It is kindof Washington-appropriate. How about the Bureaucrats? Suits?

I read a story in the Post a while ago about how all these new schools are going with these homogenous names because its easy to find sports apparel. So I have some fondness for something like the Cardozo Clerks or the Annandale (Va.) Atoms — let’s revel in them before everything goes the way of Panthers, Eagles, Tigers etc.

Cardozo High School is named after Francis Cardozo, not Benjamin Cardozo. See link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardozo_Senior_High_School

Of course, this makes the mascot name even more curious.

Although I personally have pride for my high school mascot, many other towns ridiculed it.
We were the Skippers. As in, the skipper on a boat.

Maybe it should be something more aspirational – like the ‘managers’. We are already comdemning the kids who go there with the name of their mascot?

Yep, we were the Obezags. If you’re not familiar with an Obezag, it is a Gazebo spelled backwords. And, yes, our mascot was a gazebo with white columns and a red roof. At some point a group students suggested changing it to the Spartans but that didn’t catch. People had become endeared to Obezags (me included).

Maybe the worst name for a team, but that’s gotta be the best vista for a high school in this area. I recently moved onto 13th St and that’s my new favorite view of the city.

Pelicans

Tulane has the Green Wave as their mascot. A reference to money?

Sveiks with an awesome movie reference…

Well done, sir.

that wiki article says Francis Cardozo was the first African American to hold an administrative office in South Carolina.
Perhaps he was an administrative clerk?

I went to McKinley Tech. Their teams are the Trainers. Comparatively speaking Clerks ain’t so bad.

BTW–wasn’t Cardozo famous for a decades long losing streak in football?

The Clerks name comes from way back in the day (segregation) when becoming a clerk in the US Govt would have been an achievement for African Americans. Cardozo is in the building which used to be Central High (white school).