Stop The (Mascot) Madness!
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:40 pm
I don't have much to say about this but wow! 
I'd like to think the real reason they scrapped the mascot is because of the similarity to BYU, but not so sure....
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/sc ... ?hpt=us_t5" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I'd like to think the real reason they scrapped the mascot is because of the similarity to BYU, but not so sure....http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/sc ... ?hpt=us_t5" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Corner Canyon High School in Draper, Utah, needed to choose a mascot and after 23% of students who voted decided they wanted to be the Corner Canyon Cougars. Falcons, Raptors and Diamondbacks were the other choices on the ballot.
But that didn't sit well with parents who called in and complained that "Cougar" was a derogatory word because of how it's made its way into our vocabulary for older women who like to date younger men.
"We have received numerous e-mail messages and phone calls from parents and patrons in Draper asking us to reconsider the inclusion of 'Cougars' as a mascot option," David S. Doty, superintendent of the Canyons School District, wrote in a memo to the Board of Education. "Opposition to the 'Cougars' focuses on a concern that the mascot, combined with the school’s blue/white/silver color scheme, will be too similar to Brigham Young University. Many also have commented on the negative double entendre of the word 'cougar.'"
A cougar mascot doesn't seem to present a problem at well-known Brigham Young, in Provo, where 19 varsity teams, including 10 women's teams, compete under the Cougar nickname.
But down the road in Draper, the school board scrapped "Cougars" from the list of mascots and settled on the Chargers.
Maybe in Draper the ABC sitcom "Cougar Town," starring Courtney Cox, didn't go over real well.
