[Bob Steele]

There is nothing wrong with wanting to win the competition. It is NOT somehow ungracious or professional to do your best on the field in order to win.

GP has to do with helping teams do their best on the field. It does not mean that any team should somehow NOT want to win. It also does not mean that a team would somehow sacrifice their own alliance to help another alliance win.

Gracious Professionalism is primarily about what happens OFF the field. On rare occasions it spills over to the field.

If we didn't want winners we wouldn't keep score and give trophies for winning.

I guess I don't understand how any school name (like lions or conquerors or whatever) would have any connotation that would not be GP..

I do think that some school names MIGHT be politically incorrect (as mentioned above "Redskins" is a good example")

Unless your school mascot is something like:

"The selfish whiners who never help anyone and are only here to see themselves do well without regard to other teams...." hmmm not sure what this mascot would look like but I could make a guess...

I think most mascots/names that are in good taste would be fine and fun.

My high school mascot was a Caveman....

I guess if there were still any of them around it might be politically incorrect in these days... (remember the ads a few years back?)

We never thought about clubbing other teams we played against into submission....