Team Pump Up Ideas

Get your team and your fans pumped up for a great season

Pump up ideas for high school sports teams is one of our most frequent requests on our Celebration Suggestions forum. So we have compiled the best of our community ideas and posted them all in this article for easy access. Here are some fun, funny and creative ideas for boosting team spirit. These are great for team booster clubs to get everyone psyched for the season and the big games.

Ideas for Football Game Spirit Signs

August 8, 2011 Football Spirit signs
by: Mae

We never had an actual mascot at our games. Our Bulldogs were left in the dust compared to other teams who had a real mascot down on the sidelines at the games to rally spirit. So our booster club ran a quick and small fundraiser to raise money for a mascot costume. We sold home baked snacks at lunchtime outside the cafeteria. We all baked our favorite cookies and bought water and sold 2 cookies and a bottle of water for $1.00. In 4 days we had enough money to buy a great mascot costume. The cheerleading coach then ran a try-out for the mascot and if you can believe it, got over 30 kids try out. She chose 4 so that the mascot could attend all the different seasonal sports! We then had a huge introduction at the next home football game and the crowd went wild. The mascot goes into the cafeteria the day before games to pump up spirit and of course rallies the crowd into a frenzy at the games. He is our best spirit sign! It was an awesome idea and one that benefits the whole school as our mascot(s) go to so many events and even did a community service project at the local elementary school with the baseball team.

Sep 22, 2010 Football spirit signs
by: Cathi - Iowa

We make weekly break-away signs. One of the Dad's made an 7 x 6 foot 3 sided frame and then we paint the signs on big rolls of plain tablecloth paper. We staple them to the frame and the teams runs through them at each opener. The cheerleaders hold the frame up all together. We use bright colors and come up with a different saying each week. The dad who made the frame used hinges so it would fold up and is easy to store and we can bring to away games if the other team allows. It's been in the football spirit club for about 4 years now. It is cheap to do each week.. cheaper than a balloon rainbow. Ask around to the other parents and will find someone who is handy enough to make one.

Sep 20, 2010 High School Football Team Spirit Signs
by: Lisa - kentucky

We made spirit signs last weekend.. by the way liked some of the slogans others made up here.. very clever and will suggest slogans to my other Booster club Moms, anyway.. then we posted them all along the bus route that the team bus took to take the boys to their away games.. tied red and white balloons (our team colors) to the signs so that they would be sure to see them. The coach told us it was a big hit with the kids and he liked the way it got them pumped up for the game.

Aug 21, 2010 Football Team Spirit Signs
by: Morgan, Greensboro NC

I like those slogans! How about "Crush the Crusaders" and "Tame the Titans". The idea of using them for the whole week before the game is awesome. I am going to recommend to our booster club to do something like this.

Aug 20, 2010 Football Team Spirit Sign
by: Dottie, Chicagoland, IL

Why not make up slogans against each of the team.. make spirit posters for both the game and maybe the locker room or the school.. that would be their slogan for the week.. Here are some I thought of off the top of my head:
Tackle the Titans

Grill the Grizzlies

Deck the Aces or Trump the Aces

Filet the Falcons

Pound the Pioneers

Bust the Buffalos - Skin their hides

Crunch the Crusaders

Go on the net and add pictures of the other Mascots..then put your Eagle mascot on the top of the sign and say:Eagles .... Tackle the Titans

You could also makes an Eagles Nest poster.. get silhouettes of eagles and add either the kids # or a photo.. you could post that at the snack stand.

Use PVC pipe to mount your signs!! That's what we did.. OR, ask the team to make up the slogan against their opponent of the week. Good luck!!

Football Team Spirit Idea

Sep 11, 2010 High school football players spirit ideas
by: Allyson, Minnesota

We did something small for our seniors last year that they all really liked. We asked each parent for an action shot of their player, then a group of us scanned each one and captioned with a funny nickname. We asked the parents to suggest one when they turned in their photos. Some of the kids had team nicknames, so we used those too. Then we printed the captioned photo as a 4 x 6 and bought those magnetic lucite frames and put together bags with candy, tied the frames onto those with team color ribbons.. It was kind of corny but the boys loved them and my son actually brought his to college this fall! The seniors all put them on their locker room lockers. The biggest joke was that some of the nicknames the parents made up actually stuck all season and at the last game, all the senior parents made spirit signs for their players using the nickname! The whole thing cost up about $2.00 each player and the underclassmen were asking the parents if we could make them for everyone!

High School Football Team Parties

Jan 25, 2011 High School Team Spirit Ideas
by: Annie

Why not plan a SUPER BOWL party for a SUPER team? Good way to get the kids together and let them celebrate their team and cheer on their fav NFL team on Super Bowl Sunday?

Jan 23, 2011 High School Team Spirit Ideas
by: Bess

Have all the parents decorate the players houses and paste a big invitation on the door to a potluck dinner ( or if you have enough money - you could order food ) for the players and coaches.. if you have the space and money, invite the parents too.. plan a video of the some highlights from their best games to run at the dinner... maybe give out some fun/funny awards based on things that happened during some of the games.. like in hockey, if someone had a hat trick, you could give them a funny hat.. ask the coaches to give a pep talk too..try to make it fun.

Jan 23, 2011 High school team spirit ideas
by: Mrs. J - Australia

Here "downunder", we do Bonfires to celebrate great occasions of merit.. they are great fun..perhaps, you could borrow our celebration tradition? We grill and do treats and have music..since we live close to the water, we have done them on the beach.. it is great fun.

Jan 23, 2011 High school team spirit ideas
by: Laurie

What about hosting a pancake breakfast for the team? Let the parents serve as the cooks and waiters.. decorate the room with articles about the team, action pics of the players, signs, streamers, balloons.. maybe make it a surprise.. ask the coach to help by telling the team they have an early morning practice and have them arrive to the breakfast.

More creative team spirit ideas here! Learn to make team spirit pins, host a tailgate pep rally, have your team give back to their community and MORE!