Good point, I forgot about the Jeeps. You would be surprised, maybe not, how many people don't know where they got that name.

 

Could be "our" age?

Someone PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE explain what is the meaning of the Lloyd "Juggernaut"...I've been wondering that for years!!!

 

A Juggernaut is robotic destroyer of anything in its path. I only assume they chose this name to mean something along the lines of an unstoppable force.:idunno:

Juggernaut is an actual word that means destructive or unstoppable force. Look it up in a dictionary. I don't know how that name became attached to Lloyd but you have to admit that is a pretty good team name.

 

I think everyone knows what a juggernaut is, and I agree, it makes some sense...but it's a bit awkward as a team name, which is why I don't think you see it very often!!! Wondering when someone at LM will start to complain about the girls' basketball jerseys...

 

A great former school name was the Muhlenberg North Stars.

 

Great name.

 

Even better because it paired well with Muhlenberg South: Stars and Suns. Two good nicknames, yet they went with something more ordinary for the consolidated school. Maybe they should've called the new school teams the Cosmos. (Although I think Miners would've been more appropriate, and John Prine would probably agree.)

 

"Daddy, take me back to Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River..."

 

Estill County "ENGINEERS"

Have never seen this anywhere before with any sports. Estill use to be a huge railroad county with the csx switch yard and terminal. They still are a railroad county just not as big. A engine is a powerful piece of equipment. With that short story you get the name ENGINEERS.

 

Kind of like the Purdue Boilermakers... I don't think the reference was to the equipment, though, in Estill. (Somebody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) It's my understanding the reference is strictly to the drivers of the locomotives. (no word on whether those people were powerful or not :lol:)

While I don't know for a fact, I always thought the Notre Dame Academy Panda mascot is merely a play on the letters, paNDA. It's also a nice mascot for an all girls school.

 

You're right about the NDA. They've also used the acronym "People At Notre Dame Academy Succeed" in the past. A little goofy, yes, but whatever.

... As for the worst mascot, I feel that the Poca, WV Dots (Yes, the Poca Dots) have to be in the running.

 

Yes, I almost mentioned them, I really feel bad for them every time I hear the "Poca Dots". Terrible mascot.

 

 

I laugh every time I hear it - therefor I like it.

The explanation behind the origin of Somerset's mascot is great, but I'll let a local tell that story, as I can't do it total justice.

 

I don't know if I was told the correct story or not, but I think it is a great story too. I won't tell the whole story, but I was told that it had something to do with a Somerset team in the early 30's or 40'(not sure if correct) going up North and playing a team that was supposed to dominate them and Somerset ended up being too fast for them. The local paper wrote the story as an upset that the players from Somerset were so quick they looked like (rabbits) a bunch of briar jumpers getting out of the thicket!::idunno:

I'm surprised being that we live in Kentucky that there aren't more Thoroughbreds ( Newport Central Catholic ) , or Thorobreds ( Harrison Co. ) very apropos team names .

I know none of them are Kentucky schools, but:

 

There's the Glenville Tarblooders - that's a favorite of mine. They were named ofter the local (and abundant) railroad workers, called tarblooders, whose job it was to re-tar the railroad ties. The hot tar that the workers used would splatter onto their arms and faces, blistering and causing them to bleed as if they were sweating blood. Now there's a tough mascot name.

 

Completely opposite to the big-bad Tarblooders, are the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School "Poets" in Baltimore. I have a cousin that teaches there, and he laughs about it pretty much every time he mentions the mascot. I would have to say that they beat the Poca Dots for lamest mascot.

 

One of the strangest team name's I've heard, though, is North East High School's "Grape Pickers", usually just "Pickers". They're up in the city of North East, Pennsylvania, and their mascot is a big grape dressed like a Roman Centurion.

 

I don't know if I was told the correct story or not, but I think it is a great story too. I won't tell the whole story, but I was told that it had something to do with a Somerset team in the early 30's or 40'(not sure if correct) going up North and playing a team that was supposed to dominate them and Somerset ended up being too fast for them. The local paper wrote the story as an upset that the players from Somerset were so quick they looked like (rabbits) a bunch of briar jumpers getting out of the thicket!::idunno:

 

That's close. In 1916, the Somerset football team traveled to Louisville to face the heavily favored "Louisville High School." The hosts defense was supposed to be as hard to get through as a briar patch. Somerest obliterated the hosts 51-6. To capture the speed and precision with which Somerset had played, Louisville sportswriter Johnny Head drew upon the folk lore of Uncle Remus and the briar patch and proclaimed the team "Briar Jumpers."

That's close. In 1916, the Somerset football team traveled to Louisville to face the heavily favored "Louisville High School." The hosts defense was supposed to be as hard to get through as a briar patch. Somerest obliterated the hosts 51-6. To capture the speed and precision with which Somerset had played, Louisville sportswriter Johnny Head drew upon the folk lore of Uncle Remus and the briar patch and proclaimed the team "Briar Jumpers."

 

What was Somerset before that?

Three Rebels that I know of in the state. Boone Co., Boyle Co., and Owen Co. Are there others?

 

Casey County

What was Somerset before that?

 

I don't think they had settled on a mascot up to that point.

What was Somerset before that?

 

I don't think they had settled on a mascot up to that point.

 

 

If I'm not mistaken they were the Wildcats. I like the Briar Jumpers much better.

Three Rebels that I know of in the state. Boone Co., Boyle Co., and Owen Co. Are there others?

 

Allen Central

 

Completely opposite to the big-bad Tarblooders, are the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School "Poets" in Baltimore. I have a cousin that teaches there, and he laughs about it pretty much every time he mentions the mascot. I would have to say that they beat the Poca Dots for lamest mascot.

 

 

Dunbar made up for it with their teams, as I recall. Baltimore Dunbar for years was one of the elite HS boys basketball programs in the country (1970s). Hard to laugh when they have you down by 30...