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Create your own domain, and post links with the [ url ] tag instead of the [ img ] tag. Or use flickr and set it up so downloading is not available.

The fact of the matter is anything that's posted online can be copied and hosted on another website. Anything. Watermarks alone won't protect you. This is an issue that comes up here every few years. There's a pinned thread about someone asking for ways to remove watermarks, it's funny but sad if you take the time to read it. This has also led to a flood of poor concepts that were made even more illegible by giant watermarks running across them. Artists/designers do have some protection. The second you create something, it has your copyright on it. Even though it's not legally necessary, simply adding a copyright line is a good first step to protect one's assets. Of course, there are large gray areas with recourse; you really can't claim any monetary damages if someone lifts a concept you've made for an existing team, because those rights belong to the team or organization itself. One of the best ways to protect your artwork from being lifted is to host your own site on its own domain, and use HTML coding to prevent visitors from "right-clicking" and copying the art to their desktops. It won't prevent screen shots, but one would have to be fairly crafty and knowledgeable to scroll through the source code and grab the HTML for the image file itself. Flickr also gives users options to prevent downloading of displayed artwork, but again, if you're crafty enough to view your browser's developer tools, you can grab what you need.

Yes, but you won't get accepted if you act like an a$$ (as I found out).Or you could always just join a league on ESPN or Yahoo. Sites with dedicated fantasy sports.

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.