Go Nuts!

Got talking about sports team names on the show today, after a School Board in Utah (Home of the BYU Cougars) rejected the attempt by a school to change their mascot to a cougar... as in the puma or mountain lion variety, not the 43-year old Stiletto wearing, young guy sharking, rose tattooed lady. 

Locally, we have the Trail Smoke Eaters. An odd name, until you find out the story behind the name. Smoke Eaters came from an old story about a player who picked up a pipe that was thrown on the ice and smoked it. Ok, I get that one. 

Some of the following are absolutely terrible... terrible and funny.

In High School, I ran a race against a team from Bemidji called the "Crazy Shorts". Yes, a track squad with all sorts of macaroni noodles, Sharpie marker doodles and feathers glued to their shorts. Once the race started, I didn't have much of a chance to get a glimpse at their attire because I was wayyyyyy behind any of the Crazy Shorts. 

 

	The team that skates onto the ice with Bad Company's "Feel Like Makin'" playing in the background, The Macon (pronounced Makin') Whoopee.
	No way I'd be able to keep a straight face being the P.A. announcer of the Poca High School Dots.... The Poca Dots, really.
	Not sure if I'd rather play for the White Sox or Wet Sox.
	I haven't had a scrap with an artichoke in a while, but I hear they can fight.
	Still with the Fighting teams, Nippon Ham-Fighters. Don't mess with a leg of pork when it comes out swinging, especially when it's dried out to resemble a Rawlings baseball.
	Team Canada felt the wrath of the Wolfburg Grizzly Adams at this year's Spengler Cup. Canada would've won had the been playing the Tier 2 Wolfburg Patch Adams.
	What's better, a team from Effingham or a team called the Flaming Hearts? Referred to by opponents as the Effingham Heartburns.
	Nobody can top the Awesome Blossoms of Blooming Prairie when it comes to a wimpy name for a sports team. These guys are the equivalent of the Gin Blossoms are to Rock n' Roll.