Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 09, 2015

Because sports teams tend not to use edible animals as mascots.

The Mighty Ducks?

Fayetteville Fireantz (SPHL)

They’re all edible.

We’ve got the Rochester Honkers (http://northwoodsleague.com/rochester-honkers)

My favorite is still the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs

Sports teams like to be the predators and not the prey.

The swans are worse.

My favorite high school nickname is the Yuma AZ Criminals!

Whoever considers a Canada Goose a softy is in for a bad surprise.

You can sure eat a longhorn or a marlin or a buffalo.

Richmond Flying Squirrels (seriously, minor league baseball, have the T-shirt!!!!)

Geese can be mean. They chomp with their serrated bills and then turn their heads upside down. They can rip out a good chunk of flesh if you’re not careful.

Even though I am a woman in her 40s the South Carolina University’s name ALWAYS makes me snicker like a 13 year old boy…

http://www.gamecocksonline.com/

There’s the Toledo Mud Hens.

Evergreen Geoducks.http://evergreen.edu/geoduck/home.htm

My aunt and uncle had a Canada Goose as a guard “dog” for a few years. Problem was it would attack visiting relatives and friends. Hmm, maybe there was a message there.

; ) Bemidji State University Beavers

New Orleans Pelicans ?? Who came up with that name. Not very intimidating unless you’re a fish!!

There ought to be a Honey Badger team. Except that they wouldn’t care about winning.

UC Irvine Aardvarks. ZOT!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/22443/31-unbelievable-high-school-mascots

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1738107-37-odd-college-mascots-that-will-surpise-you

Shouldn’t that be “Canadian” goose? Odd for Mallett to make such a mistake.

And how do Toronto’s pro sports teams figure into this question?

Freeport (IL) High School’s mascot is the Pretzels, & Monroe (WI) High School are the Cheesmen.

Ewal Doh: Are Hoyas poisonous? Not usually. Their full name, Hoya Saxis, means stone wall..PocosDad: Mine too. I actually met an alumnus in a McKinney, TX, grocery store and scored major points with him in that I had actually seen a banana slug in the wild (Vancouver, BC) and he never had. The encounter was occasioned by his wearing a school T-shirt.

If that theory is right, the Yankees would be most popular in the South.

Board sorely needs an “ignore user” button…. so many interesting posts (the geoducks!?) lost amidst the daily noise from the usual suspects.

I have no bone in the matter (my university mascots have been Pumas, White Wolves and Rams), but Boilermakers always make me laugh.

Friend of mine is a Cajun by birth. When she first came to live in the DC metro area, her first question about the UMD sports teams was, “Why’d they name their teams the Twerps?”

Bulls and Rams (beef & mutton!) are certainly edible. So for that matter are Broncos & Colts if you don’t mind horsemeat.

Weird football team names: sixty years ago, the Fordyce, AR team was the Redbugs. Jr, high was the Chiggers.