OT: Spartan Logo Change
http://www.spartantailgate.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl…;
Apparently there are some rumors about a new Sparty logo, I've heard this from some Spartan Alumni too...
I feel like the more creative folks on this board could come up with some suggestions for the new logo.
Edit: Mlive link with proposed new logo.
http://blog.mlive.com/ganggreen/2010/01/michigan_state_spartans_to_unv…
Ridiculous
January 21st, 2010 at 3:51 PM ^
Cue ski mask jokes in five...four...three...two...one...
January 21st, 2010 at 5:43 PM ^
Seriously, did you guys know that MAC/MSC/MSU used to have winged helmets just like Big Brother, back in the 1930's-40's?
Here's a terrific picture of Tom Harmon (Evashevski blocking) playing against "State" (Michigan State College at the time) in Ann Arbor.
I believe that the Spartans' (Were they Spartans then? I think so) colors were black and silver at the time. And yes, that is a block "S" parked in the middle of the front of their helmets.
http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/helmet/harmmsl.jpg
(Somebody has this photo as their avatar, I know; I have a big version of this photo; it is a beauty. I honestly don't know if this photo is from 1940 or 1939, because both games were in Ann Arbor I think. It is probably 1940.)
January 21st, 2010 at 6:06 PM ^
those are hand-me-downs that michigan gave them when they outgrew them.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:31 PM ^
Pretty much everyone had wings on the helmets then; it was part of the leather stitching. Fritz Crisler's innovation was not the wings, but the three stripes. Our wings only became noteworthy after we decided to keep them when the sport went to plastic helmets.
January 21st, 2010 at 8:36 PM ^
story...
This is an old, standard Bentley Historial Library entry on the subject:
http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/helmet/mhelmet.htm
The entry is pretty much authoritative as far as I know. (It also corrects me on the date of the Harmon-Evy photo, as 1939.)
Anyway, a standard-model Spalding FH-5 that anybody could order had the three stripes. Maybe, before Spalding came out with the FH-5 in 1937, Crisler had worked up the design for the Princeton Tigers, and Spalding copied it for 1937. I don't know. Before my time, as they say.
By the way, I could never understand why the Spartans ever strayed from the 1966-68 uniform design. They have tried one fugly thing after another since then.
I'm glad that these guys are just a sweet memory of the golden days of Michigan State:
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/mihr/33.2/images/smith_fig01…
The '66 Spartan helmet also had a smaller Spartan image on it, that is amazingly similar to the USC helmet-Trojan. Why they junked that, I'll never understand. It's worked okay for the Trojans.
http://img1.scorehere.com/img/product/ITEM-0008309/s/120/image.png
January 21st, 2010 at 6:53 PM ^
I've seen that picture many times, but I never knew that they were playing MSU, or that MSU ever had winged helmets.
January 21st, 2010 at 3:51 PM ^
A school with no history is forced to create its own by changing the logo and manipulating its football uniform repeatedly. White stripe on the helmet, remove the white stripe, bring back the white stripe, S on the helment, spartan head on the helmet, Michigan State on the uni, STATE on the uni, Michigan State on the uni...
January 21st, 2010 at 3:59 PM ^
about MSU adopting Oregon's multiple uniform combinations...
Awesome.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:24 PM ^
If this is true, my day has been made.
January 21st, 2010 at 3:52 PM ^
It says I have to be registered to see the content... Yeah, no. Anyhow, I think the Hamburgler would be fitting due to their recent spate of "off-field incidents".
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:22 PM ^
Is that logo for their co-eds or their football team?
January 21st, 2010 at 8:35 PM ^
From a distance it looks like a facial splooge. I can see why they scrubbed that one.
January 21st, 2010 at 3:57 PM ^
Echoing what Captainlonghair said, this is what happens when you have little in the tradition of football or athletics.
I personally like the original better, but if they think it is going to make them world beaters then I can see why they did it.
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:49 PM ^
What they think is that it will make the school fit in better when they play 300 as the hype video before EVERY game.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:01 PM ^
If they're looking for a whole uniform change I suggest they use Syracuse as a guide:
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:02 AM ^
I didn't know Dirk Digler played for the Orangemen.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:05 PM ^
but you can't put a price tag on incorporating Dantonio's furrowed "Sam the Eagle" brow into the famous Spartan logo.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:07 PM ^
Double post.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:07 PM ^
I'm so glad that Michigan has its own identity. How many schools in the country are known mononymously as "State"? Putting a big "S" on your athletic gear is very creative and original...
January 21st, 2010 at 5:20 PM ^
Haha. That guy definitely came to mind when I posted that.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:14 PM ^
Really, 300 is starting to get a little old. I'm sure Ole Miss isn't going on and on about The Blind Side as much as they are about 300 even though that movie is still new and still free game for the Rebs to talk about.
Also, I would like to take the time to thank everybody in the Athletic Department even remotely responsible for making sure we were least identifiable via our mascot. I would especially like to thank Fritz Crisler for giving us the helmet we have and will continue to use with little to no variation for the rest of our existence (Its cool if Princeton wants to stay in, since they technically got it from Fritz first, but Delaware seriously needs to get their own idea).
January 21st, 2010 at 4:20 PM ^
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January 22nd, 2010 at 12:33 AM ^
I was being too cautious.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:21 PM ^
I hope no one got paid for that work.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:21 PM ^
Why wouldn't they change their logo? It's been two years hasn't it?
January 21st, 2010 at 4:22 PM ^
I think it looks uglier than the one that they have now. The older one looked a little more realistic the new one looks like a little kid drew it
January 21st, 2010 at 9:06 PM ^
I'm pretty sure that a little kid drew all of their logos.
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:41 AM ^
Had nothing to do with the design.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:25 PM ^
I sure hope they can create a vector version of the logo before they slap that bitmap one on helments or center court at Breslin.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:45 PM ^
The new logo looks like a comic book rendition. I think if they told no one of the change very few people would have even noticed. Some MSU fans I know are losing their minds about this, though.
January 21st, 2010 at 5:01 PM ^
... like the Slap Chop. Simple rinsing, no hand washing.
January 21st, 2010 at 5:24 PM ^
You're gonna love my nuts.
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:30 AM ^
Fettuccine, Martini, Linguine, Bikini...
January 21st, 2010 at 4:52 PM ^
the new dude got his nose broken.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:45 PM ^
Or (if you look at it upside-down) is that supposed to be a Nike swoosh jutting into the top of the helmet?
January 6th, 2011 at 7:23 PM ^
you made me laugh out loud! That was freaking funny.
January 21st, 2010 at 7:59 PM ^
I can't really decide which one I like less. They both look pretty bad.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:43 PM ^
Azmsufan (comment) is a seasoned cynic:
They know what they are doing. We all need to go buy new stuff now
Sounds like the reasoning behind new editions for college textbooks.
And none of the Sparties in the comment section likes the new one better.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:43 PM ^
Because the Spartan logo is so timeless and is a bigger deal than Michigan's block M.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:44 PM ^
...made it where it would be relatively easy for that guy with the logo tattoo to update it. LOL.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:49 PM ^
Came up with a better one, thanks to LongLiveBo and Misopogon.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:56 PM ^
it sure worked for the Lions, didn't it?
January 21st, 2010 at 5:04 PM ^
and make their logo a picture of Gerard Butler's sweaty abs?
January 21st, 2010 at 5:04 PM ^
basically trashed the new logo. Said his dog would take a crap that looks better than that new logo. Took the piece of paper with the picture on it, ripped and crumpled it up and threw it away. It was an entertaining couple minutes.
January 21st, 2010 at 5:07 PM ^
From the mlive.com article:
"The logo redesign is 'the result of a two-year collaboration between MSU Athletics and a team of top designers from Nike.'"
It took a week to make that slight change in the logo. It took a year and 51 weeks for the "team of top designers from Nike" to develop a system of simple words and hand gestures, so that they could explain the change to the MSU administrators.