Worst all time Sports Team Nickname...

[ChubbyHubby]

One of my lovely co-workers was complaining about the lameness of his HS Football team name (the Pride) when I hit him with my NYC HS team, the Peg Legs. No not a pirate motif but named after the last governor of New Amsterdam with an anger management problem, Peter Stuyvesant. The only play we could manage was the stop and pivot.

Do you think this is the worst team nickname or do you have one worse? Santa Cruz Banana Slugs don't count as they weren't serious.

Chubster

 

[AshleyW]

One of my lovely co-workers was complaining about the lameness of his HS Football team name (the Pride) when I hit him with my NYC HS team, the Peg Legs. No not a pirate motif but named after the last governor of New Amsterdam with an anger management problem, Peter Stuyvesant. The only play we could manage was the stop and pivot.

Do you think this is the worst team nickname or do you have one worse? Santa Cruz Banana Slugs don't count as they weren't serious.

Chubster

I'm gonna go with the one from the kgb_ commercials and say the University of Arkansas-Monticello - their mascot is the Boll Weevils. Yeah. This little guy:

Here's an explanation from their website:

One of the most frequently asked questions about UAM athletics concerns our mascot. The Boll Weevil is one of the most unusual mascots in college athletics and the subject of much confusion (mostly among Yankees). The Boll Weevil is a small gray insect that can wipe out a cotton crop in the blink of an eye. When UAM was founded in 1909, cotton was still king in Arkansas and the Boll Weevil was the most dreaded pest in the South. UAM’s early students, most of them the sons and daughters of delta cotton planters, selected the Boll Weevil as their mascot in admiration of its toughness and the fear it caused among farmers. It’s been said that the Boll Weevil is the only thing tough enough to ever truly lick the South.

 

[chicagodisneyfan]

South Carolina gamecocks.

 

[Geoff_M]

Watersmeet Nimrods

 

[snapppyd]

I cringe every time I hear the Jets referred to as "Gang Green".

 

[suzannen]

New York University - The Violets.

 

[minniecarousel]

University of California at Santa Cruz - the Banana Slugs.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

The Auburn Dandies!

What the heck is a Dandie?

For the record they did switch it to The Auburn Rockets sometime in the 90's but DH will always be tortured by the kids about being a dandie

 

[mandylo]

Cairo High School (GA) Syrupmakers!

 

[jen0610]

That's the logo for our Class A minor league baseball team here in Ft Wayne. The team name is The TinCaps. Sorry, but a vast majority of the people we know, do not see how you get TinCaps out of an apple wearing a cooking pot on it's head.

Now, of those people we know, most of them, when they look at it, say it's wearing a Pot on it head, so they should be called The PotHeads. And they should be playing on Cannabis Field. Yes we have gotten a lot of laughs poking fun at the people who didn't think or put a lot of thought into the picture.

 

[mickeyboat]

jen "potheads" made me LOL!

Our high school mascot was the knights. That's fine, but what about the girls? They called us "Ladies." What sports team in their right mind would be afraid of a group of ladies?

 

[powellrj]

As of right now we are the Highland Scots complete with kilts and bagpipes, but who knows what we will be when they close our school in May and merge us with the other local high school.

 

[jen0610]

As of right now we are the Highland Scots complete with kilts and bagpipes, but who knows what we will be when they close our school in May and merge us with the other local high school.

Your school was always the one I most looked forward to seeing at the state march band contest. Love the kilts and bagpipes in the band. Since we marched in the same class, I had to root against ya, but I LOVED the way the pipes were mixed into the band.

 

[Disfan1]

Cartersville (GA) Purple Hurricanes - even though the city is in northwest Georgia - about as far inland as you can get in that state.

 

[happygirl]

Ozark Ducks

 

[Shutterbug]

My Alma Mater....University of Akron Zips...originally it was the Zippers.

http://www.collegefootballhistory.com/akron_zips/history.htm

Originally Zippers, athletic director Kenneth Red Cochrane officially shortened the nickname to the Zips in 1950. Twenty-five years earlier a campus-wide contest had been conducted to choose a nickname for the University's athletic teams.

Suggestions submitted by students, faculty, and alumni included Golden Blue Devils, Tip Toppers, Rubbernecks, Hillbillies, Kangaroos, and Cheveliers. The winner, freshman Margaret Hamlin, received a prize of $10 for Zippers - a $6 pair of rubber overshoes and a brand name of the BF Goodrich Company.

 

[smschex]

I have two entries:

Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys

Dardanelle Sand Lizards

 

[Joe in VA]

Pretty much any WNBA team Chicago Sky, Atlanta Dream, Connecticut Sun, and Indiana Fever are all terrible. They sound like bad romance novels.

Richmond Flying Squirrels is awful as well.

 

[golfgal]

There is a high school team in our state with a mascot of the "Rabbits" Oh, yes, rabbits are well known for the tenacity and ferocious behavior thus they put fear in the mind of their opponents as they hop around the field.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

There is a high school team in our state with a mascot of the "Rabbits" Oh, yes, rabbits are well known for the tenacity and ferocious behavior thus they put fear in the mind of their opponents as they hop around the field.

Have you not seen "Monty Pythons Holy Grail?"