The American Soccer Crest Thread

Discussion in 'Soccer in the USA' started by xbhaskarx, Sep 1, 2018.

  1. VBCity72

    VBCity72 Member+

    Aug 17, 2014
    Sunny San Diego
    Club:
    Plymouth Argyle FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It would be a great logo if the Dynamo were a baseball team.
     
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  2. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

    San Jose Earthquakes
    United States
    Feb 13, 2010
    NorCal
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The power of good branding!

    How a semi-pro soccer team with a Sasquatch logo arose from a college program shuttered by COVID-19

    In less than a month since its announcement, his new club has sold $24,000 in merchandise online without spending a dollar on marketing. (It probably helps to have Sasquatch in its logo.) It has sold almost 100 season tickets during a pandemic and, again, without any advertising — halfway toward Hitchcock’s goal for the first season. Sponsors have already signed up.

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  3. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That is such a cool story. I want to roadtrip to Boone for a match next year.
     
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  4. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

    San Jose Earthquakes
    United States
    Feb 13, 2010
    NorCal
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    NJ Teamsterz FC New Crest & Spelling Unveiled

    The new look of "Z" on the crest and changed spelling to represent the metro-suburban environment of Bayonne, a peninsula city along the New York City Harbor and the club's deliberate campaign to attract Generation Z to U.S. soccer.

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    :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
     
  5. aetraxx7

    aetraxx7 Member+

    Jun 25, 2005
    Des Moines, IA
    Club:
    Des Moines Menace
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Horrible name and Horrible logo made worse. It reminds me of all of the 90s teams using an X instead of "cks."
     
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  6. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

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

    xbhaskarx Member+

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

    xbhaskarx Member+

    San Jose Earthquakes
    United States
    Feb 13, 2010
    NorCal
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  9. aetraxx7

    aetraxx7 Member+

    Jun 25, 2005
    Des Moines, IA
    Club:
    Des Moines Menace
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Doubleday and Cartwright have a solid history. The Fire Crown is by far their biggest whiff, but I'm guessing that was the previous ownership and management's call, not the design team. Miami and Charlotte are good, but not exceptional. Most of the unboxed logos range from good to great. the current DC logo is a logical evolution/modernization of their original logo. Montreal is a bit too busy; I am terrified of the rebrand watering things down significantly. I am still not sold on the current Quakes logo. Seeing it next to KC makes it look like a weaker flipped version of the same crest. Minnesota can never get enough love for that crest.
    While technically "in house," RBNY is a corporate logo shared by most of their clubs. It's still a good logo. FC Dallas is fairly great. Columbus and StL aren't terrible, but they aren't great.
    The other In house box runs the gamut, doesn't it? Revs is terrible, but iconic. If they ever redesign, the crayon flag has to be incorporated somehow. Philly, Colorado, and Seattle are outstanding. RSL and Vancouver are good. I'm still not sure how I feel about Nashville. The new Houston logo is hot trash. The shape is nice, but the rest of the logo is on par with the Fire crown.

    Now if we could just get back to having more teams with unique kit design elements (stripes, sashes, hoops, bars, gradients, harlequins, etc), that would be great.
    I, for one, am excited that Wolff is fixing the Fire logo. NYC and LAFC (not to mention his other crests) are two of the best in the league.
     
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  10. Pegasus

    Pegasus Member+

    Apr 20, 1999
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I don’t hate the FC Dallas logo but wish they’d based it in their first (Dallas Burn) mascot Islamico which was a big black horse. Just switch bull for horse and voila! That horse was quite impressive and similar to the ones the black riders road in LOTR. Lots of teams use bulls but how many could base on an actual horse in hat roamed their field (oh and don’t try and link it with the old Burn logo lightning flying horse).

    https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020...tory-islamico-mlss-largest-live-animal-mascot
     
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  11. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

    San Jose Earthquakes
    United States
    Feb 13, 2010
    NorCal
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Terrible decision to lose the decades of history that the Montreal Impact name has...

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    They should have kept their name and updated their current crest (center the fleur-de-lis, get rid of the gradients, make the small print like "Impact" readable)...
     
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  12. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

    San Jose Earthquakes
    United States
    Feb 13, 2010
    NorCal
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  13. aetraxx7

    aetraxx7 Member+

    Jun 25, 2005
    Des Moines, IA
    Club:
    Des Moines Menace
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  14. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

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

    1349755968511381504 is not a valid tweet id
     
  15. aetraxx7

    aetraxx7 Member+

    Jun 25, 2005
    Des Moines, IA
    Club:
    Des Moines Menace
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Oh wow. Looks like someone failed to do some homework. Or they paid Bloomington for the rights to a decent city logo/horrible soccer crest.
     
  16. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

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

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  17. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

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

    xbhaskarx Member+

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

    Chesco United Member+

    DC United
    Jun 24, 2001
    Chester County, PA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    I like the Pocono Snow's crest from NPSL.
     
  20. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

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


    Can design by committee ever work? I guess we're about to find out...
     
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  21. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

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

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    Eeehhh... The concept is definitely cool, but when the thread loaded for me, I thought the screen was taking a moment to render the image properly. It looks like someone stretched it vertically about 40% more than they should have.
     
  23. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

    San Jose Earthquakes
    United States
    Feb 13, 2010
    NorCal
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Wondo is Kiowa... it looks vertically stretched because it's in the shape of an arrowhead.

    The W and 8 are easier to see in this version:

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  24. Sawedoff

    Sawedoff Member

    Washington Spirit
    United States
    Aug 9, 2015
    Virginia
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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    This one's kinda cool.
     
  25. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

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