Greatest team nickname ever

Five pages in and no mention (I may have missed it) of the Albuquerque Isotopes baseball team

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp?sid=t342

When I covered high schools in Vermont, Green Mountain Valley had Gumbies as its nickname.

http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090521/SPORTS/905210328/1004/SPORTS

Now that I'm in upstate New York (the part actually north of the Thruway), we've got the Doane Stuart Thunder Chicken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doane_Stuart_School

 

For irony, I love the Mount Pleasant High Kilties (Providence). Think any of the predominantly Italian, African-American and recent Asian immigrant student population there has ever worn a kilt?
I hope John Kricfalusi got some royalties from the Montgomery Biscuits. Their mascot is a dead ripoff of Muddy Mudskipper.

 

An Oregon high school: Pleasant Hill Billies.

 

Second that one.

 

The Utah Jazz. Ain't no such thing.

 

FAB-U-LOUS

 

My high school alma mater in Iowa had the Bears for boys and Bruinettes for girls. I'm sure they've changed it by now, but we always had that great girls sports bumper sticker that said:
We love our blondes, redheades and Bruinettes!

Ohio has some fun ones. Sorry about the long list.
Columbus Africentric Nubians
Lima Bath Wildcats (girls were called the Wildkittens until the 2008-09 school year)
Lyndhurst Brush Arcs
New Washington Buckeye Central Bucks (girls are Buckettes; why not the Does, I don't know)
Cleveland Collinwood Railroaders
Columbus School for Girls Unicorns
Crooksville Ceramics
Akron East Orientals
East Canton Hornets (boys) and Wizards (girls); I have no idea why they're different
Cleveland East Technical Scarabs
Milan Edison Chargers (OK, Chargers isn't that different, but Milan is the birthplace of Thomas Edison, hence the Chargers)
Fremont Ross Little Giants (or as I like to call them, Regular-size People)
University Heights Fuchs Mizrachi Mayhem
Cleveland Glenville Academic Campus Tarblooders
Cleveland Jane Addams Executives
Cleveland John Marshall Lawyers
Lima Central Catholic Thunderbirds
Rocky River Lutheran West Longhorns (Longhorns? In Ohio??)
Cincinnati Madiera Mustangs (boys) and Amazon (girls)
Mansfield Christian Flames
Lima Perry Commodores
Duncan Falls Philo Electrics
Piketon Redstreaks (Redstreaks? Really?? Great for a girls team)
Mansfield Senior Tygers (Yes, with a 'y')
Marion Harding Presidents
Plain City Shekinah Christian Flames
Shelby Whippets (the dog, not the whipped crème can sniffing high)
Fremont St. Joseph Crimson Streaks (great, another red color and streaks – awesome for a girls team)
Chillicothe Unioto Sherman Tanks
Huntington Valley University School Preppers
Wellington Dukes

 

Big Spring (Texas) is also the Steers, and the girls teams are the Lady Steers.

Think about that one for a second.

 

New Berlin (IL) is also the Pretzels, and home to the Pretzeldome, as well.

Cairo, Ill., is home to the Pilots, and its girls teams, the Co-Pilots.

 

From the great state of Washington, I nominate the Davenport Gorillas.

In our coverage area, we have two schools (one on each side of the border) named the Honkers. It's always fun when their teams win, if only because of 'See HONKERS, page B2'

 

Two schools in my coverage area used to be the "Whiz Kids" and "Blue Bolts" until a while ago. Now they're the "Lakes" and "Bays." Blah.

 

Ditto.

When that hockey team folded, it was succeeded by a new club - Macon Trax.