Worst Team Nicknames/ Mascots

[The_Buddha_Man]

I got this idea from the RMLL post, and it got me thinking. Who in your opinion (try to keep it lacrosse related- doesn't just have to be MCLA;) has the worst team name or mascot?

There was a high school team I coached back in Jersey, (St. Rose in Belmar) and we were the "Purple Roses..."
Hard to get respect when your named after a favorite easter flower....and yes, there was a Purple rose suit for the mascot.....

[gibertjs]

The Whittier Poets. Thats right. Poets.

[StrykerFSU]

The Barrage
The Machine
The Pride
The Riptide
What exactly is a Bayhawk?
or a Seahawk?
or a Mountain Hawk? I really miss the old Lehigh Engineers.

[GrayBear]

Hustlin' Quakers

(Earlham College)

[scooter]

I actually think the Machine is an amazing name. Throwback to the old times in Chi-town.

[wheelz33]

Ann Arbor Michigan has a couple fun ones.

Ann Arbor Pioneer Pioneers.
Ann Arbor Huron River Rats

The name Pioneers itself isnt so bad, its the Pioneer Pioneers part thats kinda weird. And of course River Rats its just classy...

[OklahomaLax45]

I worked down in texas few summers ago, they had the Tivy High School Fighting Antlers

[KnoxVegas]

I actually think the Machine is an amazing name. Throwback to the old times in Chi-town.

I thought it was an homage to Montreal's WLAF franchise of the early 90s.

[BucLax13]

I worked down in texas few summers ago, they had the Tivy High School Fighting Antlers

Texas has some great ones

Mesquite "Skeeters"
Hamlin "Pied Pipers"
female category Big Spring "Lady Steers"
Roscoe "Plowboys"
Robstown "Cotton Pickers"
Pampa "Harvestors"
New Braunfels "Unicorns"
San Antonio-Central Catholic "Buttons"
Dallas: Hockaday School - Daisies
Fort Worth: Masonic Home - Mighty Mites

others I have found
Diomede - Datelines
Conway - Wampus Cats
Ozark - Hillbillies
Wonderview - Daredevils
Hollister: San Benito - Hay Balers
Lincoln - Fighting Zebras
Los Angeles: Manual Arts - Toilers
Los Angeles: Thomas Jefferson - Democrats
Los Olivos: Dunn HS - Earwigs
Yuba City - Honkers
Poudre - Impalas
Avon: Avon Old Farms - Winged Beavers
Moodus: Nathan Hale-Ray - Noises
Willmington: Padua Academy - Pandas
Tarpon Springs - Spongers
Tuetopolis - Wooden shoes
Logansport - Berries
River Forest - Ingots
Burlington: Notre Dame - Nikes
Baton Rouge: St. Joseph Academy - Redstickers
Annapolis: Key School - Obezags
Dearborn: Fordson - Tractors
Detroit: Cass Tech - Technicians
Kingsford - Flivvers
Watersmeet - Nimrods <--- lol

http://www.tekonsha.k12.mi.us/scaa/teamnames.htm

[FLALAX]

Both schools lacrosse team fail to mention their mascots in any of their publications for fear of ridicule.

NYU - Violets
I do not know if it is the color or the flower. I will research to find out.

Amherst - Lord Jeffs
I heard Amherst had the oldest mascot in the US, may also be the creepiest.

[Buc_em_up]

I think a better throwback to Chi-Towns old days would be "The Butchers".

Also I think that it might be the Kerrville Fighting Antlers you are thinking of, might be a differtent set of antlers in Tivy also though.

My middle school alma mater: The Lanier Purple Pups.

[Steno]

We're the Whitman Missionaries, which in this day and age almost seems un-PC, and in high school I was a Thacher Toad.

[Dan Wishengrad]

Barack Obama's alma mater (and my school's arch-rival):

Punahou "Buff and Blue"

[DanGenck]

My contribution to this discussion is always the same-

Avon, Connecticut
Avon Old Farms School

"The Winged Beavers"

Worst mascot ever.

(Think I'm full of it? www.avonoldfarms.com)

[barracudas3]

I'm going to go with a classic favorite of mine...

out of the northwoods of WI:

Rhinelander Hodags