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Yaks! Yaks! Yaks! Yaks! Yaks! I did see a comment that Outlaws is not very Utah, but those people don't know their Mormon history. The Mormons settled in Utah after getting kicked out of New England, New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. The founding of the state was done by literal outlaws. It makes sense from that perspective, but I don't know if Utahns or Mormons or (more importantly) Ryan Smith would want to embrace that angle of their history. I was a fan of just calling them the Squids (Squids! Squids! Squids!). But too often when the branding is mostly right they can overthink it. Like how Rays is way better than Devil Rays as a name. Everything else can be the same.

Thanks! I did a half-assed job of just putting the Jazz mountains on it and swapping the colors with the OG Jazz colors minus switching the yellow to the shade of the Utah state flag. I think it came out okay, but I just stole/misappropriated Joel Hudson's logo and that of a summer baseball team in the state. The uniform was recolored from PGH Concepts. I do not own the images nor did I create them. Maybe the look is too Vikings but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Agree on the overemphasis of locality. That gets into one name I like but have not seen proposed in this thread or much anywhere: the Utah Yaks. It has the same sound as Yetis without the minor league feel. Yaks are native to the Himalayas but are bred elsewhere (including Utah!). There is a relative dearth of bovine mascots in pro and college sports despite their prominence and importance. It appears only Yakima Valley College utilizes the name. I can imagine the U in a Utah script having horns and a logo where mountains are used for the Yak's hair on its head.