2008 Woodie Awards
Tony's Time Out: New logos a no-go?
Tony Patrico
Issue date: 10/11/07 Section: Sports
With the recent logo change, students have had mixed emotions about the new Cougar. Some students are for the change and love the new logo. Other students say, "Why fix what isn't broken?" Let's talk about the bigger picture and see how a logo change has affected professional sports teams.
When the movie "The Mighty Ducks" first came out in theaters, every amateur hockey league seemed like it had two teams called the Mighty Ducks. It was little surprise when the NHL announced that Anaheim, Calf., would receive an expansion team, coincidentally named the Mighty Ducks.
The logo was the exact logo that was used in the Mighty Ducks sequel, D2. It was a goalie mask shaped to look like it would fit a hockey playing duck. Scary, I know. However, the ownership decided a few years back that a change had to be made.
After much deliberation and discussion, it was decided that the word "mighty" would no longer be included and a new logo was in store. After the logo was unveiled which, oddly enough, was the letter 'D' shaped like a duck's webbed foot, the new and improved Ducks from Anaheim had them a Stanley Cup on the trophy case.
In the baseball world, it was leaked that the Tampa Bay Devil Rays would soon change their logo, their name and their uniform. Seems kind of odd for a team that has been in the league for only 10 seasons to go through such a change, but it may be for the better.
After missing the playoffs for 10 consecutive seasons, maybe change is good. Although, the best type of change for the team would be getting some talent in Tampa, not new unis.
In the bigger perspective of things, even leagues may go through a makeover with their logo. It was announced that the NFL logo would be changed and debuted at the 2008 draft.
The logo, which is very similar to the logo of old, will just hold a darker blue outline, and fewer stars about the red "NFL." The logo is something that many fans would not even notice, but change is change.
When the movie "The Mighty Ducks" first came out in theaters, every amateur hockey league seemed like it had two teams called the Mighty Ducks. It was little surprise when the NHL announced that Anaheim, Calf., would receive an expansion team, coincidentally named the Mighty Ducks.
The logo was the exact logo that was used in the Mighty Ducks sequel, D2. It was a goalie mask shaped to look like it would fit a hockey playing duck. Scary, I know. However, the ownership decided a few years back that a change had to be made.
After much deliberation and discussion, it was decided that the word "mighty" would no longer be included and a new logo was in store. After the logo was unveiled which, oddly enough, was the letter 'D' shaped like a duck's webbed foot, the new and improved Ducks from Anaheim had them a Stanley Cup on the trophy case.
In the baseball world, it was leaked that the Tampa Bay Devil Rays would soon change their logo, their name and their uniform. Seems kind of odd for a team that has been in the league for only 10 seasons to go through such a change, but it may be for the better.
After missing the playoffs for 10 consecutive seasons, maybe change is good. Although, the best type of change for the team would be getting some talent in Tampa, not new unis.
In the bigger perspective of things, even leagues may go through a makeover with their logo. It was announced that the NFL logo would be changed and debuted at the 2008 draft.
The logo, which is very similar to the logo of old, will just hold a darker blue outline, and fewer stars about the red "NFL." The logo is something that many fans would not even notice, but change is change.
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Matthew
posted 10/17/07 @ 1:20 PM CST
The reason we are the cougars is because during the construction of the campus a worker claimed he saw a cougar. It stuck and I like it.
However i am not a fan of the new logo. (Continued…)
Erik
Erik
posted 10/19/07 @ 10:56 AM CST
It's better than the sock puppet Saluki we ended up with a few years ago.
It does strongly resemble the Buffalo Sabres logo, though.
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