School Can’t Name Team “Cougars” Because It’s Offensive To Hot, Middle-Aged Women

by Dan Fogarty | 2:05 pm, January 19th, 2012

Administrators at a soon-to-be-opened Utah high school have rejected the name “Cougars” for the school’s sports teams, despite the fact that it received 23% of the vote in a poll of future students. The reason? “Cougar” is an increasingly popular term used for attractive, middle-aged women.

Calling the term “derogatory,” the Canyons School District refused to allow the new team name at Corner Canyon High. They also cited its overuse as a mascot name in sports, saying schools like BYU already feature the mountain lion/hot woman who’s a little older than you for its team name.

The other options, which have nothing to do with each other and make it look like someone picked existing sports team names out of a hat:

– Diamondbacks
– Falcons
– Raptors
– Broncos
– Bears
– Cavaliers
– Chargers

And yes, there’s currently a petition that says none of those names are creative. How is this school the least fun school ever, and it’s not even open yet?

[FOX 13, USA Today]

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Allan Wikman

Yeah, my high school, Columbia cougars, Maplewood/South Orange, NJ, must have been grandfathered in by the district’s social police. But, the real reason Corner Canyon High’s administrators fear the nickname: only three things you can do to a cougar: kill it, love it or screw it. Why not consider Foxes, Snakes, Crocodiles or Blowfish?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

What a sexually repressed bunch of idiots. You know the type……republicans.
Anonymous

Everyday, America as it once was, gets a little bit closer to being the dumbest country in the world.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Johnson/100000190455903 Rick Johnson

The name cougar is NOT used to describe attractive middle aged women. It is the term applied to middle aged women on the prowl for younger lovers. Get your facts straight.
http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

thanks for providing the correct definition because i was just about to post the same thing. maybe they should call themselves the “Political Correctors”.
Redduke

And the Washington “REDSKINS” is not offensive? Oh, but that’s in the bastion of extreme hypocracy, Washington DC home of big Government elites. i.e. Democtrats and Progressive Republicans.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZKJKLMQBZTEHHPADLOY6CSUQGU Khun Somchai

You’re frickin kidding me! The US of A is screwed!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Ward/100000135233619 Mark Ward

It’s the POLITICALLY CORRECT Liberal Morons who “don’t want to offend” (anyone), or are YOU suggesting that Conservatives want to ban Dodgeball (because it might hurt little billy’s feelings if he get hit by the squishy ball)?

Hey, perhaps they can just use the LIBERALS’ favorite term, “Teabaggers” (another name Conservatives DON’T use)!
Fu

Well, if Cougars isn’t okay… what about Ice Queens?
Golly

that’s funny seeing how Draper is a conservative suburb of SLC
LILJOE52

O’ NO NOW THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS WE HERE IN UTAH HAVE OUR HEAD UP OUR BUTT’S ….. BUT WE STILL GOT THAT MORMON THING GOING FOR US
http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

Instead they’ve chosen to use “The Canyon Tetons” as the team name, after the mountains visible to the north.
http://www.delawareliberal.net/ Joe Cass

I am willing to console cougars in the interest of unity and for the good of the country.
Lee

This will look catchy on a T-shirt.