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Last week, I decided I’m a huge OKC Thunder fan. This has been brewing for some time. Okay, well, three weeks or so. Ever since I realized the Thunder are, in fact, an NBA team. Is that a cool name or what? Then my coworker sent me the photo below of their team mascot—Rumble the Bison—and I couldn’t stop giggling.
Apparently it doesn’t take much to earn my fan-ship. A good mascot. A player with a cool nickname. (I loved the Utah Jazz growing up all because of Karl Malone’s nickname—The Mailman.) Or, in the case of the Jets, a backup quarterback who makes me want to love football as much as I love, well, him.
Back to team names and mascots. Ever since jumping on the Thunder bandwagon, I’ve been thinking about the potential un-used team names out there. I’ve come up with a list of my faves. You’ll make my day if you can add to it with your own. Here goes:
The Wheaties
If Wheaties are the breakfast of champions and a team names themselves Wheaties then does it follow that they are champions?
The Candles
They’re on fire when they play. And they smell good too.
The Tractors
Actually, I have a really hard time believing some small town somewhere in the
The Warty Oreos
Supposedly this fish is one of the longest livinganimals, so you’d think that would bode well for a team. But I just want to know what that mascot would look like.
The Elves
Extra points if the team uniform includes tights and pointy-toed shoes…and if Santa is their mascot.
The Tsars
Except people would always be confused: Tsar or Czar?
The Muscles
Just make sure your players actually have some. (Also, not to be mistaken with The Mussels, which simply wouldn’t have the same effect.)
The Erasers
As in, we erase the competition!
The Lice
Just the word makes me shiver. Opponents wouldn’t even touch them.
The Banana Slugs
Except, oh wait! This team name and mascot already exists. To which I say, What?! And, Why?! And, But I kinda like it. Check it out—University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz.
Okay, I had way too much fun with this. There are about 43 others that didn’t make the final cut, but I figured I’d better stop somewhere. What ridiculously awesome team name or mascot would you like to see adopted by a team somewhere?
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lol…hilarious! I heard about a school called Delta State University that had a mascot called The Fighting Okra. Weird!
Sherrinda,
Delta State’s official mascot is the Statesmen. The “Fighting Okra” grew out of humor among students about the improbability that anyone would find a “Statesman” particularly frightening. Someone suggested an okra pod wearing boxing gloves and brandishing a fierce expression, and it caught on. ;~)
The Fighting Okra?! That’s hilarious! Pat…I love that you know the backstory. So a vegetable is supposed to be scarier than a statesman? What’s a statesman anyway?
Delta State is in Cleveland, MS. I used to go through there on my way to Greenville to visit relatives. Went through Alligator, too.
Oh yeah, a statesman…you know, politician…don’t understand why they didn’t think that was scary. lol
Okay, I laughed so hard reading these! Too funny! I am so bad with sports. I don’t watch any of it.
But in Memphis shouldn’t some team be called Hot and Spicy with a bottle of BBQ sauce as the mascot? I think so.
Yes, yes, yes! That’s the best idea ever. If a team had BBQ sauce as a mascot, it would instantly move to my favorite team ever…because, as you know, I have a solid love for BBQ.
HAHAHA! That was better than my morning cup of coffee…
Hehe, thanks, Susan. Glad it made ya laugh!
I’m kinda in love with The Warty Oreos! What a name!
~ Wendy
I know, me too! I should’ve googled to see what a Warty Oreo actually looks like.
Oh my goodness, that was hilarious!! You are so creative.
When I was in grade school, our mascot was the gecko, which is a tiny, tiny lizard. Nothing much intimidating about that, you know?
As for an NBA team? I got nothing. But I’m only half awake, so that’s a pretty good excuse.
Haha, creative…OR seriously random.
The gecko?! That is too cool. I’m serious. Did your mascot have a British accent like the gecko on the Geico commercials?
And yes, only being halfway awake is plenty-good excuse. 🙂
I’m from the OKC area, so I’ve run into Thunder a few times. 🙂 I’m not really a basketball fan, but there’s plenty about the buzz about it around here this year.
Oops. I meant to say that I’ve run into “Rumble” a few times. It’s time for another cup of coffee. 🙂
Oh cool! I bet the OKC area is pumped about the Thunder’s sweet playoff run. Personally, I think it’s totally cool that its the Thunder vs. the Heat in the championship…how…summery! 🙂
I’ve always been so proud of our Minnesota team names – they really are unique and creative. One thing that always bothers me is the L.A. Lakers – they actually started out in Minnesota. Lakers is perfect in the Land of 10,000 Lakes – but in California?!?! (Don’t get me started…) 🙂
My town’s team is the Flyers – because Charles Lindbergh grew up here and graduated from the high school. Before 1927 they were called the Pow Wows – I haven’t quite figured out what a Pow Wow mascot would look like.
I love all your team suggestions – especially the Wheaties – you’d think that one would have been taken by now…
How did I not know that about the Lakers?! I had no idea!
Ooh, that’s a sweet team name…the Flyers. I like it.
In Corinth we have a festival every year called the Slugburger Fest.
No, it’s not burgers made from snails. What it is, is almost as bad though. Back in the Depression when beef was scarce, a local butcher started making meat out of soy meal with a little pork and beef thrown in. He made the “meat” into patties and deepfried them and sold them for a nicklel–called a slug back then. Hence Slugburgers. And they are delicious, but you eat them at your own peril, making sure you have Maalox handy. lol
Oh my goodness, Pat. I’m pretty sure I now need to come visit you during the Slugburger Fest.
We have one school out here in Arizona whose mascot is…the Artichokes.
???
Okay. I can’t see an Artichoke being much of a threat, but to each his own.
The Artichokes! LOL! That is so awesome…and on the same level as the Fighting Okra. Too funny!
No, no, no … not the Lice. Never, ever, ever… that’s just too, too gross.
Team name options?
How about The Llamas?
*snort*
If they lose, they spit on you!
LOL
The Llamas! Yes! You could have a ton of fun with a llama mascot too. 🙂 I love it!
And yes, I think the Lice would be a gross name, too. Fans would all suffer from “the phantom itch” during games! 🙂
This is hilarious, Melissa! Thanks for starting my day with a smile.
You’re welcome, Michelle. 🙂
“The Lice” made me itchy!
Fun post!
Thanks, Loree. 🙂
A couple of years ago (okay, so it was FIVE, but who is counting?) my daughter played Upward Soccer. They had the cutest team names – the Geckos, the Gerbils, it was adorable. I just wished they’d have put some of the kids in tiny mascot costumes!
The Gerbils! Oh my goodness…I love it!