Team Name/Uniform/Logo (i refuse to say kit or crest/)

Discussion in 'Minnesota United FC' started by Goforthekill, Apr 1, 2012.

  1. 4four4

    4four4 Member+

    Nov 13, 2013
    Land of 10,000 Lakes
    Just goes to show why United was so secretive.
     
  2. 79United

    79United Member

    Apr 10, 2000
    SW DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Don't change a damn thing! Minnesota's name, colors, badge and kit are class.

    TS.
     
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  3. antnee7898

    antnee7898 Member

    Oct 19, 2007
    South Houston, TX
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Agreed, already tops in all US soccer, all of it, name, kit, and crest
     
  4. SteveUSSF_ref8

    SteveUSSF_ref8 Member+

    United States
    Oct 25, 2010
    Sun City, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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".

    Minnesota Loons FC_logo.png

    It also included a slogan that keeps the "United FC" name alive. "We are forever United"
     
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  5. Tigereye

    Tigereye Member+

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    Aug 19, 2005
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    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    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.
     
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  6. Brian in Boston

    Brian in Boston Member+

    Jun 17, 2004
    MA & CA, USA
    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?
     
  7. When Saturday Comes

    Apr 9, 2012
    Calgary
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    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.
     
  8. Bluecat82

    Bluecat82 Member+

    Feb 24, 1999
    Minneapolis, MN
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  9. JamieMCFC

    JamieMCFC Member

    Jan 26, 2006
    Minnesota United FC
    Club:
    Manchester City FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  10. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

    San Jose Earthquakes
    United States
    Feb 13, 2010
    NorCal
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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


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  11. Bluecat82

    Bluecat82 Member+

    Feb 24, 1999
    Minneapolis, MN
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The Don will have Dave Checketts buy into the team and then we'll be named...

    ...wait for it...

    Real Loon Lake.
     
  12. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  13. EPJr

    EPJr Member+

    Los Angeles FC
    United States
    Mar 21, 2009
    Richmond VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  14. EPJr

    EPJr Member+

    Los Angeles FC
    United States
    Mar 21, 2009
    Richmond VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Big Red Bullseye on the shirt:
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    Target will be shirt sponsor
     
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  15. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  16. Dead Fingers

    Dead Fingers Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jan 22, 2004
    St. Paul, Minnesota
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC
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  17. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Love the colors!! Looks like it'll be a sash? Can't wait.
     
  18. NORML

    NORML Member+

    Aug 9, 2002
    Lake Wobegon, MN
    Club:
    NSC Minnesota Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    total sucker for sashes. I'll take it.
    So black for road games or maybe an inverse with powder blue as the main color?
     
  19. Dead Fingers

    Dead Fingers Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jan 22, 2004
    St. Paul, Minnesota
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC
  20. Bluecat82

    Bluecat82 Member+

    Feb 24, 1999
    Minneapolis, MN
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Beats this...

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  21. Bluecat82

    Bluecat82 Member+

    Feb 24, 1999
    Minneapolis, MN
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Or, for that matter, pretty much any of these...

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  22. Bluecat82

    Bluecat82 Member+

    Feb 24, 1999
    Minneapolis, MN
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Or especially this...

    It burns, precious! It burns my eyeses!

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  23. Dead Fingers

    Dead Fingers Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jan 22, 2004
    St. Paul, Minnesota
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC
    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.
     
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  24. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  25. Dead Fingers

    Dead Fingers Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jan 22, 2004
    St. Paul, Minnesota
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC
    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



    They deleted the first image (Not kidding), as the mannequin had no shorts, and was definitely a male mannequin.
    *face palm.
     

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