Go Teams!

First, well done Monticello Hurricanes and Piedmont Academy Cougars, keep winning that football.

Just how do schools choose their mascots?

Animals are quite popular as mascots, lots of cougars, tigers, jaguars, but the most popular team mascot in Georgia is the bulldog. There are 39 schools who use the bulldog as their mascot. Wuff Wuff.

Sol C. Johnson High School in Savannah has a mascot always listed in the top five for unusual, “hey, let’s all yell for the Atom Smashers.” Not far behind, but sweet is the Cairo, Ga. High School Syrupmakers.

Here are a few noteworthy mascots from other states: the Hutto Hippos of Hutto, Texas, the Ann Arbor Huron River Rats (that’s a mouth ful), the Vintage Crushers from Napa, Calif.

Never to be outdone by the Rebels from Toledo, Ohio Bowsher High School and also Roncali High School in Indianapolis, Ind., both school mascots dress in full Confederate uniforms.

Yuma, Ariz. is home to the Yuma Union Criminals; the school was built on the site of a former prison. The mascot dresses in a prison uniform. Montana boasts two high schools with mighty mascots, the Chinook Sugarbeeters and the Belfry Bats.

Hands down the mascot for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Fighting Pickle, is the winner. Thank goodness they have no athletic teams, only singers, dancers and mimes.

Go Hurricanes and Cougars!