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ForwardProgress

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  1. Out of all the Yard Goats logos this one is the worst because that Uncle Sam hat has NOTHING to do with Hartford and NOTHING to do with trains or goats! It should be a conductor's hat! The only reason I can think of why they chose an Uncle Sam style hat is to maybe attract Yankees fans but that makes zero sense because there is an equal amount of Red Sox fans in Connecticut. Also, the Yard Goats are a Colorado Rockies minor league team, not Yankees! Another thing: I am completely confused why the goat head primary logo is getting such praise as a cap logo. It is a good logo by itself, but it makes a TERRIBLE cap logo! It is NOT a simple logo as several people have said. It is WAY too detailed for a cap. I know, I know, this is a minor league team, and all minor league teams have super detailed cap logos, but what if every minor league team jumped off a bridge, does that mean the Yard Goats have to too? The things I like about the Yard Goats identity package are the wordmark (absolutely brilliant idea to style it after the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad logo). It is simple yet has character at the same time. The 2000's were FULL of wordmarks with way too many outlines and gradients and detail so it is refreshing to see a wordmark that is just two colors and bold type. Playing off this wordmark is the YG alternate cap logo and I honestly wish this was the primary cap logo. I already asked the team to make a snapback version of this cap so hopefully they will. Why on Earth they would only sell fitteds is beyond me. I mean, the snapback craze has been going strong for several years now, get with the program guys!
  2. Has anyone ever asked why the original name of the site was "Chris Creamer's SportsLogos.Net" and not just "SportsLogos.Net"? Was Chris just trying to make a name for himself on the internet when he created the site? Or was he just trying to separate his site from any other sports logos sites that may have existed back then? (I doubt this very much though because I'm sure there weren't ANY other sports logos websites at the time. I mean, even after the success of SportsLogos.Net there STILL aren't any competing sites with a similar theme. I mean, there's Uni-Watch, but that's a blog about sports uniforms, not a logo database.) I laud your efforts to rebrand the site as just "SportsLogos.Net" without the Chris Creamer name in front because most people would ask "Who the heck is Chris Creamer?" when reading the name. I have always thought of the creator's name being a part of the name of the site as really amateurish and unprofessional so I'm glad it's being used somewhat less. (Although it glaringly still appears in website headings and in the forum logo.) I mean, a website that can be viewed by millions of people internationally isn't the local pub downtown, so the owner's name out front, especially when that owner isn't famous, makes the whole venture seem really smalltime. So let me just ask the question that is on everyone's mind reading this: Chris... are you an egomaniac?
  3. Thank you so much for the info. One more question about the Like This! button: why is there a 5 Likes per day limit? I can't even imagine what the reasoning behind that might be. Maybe so you don't overwhelm a single person you are arguing with with Like notifications? The 5 Like limit kind of defeats the purpose of the Like This button though. I mean, I enjoy reading the forum, and when I read something I agree with I want to click the Like This button. The fact that I can only do it 5 times per day actually discourages me from continuing to read forum posts.
  4. Hi guys, I haven't made a post on this forum in a while and I looked at my profile today and noticed I have one yellow star out of a total of five. I looked at another person's profile and noticed that you can rate a SportsLogos.net contributor between 1 and 5 stars. What is the point of this? Like, the only way I can see it as being useful is if you get into an argument with someone in a thread you can then visit their profile and give them one star out of spite. What exactly are we basing our ratings on? How much you agree with the person's posts in the forum? The quality of their uniform and logo concept designs? I don't do a lot of forum participation on other sites but this is the first time I have ever seen a rating system for members to rate other members. It just seems like an odd feature, and it just makes people really curious why they might have a low rating and who gave them that low rating. It seems really childish and is like the internet version of stuff kids do in school. "I'm arguing with this person about whether the piping on a softball jersey should be black or red. I say black, he says red. Screw him, I'm rating his profile one star!" Or, "This person bashes all my uni and logo concepts every time I post them. Boy am I gonna get him back, I'm gonna rate his profile one star!" Can we just stop the madness? Second question: What does the "Like This!" button in every post do? Is it just a simple way to tell someone you agree with what they wrote? After you click a few "Like This!" buttons does the site compile a list of posts you Liked, like Facebook does? If so where is this list kept so I can view it? When I like a post is my screen name shown publicly in a list on that post like on Facebook? It seems like this "Like This!" feature isn't that popular in this forum because I looked around at various threads and I didn't see a single "Like This!" button clicked, unless it is anonymous and only appears clicked if you yourself clicked it. Anyway, please give me all the details about the "Like This!" button because I have an idea for it that would make it more appropriate for this site.
  5. I can't believe old school double-bar facemasks lasted until the year 1995 in Super Bowl field designs! Since the Super Bowl is the NFL's biggest stage you'd think they would have made sure to use more common / modern facemasks before then. I mean, the double-bar facemask became rare for non-kickers and punters in the late 70's and early 80's. The only non-kicker I can think of who wore it when no one else did was Dolphins WR Mark Duper. When I first looked at the field design for Super Bowl 29 I assumed the double-bar facemasks were used as a throwback reference since 1994 was the 75th anniversary of the league and all the teams wore throwback uniforms. But I was wrong, the league had just always used the double-bar design! Wow! One more thing: the more modern facemasks that first appeared in the field design of Super Bowl XXX: the way they appear in your rendering, is that how they really looked on TV and in real life? There's just something odd about them in your drawing. I'm not dissing your drawing or anything, I'm just pointing out that they look unusual. If it is accurate to how they looked in real life / on TV I'm just curious why they look odd and not like any facemasks I've ever seen on a real football helmet.
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