Yup. That's why they were terrifying.

At your age, they would be!

The Youngstown State University Penguins: Jim Tressel led the Penguins to six NCAA Div. I-AA Football National Championship games, winning four times before going taking the Head Coaching posiiton at The Ohio State University where he already as gone to the Div. I-A National Championship game twice, winning once. Go PENGUINS and BUCKEYES!!

MTD, Sr.

My personal favorite is the Effingham Flaming Hearts-it's my alma mater.:cool: It comes from the fact that at one time way way back in the day the population center of the US was located a few miles West (or maybe East - I don't remember) of town. :D
I do believe that the nickname has been changed or updated since then. I think that it was changed to Fighting Hearts. Whether that was an official change, I don't remember. Then the word "Fighting" was dropped. Now, I think that it is just the "Hearts". However it's been over 20 years since I was last there. But, there was a great rivalry between the Hearts, the Wooden Shoes, and the St Anthony Bulldogs (also located in Effingham).
Also, I'm not sure that I saw the Centralia Orphans mentioned.

What do Flaming Hearts have to do with being the population center? I don't get the connection. Of course, I don't get a lot of things. Please clarify. Thanks.

At a time way long long ago (so far back that the exact date escapes me), the imaginary line extending north and south that divided the population of the US in half was located near the town. Hence the "Heart" of the country.
Where the "Flaming" part came from I don't know.

Did a game yesterday with a team named "Thinking Men". They were a 10U AAU team. Instead of players names on their jersys, they had words like "Diligent", "Obey" etc...It seemd kinda odd to me so I never bothered asking the coach about it.

Canadians know that the Beaver always swallows the duck. :eek:

Almost an accurate analogy. ;)

Just read a story in the sports section this morning that there was a brawl yesterday between two minor league baseball teams - the South Georgia Peanuts and the Macon Music.

Wasn't (or isn't) there a team named the Macon Whoopies? I'm serious.

This has probably been mentioned in this (old) thread, but there is (or was) a team in MI called the "Nimrods." Sounds funny today, but it's actually the name of some hunter in the bible, or something (and that weak description sounds more perjorative than I mean it to be -- it's a reflection of my ignorance).

In fact, I once met a fellow official by that name at a basketball camp. He was from the east coast, iirc, and worked many levels. This thread reminds me that I didn't see him at camp this year (at IL College).

I think I might know him. Is his first name "Ima"? If so, he coached a huge number of my games. :rolleyes:

You're right, he wasn't there.

It's too bad; he did bring some flavor to the camp.

I almost forgot what i think is an unusual mascot name: Nothing.

Hollins College (in Virginia, I think) has no athletic mascot name. A few years back, I was building a list of colleges and their mascots for my sports database and asked one of my fellow SIDs if he know Hollins' mascot. Was suprised to see him tell me they had none.

The RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) sports teams are called the Nads.

I also knew of an intramural team (of med students) who called themselves the Cremasters.

South Dakota

McLaughlin Midgets
Edgemont Moguls
Sturgis Scoopers
Rapid City Central Cobblers
Newell Irrigators
Pine Ridge Thorpes (after Jim Thorpe)

For you ND guys - didn't Devil's Lake used to be the Satans?

There was in the Sally League. Someone probably made them change the name.