I swear, this sounds like something a stand-up comedian would come up with. But it purports to be true. And in Utah!Q
Actually, I think I’d like to see a team called the Cougars with a team mascot that looked like a cartoony sexy middle-aged lady.
I know of some guys in Indiana in a softball leauge with just this name and imagery. 
maybe something like the San Diego Chargers’ logo for the hot flashes
I sure wouldn’t wat to suit up and go against a team of bitter divorced women. After they sack the quarterback, they take half his house away from him.
My college’s mascot is the cougars, although it has been long before the present day definition of “cougar.” This is a college run by nuns and used to be an all-women school.
It’s also a huge improvement on the “Highlanders,” which it had up until about the 70s (although it amuses me to think of sporting events with a bunch of nuns in full habits on the sidelines, screaming “THere can be only one!”)
My kid’s high school mascot is the cougar. All the mom’s go around sporting “Cougar Mom” shirts at the games.
Ironically, Utah might be the one state where cougars in the wild actually outnumber their urban namesakes.
I’ve seen sweatshirts with pictures of “Hello Kitty” on them, with “Hello Cougar” written on them instead.
Worn by middle-aged ladies, of course.
I would love to see a high school team called the “Sluts”, with cheerleaders with deliberately bad makeup and no panties. Every single male student would come to (and come at!) every single game.
If not Cougars, why not Mountain Lions or Pumas? It’s the same cat, just without the middle-aged lady context.
BTW, this is utterly bogus thinking. Shame on you for being so dumb, Corner Canyon High!
Chargers is bad too. It promotes accumulating debt on credit cards which is an irresponsible thing to promote to high schoolers.
Falcon can be crossed off the list also. It’s too close to the cuss word ‘fu*kin’. It’s irresponsible to have kids wearing t-shirts that say “we’re falcon awesome” or “I’m falcon crazy”.
Raptors? Nah. Too close to the word rapture. And that’s just blasphemous. And besides, raptors are dinosaurs which go against creationism.
Diamondback? As in “give me that diamond back!” Now we’re promoting divorce, which goes against the sanctity of marriage. Can’t have that in our schools.
Bears? Broncos? Well that’s just plain exploitation of animals. You really don’t want to upset PETA.
Which leaves us with Cavaliers. How irresponsible can you get? Sending the message to high schoolers that it’s okay to have a cavalier attitude about everything. Be careless and arrogant? Is that what we want to tell our kids?
:rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Some yahoo]
In the current edition of the Webster Dictionary, the second definition for cougar sights a slang terminology that refers to “a middle-aged woman seeking a romantic relationship with a younger man.”
[/QUOTE]
So the author/editor(s) of this piece went to a dictionary to look up “cougar,” but they still used “sights” for a citation?
Sigh.
“Cougars Outlast Bucks.”
“Cougars Pounded By Gamecocks.”
“Stay tuned for the Husky-Cougar wrapup.”
… and so forth.
Just get away from animals entirely… The Canyon Gash.
I’m surprised that the reason given is that they don’t want to offend middle-aged women. I would think that a more legitimate reason is that they don’t want a mascot that is a currently popular slang term with a sexual component. That, at least, makes sense to me.
They should have just mentioned not wanting to offend rock and roll singers from Indiana as a reason. That would have made as much sense.
Chargers are also a large decorative dinner plate so it also promotes overeating.
But Raptors are birds of prey and have been referred to as such long before Jurassic Park.
But raptors sounds kinda like rapists, if you squint, and we certainly don’t want to go around glorifying them.
Raptor, rapture, rapist… it’s the same damn word.
I can’t wait until the Cougars play the Trojans.
Reminds me of the It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia episode where Charlie is on a date and wants to impress the woman by telling her that he’s a philanthropist, but he gets garbled and tells her that he’s a “full-on rapist.”