I'm replying to show off my avatar. I found it on the internet and thought it was pretty good. And for the record, I was starting my senior year in high school in 1973. ✌️
Thanks for the reminder, I've been meaning to update my sig now that I'm officially retired from the NNNs. Since we are all sharing, I was also 7 in 1972 (like @firstshirt).
Hahahaha im sorry for what its worth my dad's a good person that just happens to be roughly BERich's age Sorry for the ignorance of youth, but it was Schaefer Stadium before they called it Foxboro stadium right? the old metal bleachers? or was that another building? Count me in for my 3rd vote against changing the logo to stay on topic!
As we've established I'm not old and washed up , I remember coming from 98-2001 with my parents and Christmas '01 and I got season tickets for the next season, and got to tour CMGI field when they opened it. It's not financially prudent for me to have season tickets right now living in New hampshire without transportation, but I cant wait to get down to a few games this years after going to school in toronto. Don't change the effin logo ffs!
In an old bastard actually remembers something (I was a Freshman in HS, BTW) moment, It was actually Schaefer, then Sullivan, then Foxboro stadium. IIRC, the Sullivan family lost the naming deal with Schaefer, then when the new ownership bought the team, they switched to Foxboro for the name. That was the worst stadium you could buy for 7 million dollars. The Krafts may have measured 9 times, but the Sullivan's never measured, just cut. Gillette has sort of had two names also -- the first name rights owner was a failed .com era comany. I'm sure many of you (even if you don't remember the "one beer to have" jingle), know who that was.
I remember that the logo was purple. But yeah it changed to gillette pretty quickly and thats what its been for close to 20 years
Schaefer Stadium: 1971 - 1983 Sullivan Stadium: 1983 - 1989 Foxboro Stadium: 1989 - 2002 (Kraft bought the stadium in 1988)
Yep, the stadium (CMGi Field) opened in the spring of 2002, with a doubleheader with USA-Holland and Revs vs. Dallas. By the time the Patriots had their first exhibition game later that summer, CMGi was bankrupt and the name had changed to Gillette. Jonathan Kraft was on the board of directors of CMGi. So you can argue that CMGi field was a Revs-only stadium and the Patriots never played in it...
I don't think that's right. We did open with a win vs. Dallas, but it wasn't part of a double header. The doubleheader was our second game at CMGi where we lost to Chicago.
Back to logo... Here's very recent Tweet thread collecting logo ideas - 1219499288050335744 is not a valid tweet id
Related discussion: A piece I should actually write: MLS clubs are too impatient and too obsessed with market research to actually let their history develop. You can't build "authenticity" and "history" by constantly discarding it every 10 years and starting over.— Pablo Iglesias Maurer (@MLSist) January 29, 2020
New kit rumors (already posted by @Mike Marshall elsewhere) with image taking additional cues from crayola flag. The white streaks in #NERevs kit are, to me at least, essentially a doubling-down by the team on the "can't get enough ink on the brush" design thing already going on in the red flag stripes in the existing logo. https://t.co/OGgJ4tmySX— A Casual Fan (@A_Casual_Fan) January 29, 2020
As long as you never criticized the random, makeshift, crayon, graffiti, hasty, brush-stroke flag logo.