Bengals make fun of Browns for April Fool's Day
- Thread starter HawkFan72
- Start date
Kennedyin92
New member
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2014
- Messages
- 493
- Reaction score
- 0
Hope the Browns can take a joke. Surely they must realize what a farce that logo "change" was...
ZorntoLargent
Active member
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2013
- Messages
- 1,510
- Reaction score
- 7
Bengals can make fun all they want, but the original Bengal uniform was a DIRECT copy of the Browns uniform.
Err, actually P Brown just to his design with him when he went to coach the Bengals. The only difference? It said "BENGALS" on the helmet.
"The city's world-renowned zoo was also home to a rare white Bengal Tiger. However, possibly as an insult to Art Modell, or possibly as an homage to his own start as a head coach to the Massillon Tigers, Brown chose the exact shade of orange used by his former team. He added black as the secondary color. Brown chose a very simple logo: the word "BENGALS" in black lettering. One of the potential helmet designs Brown rejected was a striped motif that was similar to the helmets adopted by the team in 1981 and which is still in use to this day; however, that design featured yellow stripes on a turquoise helmet which were more uniform in width."
Err, actually P Brown just to his design with him when he went to coach the Bengals. The only difference? It said "BENGALS" on the helmet.
"The city's world-renowned zoo was also home to a rare white Bengal Tiger. However, possibly as an insult to Art Modell, or possibly as an homage to his own start as a head coach to the Massillon Tigers, Brown chose the exact shade of orange used by his former team. He added black as the secondary color. Brown chose a very simple logo: the word "BENGALS" in black lettering. One of the potential helmet designs Brown rejected was a striped motif that was similar to the helmets adopted by the team in 1981 and which is still in use to this day; however, that design featured yellow stripes on a turquoise helmet which were more uniform in width."
rideaducati
New member
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2012
- Messages
- 5,414
- Reaction score
- 0
ZorntoLargent":31wm6pu4 said:
Well at least the Bengals were smart enough to ACTUALLY change theirs and to not name their team after a coach.
It's really short term thinking to name a football team after the owner or a coach, especially when both are likely to change at some point. Paul Brown actually tried to name them the Panthers, but a businessman in Cleveland owned the rights to that name. Some say they named the team after the "Brown Bomber" Joe Lewis, it was still a bit of an awkward name to go with as there was no mascot they could use.
The people of Cleveland voted for their name and they fought like hell to keep it when Modell moved the team, so let them have it. It doesn't mean we can't make fun of them for doing so. They also deserve all sorts of flack for their changing of the orange helmet to an orange helmet. And to think, they paid some firm to come up with that change.
TheRealDTM
New member
Kennedyin92":1xpuk19s said:
After seeing the new (leaked potentially real) jerseys I don't think they were wholly unwarranted.
Seahawkfan80
Well-known member
- Joined
- Nov 5, 2011
- Messages
- 11,216
- Reaction score
- 616
Since they have the DAWG POUND....maybe they should name them after a dawg. That way they can promo the team a bit bettah or no. I shall ask my buddy the Dawg Pound Fan. LOL
Similar threads
Latest posts
-
Mike MacDonald removes Carroll related Seahawks imprint- Latest: oldhawkfan
-
-
-
-
-
-
-