Brian in Boston

On 3/21/2021 at 4:57 PM, tBBP said:

Let me get us back on topic.

 

Y'all really wanna know what greatness is?

 

Here...

 

 

 

 

That's greatness...uniform greatness, that is.

 

(It still ain't too late, Jacksonville...)

Fixed that for you. (The other four uniform combos pictured in the original post were an affront to the aesthetic greatness on display here.)

Evansville's logo Otter go back to the drawing board for refinement. As is, I grade it a "Meh."

Danville's entire identity needs to be scrapped. It Otterbot it won't be. They earn an outright, "Oof!"    

I always questioned why a professional sports franchise would choose to adopt a logo that depicted its namesake mascot with its "tail tucked between its legs"?

6 hours ago, Hat Boy said:

 

"It's now time for a brand new challenge on Hollywood Game Night. We call this 'Mascot Morph'. We're going to show you a logo featuring the mascot of a professional sports franchise, give you a scenario into which the mascot is to be placed, and your job is going to be to sketch - as quickly as you possibly can - a depiction of said scene. First up, it's Tony Hale. Tony, take a look at the monitor. That is the logo mascot of the National Football League's Denver Broncos. You may not have known this Tony, but apparently he's an arachnophobe... and he just spotted a spider as he was about to step into his shower. SKETCH!"    

The sartorial history of the Jacksonville Jaguars has been a progressively worsening s***show since 2002. It's been one dubious design decision after another from that season on.

There was no need for black jerseys or black pants... and certainly no need for black unitard combos. There was no need for logos on the hips. No need for black numbers and black names. There was no need for teal flake helmets. No need for wispy, barely-there piping. There was no need to drop the unique alphanumeric font introduced in 1998. There was absolutely no need for gold-to-black fade helmets. No need for a complete overhaul of the primary logo into something more akin to an illustration, when a slight tweak to the original logo's lower jaw would have sufficed. There was no need for team logo "shields" over the heart. No need for truncated insert stripes on the pants. There was no need for mustard - pardon, gold - jerseys or pants... and sure as s*** no need for mustard - pardon, gold - unitard combos. There was no need for teal pants... and no need for the inevitable teal unitard combos that followed.       

Bottom line? The best the Jacksonville Jaguars franchise ever looked was during the 1998 through 2001 NFL seasons when they sported a certified modern classic uniform that - to my mind - stands as one of the best in NFL history.  Full stop.

15 hours ago, monkeypower said:

The Henderson Silver Knights have a town crier announce the goal scorer.

Next up? Replacing the penalty boxes with pillories.

43 minutes ago, Cujo said:

@FiddySicks Hey man, you're a Tahoe local. Do you know if the Golden Knights and Avalanches are playing ON THE ACTUAL LAKE?

The rink for the NHL games is situated adjacent to the lake, on the 18th fairway of the Edgewood Tahoe Resort's golf course. 

2 hours ago, DemoDave64 said:

Humane Indiana has sponsored a Festival of Owls in Valparaiso for the past few years. 

Bluefield's Appalachian League team has been rebranded as the Ridge Runners. The new identity pays homage to the region's rich railroad history.

The Ridge Runners' home - Bowen Field at Peters Park - straddles the state line of Virginia and West Virginia, as did the namesake of the team. Beginning in 1964, the original Ridge Runner No. 36 locomotive - the world's smallest interstate railroad - circumnavigated a one-mile loop atop East River Mountain, half in Virginia and half in West Virginia. The train now sits just beyond Bowen Field's right field wall.

 

Today, fans of Ridge Runners baseball can hear the sounds of excited passengers as the train makes its loop through Lotito Park. 

Associated Press: Valparaiso dropping Crusaders

20 hours ago, andycumbee19 said:

We all want all of our sports uniforms to say The Citadel. Merchandise and everything else included as well. Its a very sore topic among both fans and alumni. Many folks including myself refuse to buy merchandise if it doesn't have The on it. 

The first thing they should do is utilize "Citadel Blue" much more.

Shouldn't the school's color palette feature "The Citadel Blue" for consistency's sake?  

1 hour ago, officeglenn said:

I've merged the various team-specific Appalachian League rebrand threads into one: 

No need for 1-2 threads for each rebrand in this particular league. If you'd like to discuss those rebrands more in depth, you can do so there.

You missed the Johnson City Doughboys threads.

Appalachian League introduces Johnson City Doughboys

New App League team Johnson City Doughboys pays homage to WW1 soldiers

1 minute ago, monkeypower said:

Odd that he's sliding in home from behind for some reason

Yes, I'd mentioned that in the team-specific thread that Pharos04 started. Frankly, whether a conscious artistic choice or a gaffe, it's a detail I find annoying.   

Here's the obligatory Appalachian League roundel for Pulaski.



One has to wonder why the River Turtles' mascot is sliding into home plate from behind the "dish"?

Kingsport's Appalachian League team has been rebranded as the Axmen. The name references the role that Daniel Boone and a team of axmen played in blazing a trail from Tennessee's Long Island of the Holston through the Cumberland Gap of Virginia and into Kentucky.

 

56 minutes ago, Gothamite said:

I can't tell if that's more patronizing to the Greeneville area or insulting to absolutely everywhere else in the country.

It's clearly meant to play to the locals. After all, the team's GM must have known when making "the strong history of patriotism" remark that it wasn't going to get much play outside of the league and region. The Appalachian League is confined to a fairly small geographic footprint: four states, ten cities, with five of the host communities all within the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area. The odds of anyone from outside that immediate region hearing said statement, let alone being insulted by it, are slim. Hell, I'm the type of sports branding enthusiast who manages to be amongst those few souls who are the exception to said rule and I don't find it either particularly patronizing or insulting. It's standard marketing-speak... nothing more, nothing less.            

Greeneville's Appalachian League team has been rebranded as the Flyboys. The name references the fact that Tusculum Field - an airport that served the region from 1948 through 1968 - was situated on land adjacent to the site of the ball club's current home venue, Pioneer Park. Additionally, it is meant to honor the strong history of patriotism in the area. 

Greeneville's Appalachian League team has been rebranded as the Flyboys. The name references the fact that Tusculum Field - an airport that served the region from 1948 through 1968 - was situated on land adjacent to the site of the ball club's current home venue, Pioneer Park. Additionally, it is meant to honor the strong history of patriotism in the area.  

 

22 hours ago, Popmart said:

This is a nice sentiment and source for inspiration, but these statues were mass-produced in the 1920’s and are found all over the country.

 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wwi-doughboy-statue

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. currently lists 159 of artist E.M. Viquesney's 'The Spirit of the American Doughboy' on display in 38 states, including eight statues within the Appalachian League's geographic footprint of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Of those eight, just one is in Tennessee and/or an Appalachian League market - the statue outside of TVA Credit Union Ballpark in Johnson City.

Said statue was purchased by American Legion Kings Mountain Post #24 and presented to Johnson City and Washington County in a dedication ceremony on November 11, 1935. The statue has since been rededicated twice - on November 11, 1974 and August 30, 2013 - and stands at the entrance to Johnson City's Memorial Park, a recreation area that includes the aforementioned ballpark, an amphitheater, community center, fitness center, senior center, swimming pool, and tennis courts.

Notwithstanding the presence of 158 other mass-produced doughboy statues on display elsewhere in the country, it strikes me that the 85-year presence of Johnson City's copy of the statue, its proximity to the ballpark that the municipality's Appalachian League team calls home, and the fact that the city's earliest minor pro baseball teams were named the Johnson City Soldiers for ten seasons - including nine in the Appalachian League - make the adoption of the Johnson City Doughboys identity particularly apropos.

Elizabethton's Appalachian League team has been rebranded as the River Riders. The new identity is inspired by the recreational opportunities available to water sports enthusiasts on the rivers in and around Elizabethton - particularly on the Watauga River, which flows by just beyond Joe O'Brien Field's outfield fence. Front and center on both the team's primary league logo and alternate logo is Rookie, the mascot of Elizabethton's Appy League team since 2005.

 

Elizabethton's Appalachian League team has been rebranded as the River Riders. The new identity is inspired by the recreational opportunities available to water sports enthusiasts on the rivers in and around Elizabethton - particularly on the Watauga River, which flows by just beyond Joe O'Brien Field's outfield fence. Front and center on both the team's primary league logo and alternate logo is Rookie, the mascot of Elizabethton's Appy League team since 2005.  

 

2 hours ago, Gothamite said:

It's a fine logo, not stellar but very serviceable.  Curious to see the rest of the identity.

The only other mark that I've seen, thus far, is...

Johnson City's Appalachian League team has been rebranded as the Doughboys.

The new identity was inspired by a statue - The Spirit of the American Doughboy - that sits just behind the team's home stadium, TVA Credit Union Ballpark. It's also a nod to the Johnson City Soldiers teams that represented the community for ten seasons in the Class D Southeastern (1910) and Appalachian (1911-13, 1921-24, 1937-38) Leagues.