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Poll: Worst College Team Name
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Heidelberg University Student Princes.
It's in Ohio, go figure.
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Its the statesmen. That’s an unofficial “official” name adopted in the 80s.
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In Itta Bena, Mississippi it's the Mississippi Valley State University Delta Devils. That's Jerry Rice's old school where the great but all but forgotten quarterback Willie "Satellite" Totten used to light it up throwing bombs to JR.
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Maxed out the choices. @PastyStoole, didn’t add SDSU because that’s just hawt.
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Furman University Paladins.
The Paladins were Christian Knights, so really it's the Furman University Christian Knights. Awkward acronym.
The Paladins were Christian Knights, so really it's the Furman University Christian Knights. Awkward acronym.
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University of Evansville Purple Aces. Evansville used to have some pretty good basketball teams.
The great Jerry Sloan played there.
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Not ending in "s"
(even harder is not ending in "s" and not using a color)
Navy Midshipmen
Syracuse Orangemen
St. John's Red Storm (nee Redmen)
Alabama Crimson Tide
Harvard Crimson
Tulsa Golden Hurricane (not Hurricanes)
Tulane Green Wave
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
North Texas Mean Green
North Dakota Fighting Sioux
Stanford Cardinal (the color, not the bird)
Illinois Illini
Marshall Thundering Herd
NC State (and Nevada) Wolfpack
OK, that's all I can think of.
Alex.
(even harder is not ending in "s" and not using a color)
Navy Midshipmen
Syracuse Orangemen
St. John's Red Storm (nee Redmen)
Alabama Crimson Tide
Harvard Crimson
Tulsa Golden Hurricane (not Hurricanes)
Tulane Green Wave
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
North Texas Mean Green
North Dakota Fighting Sioux
Stanford Cardinal (the color, not the bird)
Illinois Illini
Marshall Thundering Herd
NC State (and Nevada) Wolfpack
OK, that's all I can think of.
Alex.
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Its another chicken
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SC Gamecocks
Delaware Blue Hens
Georgetown Hoyas
Akron Zips
Delaware Blue Hens
Georgetown Hoyas
Akron Zips
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My son's first year playing football he was on the Cardinals but the dumb ass who made the jersey's misspelled Cardinals so they were the Carnals the whole year.Only in Georgia.
Our big high school rival was the Broncos and we were playing them for homecoming. The night before, several of their students broke onto our field and spelled out Broncos in huge letters by pouring gasoline onto the grass.
In their drunken rush, the left out the "C".
The field crew purposely didnt fix it to show the stupidity of playing against the Bronos.
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I had to Google Billikens when I saw it in the poll. A freaking charm doll? It got my vote.
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Awful. Just a bad job on the mascot thing.
Heidelberg University Student Princes.
It's in Ohio, go figure.
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A buckeye is a nut. Buckeye fans will tell you it is poisonous but it is not. Horses and other animals can eat them. If a human eats them, the human will get sick. Not dead though. More accurate to call them an inedible nut. Terrible.
Love the wacky California team names...Banana Slugs, Gorillas, Cardinal, Anteaters, and (my favorite) the Dirtbags of Long Beach State. Can't hate 'em because they chose those names to be funny.
It's the bad names that were chosen seriously that deserve to be on this list.
Like the Hokies.
Or the Shockers.
TF is a Hoya anyway??? Does Patrick Ewing even know?
Cornhuskers.
Sooners.
Boilermakers is cooler than it was originally because it can be associated with alcohol.
Zips is awful. Named for a rubber boot. With a zipper.
Then some of those deep south losers...okra, boll weevils, etc.
And then there's the geoducks (pronounced gooey-ducks). It's not a duck. It's a strangely phallic clam. This one gets all the facepalms.
Alex.
Love the wacky California team names...Banana Slugs, Gorillas, Cardinal, Anteaters, and (my favorite) the Dirtbags of Long Beach State. Can't hate 'em because they chose those names to be funny.
It's the bad names that were chosen seriously that deserve to be on this list.
Like the Hokies.
Or the Shockers.
TF is a Hoya anyway??? Does Patrick Ewing even know?
Cornhuskers.
Sooners.
Boilermakers is cooler than it was originally because it can be associated with alcohol.
Zips is awful. Named for a rubber boot. With a zipper.
Then some of those deep south losers...okra, boll weevils, etc.
And then there's the geoducks (pronounced gooey-ducks). It's not a duck. It's a strangely phallic clam. This one gets all the facepalms.
Alex.
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This is dumb too. But the reason, Coastal Carolina was a branch of USCeast, a Chanticleer is actually a rooster. They named their cock chanticleer.
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List is incomplete without the Central Golden Knights.
