Something I have always wondered

[Guest The Vanilla Midget]

Reading this week's Hoss Report got me thinking about something which i have always wondered, what in the hell do half of those american college sports team nicknames mean???

here are some i can think of now, and if anybody could tell me what they are it would be muchly appreciated

 

Sooner(s)

Tar-heels

Hoosier

 

thats all i can think of for now, more later.

[Guest treble charged]

Some of them depend on the geographic location of the college. Others ones depend on what goes in that state (i.e Cornhuskers).

[Guest Shaved Bear]

dont forget the So. Illinois Salukis

and the Virginia team with the weird name

[Guest Will Scarlet]

Saluki is some kind of Egyptian dog.

 

Sooner has something to do with people who moved to Oklahoma. Somehow, they were opening up Oklahoma to settling, and no one could enter it until some certain time. It was something like 12 AM, but everyone who settled in there went sooner than that, so, by the time you could legally settle in there, it was already settled by people who were nicknamed "Sooners" because they went too soon. I heard the story fairly recently, either in the WWE or on this board, in reference to Jim Ross. I am sure someone can explain it better than I can, but that is the gist of what happened and why they are probably called Sooners.

[Guest The Vanilla Midget]

thanks a lot will, and i thought a saluki was a dog, i just didnt say it incase it was something else in amerca and i didnt wanna offend anybody (again).

[Guest Cerebus The Aardvark]

Yes, a Saluki is a dog.

 

Did you not hear that enough during the NCAA tourney? They talked about the team's name more than the team itself.

 

Living 20 minutes from the SIU campus has given me a special insight to such things.

 

Ah well.

[Guest ant_7000]

I thought a Sooner is like a land stealer or settler, Hooiser something like a farmer (Im not sure) I guess a Tar heel is that N. Carolina produces a lot of Tar (Not sure) and Tabacco

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

The Maryland Terrapins (turtles)

 

Fear The Turtle!

[Guest Some Guy]

Hoosier is a term for people from Indiana. I just asked my dad (he's from Terre Haute, Indiana and is full of this type of knoweldge) and he says noone knows for sure where it came from. The most common theory is that when someone would knock on the door, the person in the house would say, "who's there?" But the shit kicker accent would make it sound like "Hoosier."

Strange, huh?

[Guest Cerebus The Aardvark]

Actually, Some Guy, "Hoosier" sounds more like a bastardized "who's your" than anything...to me, anyway.

 

But I honestly have no goddamn clue.

[Guest Choken One]

Yeah most are either what the city or State are famous for (Ohio St=Buckeyes). A generic nickname (Warriors, Wildcats, Tigers, Indians, Spartans, Bulldogs, Hurricanes, Trojans, Kings, Knights, Bears,). Or color. Like BLUE devils. or RED Raiders.

[Guest The Vanilla Midget]

thanks guys, you have been very helpful

[Guest The Superstar]

Don't forget the South Carolina COCKS.

 

 

err...GAMECOCKS of course

[Guest Some Guy]

Actually, Some Guy, "Hoosier" sounds more like a bastardized "who's your" than anything...to me, anyway.

 

But I honestly have no goddamn clue.

I thought so too, but my dad told me that's the prevailing theory, he doesn't really but it either. Maybe Alfdogg knows i think he's from Indy.

[Guest Flyboy]

Texas Tech 'Red Raiders'...

 

Has nothing to do with my town or anything... I figure they couldn't come up with anything better than that.

[Guest CanadianChris]

"Tar heel" is an old term that goes back to the Civil War. It refers to the poor showing in battle of the state's soldiers, who, it was said, couldn't hold their position in battle because they had forgotten to "tar their heels."

 

Hoosier, I think, was actually a contraction of "who's here" and not "who's there."

[Guest The Vanilla Midget]

thats pretty funny that the person who seems to know the most on these things is a canadian!

[Guest Shaved Bear]

Indiana is the Hoosier state...I think