Hahahaha... ...Citywokchinesefood--this is the best laugh I've had this month.
You're right--OMG, I can't stop laughing. I'm not going to engage in sword swallowing--figuratively or literally.
FWIW: I understand the passion some posters have about the team branding--it's real.
Propel Oklahoma City to the next level: MLS exceeding 20,000 seats.
When the logo came out…it was widely ridiculed across the board throughout sports media. I remember well because I followed the situation in Seattle from the minute they bought the team and spent a ton of time reading about the team after the logo reveal. People have gotten used to it and it’s become less prevalent but acting like people didn’t widely mock it, especially for the first few years, is either ignorance or denial. It is a crap, generic logo that we’ve all gotten used to…but that doesn’t make it better.
When OKC was awarded a team the other cities with NBA teams also thought OKC was not worthy. They were critical of the whole situation. They tend to be a very cliquish group and are highly critical of small market teams. There are many NBA teams with objectively ugly logos and uniforms who get free passes because they are older teams in big cities.
They criticized the name Thunder, but love the Heat. No one criticizes the Lakers, though they are near the Ocean and not lakes. What is the history of Jazz in Salt Lake City? How many Grizzlies are in Memphis?
The Thunder need to keep doing what they are doing… shut out the noise and keep forcing their way into the old boys club. Old society rarely approves of new society. Thunder just needs to keep kicking down the door and waking right in.
Are you confused about the difference between the team name and the team logo? I am pretty sure everyone has accepted the team name. It has been around long enough that it has established itself with OKC and NBA fans. The logo however, is pretty ridiculous and laughable. It is a shield (?) with a basketball inside, okc initials, and 2 random horizontal lines. It looks like it was created by some clip art computer program in the early 2000s. There is no identifiable characteristic of the logo, that incorporates the team’s name whatsoever.
You can argue and say something like the LA Dodger logo is just an interlocking LA, but that team has a long history and plenty notoriety. It just seems like the Thunder went with the most unimaginative, safe and boring logo possible. Maybe with the opening of the new arena, they can also rebrand the logo.
Move to: New Arena (formerly Prairie Surf) https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.p...34#post1274534
Here you go, brother: https://www.jamesrobertwatson.com/thunderlogo.html
Of course, just about anyone with eyes would tell you it is not a big league calibre logo. It is giving a lot of windows 95 clip art vibes. Fortunately, the PBC knows that the club can’t show up at the new $1.5B arena with its existing logo.
We have this argument on OKC Talk every year, and someone throws out the James Robert Watson link, and, maybe, 1 or 2 other Bar Stool type stories. They are all about 10 years old. But, they are what I asked for, and they were produced, Thanks for those.
Remember, however, that a group of good and true Americans got together in Detroit around the millennium, and decided the Pistons "Round Ball One" logo was boring tired and unimaginative, A few months later the committee gave us the "Flaming Horse Logo". Replete with purple and teal accents.
Never Forget.
Have mentioned this before, but if OKC plays its cards perfectly, I still think MLS and/or NWSL is far and away the most likely "Big League" opportunity remaining for the city. MLS will probably add 10 more teams and NWSL will probably add 15 more before all is said and done. Would assume it could take as many as 20 years for both of those leagues to finish up their respective expansion processes.
I think MLS is already overcommitted. Hard core speculators have been on the MLS bandwagon for over 20 years.
Regarding NWSL....I think OKC has a real chance to be big in women's sports. I think OU softball (and, to a lesser degree, gymnastics) gives OKC a leg up on the women's sports market overall. Our conservative, Southern state LOVES girls playing sports, and our families put the support out there every week. Translate that that into the love of the adults, and we are golden.
UCO’s stadium is both wide enough and has the capacity. Not sure why they didn’t go with that option (maybe UCO wouldn’t lease it to them, no idea).
What was their average home attendance the last year they played?
About 4,000 pre-covid. They could make a stadium with a compacity of 4,000 work on a temporary basis. Since the league knows a new stadium is in the works, they may waive that 5,000 requirement.
Drawing the line at 5k and get 0 revenue for the next few years just sounds like a dumb business decision for all parties involved.
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