Can't use Cougars as Mascot

[Polycarp]

@cochrane

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.

They were hoping he’d start up a two-week summer residential program for disadvantaged kids at his canteloupe farm in the district.

[Musicat]

@Hampshire

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?

Maybe it’s time to revisit Redskins, Indians or Wetbacks. Much less baggage.

[Fear_Itself]

@Dogzilla

I can’t wait until the Cougars play the Trojans.

There are stillplenty of tickets!

[picunurse]

@Boyo_Jim

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.

Why would a team be called the South Lake Union Trolley? Yes, it does exist, except, 2 weeks after it opened, some official noticed the acronym and changed it to S.L.U.S (Streetcar).

[Chefguy]

Maybe Washington State should change their name to the Washington State Bitches, Bitches.

[pbbth]

This never would have been an issue if they had given the kids some kick-ass mascot choices like a badger riding a T-Rex or a unicorn in a sombrero or something.

[Accidental_Martyr]

@Dogzilla

I can’t wait until the Cougars play the Trojans.

Reminds me of the cheer when the Jacksonville St. Gamecocks play the Troy Univ. Trojans: “Your Trojans can’t cover our Cocks!”

[Little_Nemo]

@JSexton

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.

And yet they offered Bears as an alternative. I guess nobody clued them in on that.

[Fear_Itself]

@Accidental_Martyr

Reminds me of the cheer when the Jacksonville St. Gamecocks play the Troy Univ. Trojans: “Your Trojans can’t cover our Cocks!”

Not to be outdone, the Oregon State cheerleader T-shirts:

“You Can’t Lick Our Beavers!”

[Farmer_Jane]

If it were such a big deal, why not use “Puma” instead?

[Regallag_The_Axe]

@pbbth

This never would have been an issue if they had given the kids some kick-ass mascot choices like a badger riding a T-Rex or a unicorn in a sombrero or something.

Just imagine the cheers for something like that cracks me up. ‘Here we go, Viking-Riding-a-Bear, here we go’ [clap, clap]. ‘Lets go Ninja-Space-Pirates’ [clap, clap, clapclapclap].

[Hazle_Weatherfield]

My High School team was The Flaming Hearts.

[Malthus]

@Fear_Itself

Not to be outdone, the Oregon State cheerleader T-shirts:

“You Can’t Lick Our Beavers!”

And a poem by Robbie Burns from the other team:

Robert Burns: Cock Up Your Beaver

[mbh]

@Accidental_Martyr

Reminds me of the cheer when the Jacksonville St. Gamecocks play the Troy Univ. Trojans: “Your Trojans can’t cover our Cocks!”

When I was in high school, our crosstown rivals were the Trojans. Our favorite slogan was “Trojans burst under pressure!”

[Minnie_Luna]

Don’t tell these guys.

[Freddy_the_Pig]

The lead paragraph is a tease that promises and doesn’t deliver. It says that the choice of a mascot was rejected. But the story isn’t about a mascot at all–it’s about the team name.

The hell with that. I want to see an actual Cougar mascot–a creature with a big rubber head and even bigger streaked hair, heels and a too-tight miniskirt, vamping around the sidelines.

[Greg_Charles]

Cougars is really an ideal name for a high school team. It already inspires terror among the jocks of nearby schools, to the point they’d be afraid to show up to the games. Corner Canyon would win most of their games by forfeit.

[kenobi_65]

@Tom_Tildrum

“Stay tuned for the Husky-Cougar wrapup.”

Reminds me of an actual Seattle Times headline I saw in a National Lampoon “True Facts” book:

“Husky Women Subdue Ducks”

[kferr]

@Brian Johnson at a cricket match in 1976

The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey

Wikipedia article here

[Irishman]

Karate organization, some of the top competitors are given nicknames. One lady, in her 40s, was nicknamed Catherine “the Cougar”_____. We had to point out how that comes across to the audience.

Could be worse. There’s a middle school in Oklahoma that is the Pansy Kidd middle school.

Poteau, Oklahoma