Remembering the Florida Marlins Identity, 1993-2011 (2024)

On Wednesday, September 28, 2011 the Florida Marlins take the field for the final time. Never again will we see the flying marlin through the silver circle on an orange-stitched baseball logo that was so familiar to us over the course of nineteen Major League Baseball seasons. We here

With Josh Willingham’s ninth-inning ground out to Brandon Inge last night the Detroit Tigers clinched their first division championship in 25 long seasons (and they shouldn’t have even won that AL East title in 1987 but that’s another rant for another day)… more importantly it gave us our first glimpse

A couple of unconfirmed-but-seems-extremely-likely leaks in the last 24 hours involving two new NHL third jerseys set to debut in the upcoming 2011-12 season. First up, the New York Islanders new black alternate jersey was potentially leaked by their own graphic designer on his Flickr account The evidence as to

During their telecast of the Toronto Blue Jays/Texas Rangers game last night Rogers Sportsnet aired the above promo graphic advertising a Roberto Alomar television special — something about this graphic jumped out at me instantly… that’s not Alomar’s plaque, in fact it’s a parody plaque created by Onion-esque Mets fans

Today the New Jersey Devils announced their ECHL affiliate in Trenton, the Trenton Devils would be suspending operations for the 2011-12 season… just 2 weeks after “ECHL, Inc.”registered “Trenton Titans” as a trademark with the USPTO (serial number85351923, I’ll wait here while you look it up) Back on this blog

NHL Draft Day has arrived and with that we get our first glimpse of several “new” NHL jerseys for the upcoming season. Story of the day, of course, Winnipeg! The Winnipeg Jets will be the new name as announced during the draft and subsequently via a press release. Along with

As you may presently be yourself aware, my grammar stinks… but you may also know that I enjoy a trademark database hunt to find the odd unreleased gem now-and-then. The last couple of weeks I’ve found a few items of note: We’ll start with Winnipeg and the National Hockey League.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL (Rays Press Release) – The Tampa Bay Rays will turn back the clock six decades when the St. Louis Cardinals visitTropicana Field on Saturday, July 2 at 7:10 p.m. for the ninth “Turn Back the Clock” game in Rays history. The Rays will wear the home uniforms

This morning I logged into the website of The Toronto Star surprised to find out I missed quite the 3rd period comeback last night: Congrats Vancouver on your Stanley Cup victory… you don’t need to bother showing up to Rogers Arena tomorrow for Game Seven afterall.

Seattle Seahawks team president Peter McLoughlin commented last week on the Dave Softy Mahler Show that the team has been in talks with Nike about re-designing their uniforms when their contract with Reebok expires after the 2011 NFL season. Just the uniforms though, the logo seems safe: “Certainly the logo

Itseems to happen every spring, a new NFL uniform has been leaked via a Madden EA Sports screenshot or trailer. This year is no different, as a since-removed video posted to YouTube by EA Sports previewing their upcoming Madden NFL 12 video game showed both the new home and new

Brace yourselves, Buffalo sports fans; it’s happening again. As has become nearly ritual over the past decade and a half, one of Buffalo’s major league sports teams is overhauling its uniforms. This time it’s the Bills who will be trotting out redesigned togs when (and if) the NFL resumes play