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AlsoI could never look at that without thinking of the band Men Without Hats.
Didn’t see the second but the first yellow was a classic pointless foul by Ring. Makes me happy to not have to see that shit anymore. Stuver deserved better.
WHY THE REBRAND
LITERALLY USELESS! They're already moving to a new stadium. dropping the 'crew' ain't gonna make people happier, just less happy. How do the corporate assholes at the top not see that?
LITERALLY USELESS! They're already moving to a new stadium. dropping the 'crew' ain't gonna make people happier, just less happy. How do the corporate assholes at the top not see that?
Well, it's complicated. As always. My basic answer is that it's because it's not quite the same team, it just happens to be the team that's located in Columbus. The Crew ownership and management moved to Austin as a new franchise. Which is almost the same thing that happened with the Cleveland Browns. (Note that the person who owns the Crew now, sorry, Columbus SC, also owns the Browns.) If you bought a house would you change nothing? No new paint, no new mailbox? The Crew has changed a lot of things: owners, stadium, location, etc. Seems only reasonable that there'd also be a name change. Also, as someone who's in general not really a fan of soccer team names because no other place in the world does that sort of thing so it feels weird to do it only here, I'm kind of OK with that personally. I mean, DC United? Which of the historical teams playing in DC since the 1870s did they actually unite into this new team? Just wondering.
Team names? Yeah, that's right, I'm a fan of the New York Metropolitans. What of it?
Note: not objecting at all to anyone being against the name change, just stating my shoulder-shrug personal opinion here.
For me it's not about what the owners want, it's about what the fans want.
The fans wanted new ownership.
The fans wanted a new stadium because the old one, while iconic, has reached its lifespan.
But unless they consulted fans and decided they all wanted to move from 'Crew', I don't see how that makes any sense to justify. Is there really a commercial benefit to removing 'Crew'? I can understand 'impact' or 'dynamo' or 'burn' etc. but 'crew' to me actually fits. It has a similar feeling to, say, 'united', or 'eintracht', or all of those. The past few weeks in European football has been all about 'we need to go back to what the fans want' - something very rarely seen in US sports because of the franchise nature of things.
There should be a rule that prevents 2 wonder kid players born the same year entering the league at the same time with names as similar as Cade Cowell and Caden Clark. It's unnecessarily confusing is all I'm saying. I mean I just got over my Feilhaber/Wondolowski problems since one of them retired and now this happens.
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Matt Besler and DaMarcus Beasley. Kept doing double takes all through the Austin-Columbus match last night.
Also, it's not even FC, it's SC - so it'll make the Eurosnobs even MORE likely to not care lmao
Cincinnati: You see, our FC is in the front. That's totally different. And our badge has a lion, which, well, Orlando has, but ours looks sideways, so that's totally different too.
Tried to fix it to something more palatable. Any way you slice it...it's a boring logo.
well the losing logo from the fan vote is still available im sure.
We never saw the reveal of the fan vote.
I have no advanced training or study in design, but the losing logo is so horrendous and I think was purposely made so terrible so that if the fan vote should ever be revealed it would skew well in favor to the winning, current logo. Printing and cutting that crest for kits would be a pain. The interconnected, tri-color NYC is just silly. The yellow? Why yellow?
I feel bad for Columbus fans.
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