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So far, extremely pleased with the Bandits, Gamblers, Stallions and Generals. All look like modernized updates. All of these rate a solid B+ to an A with the exception of Pitt, which is an F for me.

I am massively disappointed with this one. The original Maulers had a great look. This looks like 2022 crapped back out the Frankfurt Galaxy. While they've maintained a trueness to the originals while doing an update on the Bandits, Gamblers and Stallions, this took a horribly wrong turn. The orange yolk just looks garish and removing the gray pants is a huge downgrade. Total fail, IMHO.

The logo is the shame of the NFL. Too busy, too disjointed and just a hot mess of ideas, like a brainstorming session where they were asked what should be important in the new branding and the white board answers were: "Let's throw in the W logo!" "Yeah...and our founding year, too!" "Guys, can't forget the name...make sure it's prominent!" "What about the city's flag? Gotta be in there!" "Don't forget we've won Championships. Have to mention that!" "Make sure we don't get confused with Washington soccer, or Washington lacrosse. Need mention it's football". Group leader reviews the board and says, "Okay, this is out top 5. Send it to the design team." Design team gets email. "Ok, everyone. We've got to make all this fit. Let's get going." Did ANYONE stop to consider this logo has to be updated if Washington wins another SB? How freaking crowded are you going to allow the ugly thing to get???

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Still absorbing this head-on train collision. So disjointed it's like elements for each jersey were pulled separately out of a hat. The circle logo is the busiest, cluttered, disjointed mess of crap I've ever seen from a professional designer. I'm surprised they didn't squeeze in years of division titles, founder, current owner and GPS coordinates of the stadium. This whole hellish nightmare is like someone proclaiming Oregon's crazy sets to be the worst it can get, and Nike said, "hold my beer".

Agreed. I believe that was them. Leaked like the strange leak of the Stallions and Generals helmets.

I agree. The standard number font just doesn't get enough love these days...everyone thinks they have to look different but IMHO it's waaay overdone. It's how we wound up with horrible bastard mutations like the Bucs calculator numbers and the hideous current Falcons and Titans. Just stop, already. What strikes me in the video is how much darker the gray appears to have been from the original version.

I absolutely loved the concepts floating around of the flame being the helmet decal. No other team uses flames/fire and it's so much better than the stupid thumbtack. Then add a simplified look, drop the dopey numbers and now you're talking.

At least that got it back closer to the late 60s/70s look. I'd be great to see the pants and helmets match, but I'd like to see them meet in the middle some where, with the helmets having a little more blue to them and then the pants matching.

That's me, man. I hate fun. You let people have fun, the next thing you know, they'll be listening to that damn rock & roll music and then...dancing. Might as well put a brothel on every street corner.

Are saints. Yours on the other hand... I mean, seriously, is this the kind of responses we're giving now if there's disagreement?

Regarding my "glorify" part, it's called "sarcasm". BUT, if you want to get technical, there were people who were nicknamed "49ers" who participated in the gold rush. That makes sense. There's no relevant reference to 32 other than the trivia note that was the WTF, er, WFT establishment year. On the serious side, 32s is just is incredibly lame, IMHO. Just can't see it polling well in fan surveys.

That's actually a logo from the TESS website...registered last week.

Who wants to glorify a year in the height of the Great Depression? It just sounds lame and most people outside of diehards won't know what it's referring to.

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I was playing with the color combos and I think this fixes the issue, IMHO. It provides consistency with the secondary logo as well as the original. The white inside the logo is just too stark and doesn't match anything else. The color change ties everything together better.

Now that looks like a logo and not clip-art.

Has anyone else noticed the inconsistency with the Mauler's logos? The primary led me to believe they dropped silver from the color scheme because it's purple, orange and white. But the secondary is purple, orange and silver with no white. What gives? And was this an uncaught error?

Funny how tastes vary. IMHO, I absolute hate, loathe and despise the Maulers logo. It and it's secondary look like clip-art. I guess I'm one of the few that actually like the original Maulers logo, which, dated as it was, kind of fit back in the day. On the other hand, I think one of the better logos is the Stars. I didn't hate the old logo but felt it was too dated, too busy and it just didn't stand out well on the helmet. The new design simplifies it and makes it a little clearer...plus I kind of like the yellow-orange-red transition. The bell logo design is okay, but making the main logo coloring "fade" looks really, really forced to me. One thing I noticed this morning is, on top of how lazy the Gambler's secondary "H" is, the "H" font is similar but clearly doesn't match the primary "G". All-in-all, the modernized logos underwhelm. It's like they all have potential and were at some state from the initial concept to final execution when their refinement stopped.

True, his was better. What I meant when I called it a direct ripoff was the horse's pose (just changed which leg was bent and which is extended), and everything else is like a trace of a poor-quality copy.

But that's the unknown. We really don't know if they'll use the entire horse like the original version did on both the helmet and logo-wordmarks, or if it will be the head only.

The one logo I think of as an upgrade is the Stars. I always felt either the Stars or Stallions needed a third color added to differentiate them since they were both red and gold. I've tinkered with the Stars logo and felt like adding black or navy blue helped, but I think the orange is a good choice considering the star is changing from yellow to red and orange is in between on the spectrum.

I wonder if Brandon Williams has seen this as it looks like a direct rip-off of his logo design for the A11FL Bandits.

Other than the Stars logo, which I think improved, and the Gamblers logo which is virtually unchanged, the logos are a downgrade from the original classics, IMHO. The Panther head really looks weaker without it being solid...the head blends into the same-color background. The Stallions looks like a middle-school logo. There's nothing defining the bottom of the neck...how's that going to work on a helmet? The "B" logo looks like it took heavy inspiration from the Birmingham Steel. The Maulers looks like clip-art. The work definitely looks weaker than the original. That's some thoughts off the top of my head. Just really disappointed.

Much better.