Comments on: Friday Question of the Day – What’s the Worst Sports Team Name in the USA? (Reader Request)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:06:29 +0000

Dickinson Midgets. My friend went to high school in North Dakota and that was his high school team name. Awkward.

Redskins still takes the cake, though.

By: Pete Witte

Pete Witte — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:39:10 +0000

When I was in high school during the late 1990’s, I played in Pekin Community High School (Illinois) annual holiday basketball tournament. The teams in the tournament’s “losers bracket” played at the old high school gymnasium at this time (since then, they have added an additional gym to the newer high school). In the locker room at the old high school they still had a mural of the old mascot, an offensive depiction of a Chinese man with a protective sun hat on his head, I believe the hat is called a coolie.

On a lighter note, another team that competed in this tournament each year with a rather odd team name was the Freeport H.S. Pretzels. http://freeportpretzelathletics.com/index.htm

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:03:47 +0000

Redskins

By: watchmesoar

watchmesoar — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:29:42 +0000

The Delta State Fighting Okra…enough said.

By: 8th

8th — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:08:12 +0000

Weird = Fort Collins High School Lambkins.

Also in Fort Collins, Boltz Junior High School Phoenix (because the building burned down while it was under construction but then got rebuilt).

Agree with Crin that collective nouns are the worst. Mercury? Heat? Bah. Isn’t there a team called Sol somewhere?

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:50:53 +0000

Scottsdale Community College’s mascot is the Artichoke, their colors are pink and green, that’s pretty awful.

Another I know of is East Providence High School in RI–their mascot is the “Townie” which is a sketchy looking kid in a newsboy hat and a crowbar. Nice!

By: Bradford

Bradford — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:05:07 +0000

Nobody has mentioned the Kansas City Wiz yet? They eventually changed it to Wizards, but naming your soccer team after a stream of urine has to be pretty bad.

By: Prince Of Petworth

Prince Of Petworth — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:56:05 +0000

Here’s one a reader just uploaded to the flickr pool:

“St. Charles Elementary, Home of the Midgets”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44676209@N08/4100557453/in/pool-popville

By: Ragged Dog

Ragged Dog — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:52:17 +0000

Pekin HS, “Chinks” (Illinois) ….used to have two little Asian kids dance at halftime at the basketball games I’m told. Google it.

Does that win?

By: Danish

Danish — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:50:15 +0000

University of North Carolina School for the Arts

Fighting Pickles

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

’nuff said!!!!