I was going to comment that with the original Seahawks logo, the bird almost looked like he was stoned. They eventually redesigned it making him look a lot more aggressive and focused.
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ya, the eyelining turned out as if they were trying to represent a blur for some reason.
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South Africa officially changed its flag in mid 1994, from
to
This was the crowd at the opening game of the Rugby World Cup held in South Africa, just over a year later in mid 1995
If South Africa managed that, I’m reasonably confident that Cleveland will cope.
(Granted, displays of the old flag were made illegal much later on, and I understand that the introduction of the new flag was accompanied by a very strong PR campaign promoting the new and denigrating the old, but that only really succeeded - I think - because people realised pretty quickly “hey, you know what - It’s time to move on. That old flag isn’t ok anymore, and besides this new one is freakin’ awesome.”)
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I like the Cleveland Rocks especially if it’s short for the rockers or rock n rollers or something, because then the team joins the Browns and Cavs in having a team name referring to a humanoid mascot which is truncated to a single, unwieldy, confusing syllable that connotes something less mascot-worthy.
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The Hyperloops.
Well the Rock and Roll hall of fame is in Cleveland, so it fits. The Cleveland Rock and Roll hall of famers!
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The sports teams of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke are the Braves- UNCP was founded by and for members of the Lumbee Tribe.
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As a fan of Star Trek Discovery, may I suggest the Cleveland Bookers?
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Holy, holy heck. You just nailed it right out of the park. “The Cleveland Rocks” would be so friggin’ amazing. The mascot should be a mountain or a cairn or something.
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Cincinnati may have right of first refusal on that name. Apparently there’s even a collegiate summer team called the Cincinnati Steam, no joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Steam (link is in fact sfw.)
How about this? “The Cleveland Nightmare Descent Into Booze, Sex, and Drugs”, narrated by Kris Kristofferson.
Also relevant: https://entertainment.theonion.com/they-might-be-giants-behind-the-music-episode-lacks-sex-1819565706
Pretty sure the Browns never had a longer name, they were named for Coach Brown
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They had a “brownie” as their official mascot for a while, though. Which didn’t really stick, and gave way to the confusing ‘dawg’ branding I grew up with in the 90s.
Which didn’t really stick
It is true that football and weed is not a popular combination.
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And the Washington team could be talking about potatoes… :3
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Great point, and a good lesson when trying to move on from the past: make the future awesome. Back to Cleveland, I like the Spiders idea precisely because of that. There’s all sorts of things they can do with that one.
Maybe not for playing it, it certainly makes watching it less of a chore…
That is a fantastic logo change and they should have done it.
Very cool!
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It also helped that (a) the new flag still had the red/white/blue, so it had some continuity with the old one so it wasn’t a complete FU and (b) it’s an objectively good looking flag.
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