Lee.

They spend the rest of their lives down in San Berdino.

Akron used to be the home to pretty much every major tire manufacturer in America. They could have gone with the name Vulcans, hired someone other than Brandiose, and wound up with a pretty good and hopefully unique identity that didn't feature toothy duck mascots with XTREEM ATTITUDE and bevels, so many bevels. Or they could have stuck with Aeros and built around that. In short, I hate Brandiose.

Now THAT I like.

Funny. Call the team Rubbernecks, I think they'd be onto something. RubberDucks, and it's a POS. Go take a nap, Brandiose. You guys are getting stale.

Much of the league's Minnesota era expansion can be boiled down to "which town is dumb enough to build us an arena first." Hence Columbus over Cleveland, Nashville over any other possible market, etc

Yeah but it's not like El Paso has the only minor league team in Texas. There's an entire league deducted to Texas, so I don't know why you're worried about that side of things. They'll rebrand in two years. This is just atrocious.

This. All of this right here, especially the last couple of sentences. This is a wonderful Brandiose logo. Unfortunately, it's not a very good El Paso logo. For better or for worse, we can all tell a Brandiose logo at this point, and it's because they are all possessing extremely similar graphic and artistic styles. A little variety would be nice.

Plan B/Brandiose is really just working off of reputation at this point. This entire set looks phoned in, and reminiscent of pretty much everything else they've done since 2011.

Chihuahuas it is.http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20131022&content_id=63238558&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

I posted that before, it's a really good story.

Or maybe, just maybe, by pricing the tickets at $7 apiece PLUS free parking PLUS a free jersey, they're making themselves look like a piss-poor organization, and the rest of South Florida knows it. By pricing seats at least reasonably commensurate with what the Heat might charge (or at maybe a good fraction of what they charge), they might be able to create the illusion of demand, and start to draw the odd crowd here and there. I dunno, just a thought.

CANADIAN EXCEPTIONALISM

But look at all the colors!

From what I can tell, there's enough blame to cover the entire state, parts of New Mexico, and most of California.

Phoenix Coyotes of Seattle oh :censored: just kill me now why don't you

Hey thanks for not posting your huge -off walls of text in the pointless realignment thread.

I think we covered this a page or so back, but NO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of a team.

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At least you still have the Mariners.

Yeah, we established that 4 pages ago. I gotta say I'm completely stumped as to what Bettman's end game is here. Is it a move to QC? Does it go to Seattle until QC's or Vegas' new arena is good to go? Would he dare try and horn into Sacramento? :It is a mystery:

I've never worn a toupee.

Well, there's that Dry British Wit I hear so much about.

Just remind me why the league is hell-bent on acquiescing to Columbus's demands, again

There's nothing rational about the NHL