Greatest team nickname ever

A year or two ago, they signed with a t-shirt company to cell Watersmeet Nimrod shirts. Not sure how much money they made, but they did make some.

The town itself (like most in the Upper Peninsula) is very small.

Another UP nickname: Kingston Flivvers.


Couple from the LP:
Temperance Bedford Kicking Mules
Dexter Dreadnaughts
Zeeland Chix

 

From AFL seasons past...

 

Long time ago, working the weekly paper circuit and one carried the weekly rec league softball team standings.

Best team names - ever:


Fighting Amish and Psychotic Phlegm

 

Perhaps someone knows this story more in-depth than me: Back when Allentown and Bethlehem, Pa., had one high school apiece, they were both pretty big rivals: Allentown's Allen HS and Bethlehem's Liberty HS.

Liberty's nickname was/is the Hurricanes. The story goes that Allen got its unusual nickname from the only bird that can fly through a hurricane - a canary. So it's the Allen Canaries.

Other unique ones in Pa.:
Bangor Slaters (slate quarries, I believe)
Northampton Konkrete Kids (numerous cement factories in the area)
Biglerville Canners
Hatboro-Horsham Mad Hatters
Weatherly Wreckers (logo is a tow truck)
Williamsport Millionaires

 

I used to like the Tucson Gila Monsters.

 

Illinois (besides the ones mentioned. ... Freeport Pretzels and Hooperston Cornjerkers .. the school formerly known as the Pekin Chinks, Effingham Flaming Hearts)

Cobden Appleknockers
Lake Forest Academy Caxys
Chicago Roosevelt Roughriders
Chicago Maria Mystics
Roxana Shells (Shell has a refinery there, I believe. They use the Shell logo on their wrestling warmups)
Freeburg Midgets
Monmouth Zippers
Teutopolis Wooden Shoes (their cross country team did not try that unfortunately)
Rockford East E-Rabs (an acronym for East-Red and Black)
East Aurora Tomcats
In an SI story, Rick Telander once reported that Rosary in Aurora went by the Beads. They are actually the Royals, although Beads would be pretty cool.
The Centralia Orphans. Girls teams are the Little Orphan Annies
Hampshire Whip-Purs
Chicago South Shore Tars
Zion-Benton Zee-Bees
Winnetka New Trier Trevians (formerly the Indians)
Chicago Heights Bloom Township Blazing Trojans
Chillicothe Illinois Valley Central Grey Ghosts
Crystal Lake South Gators (not odd for somewhere like Louisiana or Florida but northern Illinois?)
DeKalb Barbs
Dietrich Movin' Maroons
Mount Assisi Academy Screeching Eagles
Henry-Sechawine Mallards
Kewanee Weathersfield Flying Geese

and last but not least ... from outside Champaign, ... The Fisher Bunnies. Yes, a high school team nicknamed the Bunnies.



From Missouri
Hickman Kewpies (what Mizzou grad has never covered the Kewps?)
West Plains Zizzers (once covered a girls basketball state quarterfinal between the Kewpies and the Zizzers.)

From Indiana
LaPorte Slicers

And from my youth, a former Class AA baseball team by the name of the Memphis Chicks. That's short for Chickasaws.

 

"I think their volleyball team just peed on my hand."

 

The Key West (HS) Fighting Conch

Heidelberg College Student Princes

Winters Blizzards, which is only funny because it's Winters, Texas

Winslow (Ark.) Squirrels

Arkansas School for the Deaf Leopards (think about it)

 

About 10 years ago in order to "break the monotony" between the Super Bowl and the beginning of March Madness, I and several colleagues decided to do a fantasy draft for the Iditarod. We drafted teams of mushers and scored it like a cross-country meet.

My team did not finish well, but everyone seemed to like the name I gave it:


Yellow Snow

 

In the intramural team category my all-time favorite would have to be:

Ed Gein and the Human Furniture

 

Can someone explain what a Knox Siwash is?

At least I can explain the Shoals (Ind.) Jug Rox -- there is something called the Jug Rock somewhere outside of town.