What are these people thinking?

About 25 years ago, I and The Mrs. had another young couple that were friends. We will call them "Mark and Pam." (because that was their names)

One night I was talking to Mark, and asked him if he wanted to go with me to my High School alma mater's football game. I said something like, "My Bearkats are taking on the Crimson Tide of Minden." He laughed, and asked me what a Bearkat was. I 'splained to him that the Bossier High School "Bearkat" is just a fictional animal. It's half bear, and half kat...and there really ain't no such thing as a Bearkat.

Now, Mark was from stinkin' Arkansas, and had grown up near Little Rock. He told me, "Andy, my high school (Rose City High if I'm remembering right) was The Fighting Jackrabbits! We had a big old round deal on the wall of the gym with a profile of a jackrabbit with big old long teeth.

I swear, I laughed like a little girl at a slumber party. I thought I had heard of the stupidest name for a mascot that I ever would. But not so.

Lake Charles, Louisiana had an ice hockey team several years ago...really, I ain't kidding...Lake Charles, Louisiana...hockey...bwahahahahahahahahahaha! They were the "Ice Pirates."

CL dropped a link while commenting on another blog about the UC Santa Clara Banana Slugs, which must be the worst team name in history.

I did find some other sports team names that are pretty BAD on the worldwide computer.

If you know of some worse than "Fighting Jackrabbits," or The Columbia College "Fighting Koalas," just drop it in the comments.