High School thread reminded me of something - my school's team name?

[HEyHEY]

No joke, we were called -

"The Moody Blues"

Port Moody Senior was the school

[flamingyouth]

1. We were the Beavers.

Yeah, and no jokes. :D

[sasquatch]

5. "He muffed the punt! OMG I can't believe it!"

:evilgrin: :dunce:

[Tom Kitten]

45. Nothing wrong with Beavers

as an Oregon State alum I know what you mean...I still have my little Bucky Beaver mascot doll...

[Shananigans]

56. Hey! I'm a Beaver!

A Bemidji State University Beaver! And damn proud of it!

[JimmyJazz]

2. tee hee - I know what Skinner's is and I'm not telling

(sing songs in really obnoxious way) :P

[MrSlayer]

3. The Pirates.

Pretty cool.

[Huckebein the Raven]

4. Purple Wave here

:hi:

[barackmyworld]

6. Dolphins

Because they are smart animals. So, so lame.

[Radical Activist]

80. That sounds like something Lisa Simpson

would like for a mascot.

[yvr girl]

7. It's a funny one

Trojans

Didn't inspire any jokes in high school. Nope. None.

[two gun sid]

9. What was your mascot? eom

[yvr girl]

12. A big dancing condom - what would you expect

I don't recall a mascot

[DemBones DemBones]

21. A guy dressed as a Trojan warrior, of course.

Get your mind out of your crotch! ;-)

[yvr girl]

38. Not really there

It's not a piece of apparel that I would be able to wear.

[DemBones DemBones]

41. I was replying to the other poster, the one

asking you about the mascot. I wouldn't hassle a fellow Trojan! ;-)

[DemBones DemBones]

16. Our team was the Trojans, too, and I'm sure that

the boys laughed about it among themselves but never in front of girls. Of course, most of us girls knew what Trojans were, too, but it wasn't something kids joked about in the mid-sixties, probably because pregnancy wasn't funny. Kids had sex and used rubbers but they didn't talk about it as much as kids do today. The bad news is my high school students were less informed in the eighties and nineties about contraception than most of us in the sixties.

[two gun sid]

22. self delete

[CanuckAmok]

31. Same here!

Different province, same damned Trojan jokes.

[yvr girl]

36. Ah, to be in school in the 80's

I wonder if they still use the name?

[DemBones DemBones]

42. I'm in the U. S. -- we had high school Trojans here, too. nt

[CanuckAmok]

46. we had a student vote to rename the teams in my final year.

My suggestion was 'The Obscure and Mildly Threatening Historical References'.

Sadly, the vote was to keep the 'Trojans', by a landslide.

[yvr girl]

50. In all fairness, your name would be hard to fit on a jersey

[DemBones DemBones]

58. Our team got renamed at some point in the

last 40 years. Yeah, my 40th reunion is this year. :wow:

[Rob H.]

73. We were the Trojans, too

I used to joke with post-high-school friends about how you could always pick out our players on the field because their helmets had reservoir tips on them.

Hey, I didn't say it was a good joke. :silly:

[Left Is Write]

8. We were the Braves.

We loved that name. We adored that name.

Three, four years after graduated, that thirty-plus-year-old name was changed to "The Blaze." Stupid, lame name. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[maveric]

10. We were the Blue Devils. Salem HS, Salem NH.

Our football uniforms were a copy of the Dallas Cowboys.

[lazarus]

11. Eagles

Pleasant Home High School. Very, very tiny.

[expatriot]

13. Sigourney Savages (Sigourney, IA)

In 1989 we gave up the Native American iconography but kept the name "Savages" which left us without a mascot, just an "S"

[HEyHEY]

14. Change it to "The Sigourney Weavers"

[expatriot]

17. That was the oldest joke in town :)

[HEyHEY]

20. silly me thinking I was cleaver

[libnnc]

15. Mountianeers here

...moonshine jugs and overalls

no kidding

[mark414]

18. the DEMONS

grrr :evilgrin:

over the years there have been a few attempts by fundies to change the name...with little to no success

[HEyHEY]

26. Ya gotta wonder

If they'd be offended by calling them "Christian Soldiers"

[northofdenali]

19. Naturally, here at the home of the Yukon Quest.........

Lathrop High School Malemutes!!

[HEyHEY]

23. That's a good name

[DemBones DemBones]

29. And a great picture of a beautiful dog -- love the breed! nt

[DemBones DemBones]

28. Err, shouldn't that be Malamutes?

Or was your hs filled with mutant males (hmm. . . high school boys -- yes, many mutants!

Long time no see, northofdenali, how you doing up there? :hi:

[northofdenali]

33. Been caretaking my father-in-law.

You're right about the spelling - first time I've posted in weeks!! ANYWAY - I've missed my good DU friends, but life has been insane! Pops has been to the ER 6 times since January 3, with the first resulting in a 10-day stay. I'm here to tell you that Alzheimers is the PITS of a disease.

:hi::hug::hi:

[DemBones DemBones]

48. I never say anything about typo spelling errors but this was too funny!

Sorry about your Pops, it's really hard to take care of someone. We did it with my mother-in-law, who had ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and it's very, very hard. I think it would be even worse when the person you love has Alzheimer's; we've had no experience with that.

You take good care of yourself.
:hug: :hug: :hug:

[Fenris]

24. Highlanders.

Filthy Scotsmen.

[HEyHEY]

25. ANd scotswomen

[flamingyouth]

32. ROFL - but your town is totally flat!

That's hilarious.

I guess the Lowlanders just doesn't have the same ring to it...

[two gun sid]

27. The Vikings

[Lady President]

30. I've had a couple pathetic ones....

I went to a couple high schools and a couple colleges, but I never had a good mascot....

Unicorns - all girls high school

Stallions - the girls were the Lady Stallions (don't even try to figure out how a stallion can be a lady)

Presidents - for many years after they started admitting women, they called the women the First Ladies (apparently a female could never be a president)

Zips - Zip is a kangaroo, but it looks more like a cow

[yellowdogintexas]

34. Rebels...so named because Jefferson Davis was born in

our county.

of course so was Robert Penn Warren, so we could have been the KingsMen

or the novelists

or the poets

or the Pulitzers


I think I need to go to bed now

[driver8]

35. We were the Potsdam Sandstoners -- or "Stoners" as we were called

Let's go Stoners! I am serious...we were the "Stoners". We were named after the men who used to cut sandstone.

[u4ic]

37. Mustangs

a purple one. And no annoying songs from the purple pony.

[chieftain]

39. Hawklets , here . Jesuit high schools

with affiliated colleges are stuck with the diminutive of the nickname of the upper school . Hence the Junior Billikens of St. Louis University High . Any Creighton grads out there ? If so what was your team name .

[Wapsie B]

40. The Warriors

of Wapsie Valley. Speaking of Mountaineers, since the initials for the 2 schools are the same my old high school now has the same helmets as the West Virginia Mountaineers. I always thought those helmets looked cool on TV. But I'm still kinda partial to the script Wapsie on the helmets instead. Just a rambling of useless trivia.

[zbird]

43. Would you believe the Canaries (Allen HS, Allentown, PA)?

Ferocious mascot, isn't it? The other high schools in the city are the Huskies and the Vikings.

[ChoralScholar]

44. Atkins High School

'Where the earth revolves around football'


Home of the Red Devils



I can't even begin to tell you how many times they tried to change our mascot. Freakin' fundies...

[TheCentepedeShoes]

67. Oh, I was thinking

"The Dieters" (hee,hee)

[RadicalMom]

47. The Dukes. York High School. Named for the Duke of York, evidently.

Why? Beats me! They never told us why. It was in Elmhurst, IL.

[Tom Kitten]

49. the Gladstone Gladiators

from Gladstone, Oregon ...or Glads for short...when I went to high school they had some really good teams, actually...after I graduated and my sister went there we went to see a game against a team from British Columbia called Argyle...I don't remember too well but I think they were called the Socks...

[xmas74]

51. The Marshall Fighting Owls

[njdemocrat106]

52. My elementary school had the most ridiculous mascot of all

I only went to public elementary school from K-2, and since we were the only school in the district without a mascot, the powers that be decided we should be the ALFs (as in Alien Life Form; you know, that furry little guy who had that hit sitcom on NBC on Monday nights back in the late 80s). About 7-8 years after I left that school, I went back there for some reason (I probably was accompanying my parents on their way to vote, since the school used to be our polling place. I still wasn't old enough to vote, but already interested in politics by then). I kid you not, there was still a giant paper ALF on the wall when you entered. Just a few years ago though, they officially renamed themselves the Jaguars :).

[5thGenDemocrat]

53. Lumberjacks

Arthur Hill High School, Saginaw, Michigan. The only "Lumberjacks" in the state of Michigan.
John
In 1973, the Lumberjacks became (and still are) the only HS football team in Michigan history to go an entire season undefeated, untied and unscored upon (9-0, 443-0).
ON EDIT: Actually, we are also (officially) known as the Hillites. I wonder how many high schools have two different, interchangeable nicknames?

[SeanQuinn]

54. bearS.

[HamstersFromHell]

55. Maplewood Panthers

n/t

[cubschicago]

57. Try being called the Grenadiers

I didn't know what one was until I actually had to go to the school.

[dry99]

59. McKell Jeff Gannons

Bulldogs really, but the names has been spoiled now forever.
Dave

[SW FL Dem]

77. LOL I had the same thought

My school was a the Bulldogs too! Somehow, I cringe when I hear it now.

[JVS]

60. I would have expected you guys to be called "The Crimson Tide"

what with your initials being PMS and all

[GOPisEvil]

61. Rockets

Judson High School, Converse, TX

[arwalden]

62. Crabbers. (Our Mascot Was A Crab)

[ScreamingMeemie]

63. "Big Reds" Middle school was hysterical we were the Gilette "Blue Blades".

;)

[terrya]

64. We were the Panthers. n/t

[SCDem]

65. Wolfpack

[nuxvomica]

66. The Kerry Blues

I'm not kidding! The school was St. Mary's Academy in Glens Falls, NY. A Kerry Blue is a type of terrier.

[ProfessorGAC]

68. Hilltoppers

The High School was at the top of a hill on a river bluff. Pretty creative, huh?
The Professor

[SmokingJacket]

72. Beats the Hillbillies, which was mine.

Kept it even after the school moved to a wide open plain. WHY????

[ohiosmith]

69. Your pic is apropos. Our team name was the North High Polar Bears.

Polar Pep Song

Out of the North comes the Polar Bear, Venturing Forth From her Guarded lair.

Our warriors in the fray are ready for the foe; This is our happy day, we'll watch them as they go.

Send up a cheer for the Maroon and Gold. We never fear for our defenders bold.

We'll win the game, defend our fame. And know the reason why

Our voice in song both loud and long we raise up to the sky.

Come on and sing and make the welkin ring!

Come on and fight, fight, fight, North High!

---Paul E. Crider

[Beware the Beast Man]

70. Quaker Valley HS- The Fighting Quakers...I shit you not.

Oxymoronic, huh?

[Midlodemocrat]

71. Titans. Cross town rival was the Trojans. Seriously.

[MissMillie]

74. The Warriors

Narragansett Regional High School: Templeton-Phillipston, MA

[kwassa]

75. The Nads ( Go Nads! Go!) hockey team at art school

and 30 years later, they are still the Nads.

here is a shirt for a supporter

[NoPasaran]

76. Rockets

Our school was founded in the late 50s for what was then a bedroom community for Ft. Bliss.

[name not needed]

78. Panthers

[NYYFan]

79. Spartans

Mt. Tabor Spartans, Winston-Salem, NC.

Funny fact, In college- Univ. of NC at Greensboro were also Spartans. When I graduated from HS- ppl signed my yearbook "Once a Spartan, Always a Spartan."

[Radical Activist]

81. The Crusaders

I went to a Lutheran High School. I remember one day in Western Civ class everyone was condemning Muslim holy wars during a class discussion. This was way before 9/11. I pointed out that our own team mascot was named after a bunch of people who engaged in a holy war. I don't think most of them saw the irony in that.