BallWonk Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 Just attended a Kernels game in Cedar Rapids. Bought a hat to wear to cheer on my hometown nine:http://store1.yimg.com/I/kernelsbaseball_1851_2404302Now, it's a heck of a lot better than the Cedar Rapids Reds of my youth, who just pasted an ugly R into Cincy's classic C logo, but I'm of two minds. As a baseball cap logo, I think the corn diamond is dreadful. I want a cap with a non-Colorado CR on it, like the classic old Cedar Rapids Raiders caps on display in the team's museum. Then again, the Kernels' cap looks just like the seed-company caps all the grown-ups in my life wore when I was a kid in Cedar Rapids two decades ago. So in that way it's a brilliant cap, perfect for its location. But folks are leaving the land and you just don't see that many Dekalb caps any more in Iowa, so the Kernels' cap is a brilliant reference to an aspect of local culture that doesn't exist any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gashouser27 Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 Yeah lameYou got it exactly..Like a DeKalb capNeeds to be mesh though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowahoo Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 i actually like the Kernels logo, and also liked the old CR Reds logo.I think the Colorado rockies have cheap Cedar Rapids hats. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnWis97 Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 I'd like it better without the diamond. Disclaimer: If this comment is about an NBA uniform from 2017-2018 or later, do not constitute a lack of acknowledgement of the corporate logo to mean anything other than "the corporate logo is terrible and makes the uniform significantly worse." Â BADGERS TWINS VIKINGS TIMBERWOLVES WILD POTD (Shared) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 Me, too.I think it's fairly lame. There's something there, but it just doesn't work as a baseball logo. The Green Bay Packers Uniform Database! Now in a handy blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallWonk Posted August 1, 2005 Author Share Posted August 1, 2005 The old Cedar Rapids Reds looked like this:Personally, I've always rated it one of the worst cap logos of all time, but that's just one native Cedar Rapidian's opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stampman Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 oh it's not that bad--it fits the name and location, etc...It's the name that I find odd...Yet--hey why not... Comic Sans walks into a bar, and the bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve your type here." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallWonk Posted August 1, 2005 Author Share Posted August 1, 2005 oh it's not that bad--it fits the name and location, etc...It's the name that I find odd...Yet--hey why not...What seems odd to you about the name "Kernels"? It's Iowa, fer cryin' out loud! Seriously, most years Iowa is the leading corn and pork producer in the nation, so Kernels makes a lot of sense to me (and sounds better than "Hog Futures" or "Pork Bellies"). Given CR's history and industrial base, "Silos" or "Millers" would also work. Historically the two original team names have been the Rabbits and Raiders. As for the Kernels name, I'd like to hope that it was chosen in part to honor the Keokuk Kernels, for whom Roger Maris and Tim McCarver once played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philly97flyer Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 "Give him another chance, give him another chance!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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