Corps nicknames

[Scerpella]

One of my favorite nicknames was for the Seneca Optimists, "Bananaheim" for their duplicates of Kingsmen uniforms except in yellow. Funny thing is years later I was talking to a guy who marched during that time period and he had no clue other corps referred to them thusly. Bridgemen of course were just called the "Bananas". I suspect most of the funnier nicknames we had for our competitors would not be viewed with much good humor here!

[Ncopp]

Blue Devils - Blue Team

Crown - Cream Team

Cadets - Maroon Team

Cavaliers - Green Team

Vanguard - Red Team

Bluecoats - Bloo Team

Blue Stars - "Bring back the helmet" Team

Phantom - White Team

Glassmen - Gold Team

Troop - Troop-a-loop

there.

[Pioneersop98]

At Pioneer we won several "Best Band" trophies in the July 4th parades we marched in, so we started calling ourselves "The Shamrock Band".

Shane

[Muzz]

i always thought clueboats was a fun nickname to say for bloo.

BAC is actually Bay Area Crusaders

and ive heard southwind go by S-dub many times.

[wturner901]

I hear the Bluecoats simply referred to as "Bloo" sometimes. I like it.

Who calls the Cadets the "Maroon Team"? I've always heard "Holy Name"...

[84BDsop]

I hear the Bluecoats simply referred to as "Bloo" sometimes. I like it.

Who calls the Cadets the "Maroon Team"? I've always heard "Holy Name"...

Maroon Team dates back a few years....I never heard Holy Name until the 09 name change. Heck, I still think of them as Garfield!

[Bruckner8]

Recollections from 1984:

ourselves: Vangahhhhhd

BD: Boys on the Bay

Phantom Regiment: The Tomb; Rancid Sediment

Garfield: Gahhhhh-field

I cannot recall even thinking about any other drum corps, lol. No one else was even in the ballpark from a competition standpoint.

[jonnyboy]

Maroon Team dates back a few years....I never heard Holy Name until the 09 name change. Heck, I still think of them as Garfield!

Maroon Team dates back to at least 1994 when a FMM was on our staff, he used it often.

[jamesjones0611]

The Blue Devils' tuba section is "The Line".

Crown's tuba section recently has been nicknamed "Sweet 16"

Oh, my favorite joke off a composer's name? Brohannes Jahms.

[liebot]

Somewhat related:

I feel like most drum corps fans call Blue Devils "BD," but most of the people that I know that actually marched the corps don't refer to it as BD that often, and usually call it "Devs."

Also, I talked to a staff member over the summer that marched Cavaliers, and he told me that he HATED when people called the corps "Cavies," and insisted that it should be "Cavs" instead.

Don't know how prevalent either of those are. Could just be the individuals I talked to, but it was interesting to see them both hating the name that the drum corps community commonly uses for them.