Every once in a while, in a discussuon about our beloved Blasty jersey (long may he rein), there is mention that the jersey was the result of a fan-submitted design for a contest.
This is factually untrue.
The jersey was designed by a nameless New York design firm that also did designs for the Toronoto Raptors and the now long defunct Vancouver Grizzlies, and was the final choice out of 50 intial concepts.
You can read all of this for yourself from [this scanned page](https://i.imgur.com/9x2xAmB.jpg) from the Calgary Herald (assuming that Imgur doesn’t compress the image file into something unreadable).
So if you see somebody who spreads falsehoods of our lord and saviour, kindly drive to their home and beat them with a stick, *or* link them to this post and show them the error of their ways.
Thank you.
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I do remember an RDTV interview back in the day with a local guy that had his design submitted. Something to do with dragons that I loved – being 10 years old.
I suppose that doesn’t mean that all designs were fan submitted but definitely at least one.
Scorch is the only true saviour
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I swear there was a contest in the Sun and a 12 year old submitted a pencil crayon drawing of a firey horse. It was quite different from Blasty, but I wonder if that’s the association made in people’s head?
That firm did some really strong 90s era work. I still see Grizzlies gear in the wild.
F off with your lord and savior crap. Only a 12yo kid who could barely keep the crayons between the lines is capable of this abomination….yet at the same time only a desperate organization would allow something so dumb to come from a logo design artist. “Our team sucks sooo bad that we are losing our adult fan base – please come up with something that only children can appreciate, because the adults have realized that we are clueless”. Young guns era. Bury that shit.
Sorry, what’s that last paragraph?