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  1. (that's a gray Tigers' jersey with the Old English D) Back in the day, the Appalachian League was always good for some oddball hand-me-downs.
  2. At least when it comes to baseball, it's not uncommon today for college teams to borrow logos from pro teams:
  3. It's an improvement over the last one, but there's still too much going on. The state shape not only has four strokes around it, but they tried to cram in a river! and seven trees! and hills! and a sky! and a baseball! and four different colors! The shadowing around the word "Naturals" in the primary is also too...blobby? Especially underneath the letters. Navy, gold, red and teal is quite the exuberant color scheme.
  4. This beauty from Gonzaga in the 1980s popped up on Ebay. Looks like the Zags went full Expos on the road, as well... before transitioning to some un-fun Dodger rip-offs.
  5. Duke fans lean towards using the school name rather than "Go [team nickname]" -- you'll hear "Go Duke!" more than "Go Devils" or "Go Blue Devils" -- but I'm sure they're not unique in this.
  6. My HS, the Blue Storm, uses the Air Force lightning bolt on football helmets.
  7. Hurricanes wearing Raleigh IceCaps warm-up jerseys tomorrow night.
  8. The 1970s Pirates apparently weren't afraid to wander off the map, as they also had this script "Pirates" jacket. The Twins used this script "Minnesota" in the 1960s. This is probably more due to cheapness than anything else, but the Mariners kept their jackets with the original 70s team wordmark for a few years after they'd switched to the 80s-style lettering on the jersey tops.
  9. Veterans' Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix was another smaller, older venue used through the early 90s. The American flag tacked onto the wall horizontally above the scoreboard, rather than hanging vertically from a beam as is customary today, is interesting.
  10. Like a lot of NBA arenas that lasted well into the 1990s, the Salt Palace was such a charmingly...modest-looking place.
  11. Yeah, I'm with most of you guys. The chunky "C" is terrible (why wouldn't you use one of the two fonts already in the logo?) and there's something about the way the knight is drawn that feels off. The lettering is really generic, and the shadows underneath look like Morse code. Also, I think they're going for a home plate shape in the background, but the angle of the "point" is wrong - a real plate is close to 90 degrees, not the acute angle in the logo. As for the uniforms, the home whites would be better with black lettering outlined in blue, not the other way around - "Knights" is hard to read as is. The blues are decent-looking. The road grays are road grays, but I feel like the lettering isn't "tall enough." For a team whose name lends itself really well to a cool logo and lettering, Charlotte's never really gotten it quite right. They started off pairing a wildly over-detailed knight with the world's most boring "C" (they put the entire thing on their hats), then in '99 forgot what their name was (you're not the Charlotte Horses, guys) and introduced a blotchy equine and a dark, moody forest green and navy color scheme. Brandiose came around in '11 and showed that when they don't have the chance to distract people with goofiness, their work really just isn't very good. I actually like the colors, but Brandiose has always been just bad, bad, bad with lettering (that "S" is awful, and if you insist on including a crown in the logo, there's gotta be a better way than just slapping it on top of the "H"). The C as a "horse's tail" is silly, and if their GM has to constantly explain what it is, then it's not doing its job as a design element.
  12. This was 55 years ago...pretty sure the NBA's marketing/branding sense hadn't evolved to the point where they really would have cared about this at the time. National merchandising was next to nil and most people watched TV in black and white...unless you specifically went to a Rockets-Sonics game, you probably wouldn't know what color the other team was, anyway.
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