Today is a banner day in Winnipeg history. The NHL announced the completion of their deal with local sports and entertainment company True North to bring the Atlanta Thrashers hockey club to Winnipeg. While the mass majority of hockey fans in Winnipeg are literally dancing in the streets and celebrating the return of major league hockey to our city, the media is still searching for answers to a lot of questions about the team. There are a lot of loose ends, but unquestionably the biggest one is in regard to the team’s name.
The frontrunners for name choices, according to the Winnipeg Free Press, are the Jets, Moose and Falcons. Given the NHL’s history in Winnipeg, however, there’s only one name for a team here: the Winnipeg Jets. Many of my Facebook friends have changed their profile pictures to what appears to be a new Jets logo, showing their support for the old brand’s return.
If that does wind up being the team’s name, I wonder if True North’s marketing department has begun to investigate domain names for the team’s website.
If you visit winnipegjets.com right now, you’ll find the homepage of the Canadian Forces Base 17 Wing in Winnipeg.
If this were the homepage of anything else, I don’t think there’d be much of an issue of acquiring the domain. But considering it’s a military website, I wonder if there’s going to be an issue there.
Will the CFB give up their domain and move somewhere with a more SEO friendly URL? Or will this not be an issue because the hockey team will have a different name? Only time will tell. If I were the CFB, I wouldn’t have a problem giving up the domain, but I don’t know how military webmasters think. My inclination is that they’re … militant.
That’s a crappy logo. Fugly.I would not buy a jersey with that on it. why the heck would i wear a frickin dildo on my chest? Learn how to design…
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I thought it was nifty. But I didn’t design it. I don’t think it matters anyway – I have a feeling the team’s not going to be called the Jets anyway.
I think Mr. falcons need to chill… Awesome colors, perfect representation of the city and the jets. New and old come together.. rather have that then the best Manitoba Polar Bears logo
I think it is a great logo! I love the darker colours, and lettering. I also love the Provencher bridge and skyline. I have looked through pretty much all the logos that have been submitted and show up online and this is one of my favourites. I also saw a uniform example that had a jet vapour trail in place of th epiping at the bottom of the jersey – that would look very cool with this logo. Nice job. I think that perhaps the delay on the name decision is a good sign that it may in fact be the Jets. I don’t believe that is what they wanted at first but the public outcry to use the Jets moniker may have them re-thinking their position.
Even if that becomes the official logo. There are going to be 2 to 3 jerseys so I can guarantee that the old Jets logo will find its way to a jersey but i prefer the 2nd generation jets logo rather that the 1st gen logo and DEFINITELY over the proposed 3rd gen logo.
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