Greatest team name ever?

Johnstown, N.Y., was founded by Sir William Johnson.

The high school mascot: The Sir Bills.

 

The Mars Planets, in Butler County, Pa.
Also, Centenary College in Louisiana was the Gentlemen ... and the Lady Gents.
Still haven't seen a mention of the Fort Collins Lambkins - baby rams.

 

It took us four pages to get to the Lugnuts?

 

Home of Roy Oswalt.

Home of Jason Campbell.

My favorite: Cairo (Ga.) Syrupmakers

My least favorite: Vicksburg (Miss.) Missy Gators (girls teams only)

But my favorite mascot-related story concerns McIntosh High School in Alabama. They were for years known as the Demons until a local pastor led a movement to change the name.

They did so, and put the new mascot name up to a vote of the students. The 100 percent black student body voted for "Playas" in a landslide.

So the school board ruled that the school's teams would have no nickname, and for several years they were simply known as McIntosh. A couple of years ago, a new superintendent reinstated the Demons nicknames.

 

I have faith in faithless on this one.

 

And I'm wrong for the billionth time. My apologies. I really thought that was their nickname. I guess I just assumed the intramural softball team I played against in college used the HS nickname. A bad assumption.

Oh, and on Tupelo, their HS is the Golden Wave. Did I get that one right? That's kinda goofy, huh?

 

Tupelo is, indeed, the Golden Wave.

 

Success! A factual correct post! Huzzah!

 

Don't forget the Calumet Copper Kings, the Bessemer Speedboys and West Iron Co. Wykons...the U.P. has some great nicknames up der, eh?

 

Oh, and another one from Michigan...

the Vassar Vulcans

named for the God of Thunder and Fire (or whatever he was)...not Dr. Spock.

But I would like to see Vassar play Goodrich

It would be the Vulcans vs. the Martians!

 

The East Coast Hockey League used to have a Louisiana team called the Ice Gators ... if you say it quickly, it's clever (in my opinion).