Off-color team nicknames in youth sports

BillyT · Dec 18, 2007

Smallpotatoes said:

This afternoon a colleague of mine received some rec league girls basketball (high school and middle school-age) articles that had some rather unusual team nicknames. One team was known as the "Tossed Salads."
The kids came up with the team nicknames themselves. Maybe they knew what the nickname meant and maybe they didn't.
But if it got past the league's directors, should it be OK to put in the paper? If it isn't, how do you handle it? Do you call the team "Team A" or something like that? Do you just not include that team's article and if anyone complains, explain to them why that team could not have its write-up in the paper?
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You will find this really odd.

I had been teaching for years in Connecticut, and I taught about the different theories of immigration -- "Tossed Salas" vs. "Melting Pot."

When I moved to the North Shore of the Massachusetts, I used that phrase, and my kids howled and had to explain it to.

Back in the 70s, at UR of I, "Nads" was a popular intramural team nickname, so fans could chant "Go Nads!"

spaceman · Dec 19, 2007

The Nads won our intramural league three years in a row.

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