Off-color team nicknames in youth sports

[User 4755]

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.

Mercer University's women's teams in Georgia used to be known as the "Teddy Bears."

 

[Starman]

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.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, how cute.

Of course, the REAL VARSITY TEAMS are the Wildcats. The little girly girls pretending at playing sports, are the Kittens.

 

[Jeremy Goodwin]

There is a team in the local high school rec league called BAMF (Bad Ass Mother F***er) Crew. I had to google what BAMF meant. I don't think it's our job to change the names, though we just run agate. I'd be happy if someone complained about a name in our agate section because that means I know someone is reading it. I'm more annoyed that the local rec has every team in all caps, so I sometimes have to do some research to see what letters need caps for certain company teams.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I draw the line at "Fisted Sisters."

The moral: Don't name a team after something in Smasher's DVD collection.

 

[BillyT]

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?

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]

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