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[Robert]

22 hours ago, hhpatriot04 said:

We have Spartans, Crusaders, and Patriots ... What about Mujahadeen, Hajjis (those who went to Mecca), Colonists?

Some of the Muslim boys in my class at Woodlan a dozen or so years ago had a non school related soccer league team called Mujahadeen.  They pulled the Woodlan Warriors name and interpreted Mujahadeen as Warrior. 

[hhpatriot04]

13 minutes ago, Robert said:

Some of the Muslim boys in my class at Woodlan a dozen or so years ago had a non school related soccer league team called Mujahadeen.  They pulled the Woodlan Warriors name and interpreted Mujahadeen as Warrior. 

Holy Warrior would be a better translation.

[Robert]

Just now, hhpatriot04 said:

Holy Warrior would be a better translation.

Yeah, they knew that.  

[Irishman]

On 8/20/2026 at 12:33 PM, hhpatriot04 said:

Laziest mascot: Lakeland Lakers (IN)

I can one up that one. Had a nephew and niece graduate from Badger High School in Lake Geneva, WI.

Nickname? You may think, no way they did that, but yep, they did……the Badgers.

IU has an alumni summer camp in Elkhart Lake, WI. I had a blast working there for a couple of summers. I actually coached with a guy that went to Elkhart Lake HS. Their nickname is the Resorters. lol 

[hhpatriot04]

1 hour ago, Robert said:

Yeah, they knew that.  

Just flexing my limited Arabic language knowledge. I lived six years in Iraqi Kurdistan.

[Gipper]

On 8/20/2026 at 10:34 AM, Shoot_The_Hands said:

You want PC...look up Robstown Early College High School Mascot...I am not even risking putting it on here

Some can be real out there.  I already mentioned the Criminals and Halfbreeds yet ignored the Midgets and Orphans (some good Catholic I am not!)

[hhpatriot04]

11 minutes ago, Gipper said:

Some can be real out there.  I already mentioned the Criminals and Halfbreeds yet ignored the Midgets and Orphans (some good Catholic I am not!)

Roncalli Rectors would've been good.

Cathedral Celibates

Saint Joseph Saints

Bishop Chatard Brothers/Canons

Sacred Heart Sacrements

Luers Latins

Mater Dei Martyrs

[Gipper]

1 minute ago, hhpatriot04 said:

Roncalli Rectors would've been good.

Saint Joseph Saints

Bishop Chatard Brothers/Canons

Sacred Heart Sacrements

Luers Latins

Mater Dei Martyrs

My mother graduated from Bishop Silas Chatard HS, she would insist you call the girl’s teams the Belles (shout out to St. Mary’s College) or Donnas.

[hhpatriot04]

2 minutes ago, Gipper said:

My mother graduated from Bishop Silas Chatard HS, she would insist you call the girl’s teams the Belles (shout out to St. Mary’s College) or Donnas.

My cousins went to Chatard. Grandfather went to Cathedral. I'm not Catholic, but if we would've stayed in Carmel (moved to Santa Claus when I was four), I might have gone to Cathedral or Chatard.

Dad went to Emmerich Manuel, Mom went to North Central (with Babyface).

[Gipper]

Although I’m trying hard to keep this non-political, this next one proves I can’t: the Effingham (IL) Flaming Hearts.  Being they are located in that heavily taxed state, Bleeding Hearts would be more appropriate.

 

Business as usual for the Freeburg Pretzels, Lake Forest Scouts, and Schaumburg Saxons…

[Gipper]

I would be remiss if i didn’t offer a little praise to Blackford and North Central (just north of Terre Haute, not the one on 86th Street in Indianapolis) for thinking outside the box.  Their monikers of the Bruins and Thunderbirds offer fresh alternatives to the overplayed Bears and Cardinals/Eagles/Hawks.   Wabash and Brebeuf are trying to go the un-PC route by using the Apaches and Braves as opposed to Indians, but I can see through it.

[Gipper]

And how about those Manchester Squires as opposed to Cavaliers and the Southmont Mounties for making the dubious choice of honoring the long arm of the law in our neighbors to the north?

Edited 1 hour ago by Gipper

[Gipper]

20 hours ago, Irishman said:

I can one up that one. Had a nephew and niece graduate from Badger High School in Lake Geneva, WI.

Nickname? You may think, no way they did that, but yep, they did……the Badgers.

IU has an alumni summer camp in Elkhart Lake, WI. I had a blast working there for a couple of summers. I actually coached with a guy that went to Elkhart Lake HS. Their nickname is the Resorters. lol 

Aspen HS is in Colorado nicknamed the Skiers, yet they have a very swimming program.  Maybe not Carmel good, but not bad for a landlocked state smack dab in some of the world’s best, yet nauseatingly expensive skiing terrain in the world.

[Gipper]

I do know my swimming as I swam at South Newton.   The William D. Elbert Aquatic Centre is well known for only having 5 competition lanes as opposed to 6 or 8. 
 

As a side note, it’s not named after Elbert, I just chose to honor him as he was both my principal and Pappy Gipper’s basketball coach when the dinosaurs roamed the earth.  Second side note, daddio played for the Kentland Blue Devils who were quite good, offering as BDP as a forerunner to RDP.

[Gipper]

47 minutes ago, Gipper said:

I would be remiss if i didn’t offer a little praise to Blackford and North Central (just north of Terre Haute, not the one on 86th Street in Indianapolis) for thinking outside the box.  Their monikers of the Bruins and Thunderbirds offer fresh alternatives to the overplayed Bears and Cardinals/Eagles/Hawks.   Wabash and Brebeuf are trying to go the un-PC route by using the Apaches and Braves as opposed to Indians, but I can see through it.

My bad.  North Central is SOUTH of the Haute in gold old Sullivan County right by the WTWO weather station…