemale]

29. Atom Smashers

[CO Liberal]

30. The Rocky Ford, CO "Meloneers"

The team buses all have pictures of watermelons on them. The name is a salute to one of the main crops in the area.

[politicat]

31. Yuma Criminals, Yuma High School, Yuma AZ.

Yuma had the territorial prison for many years before Arizona became a state. Before the high school was built, they had some classes at the prison. (Which was a real hole, as prisons go....) The mascot became the Criminals.

(Yuma is pronounced YOOO-ma, not YUM-a.)

Not my alma mater, but our rival.

Politicat

[Jokerman]

32. My Alma Mater Made Your List! (Hot Dogs)

From a former Frankfort Hot Dog.

Area schools loved to have us for their homecoming games because there are so many float possibilities when you play the Hot Dogs.

[The Great Escape]

33. Growing Up I Spent All Of My Summers In So Indiana With My Fathers Family.

I became quite the fan of Indiana High School Basketball. I still follow it to this day thanks to HickoryHusker Dot Com.

[Jokerman]

35. The name may be a joke but the team was once a power house.

For a number of years we held the record for state basketball titles. All during the twenties and thirties under Everett Case.

We made it to the sweet sixteen a twice and came within a couple of points of going to the state finals when I was in high school.

[MadHound]

34. My high school alma mater, the Hickman Kewpies

Yes, named after the kewpie doll, in Columbia Mo.