Cracked.com: World's most ridiculous sports team names

[Initech]

More:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15646_worlds-most-ridiculous-sports-team-names.html

:rofl:

[Bake]

1. Delta State Univ. (Mississippi) Fighting Okra.

For real. The Fighting Okra.

Bake

[Initech]

2. I'm surprised the Purdue Boilermakers didn't make the list.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. They'd better fight or the Purdue Ravaging Broccoli will kick their ass. Again.

[LeftyMom]

6. Wow. Somebody came up with something weirder than the Banana Slugs (UC Santa Cruz)

Never thought I'd see the day.

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. We were the Profs...how lame is that?

[Initech]

17. My mom's school: The Maples

I shit you not.

[Reverend_Smitty]

26. wow that is pretty awful

[hellbound-liberal]

5. The University of Richmond is the Spiders

Can't imagine that striking fear in the hearts of their opponents!

[meow2u3]

7. The guy in the pic is sporting a T-shirt which reads "Butte Pirates"

:rofl:

[lightningandsnow]

16. I want that t-shirt!

:spray:

[Initech]

18. I was cracking up for five minutes when I saw that.

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

8. I'm calling foul. Butte is pronounced byoot. It means a small mountain range.

If you're saying "butt pirates" you're either thirteen or illiterate.

[abq e streeter]

9. If my memory is accurate ( always iffy) :

Students at Northwestern tried to change Wildcats to the Purple Haze, and at Stanford they attempted a change to the Robber Barons. Inexplicably, each was vetoed by their administrations. And I've always been disappointed that the Houston Astros farm team at Kissimee, Fla. wasn't also named the Astros.

[MrScorpio]

10. HAHAHA!

i'm ashamed to admit that i'm a ucsc alumni, and therefore a former banana slug. the ucsc mascot used to be the sea lion, until one very marijuana smoke filled night when someone said, "dude, you know what's awesome? banana slugs. you know what would be even more awesome, bro? if we changed our mascot to the banana slug." the administration went along with it because 1. they were also stoned, and 2. ucsc isn't exactly known for it's team sports. unless you consider stoner drum circles and beer pong team sports.
Posted on 2/11/2008 12:49:50 PM

Kayti

[LeftyMom]

11. As soon as the NCAA recognizes hacky sack, UCSC will be famous

for something other than banana slugs, weed, and having the highest concentration of lesbians in any population known on earth.

[MrScorpio]

12. Said UCSC lesbians and Ultimate Frisbee, a match made in Heaven

http://www.icultimate.com/sbinvitep.html

[NMDemDist2]

13. the Carlsbad Highschool Cavemen (and Cavegirls)

:banghead:

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. They must not have heard of the Evergreen State College Geoducks

The geoduck is mollusk native to the Pacific Northwest. The geoduck (pronounced "GOO-ee-duck") is the largest burrowing clam in the world, weighing in at anywhere from one to three pounds at maturity. The appearance of geoduck's large, protruding siphon has led to the belief that the geoduck has the properties of an aphrodisiac. The geoduck has a life expectancy of up to 150 years with the oldest recorded at 163 years.

http://www.evergreen.edu/athletics/geoduck.htm




Runners-up:

• The Lansing Lugnuts, a Blue Jays' Class A club in the Midwest league, whose logo is a bolt, not a nut:



The Modesto Nuts, a Rockies' Class A club in the California League, whose logo features Al the Almond and Wally the Walnut:



• The Kewpies, from a small-town Missouri high school attended by a former co-worker.

• The Haybalers (usually shortened to "Balers"), from the high school right here in Dogforsakenhellhole.

[Dr. Strange]

15. The Kewpies?

Well, now we know where Orrex graduated from!

[Auggie]

19. Dartmouth Big Green

[Initech]

28. OMG... really?

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

20. The Delaware Fighting Blue Hens

:wtf:

[yellowdogintexas]

21. The Vincennes, Indiana Alices

real high school mascot name.

[greenbriar]

22. Wichita Wingnuts

our newest AAA baseball team

[TheMightyFavog]

23. How's about this one from Wisconsin's Fox Valley

The Kaukauna High School Galloping Ghosts.

Dumbest. Team name. Ever.

Before you ask, No, Kaukauna has no connection whatsoever to Red Grange.

[Initech]

29. How about this one for blatant product placement: The Billings Mustangs (MILB)

[TheMightyFavog]

24. This article dissapointed me.

The mentioned the Kansas City Wiz, before MLS had to change the name to Wizards. However they didn't mention that another one of the MLS teams at the time was the Dallas Burn.

So, you would get matches featuring the Wiz and the Burn.

:rofl:

[ironflange]

25. toledo mud hens

thats always been a favorite of mine
lots of history to that name too

theres a baseball team in edmonton called the cracker cats
i think its a cool name but ya still gotta wonder where they came up with that one

[fishwax]

27. The Fort Collins High School Lambkins

Both my parents were Lambkins :)

[murielm99]

30. How about the Freeport Pretzels or

the Polo Marcos?

Those are team names here.

[enigmatic]

31. Macon Whoopees

Still my favorite team nickname:

[elleng]

32. Southern Illinois University

Salukis

[WildEyedLiberal]

33. The Fisher, IL Bunnies

I saw a proud Fisher High School mom all decked out in her "BUNNIES IHSA CLASS 1A FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS!" gear at a restaurant here in town and had to bite my tongue. I think they painted the playboy bunny on their helmets.