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Long Beach State with the Pirates vests: Southern Cal with Padres lettering:

Cubs-inspired Austin Peay: Saint Leo borrowing the Cards' STL:

Hi, gang...I actually designed the original logo, and I'm right there with you that the new one is a massive upgrade. The backstory: the league came together fairly quickly and they needed something to put on the banner for the introductory press conference in late 2005. I was doing some media relations for the league office at the time and was asked to work up a logo on short notice (I have some "I know how to use PhotoShop" abilities but I'm far from a professional designer). I was definitely not expecting that the original design was something that would be used for the long haul, but...just...nobody ever changed it. I'm flattered that the team owners found the original design (and its "interlocking letters" cousin, below) acceptable enough to keep around for 15 seasons, but whew, a refresh was definitely long past due, and I think the designers nailed the new one.

A cleaned-up brand evolution done right: Kansas City T-Bones, American Association. . Previous look:

"Traverse City Pit Spitters" ain't swimming in the deep end of the "dignified identities" pool, either...

Have there been any reports of the Huskies being in trouble, or are you just looking at the fact that it's an older arena and an out-of-the-way town and deciding to speculate that they're not long for the world? - Rouyn-Noranda's attendance was better than four other QMJHL teams last season (Gatineau, Bathurst, Baie-Comeau, Val-d'Or.) - If we eliminated the towns and arenas in the Q that look like something out of Slap Shot, you'd have about six teams left. - Teams in the Montreal area have a pretty poor track record in the Q (Laval, Longueuil, Verdun, Mtl Rocket, Saint-Jean). Blainville is barely hanging on. Trois-Rivieres is renovating its arena; if anyone were to move, it would probably be there.

Speaking of unused logos with a husky in them, the QMJHL's Rouyn-Noranda Huskies were originally the Rouyn-Noranda Blizzards for a couple of months but changed the name shortly before the team's first season (a college elsewhere in the province was using the name and raised a fuss). https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/744493/huskies-blizzards-hockey-lhjmq-20e-rouyn-noranda

Indeed.

The blue in the roundel of the Nationals' sleeve patch logo isn't the same shade as the navy blue jerseys and it's been driving me up the wall all playoffs.

These guys make a lot of the minor-league one-offs: https://www.otsports.com/special-event-baseball-jerseys The quality is okay - not the same as a regular-season jersey, but definitely a step up from t-shirts (it's a "Breathable, durable Euromesh or Pro Euromesh fabric," FWIW).

The Reds' front chest logo and front uni number almost but don't quite line up: They used to, BTW...

NCAA basketball jerseys cluttered with too many doo-dads above the team name. Also...the fact that the old Marlins' uni number font matched nothing else in their branding always irritated me.

The Braves have traditionally owned most of their affiliates (the High-A club, whether it's been in Durham, Myrtle Beach, Lynchburg or Kissimmee, has always been an exception), so naturally they'd just keep the brand the same, since there's no chance of the team ever switching affiliates.

Oh, I know...it's just the Cubs are the only ones I've ever noticed doing this (seemingly imposing it, perhaps, and often rather obtrusively) for all of their affiliates, without fail, for years. Elsewhere, it seems like it may be up to the minor-league team. The Binghamton Rumble Ponies and Columbia Fireflies, for example, don't seem to have any Mets identification on their jerseys.

Interesting, it looks like most of the Cubs' affiliates have some sort of CHC patch on their jerseys, even going back a number of years, and even if it in no way fits with a team's color scheme...probably an organization-wide thing.

Shawinigan throwbacks. Doesn't look like they went with the fantastic socks from the original, though.

Their independent team thought of that 20 years ago. Logo could use some work, but classy-looking uniforms.

Man, the quality of Studio Simon's work is so much better than Brandiose's.

(Apologies in advance for threadjacking this...) I dunno, it's not a bad-looking script on the '93-'94 road grays there, along with the button front and toned-down piping...I like it better than the late '80s pullovers.

Don't know if anyone actually calls armadillos "dillas," but that was the name of Amarillo's independent-league team for a good 15+ years.

Won't always be the web site, it looks like.