31 Unbelievable High School Mascots

[Sirus]

I found these to be hilarious. One of my favorites is #23

http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/30849.html

[sooner59]

I found these to be hilarious. One of my favorites is #23

http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/30849.html

It's kinda hard to agree with you when there is no link......:confused:

[walkoffsooner]

I agree with with sooner59

[ouwapiti]

here a few from texas that may not have made the list
frost-polar bears
itasca-wampus cats
progreso-red ants
roscoe-plowboys
winters-blizzards
jayton-jaybirds
brazosport-exporters
robstown-cottonpickers
knippa-purple rockcrushers
san saba-armadillos.................... favorite minor league baseball team.......albuquerque-isotopes
port lavaca-sandcrabs
killeen and weatherford-kangaroos
rotan-yellowhammers
hereford-whitefaces
muleshoe-mules, of course...favorite sign outside of muleshoe....'welcome to the greater 'muleplex'

[picasso]

I found these to be hilarious. One of my favorites is #23

http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/30849.html

oh man. #12 was the one that got me! Refugio Sebaceous Cysts!

[NormanPride]

muleshoe-mules, of course...favorite sign outside of muleshoe....'welcome to the greater 'muleplex'

Huh. Alamo Heights (where Drew Allen and I come from) is the Mules as well. I thought that was unique.

[CaliBornSoonerBred]

My old hs, Pampa Harvesters. I've been told we are the only Harvesters in the nation.

[stoopified]

SinceI can't see the list,I have to ask,is Unicorns on there?

[boomersooner28]

What about the Beaver Dusters!?!?!?!?

[ouwapiti]

beaver dusters....hahahahah... i had forgotten about that one.....how appropriate.....or is that inappropriate..............new braunfels unicorns .....surely that made the list

[badger]

I found these to be hilarious. One of my favorites is #23

http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/30849.html

I dunno... I thought No. 24 was better and thus, should have been No. 23, but unfortunately was relegated to No. 24.

(dear lord, I hope that No. 24 doesn't turn out to be something weird like the PMS She-Devils... if so, the joke's on me, not you)

[tfoolry]

Dickinson Midgets

[kbsooner21]

It would be great to see the list lol

[SteelClip49]

LINK?????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????

[ouwapiti]

dickinson midgets????.......dickinson down by galveston are the gators....always thought forney (just east of dallas) shoulda been the gators......forney gators????

[MamaMia]

http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/30849.html

[NormanPride]

Google is your friend!

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/30849

EDIT: DANGIT, I KNEW I SHOULDN'T HAVE READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE POSTING IT!

[tigepilot]

Got a good laugh outa 21.

[Dio]

There used to be a hockey team called the Macon Whoopee

[stoopified]

Winged Beavers HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[setem]

SinceI can't see the list,I have to ask,is Unicorns on there?

Good ole Tom Wort and his little brother are Unicorns! I guess it is similar to naming your son Sue? If you got a name like that then you have to be tough or die and from I have heard about that team they are as tough as they come.

[boomersooner28]

The Nimrods! That would suck! LOL

[Eielson]

I dunno... I thought No. 24 was better and thus, should have been No. 23, but unfortunately was relegated to No. 24.

(dear lord, I hope that No. 24 doesn't turn out to be something weird like the PMS She-Devils... if so, the joke's on me, not you)

New Berlin Pretzels.

[Eielson]

SinceI can't see the list,I have to ask,is Unicorns on there?

#18

[Eielson]

Just curious, is there a reason that the "31 unbelievable high school mascots" is a list of 27?

[ouwapiti]

delta state....fighting okra

[setem]

I believe Garret Hartley is a Fighting Artichoke alum!

[MichiganSooner]

I saw the Atom Smashers but not the Midland Chemics. The Midland Chemics are going for the 34th consecutive winning season in football this year.

[AlbqSooner]

UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs. Sounds like some drug crazed hippies took over student government sometime in the 60s.

Albuquerque Isotopes (Due to Sandia National Labs and Los Alamos National Labs being in the area) got permission from the copyright holders and had Homer Simpson as a mascot for a while.

[yermom]

then he moved to Capitol City...

[SoonersEnFuego]

CornJerkers!?!! Hilarious!

[OUDoc]

http://wwwc.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/mascot4.jpg

The Kewpies?
Really? Any guys go to that school?
:rolleyes:

[stoopified]

http://wwwc.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/mascot4.jpg

The Kewpies?
Really? Any guys go to that school?
:rolleyes:To think I was ashamed to be a Kitten in jr. high. :D

[yermom]

i started out as a Roper in high school. i wonder how many of those there are...

[josh09]

The Pretzels?!

[josh09]

The NIMRODS?!?!

[BoulderSooner79]

I'm guessing they were going for the 1st definition ;)
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nim·rod (nmrd)
n.
1. also Nimrod A hunter.
2. Informal A person regarded as silly, foolish, or stupid.

[Eielson]

I'm guessing they were going for the 1st definition ;)
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nim·rod (nmrd)
n.
1. also Nimrod A hunter.
2. Informal A person regarded as silly, foolish, or stupid.

Perhaps they did, but whoever named them that and expected people to think of that definition, was the second one.

[bluedogok]

To think I was ashamed to be a Kitten in jr. high. :D
Henryetta Hens anyone?



UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs. Sounds like some drug crazed hippies took over student government sometime in the 60s.
Well, it is home to the Grateful Dead Archive....the name was voted on by students in 1986.

Here is the mascot story from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_Cruz).

UCSC's mascot is the banana slug (specifically, Ariolimax dolichophallus). In 1981, when the university began participating in NCAA intercollegiate sports, the then-chancellor and some student athletes declared the mascot to be the "sea lions." Most students disliked the new mascot and offered an alternative mascot, the banana slug. In 1986, students voted via referendum to declare the banana slug the official mascot of UCSC—a vote the chancellor refused to honor, arguing that only athletes should choose the mascot. When a poll of athletes showed that they, too, wanted to be "Slugs," the chancellor relented. A sea lion statue can still be seen in front of the Thimann Hall lecture building. In February, 2008 ESPN Sports Travel named the UCSC Banana Slug as one of the top ten best nicknames in college basketball. The "Fiat Slug" logo prominently featured on campus is a trademark of UCSC owned by the Regents. It was developed by two students during the mascot controversy, who later incorporated as "Oxford West" and licensed their design from the Regents to produce clothing inspired by the university.

The UC Santa Cruz athletics website is GoSlugs.com (http://www.goslugs.com/).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Ucsc_fiatslug.png

[Curly Bill]

We did this thread not long ago:

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127689&highlight=mascots

[PLaw]

Here a few more:

From West Texas HS
Crane Golden Cranes

From Minor League Baseball
The Montgomery Bisquits

Oh yeah, and the other hilarious one from down South
Texas Longhorns

BOOMER

[Sirus]

Sorry guys this is another link:http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/30849

[Statalyzer]

Hereford High School's sports mascot is the Whitefaces.

It sound racist but actually "whiteface" is just an unfortunate nickname for the Hereford breed of cow.

[OUMallen]

here a few from texas that may not have made the list
frost-polar bears
itasca-wampus cats
progreso-red ants
roscoe-plowboys
winters-blizzards
jayton-jaybirds
brazosport-exporters
robstown-cottonpickers
knippa-purple rockcrushers
san saba-armadillos.................... favorite minor league baseball team.......albuquerque-isotopes
port lavaca-sandcrabs
killeen and weatherford-kangaroos
rotan-yellowhammers
hereford-whitefaces
muleshoe-mules, of course...favorite sign outside of muleshoe....'welcome to the greater 'muleplex'


Isn't that Atoka too?

[Jdog]

Colorado Rocky Mountain School - Boarding School that my wife attended in Carbondale, CO
went by the:
CRMS Rocky Mountain Oysters
only had a Soccer and Ski Teams

[PLaw]

Hereford High School's sports mascot is the Whitefaces.

It sound racist but actually "whiteface" is just an unfortunate nickname for the Hereford breed of cow.

we are getting way, way to politically correct. my grand-dad raised black baldies (hereford X angus/brangus) down in Garvin Co. for about 60 years.

Boomer

[SoonerInFortSmith]

Arkansas Tech Univ. is the Wonder Boys.
I always thought it sounded kinda ghey.

[LoyalFan]

http://wwwc.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/mascot4.jpg

The Kewpies?
Really? Any guys go to that school?
:rolleyes:

My father (RIP, Colonel) graduated from Hickman in the late 1920s.
There is no Columbia HS, Hickman being the original and flagship school.
As for me, I'm a Leesville LA Wampus Cat, at least re grades 7-9, and a Douglas MacArthur (San Antonio Texiz) Brahmas grad.

[tfoolry]

CornJerkers!?!! Hilarious!

U. of Nebraska has rights to "Cornholers" so "Cornjerkers" was the logical choice.

[Socrefbek]

How about the Forney Caterers ;)



dickinson midgets????.......dickinson down by galveston are the gators....always thought forney (just east of dallas) shoulda been the gators......forney gators????