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.
I never thought the Commodores really cut it as a team name.
Heh. My high school was the Commodores. Green and white. I hated that school.
College, black and gold, the Underachievers. No, wait, that isn't right...
I have no memory of my high school colors. College was navy and gold, grad school was blue and gold. All the UCs are "themed" although personally I think Santa Cruz kinda cheats with the blue and orange. Now my school colors are crimson and gold.
I have to go with the traditional favorites: the Banana Slugs.
My sister's alma mater! Where everybody majors in Saving The World And Being Nice To People.