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.