School/Team nick names
 

What were/are you fav nick names for school teams.
Or for that matter, your chapter ( be somewhat clean here )
Schools:Loggers, and since small school also follow the big school up north-The Huskies.

As for house, clean would be The Slug Barn. One would have to have seen the house.

Longhorns

With no disrespect intended, I've always been amazed by the Delaware Fighting Blue Hens and The Oregon Ducks.

Closer to home, in the high school ranks, there are the Wheatridge Farmers and the Ft. Collins Lambkins.

There's some school, I can't remember which... but they're the fightin Okras? haha

I didn't go to school there, but Gainesville GA HS has the Red Elephants.

I've always been partial to the UC Santa Barbara Banana Slugs.

This isn't a nickname but the initials "IUPUI" are famous in the college basketball ranks.

The Fightin' Okras would be Delta State located in Cleveland, MS (also known as the Statesmen)
http://www.mvsu.edu/rotc/images/r_okra.gif

College: The Boston Terriers
High School: Freeport (IL) Pretzels : )

Texas Christian University Horned Frogs

http://allaboutfrogs.org/gallery/logos/TCUWAC.jpg

http://www.college-traditions.com/CO...004/MDF057.jpg

I couldn't find a picture, but St. Francis Xavier's mascot is a giant X.

That is Santa Cruz you speak of.

UCSB's mascot is the Gauchos. Or as Jim Rome would say, " Errr Go Gauchos!"

Ours is not an animal or anything but since they changed the image I like to make fun of it.

That was our original mascot (yes its a rip off of OU i think)
http://www.claycalhoun.com/images/pistol_pete.jpg

But our new one looks like a gay cowboy (no one really likes it)
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c2...11417364_l.jpg

Ole Miss Rebels.

It was especially bad ass when they allowed Confederate battle flags into the stadium.

Stetson Hatters

http://www.coasttocoasttickets.com/i...sonhatters.jpg

http://physics.bu.edu/bu/hsprograms/terrier_circle.gif

represent, bitches!

I forgot about The Angels from Denver East High School.

I just met someone from Freeport yesterday. They have a big pretzel factory in town, that is why they are the pretzels.

I always found it funny that a Catholic based school like DePaul here in Chicago would have the mascot the Blue "Demons."

Come to find out from a friend of mine that went there said when they first started their basketball team their uniforms had a big "D" on the front for DePaul. The the student body nicknamed them the Blue D-Men and from there it just tranfered into "Blue Demons."

My high school was

The Perry Commodores. We used the anchor as a symbol,and I remember that the mascot was this horrendous sailor/captain (commodore) guy.

At Otterbein, we are the Cardinals. BUT! In yet another quirk of OC, we have 2 mascots. The athletic mascot is the Cardinal, the academic mascot is the Otter.
http://www.otterbein.edu/athletics/i.../home_top1.gif

WOW
 

My Alma Mater:

Pittsburg State Un. Gorillas.

Kansas has its own of course:

Un. Ks. Jay Hawks.
Ks. Un. Purple Wild Cats.
Witchita State Un. Wheat Shockers.
Washburn Un. Ichobods.
Central Mo. Un. Mules.

Un. Mo. Rolla. Miners.

The Evergreen State College Geoducks. (GOO-ee-ducks)

They're giant mollusks that are rather um, interesting looking. Here's their info page: What is a Geoduck?

I've always been a fan of the mascots for Western Illinois - the men are the Leathernecks, and the women are the Westerwinds.

They have two different mascots for the men and women? I don't think i've heard of that.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

I think this even trumps banana slug (by a slim margin!).

Arkansas State University has held onto the Indians for its mascot (we get local tribal approval on matters). At one time the female teams were called the Tomahawks. The women's basketball teams' shirts said "Tommies". They changed to the Lady Indians sometime in the '80's.

My favorite high school mascots:

Hickman High School Kewpies, Columbia, Missouri
Dardanell High School Sand Lizards, Dardanelle, Arkansas
Lake City High School Catfish, Lake City, Arkansas
and, I promise, we played some high school in Illinois that had The Midgets as their mascot.

The Maniacs of Orofino, Idaho are kind of odd. http://www.sd171.k12.id.us/ohs/index.htm The town of Orofino has an Idaho State Correctional Institution that was a mental hospital. They claim the high school mascot has nothing to do with the state mental hospital or the prison but I have a hard time believing that.

I've always like Penn's Quakers because the thought of Quakers fighting is oxymoronic yet amusing.

Ah ha! My friend went on a trip to Asia and came back with pictures from a seafood restaurant they ate at. All the food was swimming in tanks outside the place, and she took a picture of this disgusting looking thing. I now know it must be a Geoduck (or Geoduck's Asian counsin)!!!

/hijack

I always loved the Tillamook (OR) Cheeseheads (some of my friends went there for high school) and the Annandale Atoms in northern Virginia. Those always cracked me up.

ETA: Elon USED to be the Fightin' Christians, which a lot of people took as an oxymoron. Now we're the Phoenix.

My elementary school was the Rodeph Raging Rabbis. I kid you not.

The MASCOT is Rocky the Bulldog.http://www.student.services.wiu.edu/...ages/rocky.jpg

The team's nicknames are the Leathernecks and the Westerwinds. The dance team used to be the "Wranglers" (yes, they did used to wear cowboy hats and boots) but then they got taken over by faculty that actually gave a $hit, kicked off the bad apples, and are now the "Westernettes". The colorguard are the Westernaires.

I attended St. Louis University, Home of the Billikens.

What is a Billiken you ask? SLU has a webpage dedicated to that

That's OSU. OU doesn't have ugly crap like that.

When I was at WIU, the women's teams did not use Rocky...they had their own logo/mascot. I know the administration was worried that some people would call the women's teams the "Lady Leathers", which would not go over well in conservative Macomb, Illinois.

I miss the Wranglers, though. They were pretty entertaining...I mean for the stories of their misbehavior, not so much for their dancing.

So true. If they were Greek, they would have been shut down for hazing in no time flat. And their dancing was entertaining, if you were the kind of person that finds strip clubs entertaining.:p ;)

hahaha, I know someone from my college who if he went to your college would be the big brother to that dance team lol

Then again, there are the Williams College Ephs. Their mascot is a purple cow. I found this out researching a cross country runner who beat our star in a big meet. Here's their athletics page.

http://www.williams.edu/athletics/

My high school was the Cotter Warriors, but my boyfriend and I decided "Cotter Criminals" would have been better, since we went through our yearbooks and an unusually high percentage of our schoolmates have been to jail. And my high school had a reputation for being the poor, but tough, kids from the wrong side of the tracks.

My college's mascot is the Scots (for guys) and Pipers (for girls). Yes, like Scottish men and bagpipers. We also have the Annual Arkansas Scottish Festival. Let's just say it's a good thing I like bagpipes...

We used to be the Arkansas College Lambs though, according to lore, so I think Angus McFierce, the Scot, is a much scarier mascot, at least by comparison!

My high school team: the Trojans

My high school mascot: Trojan Man

I won't tell you what the opposing team used to throw out onto the field when our football team came parading out...

School/Teams names
 

Some High School teams nick names:
http://www.tekonsha.k12.mi.us/scaa/teamnames.htm

College teams nick names:
http://www.smargon.net/nicknames/

Clarification
 

[QUOTE=VandalSquirrel]The Maniacs of Orofino, Idaho are kind of odd. http://www.sd171.k12.id.us/ohs/index.htm The town of Orofino has an Idaho State Correctional Institution that was a mental hospital. They claim the high school mascot has nothing to do with the state mental hospital or the prison but I have a hard time believing that.]

Uh...believe it. Before I was Delta Theta I was born and raised in Orofino and the Maniac name has NOTHING to do with either. It's best not to go there with anyone from Orofino.

[QUOTE=BadSquirrelBeta]I was always told he was a miner type of guy, like a crazy old man from the hills. But it is an ironic coincidence!