What Was Your High School Mascot?

[Zomby Woof]

Mine was the Stallions.

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. The Green Wave.

:P Ripped off from Tulane. We had a little Green Wave with a wave pompadour and balled-up fists (The Fighting Green Wave). How incredibly lame....:rofl:

[Zomby Woof]

2. LOL

Do they do "the wave" at football games? If so, does everyone wear green as a special effect? :D

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. Yes, and they wanted everyone to wear green to the games

when I was in school, but basically the students gave the middle finger to that idea. :P :rofl: Fans still did "the wave", though.

[Chan790]

3. St. Paul CHS Falcons

Falcons. We tried every year to change it (to something actually relevant to the life of Saint Paul) and every year the administration ignored our request because it would infuriate the alumni...now I am an alumni and I bring it up to other alumni and I've never found one that cares.

[Mutley]

4. The Bulls.

Sigh. They had no imagination whatsoever.

[Zomby Woof]

6. How about...?

The Mall Meteorologists? :D

[Mutley]

33. LOL!

Now that's a mascot I can get into. :7

[TheMightyFavog]

5. Cougars.

End of Line.

[ZombieNixon]

7. Panthers.

:shrug:

[supernova]

13. Ha. So were were

A mere what 25 years apart? ;-)

[ceile]

8. Stratford Spartans

It was pretty cool. One of the other high schools in our district had a Yosemite Sam looking thing for a mascot.

[datasuspect]

the flaming octupi

[Avalux]

9. Mountain Lions

[LaCrosseDem]

11. Falcons

[gizmo1979]

12. A Redman.

They changed it to redwings sometime after I left.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. My father went to West Division in Milwaukee and they were the

Redmen as well. :hi:

[gizmo1979]

30. We were the Sheboygan South high Redmen.NT

[RetroLounge]

14. The Demons

naturally...

:evilgrin:

RL

[Zomby Woof]

15. Sweet

That is one I could get behind. :evilgrin:

[Silver Swan]

16. Trojans

Thinking back, it was pretty funny...

Give me a "T" etc.

[Zomby Woof]

20. Ha!

I imagine the person wearing the costume at games could be uncomfortable. :D

Welcome to DU! :toast:

[Scurrilous]

69. Me too.

Go Trojans!!! :thumbsup:

[LTR]

90. Same here

Hit 'em high,
Hit 'em low,
Hit 'em where the Trojans go!

[Kali]

141. ha husband was a Trojan

Catalina High, Tucson AZ

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Big Reds

:hi:

[Zomby Woof]

22. Your mascot was CHEWING GUM?

;-)

:hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Yeah!

:hug:

:rofl:

That's what I thought when we first moved here. Until I realized the school district was Chippewa Valley. There have been a lot of complaints about it, but they stand as the Big Reds, with a Chief as a mascot. :hi:

[L A Woman]

26. mine was Big Reds, too - the mascot was a BIG RED INDIAN!

political incorrectness at its finest. :-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. Ours Too!

:) And they were thrilled when they were able to buy a new costume with a HUGE head. All of the schools had Indian names.

[joneschick]

19. Washington War Hawks

I wonder what it is now? blue and gold, which I, as a good little hippie, never would wear. ahh, yes--remember that little room next to the art room?

[Zomby Woof]

24. "Washington War Hawks"

Sounds like Neocon High with Principal Bush. :o

[joneschick]

34. yeah, it pretty much was.

although I vaguely remember the principal was pretty cool. My main goal was to stay beneath the radar.

[Odin2005]

132. LOL, great name! n/t

[NewJeffCT]

21. Panthers

we did pretty well in sports for a small town, too.

[MiniMandaRuth]

23. The Hornets.

Well, it will be.

Funny story. Right before the last day of middle school, we had this big party over at a friends house. She invited her two cousins, our age, one boy, one girl. The boy was pretty funny, but kind of a jackass. So, we were talking about our highschool, and he kept on going on about 'The Hornet is such a lame mascot!' and 'A bug! ooooo... I'm scared!!!'

And then up came this little yellow jacket and stung him right next to his left eye. Well, it was painful for him, but hi-frickin-larious to the rest of us.

On edit: And our middle school mascot was the Yeti! Well, unofficially. The teachers voted for Grizzly, but the students liked the Yeti more. So we were always the Glacier Yeti's to people.

[Zomby Woof]

29. Instant karma!

Makes me think I won't make fun of your middle school mascot then. I don't want to be eaten by a Grizzly-Yeti hybrid. :D

[MiniMandaRuth]

31. But that would be so much fun!

C'mon, at least you'd get eaten by something interesting. Just think if you were eaten by a platapus-lemur hybrid

[Zomby Woof]

32. Hmmm

It would be more interesting if the yeti had blue hair! :silly:

[MiniMandaRuth]

37. What about blue-green.

Which is where mine is right now. It's le cool.

[Zomby Woof]

39. From frickin' tight to le cool

Who says evolution is just a theory? :D

[MiniMandaRuth]

42. I dunno...

The man who said our mascot would be A GRIZZLY?!?!?!

I mean, A GRIZZLY OVER A YETI?!?! That's why I hate our school system dammit.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. Trojans...

:rofl:

[AirmensMom]

35. Devils.

We lived in New Jersey.

[sakabatou]

36. The Titans

[Midlodemocrat]

153. Mine, too. And my two teens' new high school is using the Titans also.

[Rosie1223]

38. Tigers n/t

[southpaw]

40. The Bulldogs...

I mean, seriously. Isn't just about every 3rd high school mascot a bulldog?

The music program actually rebelled against the lack of originality and re-named the marching band the Blue Knights... we just couldn't handle being the Marching Bulldogs.

[GOPisEvil]

41. Rockets.

[Zomby Woof]

43. How phallic

:P

[GOPisEvil]

49. Eh, the school opened in 1959.

It's all very space-racey.

[Zomby Woof]

50. You literalist

:D

I gathered that. But who says the space race wasn't the US and the USSR engaged in a dick-waving contest? :P

[GOPisEvil]

52. Well...we did have a rocket on a trailer that...

...shot some suspicious white stuff out one end. They TOLD us it was a fire extinguisher, but now I'm having doubts. :D

[LaurenG]

74. Did you go to high school in El Paso?

[GOPisEvil]

84. Right state, wrong city.

Edit - talk to NoPasaran though. I know he spent time in EP.

[lizziegrace]

44. Red Devils

:evilgrin:

In the bible belt, no less!

[Lumily]

143. Me too.

I went to high school in Graham, NC. In high school we were the Red Devils, in middle school we were the Satans.:evilgrin:

[sleepyhead]

45. Indians.

And our marching band was the Marching Tribesmen. I cringe even today.

[MadHound]

46. The most unique in the country, and possibly the world

A Kewpie Doll


An alumnus of Hickman High School, Columbia Missouri. We are the few, the proud, the dolls.

I must say however, it is a rather unique mascot, and not so bad once you get used to the idea. I also think that it inspired the sports teams to play better and tougher.

[Zomby Woof]

48. That IS unusual

Can't accuse it of being cliche. :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

105. Holy midway gallery!

I used to work with someone who went to that school!

[astonamous]

47. White Buffalo n/t

[tinfoil tiaras]

51. The Saint.

Saints, plural.

GO SAINTS! :jumps up and down like a cheerleader:

[nini]

53. The Pilots -- harbor pilots.. not airplane

[Zomby Woof]

58. I drove by there twice today!

I could feel the excitement! :bounce:

[nini]

63. 2 more weeks!

:bounce: :D



:loveya:

[BrotherBuzz]

54. Indian

I think they changed it to some silly bird back in seventies to be politically correct. :shrug:

[malta blue]

55. Terrapins. eom

[SKKY]

56. The Yellowjackets! Don't get stung!!

[pdxbecca]

121. Mine was also Yellowjackets!

Did you go to Berkeley High?

[SKKY]

129. No. Louisville Central....

Whose most famous alum is Cassius Clay

[pdxbecca]

135. Wow, we weren't the only Yellowjackets

and I thought we were unique

[5thGenDemocrat]

152. Ithaca (MI) is also the Yellowjackets

I live 40 miles east of there.
John
I knew my high school's "Lumberjacks" was unique in Michigan -- but figured there must be another one out there somewhere in the USA.

[Ramsey]

57. Amazons

Yes, we were all-girls!

[Zomby Woof]

You just made matcom's day

:D

[martymar64]

59. The Grizzlies

My college mascots were:
The Corsairs
The Huskies
The Zips (!)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

60. MHHS Scarlet Knights

[sbj405]

61. Marlin

Which is only weird b/c it was in Michigan

[azmouse]

62. The Bears.

[Jimbo S]

64. Lancers

My HS opened in 1963 and was named after our progressive govenor. I guess there was some talked of naming it the "Fighting Bobs" in his honor, but the students choose Lancers instead.

[bluethruandthru]

65. Buffalos

Specifically White Buffalos

[City Lights]

66. Indians when I went there.

Now they're the Wolves.

[YankeyMCC]

67. Brockton Boxer

I think it's because of Rocky Marciano

[NoPasaran]

68. Rockets

But not the same school as GOPisEvil.

[ronnykmarshall]

70. A bong.

[fujiyama]

79. Now that's my kind of mascot

:smoke:

[terrya]

71. The Panthers

We were the Eisenhower High School Panthers.

[Fox Mulder]

72. Silverstreaks.

Our mascot was an armadillo or an anteater.

We could never really tell for sure. :shrug:

[LaurenG]

73. A rocket or a mustang depending on the high school

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

75. The Commas

It was rather a progressive school.

[Zomby Woof]

77. That mascot gives one pause

Ba-da-dum!

[auburngrad82]

76. The Bucaneers in Germany and the Lions in Georgia. nt

[reyd reid reed]

78. Mine was the Marauders.

There's a school around here somewhere, I'm not sure where, who uses Lambkins.

No joke.

[fujiyama]

80. Plymouth Salem Rocks

The neighboring school was Plymouth Canton Chiefs.

[northzax]

81. the Garroulous Pine

really.

[TransitJohn]

82. Wolves, baby!

[Crabby Appleton]

83. The Golden Bears

[Pendrench]

85. The Gaels....sort of a Notre Dame rip-off n/t

[jmowreader]

86. Paul Bunyan

Our high school teams were the Lumberjacks--fitting for a town in which EVERYONE is involved in the forest products industry in some way, either working with forest products or supporting those who do. There was also a school in our conference that called itself the Loggers, and our "cross-town rival" (they were 105 miles away--so much for cross-town rivalries, huh?) was the Miners for the same reason we were Lumberjacks.

In the early 1960s, Texaco had an ad campaign called "Big Friends." The gist was that if your car had broken down, your Big Friends at Texaco would scoop it up in their huge hands and walk it to a Texaco service station where a friendly mechanic would fix it.



This is one of those "Big Friends." How they got him is kind of a cool story...right across the street from the school, and in fact exactly where Keith was standing when he took this photo, is a Texaco service station. It's still there in its original configuration, complete with the two service bays where they still fix cars. They received a Big Friend. It comes disassembled in a shitload of boxes. They cleared off a place to put the Big Friend. They got a variance from the city to put the toes of the Big Friend a foot from the white line on Main Street because he wouldn't fit on the lot any other way. Then the gas station owner got all his buddies at the volunteer fire department and the ambulance service to come over and help put the Big Friend together. They got a keg of beer, drank it, then put the Big Friend together with his feet on backwards.

That shit don't work, guys. He would have fallen on a logging truck about a day after they put him up.

So they called the school board and offered to donate the Big Friend as a mascot. The Forest Service sunk the Big Friend's feet in concrete, and he stands to this day. When I still lived in St. Maries, he looked more like a present-day logger with a red shirt, no cap, no beard and no axe...the Sanders Road hippies offered to give him a makeover, which resulted in the fine Paul Bunyan mascot you see before you today. (Sanders Road was supposedly the origin of the Northwest's best marijuana, partly because of superior growing conditions and partly because the sheriff, America's last honest Republican, had so much cedar theft going on he didn't have time to hassle pot growers. The most fucked-up part? If you get a SMHS yearbook for the three years I was on the annual staff, you'll find that the pictures inside the front and back covers are ghosted images of Sanders Road. And yes, I did it on purpose.)

[5thGenDemocrat]

123. We were also the Lumberjacks (or, alternatively, the Hillites)

Saginaw (MI) Arthur Hill High School. Class of '75 -- but graduated in November 1973.
John
While I was there, the 1973 football team was the only one in Michigan history to go undefeated, untied and unscored upon for an entire nine-game season. Still are, as a matter of fact.

[jus_the_facts]

87. Rebels....

...as you can see from the pic...they didn't start gettin' good until AFTER I'd graduated. :puke:


http://eteamz.active.com/wmrebelfootball/index.cfm?

[bigwillq]

88. Chargers (nt)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

89. The Golden Bears n/t

[Crabby Appleton]

91. UAHS?

[LadyoftheRabbits]

92. Yeah!

Did you go there? :hi:

[Crabby Appleton]

93. yep

a long time ago, class of '67

[LadyoftheRabbits]

94. Awesome!

That's really cool :D

[Crabby Appleton]

96. They still have

the big stuffed bear in the hallway?

[LadyoftheRabbits]

97. Oh yes!

Small world :D I'm class of '05, btw. :bounce:

[Crabby Appleton]

108. Small world indeed

lelapin and I are homies!

nice talking to you.

I got to get to bed.

[Broken_Hero]

95. gasp, I'm afraid to say

The Kayhi Kings...(salmon)...yeah, our mascot was a friggin King Salmon, a fish...and our cheer was

"blub blub blub!!!"...(just kidding on the cheer part)

[Strawman]

98. Titans

[mduffy31]

99. The Superior Senior High School

Spartans

[xmas74]

100. Mine was an owl.

My dad's is the odd one. His was a Wykon.

[lost-in-nj]

101. Indians

I know not to pc



lost

[Solon]

102. The Warriors...

St. Charles West High School

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=St.+Charles+West

[ChoralScholar]

103. The Atkins Red Devils

[Lady President]

104. Unicorns!

What could be more intimidating than a unicorn! GO UNIs!!

In all fairness, I went to an all-girls school.

[UrbScotty]

106. Falcons (nt)

[grannylib]

107. The Vikings. Grew up in an almost totally Norski town in NE Iowa.

[SoyCat]

109. Scorpions

[DrZeeLit]

110. Patriot. The OGHS Patriots. Colors: Red, White, Blue....

go figure.

[General Zod]

111. Mountaineers

My school was located about 30 miles south of West Virginia University, so naturally we were the Mountaineers.

[spacelady]

112. The Fairbury Jeffs

named from the Mutt and Jeff comic & Jefferson County.

[pagerbear]

113. Rebels. Mascot was a Confederate officer

Monroe, NC.

I just looked it up online--it's been changed to Redhawks.

[jobycom]

126. Rebels, too. Mascot was a Southern gentleman, with goofy hat and

mustaches, and a cane. I think it still is. The Confederate flag used to play a big role, too, but I think that's been banned since the controversy has given the flag a new meaning.

This is in Gulfport, MS, or rather, Lyman, which isn't really a town.

[pagerbear]

144. Maybe ours was a Southern gentleman and not a Confederate officer

It's been ages, and it wasn't a very well executed drawing.

[Blue_Tires]

114. the Crusaders

why yes, i did go to hard-line old catholic school---how did you guess?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

115. The coolest of all.... a Dragon

Holyoke Dragons.. Green and gold were are colors, very sharp ...




:D

[KamaAina]

116. The Crimson Eagles

Has anyone ever actually seen a crimson eagle? :eyes:

[maveric]

117. Blue Devils. Salem High. Salem NH.

They've had that mascot since 1930.

[WeRQ4U]

118. The Midgets...........I wish I was kidding.

But it's true. The last go-round of "change the name" discussions ended with a total recall and revamping of the school board that proposed the change. The controversy was actually talked about on Jay Leno. It also ended with the name NOT being changed. It remains the Dickinson Midgets.

I would imagine that unless someone sues them, it's stay that way forever.

[Shine]

119. Rangers.

Nordhoff Rangers in Ojai, CA.

:hi: Zomby!

[Zomby Woof]

120. Hey there Shine!

:bounce:

[havocmom]

122. Matador

We had capes

[Zomby Woof]

124. Did you ever play the Bulls?

Ole!

[havocmom]

128. dint take no BS

das a fact...But no Bulls back in my day.

Orange County, CA. ;) I bled Dodger Blue back in those days.

[Zomby Woof]

130. And you should STILL bleed it, dammit!

:D

They have won the last 15 out of 16! :bounce:

[havocmom]

131. ZW, I haven't followed baseball in years,

no, decades.

Loved going to A-Ball when I first moved to MT eons ago. Those kids were a tad raw and green, but damn, they played with such passion. After that, Majors meant nada to me.

Saw Sutton square off against Nolan Ryan (when he was still with the Angles) in a Freeway Series pre-season game. Sutton was driving the home plate ump nuts with his 'substance on the ball?' psych. Ump was CONVINCED Don was doctoring the ball but couldn't prove it. Sutton just grinned, time after time, handing the ball over for inspection.

Ryan was hurling fire.

It was a great day at the ball park.

[Zomby Woof]

133. Ooo!

I remember when they pitched... what a great matchup!

Oh well, you mention the Dodgers, and I lose my head. ;-)

:hi: Hope you're having a fine evening!

[Bryan]

125. The Fort Collins High School Lambkins. No, really.

No, really:

http://schoolweb.psdschools.org/fchs/tradition/song.html

If I gave a damn about high school sports, I would have been furious!

[borlis]

127. It WAS the Indians....

It has been recently changed to the Wolves.

[theanarch]

134. a chicken...i kid you not...

stood for the "fighting (poultry) clan"...school colors were red and gray...

in college: the Trojans (junior college) and the Osprey's (four-year)

[izzybeans]

136. My middle school's mascot was the Kittens.

Yeah we were intimidating. purrrrrrrrr. Yes meow....purrrrrrrrr.

Oh High School, well Kittens grow up to be Wildcats. GRRRRRRR. yes meow. GRRRRRRR. I suppose the school board had a sense of humor back in the day.

[deadparrot]

137. The Chargers. nt

[driver8]

138. The Stoners...I swear that is the truth.

The area I grew up in used to be known for the mining of Sandstone. The men who mined the Sandstone were known as "sandstoners" or "stoners" for short.

Technically, our mascot is the "Sandstoner." However, we were always known as "the stoners."

[Kali]

139. A lame conquistador

the Coronado Dons. Scottsdale, AZ

Cheerleaders were the Donettes. oh yeah how cool is that?

[Common Sense Party]

140. The J-Hawks. No, not "jayhawks." J-Hawks. I have no idea

what the heck a J-Hawk is.

[femmocrat]

142. The Trojans.

No kidding.

[scarlet_owl]

145. Hawks.

[Rude Horner]

146. Mine has to be in the top 5 worst - Purgolders

Yup, the East High Purgolders. What is a Purgolder, you ask? I have no idea. But our mascot was this cat like creature in purple and gold.

Talk about lame.

[momophile]

147. Foothill Mustangs nt

[RedCloud]

148. Panthers. And they were black!

We support the Panthers was our bumper sticker. Folks say the fuzz was pulling people over after football games thinking they supported Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver.

And we did but the fuzz didn't need to know it!

[ProfessorGAC]

149. A Light Tower

We were in an old building (somewhere in the 1910's). It had this tall round colonade on the northeast corner of the original building. As far back as anyone could remember, it was lighted and the school used it as a victory light. So, when the teams won something, the light tower would be illuminated.

The school nickname was the Hilltoppers, because, yep you guessed it, the school sat on the hill overlooking the river. But, there was no Hilltopper mascot. The symbol used for everything was that light tower.

[Zomby Woof]

150. A very illuminating post

:D

Actually, I like that your school's name, and history, is outside the norm. You never know what interesting things you may learn with even the simplest subject heading.

[ProfessorGAC]

151. Yeah, I Think So Too!

Good pun, btw.

We had Kingmen, Steelmen (it was a steel mill town back in the day) and Tigers, too. I went to an all boys' academy, so he had a sister school, called the Angels. Then another private high school was called the Celtics, and other nearby schools in our conference were the Knights. So, we sort of ran the gamut around here.

And, aside from the Celtics, i don't think we offended anyone! Sort of more progressive than i gave the area credit for being!
The Professor