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12 high school mascots even more offensive than America's educational system.
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posted 02/23/2012
Tags: Mascots, High School, High School Basketball, High School Football, Offensive

"Throwback" jerseys are a big these days, so we guess it makes sense that "throwback" Dutch cultural phenomenons work as a team name.

 


Centralia High School Orphans (Boys teams) and Annies (Girls teams)

Naming an adolescent sports team after adolescents no one wants has got to do wonders for high schoolers with an already non-existent self-esteem.

 


Butte Pirates

Yea. When racial slurs don't work for your team name, it's proably best to just move on to homophobic ones.

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  • Carrie | 05/09/2013 flag

    In Indiana, there is a school called, "Frankfort Hotdogs" They get made fun of all the time by other schools nearby.

  • Andy | 04/29/2013 flag

    Time for a history lesson. First of all, the KKK we have today bears no relationship to the one that existed between 1865 and 1874 other than sharing a name. There have actually been three KKK organizations, and more if you realize that the current one, begun in the 1950s, is actually a group of small very loosely associated organizations all using the same name. Second, Nathan Bedford Forrest DID NOT found the original KKK. That is an abject falsehood. In fact, according to historian Brian Wills, there is considerable doubt as to whether or not he was actually Grand Wizard,a position that is commonly attributed to him. It is pretty certain he was at least a member. But a founder? That is a most definite and resounding "no". The first KKK was founded by a group of 6 former Confederate generals, none of which were Forrest. Further, the main targets of KKK violence during that time were the Loyal Leagues and Republican state governments, with the aim of resisting the "carpetbaggers" and their reform agenda. Blacks were not targeted specifically as a group although they were targeted often because of their membership in Loyal Leagues and positions in Republican governments and candidacies as Republicans. Forrest ended his membership with the group in 1869, 5 years before it was forceably disbanded by federal legislation.

  • emily | 02/05/2013 flag

    We live in Wilton Iowa.....we are the Beavers
    Our moms wear shirts that say "i'm a beaver wrestling mom"
    "nothing beats a beaver....their too dam good"
    "Can't beat my Beaver".....you get the idea

  • Jesse Germany | 12/27/2012 flag

    Vincennes Lincoln Alices in Vincennes, Indiana. The mascot is named after the book "Alice of Old Vincennes." Who was Alice you ask? She was the town whore. Our mascot is called Big A and is a green blob. Ironically our girls teams are called The Lady Alices.

  • R W Day | 11/16/2012 flag

    There's the Scottsdale, AZ Community College Fighting Artichokes; the Yuma, AZ High School Criminals.

  • Gini Woodward | 10/28/2012 flag

    Another offensive high school mascot is the Orofino Maniacs. Orofino is a small town on the Clearwater River and home of Idaho State Hospital North, since 1908, then called the Insane Asylum which housed over 500 people with mental illnesses by the 1940s. The high school adopted the name the "Maniacs" which is depicted by a wild haired hopping up and down person in the late 1920s. Orofino claims the mascot has nothing to do with the hospital in spite of the fact that the high school and hospital are on the same road next to each other. Today the hospital is a 55 bed modern facility where people with mental illnesses are treated for short periods and return to their communities. This mascot name is discriminatory and stigmatizing to people with biological illnesses and is one of the worst mascot names in history.

  • Mike | 10/25/2012 flag

    Fighting Leafs- Mapletown PA

  • PointPleasantBIGBLACKS! | 09/14/2012 flag

    Okay Big Blacks is short for Point Pleasant Black Knights. Not is it just shorter it also goes with our chant "Let's Go Big Blacks" it would not go together if it was Let's Go Black Knights. And our football players are big guys. So that is another good reason we are called Big Blacks..... LET'S GO BIG BLACKS LET'S GO!!!

  • kate | 08/31/2012 flag

    Newell, SD Irrigators
    Valley City, ND Hi Liners (Hi Liner Bridge)
    Freeport, IL Pretzels

  • Redskins | 07/20/2012 flag

    Butte Pirates is in Idaho, and I'm surprised Salmon Savages isn't on here

  • GB | 07/12/2012 flag

    Geez, some of you are uptight. It's meant for humor, for crying out loud. I think the only ones who need to get a life are some of the crybabies in the comments section.

  • Big blacks | 04/18/2012 flag

    I happen to go to point Pleasant big blacks. We are also known as the black knights. We have never had a problem with are "big blacks" name.

  • Eric | 04/15/2012 flag

    I graduated from Yuma High and there is a story behind it. In the 1800s Yuma was the site of the Federal maximum security Prison. (before Alcatraz) They closed the prison in 1909. In 1910, the Yuma community wanted to start a high school,and here was a campus that every school needs..lots of little rooms,a cafeteria, guard towers with machine guns...anyway soon after our football team beat a team froma bigger town, and they said "go back to your prison criminals!" and the name stuck. We have a different modern campus now and the prison is a cool museum but we're still proud of our name!

  • Jimmy | 03/13/2012 flag

    AAAH Jimmy shoes maybe ?

  • Dick | 02/28/2012 flag

    You must add the "Fighting Farmers" of Lewisville TX to the list.

  • WVGirl | 02/23/2012 flag

    The "Poca Dots" isn't spelled with a K, to the poster who commented on that. I graduated from Point Pleasant High School (Go Big Blacks!) and the name is a shortening of our actual mascot, the Black Knights. Of course, no one except the old band director ever called us that. We've been the Big Blacks for as long as I can remember.

  • gina | 02/23/2012 flag

    I love the wooden shoes mascot! My high school mascot was the Holland High school "Dutch"!

  • Cheryl | 02/23/2012 flag

    North East, PA - the Grapepickers

  • Heidi | 02/23/2012 flag

    For the record, high school millionaires aren't offensive. Only pretentious jerk off millionaires...

  • Millionaire Alum | 02/17/2012 flag

    Millionaire is only offensive to those who choose not to work hard enough to be one....

  • Frank | 02/11/2012 flag

    Butte Pirates. Already enough comments discussing the pronunciation so I won't get into that.

    But there is a Butte County, Idaho. Butte High School is in Idaho, along with all the Butte Pirates.

  • Me | 02/09/2012 flag

    The Student Government Association at Williamsport Area High School is selling "We are the 1%" shirts online. Visit http://www.MrFlint.com to order yours!

  • Liz | 02/04/2012 flag

    My mother worked at the Arkansas school for the Deaf for years, so I spent a lot of time there growing up. Those kids picked that mascot. Because it was funny, not offensive. The great thing? They still think it's funny. Just because their hearing is impaired doesn't mean that their sense of humor is... Unfortunately, I don't think I can say the same for the person who compiled these photos...

  • Charles | 02/03/2012 flag

    For your information these are rather unique signs. Where is the offensiveness about them contained? Get a life and leave them alone.

  • State School | 01/31/2012 flag

    Agreed, your number one isn't funny when you know the pronunciation, but even the unbiased observer wouldn't guess that it's pronounced "but".

    Bigger problem here though: these aren't that offensive, if at all. Most are just funny.

  • Caleb | 01/31/2012 flag

    I grew up down the road from the Blooming Prairie Awesome Blossoms. Surprised they didn't turn up...

  • Church | 01/31/2012 flag

    Absurdly offensive? Hardly. How about the Nathan Bedford Forest High School Rebels? It's banned after a Civil War General and a KKK founder. Funny thing, it's mostly black kids now.

  • Deven | 01/31/2012 flag

    I live in Butte, Montana. The school posted at number 1 is not from this city, as the mascots are the Butte High Bulldogs and the Butte Central Maroons.

  • Jarrod | 01/27/2012 flag

    For your information, it says "Butte Pirates" as in Butte, Montana. The pronunciation would be "b-ute" as in the letter B and Ute (Utah Utes). It DOES NOT SAY "Butt Pirates".

  • DC | 01/27/2012 flag

    Dickinson Midgets in North Dakota, which was one also home to the Devils Lake Satans. But some uppity Christians got their granny panties in a bunch and made em change it to Firebirds.

  • Roo | 01/27/2012 flag

    Northern Michigan has the Watersmeet Nimrods (Featured in documentary "Nimrod Nation"), and nearby Hurley, Wisconsin is home to the Hurley Midgets.

  • brody | 01/26/2012 flag

    Butte is pronounced "beaut" so that one isn't funny

  • karla | 01/26/2012 flag

    I grew up in Idaho, and the state mental hospital was in Orofino. Their high school mascot was the Maniacs. seriously.

  • John | 01/26/2012 flag

    I'm glad Crystal shed some light on the correct pronunciation of "Butte," however she was incorrect regarding the origin of the "Ophans" nickname. It came from a Chicago sportswriter around 1936 after commenting that the kids from Centralia playing basketball in their tattered uniforms, "looked like a bunch of orphans." The name stuck, and people from there, including me, are very proud to call themselves "Ophans."

  • Ellen | 01/26/2012 flag

    Southern Illinois has some of the strangest names. We also have the Freeburg Midgets. Classy.

  • evan | 01/25/2012 flag

    @crystal there are two t's in butte so it is the same pronunciation as butt. like BUTTErfly

  • Hambone | 01/25/2012 flag

    I am not sure which is worse: the wimpy political correctness of this post or the glaringly unfunny commentary below each picture. You are a miserable failure for having this material at your disposal and not being able to come up anything but transparent political commentary and dimwit remarks.

  • Chassidy | 01/25/2012 flag

    OOmg! I used to live right near Laurel Hill and used to make fun of that all the time! Is that even spelled correctly? I thought it was hobos...

  • Acidmoxy | 01/25/2012 flag

    Is number 2 the same Centralia that Silent hill is based on? That town has a population of about 6. Wouldn't have thought there were any healthy kids there to form a sports team. hehe

  • yahmon | 01/25/2012 flag

    Southern Illinois definitely has some interesting mascots name.

  • Skip | 01/25/2012 flag

    Oops the rock band is "Def Leppard." Silly me.

  • Skip | 01/25/2012 flag

    The "Leopards" is a play on the rock band "Def Leopard." The school for which the Leopards are a mascot is a school for the deaf and blind, so they are the "Deaf Leopards," get it? It isn't actually offensive, they are a wonderful school.

  • Palomino | 01/25/2012 flag

    Moorhead, Minnesota Spuds

  • Joe Buck Sucks | 01/25/2012 flag

    Freeburg Midgets, every once in a while they play Centralia in sports so it's the Midgets vs. the Orphans

  • Confused | 01/24/2012 flag

    Could someone please explain why the "Leopards" mascot is considered offensive in America? (I only know that word as the common name for the "Panthera Pardus" feline.) Please forgive my ignorance.

  • Chad | 01/24/2012 flag

    Yeah, but the Orphans were obviously named after the mining disaster left many youth orphaned. I always thought that the Vandalia Vandals was an interesting take on things. Let's start all the children out with a moniker sure to incite them to be criminals at a young age!

  • Crystal | 01/24/2012 flag

    Butte is not "butt"...anyone who took elementary school English knows the "e" at the end of the word makes the "u" a long "u" sound. That's why "hate" isn't pronounced "hat" and "cane" isn't pronounced "can."

  • Chris | 01/24/2012 flag

    Cobden, IL Appleknockers

  • JMH72 | 01/24/2012 flag

    To really terrify: the Marshall Lawyers!

  • THS Knight | 01/24/2012 flag

    As someone who played the Orphans in high school, I must throw in another great opponent in central Illinois: the Effingham Flaming Hearts.

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