Whoever came up with this schools mascot...

Coloneljesus · 3 months

NoMoreKarmaHere · 3 months

Robstown TX Here's a link to the school's away online http://www.prepsportswear.com/school/us/Texas/Robstown/Robstown-High-School-Cotton-Pickers.aspx?schoolid=49293

Amberdext · 3 months

I live in Central Illinois and we used to have the high school mascot called the Pekin Chinks. They have since been renamed the Pekin Dragons.

JonCantTweet · 3 months

Of course the one time I actually goto the comments to see if this was real or not..nothing! So like everything on the Internet I'll assume it's true

j1mmie · 3 months

You know, people have the right to pick cotton these days. If you don't recognize that, you're the racist. It's a profession, just like Boilermakers, Engineers, Packers, etc, and we have the right to be proud of them.

Spider_Bacon · 3 months

"Keep your cotton picking hands to yourselves!" is what my mother would scream at my twin sister and I when we would hit eachother or bother eachother.

I was in 2nd grade when I screamed that at a kid who was stealing my crayons to color with. This kid was black. The teacher was mortified. She explained what it meant to me, and I was upset my mom would say such a thing.

Now I think it is funny.

Zeratur · 3 months

*Sees hometown on front page. Instant disappointment.

runningdead · 3 months

I guess everyone went to this game today. http://www.imgur.com/vPuQV.jpeg

Cybernatty · 3 months

This was my school's mascot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7lt60aAw7E

Watch long enough to see the tea-bagging...

mini-you · 3 months

Looks like its Robstown High School in Texas

RickRossovich · 3 months

Is that Robbstown, TX??

If not, they're the Cotton Pickers too!

bandidobrent · 3 months

Is this in Robstown??

JKR93 · 3 months

It's funny because it's racist!

smeagul_like · 3 months

Well, we have professional teams called "Redskins" and "Indians." And towns that still have names like "Niggerhead." I would not be surprised if this is actually a real mascot.

UltimaBuddy · 3 months

At some point, you run out of every type of badass animal and occupation.

Hu_dat · 3 months

Back in california Compton highs mascot was the tarbabies for the longest time. I think they only just changed it recently.

Scrapegrace · 3 months

I dunno, seems pretty similar to the Nebraska Corn Huskers.

Footballvike81 · 3 months

Ahh good old Texas. Nothing like playing Robstown in sports. Always funny seeing the white boys from there.

CaptainObviousthe1st · 3 months

Can't tell if photo shopped or actually real.

benjags · 3 months

Historically, cotton and vegetable farming have played an important role in Robstown's economy. The community will celebrate this heritage this year at COTTONFEST '2011

so not racist, just what a lot of people in the town do..

LilBon · 3 months

*school's

catherinecc · 3 months

Butte has a team called the pirates. http://cdn.9laughs.com/files/2012/02/4f198453cc7b01.jpg

killedtheoldme · 3 months

i live near pekin illinois. their high school team is now the dragons, having been previously the chinks. i think the switch happened in the late 80s or early 90s.

EasyChief · 3 months

A city near my college used have the mascot "The Chinks." They've now replaced it with the dragons, which is still kinda racist against chinks.

rpfitz2 · 3 months

This is a school in south Texas, (one of my schools rivals). They have a huge cotton field right next to their football field which is where their mascot came from.

Jurf · 3 months

I went to a high-school who's mascot was the Crushers, in reference to grape-crushers in Napa. Similar I guess.

SprinkleselknirpS · 3 months

OH MY GOSH. Weird. I was just on my way back with my family from picking up my aunt in this tiny town... and we passed by a school that said "Home of the Cotton Pickers."

Larry_G · 3 months

I'm drunk.. I'm having a good time

imagesandkeys · 3 months

My old high school mascot (Kaukauna High School in Wisconsin) was the Galloping Ghosts. So at football games, we'd have someone ride a horse out onto the field... wearing a sheet. There's even a statue. And the school's name begins with "K". Nothing racist about it anywhere, just a series of coincidences. I swear.

people_call_me_fil · 3 months

I played against that school =) I never thought I'd recongnize anything on reddit lol

Thirdyearfreshmen · 3 months

Is this in robstown Texas?

medina5012 · 3 months

Wow, Corpus should be proud of itself, it made it on reddit...damn...

ChrisCipher · 3 months

/r/SHHHHHEEEEEEEEIIIITT

coolhandsarrah · 3 months

Here's me and my high school sweater: http://imgur.com/bmu4h They said it was okay because "no one was mad".

JimmyJamesJim · 3 months

I thought all basketball teams consisted of cotton pickers.

EDIT: It's a joke, cry about it.

Ooth · 3 months

At least the average gpa is higher than our rivals, south compton

BlasticPeach · 3 months

It's the guy in the foreground, right?

LuckyDuck77 · 3 months

They had to set the bar somewhere.

BigFatCryBaby · 3 months

Reminds me of this

ayemef · 3 months

Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute...for real?

FakeOutSession · 3 months

I guess Johnny Cash didn't go there.

AlwaysDisposable · 3 months

...is a genius?

Lefty07 · 3 months

wtf?!

monkat · 3 months

Better than the Eagles.

My middle school was eagles, my first high school was eagles, my second high school was eagles, and my uni is the fucking eagles. Same colors too--always blue and silver/white.

LittleSkittle · 3 months

It's brilliant, really, cause who would dare beat the Cotton Pickers in this day and age?

rabbidpanda · 3 months

Also worth mentioning the Pekin, IL Chinks

FestivalOfKites · 3 months

Wait a tick.... That kid could be the mascot!!!!

killyridols12 · 3 months

In all fairness, my grandma spent much of her youth picking cotton and she is white...

tacosasquatch · 3 months

The mascot for Estherville, IA is the midget. I kid you not. My band teacher had a team shirt from there that said "Midget Wrestling." I've heard the girls' are known as the "midgettes."

brianimal · 3 months

My high school's mascot was a "Galloping Ghost". Yes literally a ghost on a horse. My school was primarily white. Our rivals, (primarily black), were the Panthers.

ah1496 · 3 months

Robstown, TX

CaptAwesome5 · 3 months

Is this from Robstown, Tx?

bayouekko · 3 months

Irony at it's finest

_white232 · 3 months

I've always been a fan of the Orofino Maniacs, supposedly named after the Psych Ward in the same town.

AndrewRK · 3 months

Who's the mascot? Eli Whitney? That was terrible. I'm sorry.

Elakia · 3 months

This reminded me of a story about my middle school mascot: in a misguided attempt to teach us about democracy, the administrators decided to let us students name our cougar mascot. We controlled the nominating process as well as the final vote. So we named him "Freddie (the) Cougar," and even though we've left the school, they kept the name.

RonaldFuckingPaul · 3 months

school's

EvilChainsaw · 3 months

There is a school here in Colorado with the Gold Diggers for a mascot.

sherideswildhorses · 3 months

Being from mi, the watersmeet nimrods have always been my fave

GameIsInTheName · 3 months

This is how I feel seing this post so close to the front page while I live only a few miles from this town!

bashierogie · 3 months

Our school mascot was the Reds the picture was an angry Indian...

aluminumcardboard · 3 months

this makes me wish i didn't live in texas.

pmk422 · 3 months

Robstown

Captain_SCHWING · 3 months

Now wait just a cotton-pickin' minute!

zoinks690 · 3 months

This guy, I say this guy seen fleeing the scene: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a0/Foghorn_Leghorn.png/175px-Foghorn_Leghorn.png

dwightmoody · 3 months

My first high school was "The Mighty Mountaineers" which wasn't so bad except the painting on the school gym wall was of a hill billy with a big ass beard, overalls with only one strap, a musket and a big jug of moonshine. This was in one of the "hill towns" outside of Troy, New York. The school had an outrageous drop out rate and the country had the highest rate of underage alcoholism in New York.

haxney · 3 months

True story: when I was in Germany as an exchange student, I briefly had the nickname Baumwollpflücker (Cotton picker). It was a joke, and I'm generally okay with pseudo-racist stuff, but that was pushing it.

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