Off-color team nicknames in youth sports

[Smallpotatoes]

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?

 

[Eagleboy]

High school-age? Yeah, they know what it means.

Do I run it? Yeah. If the players have adult coaches and there aren't any complaints from them or the parents about the name of the team, it works for me.

Who's to say that in theory, it's not meant literally?

 

[ondeadline]

I saw one AAU team called the "Lady Ballers" that sounded just a little weird.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I draw the line at "Fisted Sisters."

 

[TheMethod]

"Pink Sox" (google "pink sock syndrome")

 

[Orange Hat Bobcat]

I did. Nothing popped up except one item about laundry. What am I missing?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=6eq&q=%22pink+sock+syndrome&btnG=Search

 

[mike311gd]

I hate doing laundry.

 

[GB-Hack]

I did. Nothing popped up except one item about laundry. What am I missing?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=6eq&q=%22pink+sock+syndrome&btnG=Search

Try this one. It doesn't appear to be laundry related.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pink_sock&redirect=no

 

[Rex Harrison]

I saw one last summer for high school rec girls: Gold Diggers.

 

[mike311gd]

I did. Nothing popped up except one item about laundry. What am I missing?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=6eq&q=%22pink+sock+syndrome&btnG=Search

Try this one. It doesn't appear to be laundry related.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pink_sock&redirect=no

That's a lovely mental picture. I hope it resurfaces in my dreams.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I was at a minor-league baseball game last summer and the kids who stood on the field with the players for the national anthem were from a local youth league team known as the "Hijackers." Turns out they were sponsored by an auto mechanic shop, but still ...

 

[PhantomPunch]

I knew a guy once who tried to get his youth team named "***** Hunters."

League shot him down right away. So he scratched his head right there before them, in the office, and said: "Well, I guess I'll call 'em the Fudge Packers, if that's fine by you guys."

The Fudge Packers went 7-1 that season and were four points away from getting on TV for winning the league title.

And they won games by running the ball up the ass, so totally apropos.

Go 1986 Fudge Packers!!!

The moms, of course, never would actually speak about it again.

 

[DanOregon]

My niece (age 7) played soccer against another team called the Vixens. I quickly scanned the crowd for Chris Hansen.

 

[Orange Hat Bobcat]

I did. Nothing popped up except one item about laundry. What am I missing?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=6eq&q=%22pink+sock+syndrome&btnG=Search

Try this one. It doesn't appear to be laundry related.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pink_sock&redirect=no

Ah. ... I, uh ... well, thanks for that.

The more you know.

 

[GB-Hack]

I did. Nothing popped up except one item about laundry. What am I missing?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=6eq&q=%22pink+sock+syndrome&btnG=Search

Try this one. It doesn't appear to be laundry related.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pink_sock&redirect=no

Ah. ... I, uh ... well, thanks for that.

The more you know.

To be honest, I had no idea myself.

Your baseline sig sums it up pretty well.

 

[BYH]

I draw the line at "Fisted Sisters."

That was outstanding.

 

[digger]

We had an (adult) team named faque in our rec league standings for a long time until I finally pronounced it out loud. After that, they were Team F.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

If I start a softball team, it'll be called With Ourselves.

Wife: So what are you doing Saturday?
Husband: Looks like me and the guys will be playing With Ourselves.
Wife: GOD DAMN YOU HAROLD WHY CAN'T YOU BE TRUE

 

[TyWebb]

One of the teams I cover just lost in the state championship to the "Syrupmakers". I've been using that as a catch-all racial slur ever since.

"Get out of here you damn SYRUPMAKER!"

 

[fossywriter8]

Not off-color, but just a bit strange.
Lima Bath High in Lima, Ohio, has the nickname of Wildcats for the boys. The girls are called ... Wildkittens.
Wildkittens? Sounds like a really bad '80s soft porn movie title.