Least threatening team mascots

[LynneSin]

Seriously - Penn Quakers? There's a team mascot named after a religious organization known for it's peace, non-violent ways.

What other teams have the least violent team mascot names

[sakabatou]

1. Well... Standoford has a tree for a mascot

[Pirate Smile]

2. New Orleans Saints.

[davidinalameda]

3. Boston U

Terriers

how can someone be intimidated by a cute little dog

[LynneSin]

8. I wouldn't want the jaws of this terrier to get around my leg!

Pit Bulls are of the terrier class

[davidinalameda]

9. isn't that a mastiff

[LynneSin]

11. Nope

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/americanpitbull.htm

[maveric]

4. UC Santa Cruz - Banana Slugs

[LynneSin]

5. I still want to know what a damn banana slub is and what movie..

...did the lead character wear a UCSC Banana Slug tee-shirt?

[maveric]

10. Pulp Fiction.

When Julius and Vincent changed their clothes after cleaning the blood and brains out of the car.

[LynneSin]

12. Ding Ding Ding - we have a winner!

:D

[davidinalameda]

13. the movie is Pulp Fiction

and a banana slug is just a big ass slug

[frylock]

14. banana slug..

[LynneSin]

15. Wow, he looks like a banana colored slug

:crazy:

[frylock]

17. yeah, i've never seen one that vibrant..

the ones I've seen look like a banana that's been sitting around for a week. Kinda brownish-yellowish grey.

[maxsolomon]

26. banana slugs are huge yellow slugs - 3 to 4" long

all up the west coast. in washington we have those, huge black ones, and smaller brown & black ones in my backyard.

pulp fiction.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. The UC-Santa Cruz Banana Slugs

http://www.ucsc.edu/about/campus_mascot.asp

[Droopy]

7. Ohio State Buckeyes

A lot of fans call them the Bucks just to make them sound tougher I guess.

[frylock]

16. scottsdale community college..

home of the Fightin' Artichokes.

[blondeatlast]

21. Yep--that's my (ex) team. nt

[Spinzonner]

18. UC Irvine - Anteater

though I suppose that the ants might have a contrary opinion

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

19. Wichita State (Wheat)Shockers

[blondeatlast]

20. The community college I once attended: The SCC Artichokes.

You can look it up; they are still known as the Artichokes, too.
http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/mascottop.html

[I Know How To Do it]

22. The NYU Violets

[blondeatlast]

23. Here's some HS teams ya gotta love, er, I mean fear:

Ridgefield Spudders WA
Watersmeet Nimrods MI
Poca Dots WV
Yuma Criminals AZ
Dunn Earwigs CA
West Plains Zizzers MO
Centralia Orphans IL
Tarpon Springs Spongers FL
Madeira Snails VA
Explorations Screaming Penguins WA

http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/mascottop.html

[frylock]

24. i don't know..

I don't think I'd care for an encounter with a Screaming Penguin!

[blondeatlast]

25. That's my faorite! nt

v

[nosmokes]

27. Tillamook(OR) HS Cheesemakers

[GaYellowDawg]

28. Nebraska Cornhuskers

What are you gonna do? Shuck me to death?

Others:

Oklahoma Sooners: Yeah, that's menacing. What's your menace? Plant me in some dust?

TCU Horned Frogs: Umm... ribbit?

Maryland Terrapins: If Oklahoma's sooner, this would be later. Turtles are slow.

Whittier Poets: I guess these folks play on the "prose"n tundra.

Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys: Wonder powers, ACTIVATE!!

Delaware Blue Hens: Wow. Call them chickens and they have to admit it.

Franklin & Marshall College Diplomats: Instead of tackling you, they'll want to sit down and establish a dialogue.

Centenary College Gentlemen: Can I open this door for you?

Concordia College Cobbers: See Nebraska.

Erskine College Flying Fleet: I don't even know what to say.

Greensboro Pride: Do they goeth before a fall?

Haverford College Fords: Well, either they're an incompetent ex-president or a way to cross a river. Not too threatening.

UMass-Boston Beacons: One if by land, two if by getting your asses kicked with that name.

Nyack College Purple Pride: Damn. Just damn.

Pomona-Pitzer College Sagehens: It's like a quail. Menacing, I tell you.

Rowan University Profs: We will, we will, FLUNK you!!

St. Bonadventure Bonnies: Do they lie over the ocean, or over the sea?

Southern New Hampshire University Penmen: I guess if you really think it's mightier than the sword.

Stetson University Hatters: Only menacing to Alice.

Tennessee-Chattanooga Mocs: It's a soft leather shoe without a hard sole... and that's threatening, how?

Upper Iowa University Peacocks: Only threatening to Sagehens.

Wabash College Little Giants: Um, what? Oxymoron?

Washburn University of Topeka Ichabods: Ichabod is in Hebrew "inglorious" (1 Samuel 4:21). And what were they thinking?

Webster University Gorloks: W...T...F?!?

Williams College Ephs: See Webster.

[deadparrot]

29. My parents' alma mater...St. Louis University Billikens.