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Commenting done on the mothership is run differently than on these boards. Not sure who holds mod powers for comments there. But if it was a year ago, I'd let it go.

Alabama has used City Bold for a lot of its athletic branding, the same font as the San Francisco picture above. This wordmark might be unique for basketball alone, just as Texas A&M has its own font for football.

It's custom to adidas. Here is an alphabet I drew from looking at pictures...

Delta Jaeger Bold http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/berthold/delta-be/bold/

Conrad did this. I think it's the same. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9XRkTNaMPBWcjYxTWI1aGd5bzQ/preview So that font has no specific name whatsoever? It's a custom font designed for Boston College. Not sure if it ever had a specific name.

I know that due to problems with the previous franchise they're trying to get away from the Tornadoes, but there was a huge missed opportunity to name the team the Worcester Twisters. The Worcester Tornado was a horrific event that killed 50+ people. While Hurricanes and other natural disasters hit areas across the country, that storm is officially called the "Worcester Tornado", and every time I heard the name, I thought of the storm, not the team. Naming it the Twisters served a couple purposes... 1. Genericizing (made up word?) the nickname removes the reference to the specific storm, thus letting the nickname and team promote its own legacy. 2. Worcester Twisters rhymes! It's catchier and more fan-friendly. I had an email conversation with Dan Simon about that, and he agreed Twisters would have been a better name. But it wasn't up to him for the name. He did design a great identity for them, however.

Brandiose is becoming the Phoenix Design Works of Minor League Baseball.

Shouldn't be an issue. You're not creating a second account to bypass a punishment.

I remember these graphics when espn2 first came on the air in 1993.

As I visit this thread again, I still think a lot of people here are missing the point. Or maybe I am. I wouldn't consider a logo "associated with failure" if it existed for 10+ years, even if the business it's associated with went out of business. Examples show... Bradlees. That logo was almost 30 years old when the company shut down. It's not like the logo was brought in just before the liquidation. Same thing for a few other companies, Now, the circular Circuit City logo? Yes...barely lasted a year or two before the closures. Purity (the heart/berry logo)? Yup. I worked for that supermarket chain, and that logo and branding barely lasted 4 years before we were bought out by Stop & Shop.

That's Compacta. Actually, it's Tungsten Bold. But yeah, Compacta is freeware and will get you close enough. No, it's Compacta. Tungsten is close, but a little more rounded.

I'll agree with Tank. Please leave the political commentary out of this thread.

While this logo may have been a failure, I don't think the London Olympics as a whole were bad.

It's all a custom font, coincidentally called "McNeeseStAthletic"

Any mod can move a thread to the graveyard, but only "Supermods" like myself, Yale, and the two admins, can actually ban an account. We're not here 24/7, but at least a mod can delete the thread or post in the meanwhile.

The Rock is built like that... Open concourse with a direct view of the ice from anywhere... I only saw the open viewing area from the end zones. I remember the sidelines being enclosed like most other arenas. Is the open viewing just in the balconies? Tsongas Center in Lowell, Mass was originally built like that (except for the concourse behind the press & luxury boxes) until they blocked off one end with a giant "club" room.

Nah, wouldn't be Stratum. It's close to it, I will say that. Even WhatTheFont was no help. Looks like Forza then http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100041&itemID=200132&cpuCount=

Looks like Stratum. http://processtypefoundry.com/fonts/stratum-1-and-2/

It doesn't "look like" Copperplate. It is Copperplate. It's just been squished and scaled.

1988 is Italia 1980 is Antique Olive

Actually I think that's a very popular opinion. I think I have the unpopular opinion in that I don't mind when certain teams do this such as the Cardinals and Vikings b/c they had logos on the sleeves before but their new designs don't have room for them. However I don't like it for the Bills since they never had a logo on their jerseys before, so it seems strange for them to just suddenly stick a logo above their nameplates. I wouldn't be surprised if more and more teams did away with this. There's really not much room, and more and more players have that area covered up by their hair anyway. I think it would be a better spot for the manufacturer logo, but the same issue woud arise.

Most (if not all) of the fonts used in Sports Illustrated are proprietary. If they are publicly released, it's usually not for a few years. The Champion Gothic family was set up like this, and now it's a commercially-available typeface.

Bear in mind that in some of those cases, letters and numbers are simplified and made bolder to be easier to read from the stands.

But if one is crafty with PDF files, the full vector can be found in any current (2010-) Niketeam catalog.

It's not recommended because it's overused. It was originally designed for DePaul University. Somehow, it made its way to the realm of freeware fonts, and has been used in hundreds of logos, concepts and uniforms. Even the New Jersey Devils use it on dasher board advertising. You can't unsee it.