Lawndale Lions

Kevin Thompson and other Lawndale Lions. Note Robert sitting on the upper left. (from "Daria!")

The Lawndale Lions is the Lawndale High football team. The team appears in some of the episodes and is referenced in both The Daria Diaries and The Daria Database. Their overall skill at football is unknown - often when they're shown playing, something unfortunate but hilarious is happening to wreck their performance - but they have previously won the state championship.

The Lawndale Lions uniforms are the school colors of yellow and blue, but interestingly they are devoid of anything identifying attributes such as player numbers and names.

The Lions seem to have a merchandise line of baby versions of their shirts ("Gifted").

Members of the Team

The team is trained by Coach Gibson (The Daria Diaries).

The complete list of players is difficult to compose. Several players appear in the episodes, but only in passing and without any speaking lines. Also, few have been given names during the running of the series. The known athletes are:

• Kevin Thompson - quarterback
• Mack Mackenzie - captain of the team (specifically stated as such in both books and in "Fizz Ed"); his position is given as RB = Running Back on an archived webpage of the MTV Daria website.
• Jamie White - position unknown
• Joey - position unknown
• Jeffy - position unknown
• Robert - position unknown

Ex-members

• Tommy Sherman was the team quarterback three years prior to the time period of the first-season episodes.

Other

Upchuck is not a football player, but he is the game commentator/announcer during home games.

Episodes

The football team, or references to football or players, are found in the episodes "The Misery Chick"; "Daria Dance Party"; "A Tree Grows in Lawndale"; "The F Word"; "Daria!"; "Fire!"; and "Fizz Ed".

Football season?

The show has always been fuzzy about when in the year the episode's are taking place. Between that and Kevin always wearing his uniform, it gives the impression that football season is abnormally long in Lawndale. Several fanfics have decided that Lawndale's county has a spring football season because it loves football that much. Is It College Yet? is notable for being the one time when football season is explicitedly stated to be over.

External Links

• LHS football webpage by Mack Mackenzie (archived 8/9/2001)
• Lawndale Lions: Filling Out the Team, discussion on PPMB
• Daria Fandom Blog II posts about the Lawndale Lions

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