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Top 5 Northland School Mascots

Monday January 23, 2012 Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago by Corey Carter


This article makes me think...what are the 5 coolest Northland High School Nicknames.  Here they are (in my opinion)

5-Ashland Oredockers  (If you've ever been to Ashland, you can't help but see the huge docks in the lake when you drive into town...so this is very fitting...)

4-International Falls "Broncos" (If my memory serves me right, the nickname is from the famous "Bronco" Nagurski who played football for I-Falls, then played for the University of Minnesota, then in the NFL.  Pretty cool when a nickname for an entire school district is actually somebody's nickname!)

3-Cloquet "Lumberjacks" (Middle-schoolers may giggle when I remind them that it IS "Wood City USA" after all...so this makes perfect since.  Still like to see them play hockey in flannel button-down shirts tho...)

2-Aitkin "Gobblers" (Not EXACTLY in our listening area, but pretty close...and a lot of our local teams play them every year.  What a bunch of turkeys!)

1-Esko "Eskomos"  (I may be a TAD bit biased on this one!!  Go Blue & Gold!!!)

 

"Cougar" Has Become So Tied to Horny Middle-Aged Women That a High School Rejected It as Their Mascot

 

Remember back when a "cougar" was just an animal, and NOT a 42-year-old woman with fake breasts and a rose tattoo on her upper inner thigh?  Well, that era is OVER.

  --In Utah, a school board REJECTED a high school's attempt to change its mascot to the cougar . . . because they felt the term was associated with randy middle-aged women more than animal itself.

 --The students at Draper Corner Canyon High in Utah voted to become the Cougars.  They say it's because Brigham Young University has the cougar as its mascot, and a huge majority of the students are Mormons and BYU fans.

  --But the Canyons School Board cited the latest edition of Webster's Dictionary.  They now have the second definition of "cougar" listed as, quote, "a middle-aged woman seeking a romantic relationship with a younger man."

  --Yep, that meaning for cougar is SO prominent now that it's made its way into Webster's.  And that was enough for the school board to reject it.

  --The high school will go with the runner-up name choice . . . the Chargers.  

(Yahoo News)

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