Kentucky school takes its mascot name from a newspaper reporter's description.
It's a term that we occasionally hear when talking about great sports teams: Juggernaut.
A good team is not a Juggernaut, and even a great team isn't necessarily a juggernaut. In order to be a juggernaut, you have to be outrageously dominant.
Or just have
Lloyd Memorial (Erlanger, Ky.) written across the front of your jersey.
At Lloyd they are the Juggernauts, the only school in the nation to go with the creative adjective. The definition is "Something, such as a belief or institution, that
elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly
sacrificed," or "An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path."
That is the goal in sports: Crush everything in your path. Right?
Like some of the other more creative mascot names in the nation, the Juggernauts came from a newspaper reporter's description of the team. According to a
page detailing the history of the school, a Cincinnati Enquirer reporter said the school's football team played like a juggernaut, and the name ended up sticking. We've also seen that with countless other unique names, including the Flying L's at Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) and the Crimson Tide at the University of Alabama.
So what does a Juggernaut look like? Well, you can't really come up with a simple design. At Lloyd they decided to go with a Spartan logo.
Some references online show that some people like to shorten the mascot name to the Juggs, but the longer name is certainly one to be proud of. It may be tough to stretch across the front of a jersey, though.
