MC Buffalo Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 I know most of you laugh at the mere thought of the ABA, but hey a new logo is a new logo....The Buffalo Rapids have changed their name (and of course logo) for the upcoming season. They are now the Buffalo Silverbacks.Here is the old logo and the new one right below it. The old was was pretty boring, but looked professional at least. This new one looks like it was drawn in a high school art class. Although the copy I found was from a local newspapers website so it may have lost some of it's clarity. Although on the website it doesn't look much betterhttp://www.buffalorapids.com (this will redirect you) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsox Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 What a joke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 When I scrolled down, I thought his finger was in 3-D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axis_of_Weasel Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 not to be racist or anything but is it really the best idea to call a bunch of black guys "gorillas"?since its b-ball, i'm assuming theyre black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreGuy Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 I noticed this a few weeks back, and I could not BELIEVE that it was real. I mean, the name change, sure, whatever... but if that's really the logo... man, what a joke! "You could put an empty orange helmet on the 50-yard line at Cleveland Browns Stadium and 50,000 fans would show up to stare at it."-Terry Pluto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodAtFirstBite Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Why doesn't the ABA just GO AWAY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonz Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 OMG, what have they done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief. Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 One of the very few decent logos left in the ABA is gone. Where did they get that ugly thing? Did the owners eat at Applebee's and find it drawn with crayons on the back of a kid's menu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winters in buffalo Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Wow... just, wow.I'm dumbfounded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eSabre Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I posted a thread about this a few weeks back.The new owners had to pick a new name because the original owner still owned the rights to the name "Buffalo Rapids".If anyone finds a pic of the new jerseys, take a look. I did the lettering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mings Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Wow, I feel sorry for their fans. Anyways the local ABA team here played too well, got a big head and is jumping to the CBA. If only the dude would respond to my email discussing getting a better logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Well.. Nice to see the Buffaslug is now the SECOND suckiest logo in Buffalo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonz Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 The new logo is very 1993ish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG_ThenNowForever Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 not to be racist or anything but is it really the best idea to call a bunch of black guys "gorillas"?since its b-ball, i'm assuming theyre black. I might have worded that a little more delicately, but yes, I had a similar question in my head.Could one conceivably call an American basketball team the Monkeys? The Apes? The Chimps? While the last in that list is more funny than anything else, I'm not exactly comfortable with the easy stereotypes that come from this name. 1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said: and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapshot Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 not to be racist or anything but is it really the best idea to call a bunch of black guys "gorillas"?since its b-ball, i'm assuming theyre black. I might have worded that a little more delicately, but yes, I had a similar question in my head.Could one conceivably call an American basketball team the Monkeys? The Apes? The Chimps? While the last in that list is more funny than anything else, I'm not exactly comfortable with the easy stereotypes that come from this name. They have blacks playing basketball now? Back-to-Back Fatal Forty Champion 2015 & 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winters in buffalo Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 not to be racist or anything but is it really the best idea to call a bunch of black guys "gorillas"?since its b-ball, i'm assuming theyre black. I might have worded that a little more delicately, but yes, I had a similar question in my head.Could one conceivably call an American basketball team the Monkeys? The Apes? The Chimps? While the last in that list is more funny than anything else, I'm not exactly comfortable with the easy stereotypes that come from this name. They have blacks playing basketball now? Yes. Even on the Celtics now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonz Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Now I remember, that gorilla looks like those monsters from the movie Space Jam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bselig Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 The new name is getting criticism from local black leaders.http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060805/1042519.aspThe critics also did not like the logo, which shows an intense, red-skinned gorilla pointing at the viewer. "I did find it offensive. It looked like an angry black man," said Eva M. Doyle, a columnist for the Buffalo Criterion newspaper. "I think it's offensive to people who are looking at it from a historical perspective." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNT44 Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 The new name is getting criticism from local black leaders.http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060805/1042519.aspThe critics also did not like the logo, which shows an intense, red-skinned gorilla pointing at the viewer. "I did find it offensive. It looked like an angry black man," said Eva M. Doyle, a columnist for the Buffalo Criterion newspaper. "I think it's offensive to people who are looking at it from a historical perspective." It's funny that they say they see an angry black man in the logo. I really only see an angry red gorilla. People are offended way too easy nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebod39 Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 WTF???!!! From a logo with class to a logo that looks like ass!why Silverbacks??Put this in the "worst downgrade" ever category at the top of the list. I think steroid-ape couldbe a contender for knocking the Canton Ice Patrol calvin and hobbes rip off out of the stop spot.I am offended by this logo. Not because I think it looks like a black man (which it doesn't)but because it's a disgrace to graphic designers and the city of buffalo. first the slug, now this.Hey owners in Buffalo, you have talented professional graphic designers who happen to be ex-WNYers' right here on the board, call us we'd happy to do something for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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