iowahoo Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Since some of you are "local" to this issue I thought I would post the logo for Urbandale J-Hawks, another Des Moines area high school that appears to have an inspired logo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowahoo Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Akron, Ohio's EAST high school might be getting a call from UAB.And seriously, nobody finds the nickname "Orientals" offensive??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelayedPenalty Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Link to any of the High School Helmet Projects out there and you will see THOUSANDS of high schools that use other teams/schools logos. If Wisconsin wants to pick on one of them, what about the others? Either hit them all (which is really low on their part) or leave them alone! They're not exactly cashing in on the use of their logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew22 Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 I counted a bunch in one Class. It's crazy that just this school got caught.There is a bunch here.My HS uses the Philly Eagles logo, but recolored. Eagles/Heels/Dawgs/Falcons/Hawks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecticbro Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 What do you think is the most commonly used helmet logo in American high school football? Florida State's, Clemson's, Wisconsin's, the old Arizona Cardinals', or the New England Patriots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadragon76 Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Since some of you are "local" to this issue I thought I would post the logo for Urbandale J-Hawks, another Des Moines area high school that appears to have an inspired logo:That's just the athletics logo. I recently saw them on TV and they trotted out a blue helmet with a red and white version of Miami of Florida's 'U' logo.Southeast Polk, another school in the Des Moines area, uses the current St. Louis Rams logo on their helmets as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discrim Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 My HS uses the Philly Eagles logo, but recolored.from about 97 to 03, my school's football team also used some form of Philly's eagle on either the jersey or helmet; and from our first team back in the late 60s to 98, we used Philly's eagle wings (shoot, the original helmets were almost identical to the Eagles' 69 helmets). the only other team in the school that I recall using the same eagle was the girls' tennis team (their version was solid green with a gold beak...and a very slight modification of it is now our main athletic logo) A strong mind gets high off success, a weak mind gets high off bull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Felder Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 I'm sorry, but the Waukee logo is quite far from a knockoff of the Wisconsin W. Sure they said they used it, but it's not the exact same thing. NOW then these are the logos for my alma mater's athletic program...What's your thoughts on these? I'm also a grad of this high school...the Athletic Director told me once that Wisconsin complains to him every year during the state football playoffs (since the color version of the "WL" is used on our team's helmets and we've made it to the finals in Madison the last few years). He said there is some sort of law that states that you can use someone else's logo as long as the original logo is changed by 33% or something weird like that. He said we've always been covered because we add the "L" and change the colors and that's enough of a change. I don't know if that law only applies in Wisconsin or whatever, but I think what UW is doing is pretty bogus. There are high schools in the state that don't make any changes at all to the W (West Bend West and Waupun come to mind) and they haven't been forced to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quantum Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 People ask why pick on this school and not another. We don't know under what agreement these other schools are operating under. Wisconsin is doing what it must. I think this is a good thing anyway. First off, schools should encourage their students to create something unique. Second, this is an opportunity for sports equipment suppliers to create marks to license. Third, it creates jobs for budding logo artists on this board.And if none of what I've posted is done, then the traditionalists who think Penn State has a perfect uniform will get their wish -- hundreds of schools looking just like them. "One of my concerns is shysters show up and take advantage of people's good will and generosity". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baseballking99 Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 I don't see what the big deal is. If you look at the side where the comparison is, the logo isn't even the same. I can probably find at least 200 schools in the country that use the same exact logo and their telling them to get rid of a similar logo. If it was the same I could understand but I think the school should fight this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EatSleepJeep Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 This is an odd departure from the STOP RIPPING OFF LOGOS thread where everybody was up in arms about copyright...I guess I'm surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazz013 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 There's some HS football game on ESPN2 right now, and one of the teams has a blatant rip off of the Wisconsin Badgers' logo. Save the slugalo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapshot Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 And the font used for "Lufkin" looks very similar to LSU's "Geaux" font. Back-to-Back Fatal Forty Champion 2015 & 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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