I have a number of red and white Badger sweatshirts. I try to wear them to Evanston whenever the Badgers defeat the Northwestern Wildcats.
I was just wondering if Jessica went to Northwestern.
My HS colors were red, white & blue. Spirit week Seniors were supposed to wear blue, juniors white, sophomores red, and they'd pick some unpopular color (like orange) for the freshmen. Each class got points for students wearing their color but I can't remember if they won anything- it was always the juniors or seniors who won and by the time I was a junior I was above such petty things as spirit.
I don't recall my middle school colors, but elementary was red and white, which I just remembered thanks to the fight song ("three cheers for the Riveroaks Eagles, and for the good old red and white...") popping into my head. Why my elementary school needed a fight song I don't know.
I tend to dislike "school spirit" stuff. When I was in third grade we had a pep rally, when for some reason I popped a paper bag and briefly put it on my head. (I wasn't interrupting anything at the time.) The principal yelled at me, and then told everyone our grade
would
have won the school spirit award, but just because of me we didn't win it.
It wasn't hugely traumatic or anything - just annoying that the principal overreacted.
High school was red and black, panthers. College, the blue and grey--What's a Hoya? :)
heh, I went to a Jr college that was supposed to have the "chapparal
bird
" as the mascot but they shortened it to just "chapparal" so we were the fighting scrub-grass prairies.
I think my favorite school team name is the team in Funky Winkerbean - the Scapegoats.
which was still better than my junior high's green and gold.
A's!
HS: Red and Black for the Spartans. (Remember them?)
College: Purple and White for the Lords. (Girls teams: The Ladies! Fear them! Actually they won a lot of national titles in swimming.)
I think my favorite school team name is the team in Funky Winkerbean - the Scapegoats.
I have to go with the traditional favorites: the Banana Slugs. My local favorite is Oglethorpe's Stormy Petrels.
I never thought the Commodores really cut it as a team name.
A long time ago, my high school team name was the Pigeons (after the Pigeon River that flows through town). It was renamed The Truckers, because Clintonville is where the four-wheel-drive truck was invented, and they still make firetrucks there.
