Screw you, Precourt with your "deep breaths." Your stupid office started this shit by leaking to MR. You haven't earned out trust. You change: the name of the club the mascot the hashtag the crest the primary jersey color Why don't you stop and take a breath?
Zip, I agree with your point on this particular specific regarding the colors. But I'm just having a hard time getting worked up over some of the others. OK, yeah. I was skeptical of that as well. BEFORE. I spent a long, long time following this club, and was wary of seeing its identity completely change. But... Before the name change, the club was the Columbus Crew. Now, it's Columbus Crew SC. Oooooh, major culture shock there. It's not like he re-named it the Central Ohio Roadrunners, or the Ohio State Kickeyes or something ridiculous. The old name is entirely contained in the new name. It's not that big of a change. Really. Really? You're so worried about making this point you're complaining about Crew Cat? For realz? If you're a grown man, and you're losing sleep about the mascot, you've gotta get a f****ng life. Sorry. Again -- really? The goddamn hashtag? I'm sure that was a major adjustment to your life. OK... I was one of the people who had grown to love the old crest as well. I thought it was fine, and I loved the fact that we were the only club left that was still on its original badge. But what did you expect? They'd go through to trouble of having a re-brand, including a tweak of the club name, and the badge wasn't going to reflect it? The badge is great, BTW. They included many aspects that us internet villagers had been BEGGING to have included for a long time. The name of the city. The original badge. 96. The nod to the state flag. Hell, they even threw the checkerboard in to give a shout out to the fans. But as much as I disagree with you on the rest, this is where everything could go to hell in a hurry. The reason why I was very hesitant towards the re-brand before it happened -- and the reason why I got on board quickly after, and we're getting nervous again now -- is because they kept the colors. He recognized that the color of a team's main jersey is the single most visible thing that creates that visceral connection to the fan base. We click on a game, or show up at the stadium, and we see those yellow kits, and we just "feel" it. We know right away -- these are our guys. It's what we know. So whatever else changes, we see the team colors and we know that something's still right with the universe. Don't f*** with it. Now... I'm not saying we're not allowed to have a different color jersey. Far from it. While a lot of other people were always begging for a third jersey, I was always wondering what the point of that was when we never wore our second jerseys. By all means -- have an alternate jersey that goes completely off track. Fine. Nothing wrong with switching it up occasionally. But if they do so AT THE EXPENSE of the gold kits, that's a terrible idea. And don't criticize the fan base's reaction for your own lack of clarity in passing the information along. I also don't get why you'd create a badge with the old colors dominating it only to turn around a year or two later and go "ah, this just in..."
The seats in our stadium are yellow. Our brand new logo contains yellow. Precourt has stated he likes black and yellow as our colors. Calm the F down people. It's a gd jersey. This whole episode is symptomatic of the Twitter culture. My opinion matters (no it doesn't). I'm gonna yell at the multimillionaire owner of a professional sports team (shows a lack of respect by you). It's his club. He can do what he wishes. Any of you are free to buy the club from him. As a good business owner, he doesn't want to piss off his customers. The whole Twitter shit just reminds me of how different life is when your first worry is survival and not what's currently between Bruce jenner's legs.
, I love the yellow kits. Perhaps they will be back a lot sooner than expected - sorta like classic Coke. But they too were a change from our original 96 jersey that I still wear on special occasions. The yellow kits were a good change IMO. But only IMO. Perhaps there were some people out there who were standing on the ledge when the 96 bumble bee jerseys changed. But hey, passion is fun. What I struggle with is the mentality that supporting the FO is embarrassing and those who do, should be insulted. I think constant criticism and negativity is far more embarrassing. I have been both a supporter and a critic of the current FO. I will likely continue to be both. In general, I tend to grant the benefit of doubt. And overall, I have actually liked the directional changes. Do I agree with changing the kits? No real opinion yet. I don't have enough information. Do I think it is some colossal offense? Nah. Do I think there are other things we should be focused on? Hell yes. So what makes me sick? Watching the cool goal Mix got against Germany this week and wondering what might have been. Watching Giovinco light things up as I realize we will never be able to pay a player $7m. Never, that is, until we start filling the stadium and building our fan base - Something, by the way, that is difficult to do without positive energy.
I know you're being your normal self breaking things down to an absurd degree, but my whole point, which I'm pretty sure you understand, is that it's been a series of changes. So while there's no cause to lose sleep over the mascot, I think in total you can see that they are tinkering with all of the club's iconography. Just because you are fine with 3/5ths of the change doesn't mean dude hasn't shown a pattern of conduct.
Let me get this straight. There is a spoiled brat kid in California who doesn't like yellow so his dad is looking to change the color of a franchise's primary jersey, angering a good percentage of the fan base? A worse thought yet--personnel decisions might come from the kids?!?!?
Maybe the crest will be monochrome black-and-white. Which makes all such crests dull. What sucks is that back in the old days, there were a lot of MLS teams that wore black or white. Then there was this explosion of color, and fans could identify with their team based on a color. I hate to think the trend is going backward. Monochrome...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Where did you read that? I looked at his twitter feed (though admittedly I don't know shit about twitter, so I might have missed it) and didn't see what you are saying, about not "probably" changing the crest.
Putting the "probably" in quotes was poor writing by me. I just don't trust a thing Precourt says. He's a snake oil salesman. Sure, Black and Yellow will always be our colors he says. So if we do away with a yellow primary jersey and take on the Columbus city flag in a "funky" new jersey what sense does it make to keep the black and yellow in the crest? Their is an established pattern here of change for the sake of change The guy has a pattern of changing things as he pleases. He knows that there will be a small army of internet minions who will take up for whatever decision he makes, and shout down anyone who questions his decisions. He can put on blinders and look only at that army and convince himself that's representative of the fan-base as a whole. It's an enormous ego boost for a guy who already has a messiah complex. Onward, Precourt's soldiers.
I agree with @ZipSix here. It's not so much that Precourt changed the hashtag--obviously that's not an important thing (like @KCbus detailed). It is the forced nature of the new "Crew SC" name. We've already discussed the name change in excruciating detail, but having everyone on the broadcast team, the hashtag, and the mascot all include SC at the cost of other things ("96" in the hashtag and "Cat" on the mascot are not a threat to the new brand IMO) seems too heavy handed and forced. It makes the new brand seem lame, ultimately. The new brand would be cooler if it didn't feel so forced. I'm going to hold off on my judgment of this whole situation until the new jerseys are revealed. However, I am of the mind that a banana kit has become this team's brand, despite the fact that the away jersey is a nicer looking thing to wear around town (IMO). Like Napoli sky blue, Liverpool or ManU red, or Brazil's gold...it is nice to have a color that is so clearly identifiable in the league. Black doesn't have that same visual branding/cue. In sum, I'm skeptical that this is a good PR move, but we'll see what the end product looks like in the coming year.
#, so-called name change and mascot are changes that you want to group in with a series of other major changes (Crest and primary kit) to show a history of change? Give me a #breakSC. Those things are so inconsequential that its ridiculous to even mention them. The #hashtagSC is a pointless communication method Honestly, you're nit-picking if #'SC'SC changes the name Crew Cat? Really? You're #addingSC this to the whole thing when the last time you cared or even thought of Crew Cat was when he was in your face preventing you from watching the game like an annoying #capoSC? Even though it was with the #HuntsSC, lets just group the Crewzers into this madness. Why don't we just have Precourt get his money back from the Hunts and lets go back to operation under the stagnant ownership of HSG. Let's get the buddy-system of hiring from within just because you like the guy and because of #loyaltySC or whatever. If acting like the world is #endingSC because of the yellow, maybe you should root for FC Dallas.
We just can't bring ourselves to have 140+ posts on how disappointed we are in the team's play over the last few weeks....
Trust the process. Precourt and our Sporting Director are playing rope-a-dope with the last year and a half of mediocrity. We'll climb the power rankings soon enough.
Give me hashtag or give me death The is going to lead to the Columbus Hashtag Party where we dump all of the hashtags into the Olentangy.
Nope, not leaked to us. This was a timely tip, a bit of good luck, and plain old digging with other contacts.
Just for funsies, why don't you attempt to entertain my point of view for a moment instead of calling for me to support a different team.
Because it had zero connections to the team. It was a twitter tip from a fan about the original Adidas catalog. To put it directly, this did not come from the team.