In case you missed it, the Tuscaloosa News ran a huge spread on "unique, quirky and just plan silly" high school and college mascots. You may be familiar with some of them. All make you wonder "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?"
TOP FIVE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL MASCOTS:
1. Watersmeet High School (Michigan) NIMRODS (They actually started using this nickname in 1904, when you could make reference to the Bible. Nimrod was "a mighty hunter before the Lord.")
2.Poca High School (West Virginia) DOTS (Needs no explanation.)
3. Tuetopolis High School (Illinois) WOODEN SHOES (To recognize an old Tuetopolis pioneer who carved wooden shoes for a living.)
4. Mars Area High School (Pennsylvania) FIGHTING PLANETS (Again. Needs no explanation.)
5. Yuma High School (Arizona) CRIMINALS ( (In 1910, YHS was moved to an abondoned prison where it was located for 3 years.)
TOP FIVE COLLEGE MASCOTS:
1. California-Santa Cruz BANANA SLUGS (bright yellow, slimy, shell-less mollusk found in the campus' redwood forest)
2. Virginia Tech HOKIES ("Hokie" is a word that has been around at least since 1842 and was a word people used to express excitedment like "hooray" or "yeah" or "rah.")
3. University of Idaho VANDALS (took nickname, in early 1900s, from sports writers' descriptions of their basketball play--they "vandalized their opponents.")
4. California-Irvine ANTEATERS (Chosen in 1965, in a student election.)
5. University of Akron ZIPS (1936--originally ZIPPERS after a rubber overshoe called the "Zipper Boot")
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