Quote Originally Posted by OU Adonis View Post
There are a lot of apologists on this board.

I hear "Well there are worst logo's out there"

and

"But at least its OUR team"

If I spent $400 million on an item I would expect a better image being put out.

Its like spending $300k on a car and slapping a "Honk if your horny" bumper sticker on it.

Its like having a face only a mother can love. Yet we had the chance to craft the best looking face out there for our child and we came up with this.

We pick the name "thunder" then use colors that are sky blue and go with sunsets.

Nothing says blue skys and orange red sunsets like thunder.

You only have 1 chance to make a first impression.

Excellent summary of what happened yesterday! I couldn't agree more. The marketing & PR team should be fired and referred to OKC Blunder. Yes we'll be fine and I'll still support the TEAM, but what a BLOWN FIRST IMPRESSION and chance to really knock things out of the park and create an international hype leading up to the logo and delivering on it. Yeah, they did fine "locally" but internationally read the boards, everyone is seeing it as a blunder. We bought an international brand and came up with a elementary school logo. I'll still be buying my tickets, but I doubt I'll buy merchandise now. I was prepared to buy several things yesterday after the presser had the leaked photos not been the actual name/logo. Let's face it folks, professional sports logos aren't changed that often, and usually colors remain the same when they are, or close to it. Nothing about this logo says Thunder. This reminds me of Saved By the Bell and the early 1990's when bright neons were cool.