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Last year’s ratings revealed both the lack of creativity and honesty of the East Coast Football Club. After the initial ratings were released it was revealed that some of the owners (cough - Memphis Mojo, Da Bears) had STOLEN their logo from other professional sports teams, others had LAZILY (cough - Your Mama) lazily grabbed a suggested picture from the CBS Sportsline file, while others just used Sunday School clip art material.
The embarrassment and cover up that followed led to a re-ranking and questions whether or not this would ever happen again.
Being the Uniform Czar, I took my share of the responsibility for not doing enough research on the designs as well as having a very poorly designed logo and color scheme myself. However, it is hard to design for a team called the Hairballs. This year, I hope to do better in both areas.
So for the next 7 days, we will have a vote on the logos of the ECFC. Make your rankings, 1-10, 1 being the best, 10 being “I can’t believe they even tried.” We will have TWO special category awards as well.
Most Improved (as compared to last years logo)
Most Likely to Found on a Kids Cereal Box (aka Most Ridiculous)
Here are the teams, owners, and logos. The first logo is the current look, the second one is the look from last year. Those teams with only one logo - you guessed it - there was no change from last year.
Vote early and often. I do reserve the right to completely ignore the results.
Budapest Brawlers, Tom Seely
Tom had no change in logo this year.
Cincinnati Blue Darters, Matt Ely
The Blue Darters had no logo change this year. We’re still not sure what a blue darter is but we kinda like the upside down lightning.
Da Bears, Richard Coy
Coy made a change. After a barrage of insults, he went with the blue-tongued Bear. We think it’s a message. What makes a bear’s tongue blue? The Blue Darters? Mojo?
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Memphis Mojo, Brian McCurry
No change from last year. He probably isn’t going to change it since he’s winning hardware with it.
Parker Highlanders, Grant English
Name change and logo change. Both needed.
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Pyroclastic, Rob Williams
Name change and logo change. Rob went with only one name because…well…he thinks it makes his team sound scary. Like Prince, right?
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Psycho Dirt Zombies, Paul Oyler
Name change and logo change. Although we loved the Freak Dawgs last year.
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Raleigh Ronions, Brian Fields
No change..still looks like that character from Bob the Builder.
Swamp Fox, Right Reverend Bill Hayes
No change but the guy can preach.
Thuderbirds, Mike Powers
New name, new logo…shame it looks like a turkey.
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Waterford Wombats, Luke Turner
New name, new logo
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Your Mama, Kurt Kerin
same old, same old…You just got beat by Your Mama…still funny. Logo is another story.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Mojo // Sep 14, 2007 at 11:40 am
Thanks G. You entertain us, if nothing else, so thanks for making your contribution to the league. I’ll give you my top 3, bottom 3:
1. Waterford Wombats–Great upgrade in both name and logo. Plus the logo really freaks me out (in a cool way).
2. Da Bears–Showing your true NFL loyalties. I think he’s sticking his tongue out at Cedric Benson.
3. Parker Highlanders–Kudos here for the design time put in. Maybe re-route that energy to start winning some stinkin’ games!
4-9(kind of like all you middle kids out there, no one ever gave you attention either)
10. Ronions–Love the name, but the stretched look only hurts you here.
11. Thunderbirds–Yet again we’re forced to look at CBS stock logos. Grant, can you give a tutorial on Google images or something for us? That’s how I pirated mine.
12. Your Mama–Does Kurt even know that is still his logo? Kurt are you out there?
2 Matt E // Sep 17, 2007 at 6:16 am
No logo change - we like what we have… trying to establish a visable tradition. When people see upside down lightning, they’ll hopefully immediately associate that thought with the Blue Darters. We’re also hoping this will help in marketing and merchandizing. It seems to be working, as hat and jersey sales are up quite a bit. As far as the true nature of a Blue Darter…
In regards to voting, I mostly agree - but I am disappointed that the Freak Dogs gave up the logo and the name… those little yappy dogs are wolves in sheep clothing. Haven’t you seen the Bud Light commercial w/ the little, fluffy, white guard dogs?
3 Grant // Sep 17, 2007 at 9:57 am
Matt - I’m with you on the freak dogs…or is it dawgs? Anyhoo, great logo and the change is a step backwards.
A visable tradition…cool catch phrase.
4 Mojo // Sep 17, 2007 at 10:12 am
Nice game yesterday, G. Keeping Edge and Trading for Ol’ Roy looks like gold for you this week. I retract my previous wise-A comment about you winning. Gotta love it!
Anything kookie you guys want me to do while I have temporary commish powers while Rob is gone? I’m willing to be bought! Cheap!
5 Flash McDirt // Sep 18, 2007 at 12:18 pm
OK, by semi-popular demand, the Freak Dawg is back
I have to admit, I didn’t like either of the zombie logos myself
As for voting…
Most Improved - Highlanders
Cereal Box - Tbirds
Rankings:
1. Highlanders
2. Dawgs (if we can count the revert)
3. Tbirds
4. Wombat
5. Mojo
6. Darters
7. Bears
8. Swamp Fox
9. Ronions
10. Yo’ Mama
6 Swamp Fox // Sep 18, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Hey Mojo — What’s kookie is that I’m at 2-0 and 2nd in the power rankings — even after trading away one of my keepers! I thought Portis would give me more points than he did this week — but the Phillie D was too tough! Thank goodness Bruce had a career game! Taylor’s injury hasn’t hurt me either (Peterson gets more carries). Anyway — for a guy who’s used to being Mediocre or Toilet Bowl material I’ll ride this as far as I can!
So — for the voting —
1. Best logo/name upgrade — Wombats (Toucans)
2. Worst Logo — Tie — Thunderbirds and Swampfox. I don’t have enough jpeg knoweldge to change it. I’ve tried but it keeps getting rejected. Can I at least put a cast on what Grant correctly described as the “broken leg” last year?
3. Zombie –or Dog — or Dawg — or whatever you want to be — I’ll vote for you to be whoever you want to be. I’m afraid you’ll make major changes to my blog template if I make you mad and I won’t be able to correct it!
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