Unusual nicknames

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I think some of y'all will enjoy this. Unusual nicknames like our 'Ramblin Wreck' and 'Yellow Jackets' are all across the nation....these are mostly high school nicknames. Some are ingenious(like our 'Ramblin Wreck' and some are pretty bad....I'll let y'all judge for yourself.

Click here: Unusual nicknames!

Y'all let me know which ones you like best.....I still love the 'Cairo Syrupmakers'!

And how would you like to play football for the 'Hoopeston High Cornjerkers' out of Illinois or Tennessee's Cocke County 'Fighting Cocks'....actually I like that one!
 
That was fun to read. Three more good ones from this area of Eastern NC:
Rose Rampants (Greenville, NC)
Rocky Mount Gryphons (Phil Ford's school)
Broughton Caps (Raleigh, short for Capitals)
 
Rocky Mount had Phil Ford, Broughton had....

Pistol Pete!

Maravich graduated from Broughton while his dad was coaching at NC State.

I delivered papers to the Maravich's (they lived on the street behind us) and I started at Broughton the year after Pete graduated.
 
Re: Rocky Mount had Phil Ford, Broughton had....

Forget the school, but there is a HS in GA known as the Atomsmashers.
 
Re: Rocky Mount had Phil Ford, Broughton had....

Back in the day, there was a HS in Graniteville, SC known as the Rocks. School is closed now, but the stadium was even known as the Rock Pile.

GO JACKETS!!
 
Re: Rocky Mount had Phil Ford, Broughton had....

Johnson of Savannah was the Atomsmashers. Won the state basketball in '68, I think.
 
I lived in a small paper-mill town in Washington growing up, and we were the Camas High School Papermakers. A team in a region won the state title, they were the Ridgefield Spudders....... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif
 
I'm glad everyone is enjoying this thread. I love and salute the odd Georgia nicknames on the list, Cairo Syrupmakers, Gainesville Red Elephants, Johnson Atom Smashers, Lafayette Ramblers(they constantly play the sound of burning rubber over the intercom!) and the La Grange Grangers.

It sure beats how it seems every other new school selects 'Raiders', 'Seminoles' or some other nickname belonging to a at the moment hot college or pro team.
 
Years ago, there was Lanier High School in Macon whose nick name was the Poets.
 
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Years ago, there was Lanier High School in Macon whose nick name was the Poets.

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BeeGone: You will enjoy this...click here: Poets are state champs!

3rd of 4 recognized state championships....'31,'36 GIAA...'47,'48 GHSA

P.S. Notice that 2 games was played Ponce De Leon Park and a playoff game was played at Grant Field. WOW!
 
And, the Lanier Poets were orange and green, most unusual until Miami brought orange and green into the mainstream.

Out in DeKalb County the school that is now McNair was once Walker. Named after a Confederate leader at the battle of Atlanta, General Walker of Walker's Calvary fame, the nickname was the "Warhawks". A warhawk played a role in the Battle of Atlanta, as remembered by the Cyclorama at Grant Park. To top it off, the fight song was "The Bonnie Blue Flag."
 
'77, that is very interesting. Well done!
I am sure there are other good stories on how many of these team names came to be. Anybody else?
 
When I was in Sturgis, South Dakota in 2004 for the big motorcycle rally. I was eating breakfast one day at Sturgis High....their ROTC sponsors a breakfast annually during the rally. Well, I noticed their nickname was the 'Scoopers'. I ask a female ROTC member why and her reply was because back in the late 1800's they used a 'scooping machine' to separate the silver ore from the rest of the dirt and pebbles during the mining process.

I just couldn't resist in telling her in jest that I wondered if it was short for 'Pooper Scoopers'. Oh did she give me death look! Telling me sharply 'no' and that they get tired of hearing that all the time from the 'nearby' high schools.(nearby is a figure of speech in these sparsely populated areas).....and don't need to be hearing it from me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugher.gif

I apologized and told her I was just teasing....
 
Before the city schools consolidated the Sandersville High School mascot was the Satans.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/FIREdevil.gif
 
I used to love laughing at watching the Univ. of Hawaii Rainbows play on ESPN...particularly with the lovely rainbow on the helmet. Talk about striking fear in the heart of the opponent!!!
 
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[/ QUOTE ] /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugher.gif I wished I had already known that! I looked it up in the ghsfha.com website and sure enough there it was....Sandersville High Satans....and their colors was Blue and Gold.
 
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Not a private Christian school, I imagine!
 
Here's one that I would like answered: Can anyone tell me why the Baptist school Wake Forest has the Demon Deacons? This has always been a puzzle to me.
 
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Here's one that I would like answered: Can anyone tell me why the Baptist school Wake Forest has the Demon Deacons? This has always been a puzzle to me.

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From wikipedia:
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In 1923, the Wake Forest football team defeated rival Trinity (later renamed Duke University). In the following issue of the school newspaper, the editor of the paper, Mayon Parker (1924 Wake Forest graduate), first referred to the team as "Demon Deacons," in recognition of what he called their "devilish" play and fighting spirit. Henry Belk, Wake Forest's news director, and Garrity liked the title and used it often, so the popularity of the term grew.

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Similiar thing as to why Bama has an elephant and we were the golden tornados for a while..
 
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Similiar thing as to why Bama has an elephant

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Thanks for that on Wake. I have heard the story about the "Crimson Tide", but will have to look up the elephant connection.
 
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