Nickname Hall of Fame revisited

[Gipper]

8 minutes ago, johnny U said:

Traverse City (MI) Pit Spitters

You will also find the Watersmeet Nimrods in Michigan and Rhinelander Hodags in Wisconsin.

[Muda69]

14 minutes ago, Gipper said:

You will also find the Watersmeet Nimrods in Michigan and Rhinelander Hodags in Wisconsin.

Watersmeet is right up there with Hot Dogs IMHO.  "Nimrods" just kind of rolls off of the tongue.....................

 

[Gipper]

5 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Watersmeet is right up there with Hot Dogs IMHO.  "Nimrods" just kind of rolls off of the tongue.....................

 

Absolutely and as @Irishman will concur, it is Yooperspeak for skilled hunter.

[Mod22]

2 hours ago, johnny U said:

Traverse City (MI) Pit Spitters

Edwardsburg Eddies

[Gipper]

23 minutes ago, Mod22 said:

Edwardsburg Eddies

I’m sure Hawai’i has some doozies...

[NLCTigerFan07]

Years ago I found an article that listed hundreds of strange/weird high school mascots throughout the country. I wish I could find that article. When I Google for it now, I only find newer articles that pick 1 from each state, or only a Top 25ish type list. This article/website was an old one, and really cool.

I remember in Arizona the Yuma Criminals. Per Wikipedia - "Yuma High's mascot came when the original school building was destroyed by fire in 1910. The school then used the Yuma Territorial Prison, which had been closed, for the next three years. Classes were held in the cell blocks, and assemblies took place in the prison hospital."

Here's an article with some other strange ones: https://www.al.com/opinion/2015/07/21_of_the_strangest_high_schoo.html

 

[Warren Central Warrior]

Kentucky has some good nicknames. Bowling Green High School is called the Purples. Trinity is the Shamrocks like Westfield. Warren Central (KY) has New Pal's nickname Dragons.

[CoachAnderson]

Check out this website https://www.mascotdb.com/

[gonzoron]

On 11/23/2020 at 12:09 PM, Ballhawk said:

They were not named after the Indian tribe or the helicopter.

I used to build transmission parts for those.

[Gipper]

5 hours ago, CoachAnderson said:

Check out this website https://www.mascotdb.com/

Nice!  I travel a lot and seen some crazy ones, like the Kingsford, MI Flivvers, the Hoopeston, IL Cornjerkers (which is right down the road from SN although the WRC schools of Seeger, etc. are closer), and Lafayette County, MO Huskers.

Edited November 26, 2020 by Gipper

[Gipper]

5 hours ago, Warren Central Warrior said:

Kentucky has some good nicknames. Bowling Green High School is called the Purples. Trinity is the Shamrocks like Westfield. Warren Central (KY) has New Pal's nickname Dragons.

There is also the Elgin Maroons in the Chicago suburbs and Westinghouse Commandos on the South Side as well as the Mt. Carmel Caravan who is a power.

Additionally Evanston Wildkits and New Trier Trevians.

[Gipper]

My cousins grew up in Huntsville, AL.  I thought they’d also be Rebels (Lee HS), but there high school was named for a Purdue graduate and Indiana native, Gus Grissom, and are nicknamed the Tigers.

My Cliff Calvin moment will currently be shelved, Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Edited November 26, 2020 by Gipper

[Football50dad]

Maybe not a message that all would get behind, but Batesville should for sure go with Batesville Undertakers!  That could really make for some cool pregame intros!

[Maynard111]

On 11/25/2020 at 11:05 PM, Gipper said:

There is also the Elgin Maroons in the Chicago suburbs and Westinghouse Commandos on the South Side as well as the Mt. Carmel Caravan who is a power.

Additionally Evanston Wildkits and New Trier Trevians.

Robinson, IL (my Mom's high school, class of '47) is also the Maroons.

[Gipper]

6 hours ago, Maynard111 said:

Robinson, IL (my Mom's high school, class of '47) is also the Maroons.

Cool!

There’s also the Teutopolis Wooden Shoes...

[Gipper]

Cornell Big Red, Dartmouth Big Green, Harvard Crimson: good thing the Ivy returns to normalcy with the Columbia Lions, Princeton Tigers, and Yale Bulldogs (even they’re also Elis).

[Obi-Wan]

On 11/25/2020 at 9:28 AM, Gipper said:

You will also find the Watersmeet Nimrods in Michigan and Rhinelander Hodags in Wisconsin.

I have an Aunt who is from Freeport, IL and they are the Freeport Pretzels 

[Gipper]

Here’s one: Manitowoc (WI) Shipbuilders—it gets shortened to Ships often.  I remember walking on the campus of St. Norbert College shortly after the Earth cooled for a campus visit.  I noticed someone wearing a jacket with the name on it.  I asked what the story behind it was. Apparently, a lot of ships used to be built there, but now they make ice machines.  A piece of Sputnik came crashing down there in the 1950s, but that story is for another time.

Edited December 1, 2020 by Gipper

[Gipper]

On 11/25/2020 at 4:38 PM, Warren Central Warrior said:

Kentucky has some good nicknames. Bowling Green High School is called the Purples. Trinity is the Shamrocks like Westfield. Warren Central (KY) has New Pal's nickname Dragons.

Henry Clay in Lexington is the Blue Devils.  Interesting choice given UK’s history with Duke University: just ask Christian Laettner.

Edited December 1, 2020 by Gipper

[NLCTigerFan07]

On 11/25/2020 at 5:49 PM, CoachAnderson said:

Check out this website https://www.mascotdb.com/

I think this was the website I was talking about some time ago! This is an updated an cleaner version though. Thanks!