It has been reports per SI that Minnesota United FC needs to pick a new name when they join MLS in 2017. http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/201...united-2017-atlanta-st-louis-sacramento-Miami With this in mind I would think it would be a no brainer then to adopt the name "Minnesota Loons FC". Here is an idea for the team crest. Its a melding of the old "Stars FC logo" and the "United FC logo". It also included a slogan that keeps the "United FC" name alive. "We are forever United"
This is a nice concept but the current badge is perfect and needs to go forward into MLS. How about just removing "United" in the current badge with the final product as Minnesota FC, with the symbolic nickname as The Loons.
It won't happen, but Bill McGuire and the rest of the Minnesota United FC ownership group should collectively tell Don Garber and the MLS front-office suits to "get bent" with regard to the renaming of the team. Minnesota United FC's identity has been in place since March 15, 2013. As such, the team has borne the United moniker 2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days longer than Atlanta United FC has sported the name. That's 2-plus years of brand equity that Minnesota United FC is being asked to toss aside in order to appease Don Garber's desire to bootlick Arthur Blank. Hell, Major League Soccer couldn't be bothered to register the Atlanta United FC name with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office until more than a year after Garber-and-Company had granted the Falcons owner MLS investor/operator rights. The league took even longer to register the team's logo with USPTO and reveal the Atlanta United FC identity to supporters. So, despite being awarded a Major League Soccer expansion opportunity nearly a year after Atlanta, Minnesota's MLS team was known by the United brand more than 3 months before Blank's NFL off-season Mercedes-Benz Stadium date-filler deigned to unveil its identity. But, hey... why do right by an existing soccer club that has committed to the MLS vision of having its member-franchises play in appropriately-sized, soccer-specific stadia - a facility featuring a natural grass playing surface, no less - when you can cater to the whims of a johnny-come-lately to the sport of soccer whose MLS team will play second-fiddle to his National Football League franchise in a multipurpose, retractable-roofed, synthetic-turfed, downsized mega-stadium?
Blank's NFL off-season date filler eh? They said the same thing about Seattle but guess what two teams will have the most STH's and highest average attendance in 2017? Atlanta and Seattle. And it won't even be close. So "vision" and "appropriately-sized" are determined by the market each club is in OVER THE LONG TERM. I apologize for the interruption...... please continue rant.
STH notwithstanding...why does Century Link still have turf? Because the Seahawks want it. As impressive as the numbers for both the Sounders and AUFC are, they're still the Secondary Tenant at their building.
Rumor is if we are forced to drop United then it will just be Minnesota FC. No one wants the team to be Minnesota Loons FC. A little history about the Loons nickname it actually started as a joke on the old USLdisccusion board when the crest was first revealed.
They could just keep their current awesome crest as is and just drop the United part. There's no need for a new one with a generic shape. Oh and going from "L'Etoile du Nord" to "We are forever United" would be the biggest downgrade in the history of slogans
The Don will have Dave Checketts buy into the team and then we'll be named... ...wait for it... Real Loon Lake.
Is there still a requirement for a name change? There is a wiki for "Minnesota United FC" as the name for the 2018 MLS team. ETA: Oh, never mind. Found this on the name change to just "Minnesota FC". http://kstp.com/sports/minnesota-united-changes-name-to-minnesota-fc/4070110/
Minnesota United FC Keeps Name in Move to MLS http://kstp.com/sports/minnesota-united-fc-keeps-name-in-move-to-mls/4240138/
EXCLUSIVE: Here's a teaser of the new Minnesota United FC home kit, to be unveiled tmw. Keep an eye on @sportslogosnet for full view soon. pic.twitter.com/FBBj4p07XR— Conrad Burry 🔴🐐🎨 (@conradburry) February 16, 2017
total sucker for sashes. I'll take it. So black for road games or maybe an inverse with powder blue as the main color?
Another MLS kit has leaked and this time it's Minnesota United https://t.co/uTWshgPGFr pic.twitter.com/1kxgaQFfgn— Chris Creamer | SportsLogos.Net (@sportslogosnet) February 16, 2017 Personally, a bit underwhelmed. BUT, we knew they had to go "cookie cutter" due to the time constraint. Hopeful for next season.
If the leaked jersey, is in fact the one....I am a bit disappointed. Barring that I don't like sashes, I can see why they did it. BUT, the grey is a bit light here. Could be a bit darker. Also, the sash, looks like what is already created on the crest....and it does not even align well. The Target bullseye further enhances the idea that Wassily Kandinsky designed it.
THE KITS #MNUFC pic.twitter.com/SRJTCcXEzD— Northland Soccer Journal (@NorthlandSoccer) February 18, 2017
Still, a big fat NO. Even barring the useless sash, the color scheme is not even right, which they should have been able to get right. Folks, a loon, generally tends to be black and white. Anyway...this morning Seriously, come find us! #MNUFC17 pic.twitter.com/DMP4sVz4vV— Minnesota United FC (@MNUFC) February 18, 2017 They deleted the first image (Not kidding), as the mannequin had no shorts, and was definitely a male mannequin. *face palm.