Odd mascots

[The Dude]

Alright this is a pretty random thread I know, but its late, and the anticipation of the season is getting to me and without the games theres not much to discuss. I was trying to think of some schools with some wierd, out of the ordinary mascots. Bring 'em on! I know there are some worse ones out there but I remember driving through Port Lavaca or Aransas maybe and they had a pretty funny one, Sand Crabs or something along those lines.

[jtk1519]

Hamlin Pied Pipers
Rotan Yellowhammers
Roscoe Plowboys
Winters Blizzards (their mascot looks like a giant tooth and their school song is "Walking in a Winter Wonderland.")
Muleshoe Mules

[PackAttack2005]

Itasca Wampus Cats from 11-2A.

Grapeland Sandies - 2A.

Atlanta Rabbits - 3A

Huntington Red Devils - 3A

Port Lavaca: Calhoun - Fighting Sand Crabs

Springtown - Fighting Porcupines

Kerrville: Tivy - Fighting Antlers

[The Dude]

OK I just ran across this site and this is pretty dang funny to read some of the names around the U.S. interesting tid-bit on the Atlanta Rabbits, according to this website they are named Rabbits after an old football coach named Rabb. You have to see some of these ridiculous named

http://www.tekonsha.k12.mi.us/scaa/teamnames.htm

[garlandredraider]

Mesquite Skeeters

[Mad Hatter]

lol every time i here skeeters i think of a old cartoon....

hmm lets see...weirdest is Unicorns is this area....lol thats so girly.

[LoboFan07]

Mesquite Skeeters

I always thought it was funny if they called themselves what the word Skeeter really means..

LETS GO MESQUITE MESQUITOS!!

That would be quiet...weird. :eek: lmao

[StormingCowboy]

Ft. Worth Poly Parrots-- Is that intimidating or what??

I won't talk about the Skeeters because their bite still hurts from last year!!

Highland Park Scots is pretting interesting...

Only in the South would you have Fighting Farmers (Lewisville). They HAD to add "fighting" to their mascot didn't they?? The next school can go with the Rough Ranchers!

My last one, there is a school in Des Moines, Iowa whose mascot is the Penguins and their school colors are PINK and GREEN! Perhaps the mascot is OK, but wouldn't black and white have been better?

[wide-e-wide]

lol every time i here skeeters i think of a old cartoon....

hmm lets see...weirdest is Unicorns is this area....lol thats so girly.

Hey...you don't wanna piss off a unicorn. They will take that one horn and well....you know what they could do with it if they wanted to...

[cougardude]

Here's a link I have kept on file about the mascots in Texas:

http://www.allsports.com/network/content?site=1002&page=16835 :D


I was just looking over that list again and thought it is funny that there is not any school with a Horned Toad as a mascot, outside of TCU (and that's a college). A school in California has a horned toad mascot.

[grayowl60]

Afew yrars ago, at a playoff game between the Forney Jackrabbits an the Atlanta rabbits, a Forney banner said: :"only room for one rabbit and you dont know Jack". Or something like that.

[CoppellCowboy57]

5A Lewisville Fighting Farmers

5A Grand Praire Gophers

4A Friscon Racoons (Change from Coons)

thoughs names always make me laugh...

[Mad Hatter]

hahaha racoons :D

[raidercheerdad]

Forney Jackrabbits
Mason Punchers
and speaking of intimidation -- how'd you like to be from Oregon? They have the Beavers and the Ducks!

[Lobo Dude]

I know this isnt in Texas... but last month when i was in Hawaii there was an high school whose mascot was the yellow zebra... I thought that wsa pretty funny and very out of the ordinary haha.

[Favpack]

There might be one farmer left in Lewisville - if that many. Of course, Lewisville is a short distance north of Farmers Branch. These guys didn't ever think Dallas would grow I suppose.

[Redneckn]

I think i mentioned in another thread the other day the Smackover (arkansas) Buckaroos. The Farmville (louisiana) Farmers. And the Mounties from Rogers Arkansas. there are lots that are pretty darn funny.

Then, there is the Haynesville "Golden Tornado". What the heck is a golder tornado anyway?

[Mad Hatter]

a tornado that suked up gold paint ??? :D

[dentonRYAN]

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Only in the South would you have Fighting Farmers (Lewisville). They HAD to add "fighting" to their mascot didn't they?? The next school can go with the Rough Ranchers!



I heard the students are now calling it Lewisville Fightin Farmers..... trying to be a little bit more urban.... i just think its funny

[LeanderLions3033]

The one thats always gotten me is the Hutto Hippos. Its so funny when you drive through the town all the hippos you see. They're everywhere (not the actual animal, but you get what i mean lol).

[Favpack]

I heard the students are now calling it Lewisville Fightin Farmers..... trying to be a little bit more urban.... i just think its funny

Yeah, that is funny - not sure if it comes across as more urban. How about the Lewisville Northsiders? In reality, maybe it ought to be the Lewisville Tract Home Builders.

Not poking fun at Lewisville - but it is a nickname that just really doesn't fit anymore.

[bleedgreen]

Gilmer Buckeyes-----my brother lives in Gilmer and i go to a few games every now and then(usually playoff games because 3A play their playoff games on friday nights or i would go on Longview's open date)....funny as hell to see this acorn running all over the sidelines----a "buckeye" is a poisonous nut, but you can't distinguish a poisonous nut from an acorn--LOL..........

[wide-e-wide]

So it's official....Ohio St. fans are nuts.
I've been reading all the predictions for the UT/OSU game
and I knew something was wrong with those people.

[Firebird]

We did this thread a while back, but it is a good one, so here goes:

Trent Gorillas
Rotan Yellowhammers
Robstown Cotton Pickers
Freeport-Brazosport Exporters
Roscoe Plowboys
Falfurrias Fighting Jerseys
Robstown Cottonpickers
Universal-Randolph Ro-Hawks
SA Roosevelt Rough Riders
Progresso Red Ants
Port Isabel Fighting Tarpons
Kerrville Tivy Antlers
Cameron Yoe Yoemen
Shamrock Irish
El Paso Eastwood Troopers
Sharpstown Apollos
Pampa Harvesters
Lubbock Monterrey Plainsmen
San Saba Armadillos
Fredricksburg Battlin' Billies
Brownsville St. Joseph Bloodhounds
Harlingen Marine Military Academy Leathernecks
Lake Worth Bullfrogs
Schulenberg Shorthorns
Texas City Stingarees
Killeen Kangaroos
Austin Maroons
Bonham Purple Warriors
Munday Moguls
Laredo Cigarroa Toros
Baytown Lee Ganders
Grand Prarie Gophers
Van Vandals
Coleman Blue Cats

By the way, I happen to appreciate all "odd" mascots. I mean really, does this world need any more Tigers, Wildcats, Panthers,Eagles or (God Help Us) Bulldogs. I mean really, it is time for folks to start showing a little more creativity, put some thought in to your school's mascot.