QC Flames new logo?

[Hoody]

This was in an e-mail I recieved from the Mark of the Quad Cities welcoming the Flames to town. I believe we have a logo.

Hoodyhttp://photos.imageevent.com/hoody/farminfo/websize/LOGO_FLAMING_BLACK_C.jpg

[Biff]

Way to steal the official announcement thunder. If this IS the new logo, then I'm perfectly happy. Flaming C with a Flaming Q and the two don't look like they're having intercourse. Now...put this logo on a RED jersey, and fill the Mark's stands with it and you can have your very own QC of Red.

[rockstar]

A bit too big/busy for my liking, and a tad too obvious IMO. But if that's what it is, I'm not overly upset.

Biff, nice pun.

[Biff]

Biff, nice pun.

Thanks. I'm here all week. Try the veal.

[rockstar]

After a 45 second photoshop hack-job, here is what would have preferred the logo to be (obviously not perfect but you get the idea):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/evanresnik/QC.jpg


Something along the lines of this, maybe just so the players could move around in their jerseys.

[Azure]

The original looks good.

[KevanGuy]

Didnt one of the QC'ers suggest that logo on pretty much day 1?

[Barnes]

Here's my take.

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/2341/logoflamingblackckz1.jpg

Although I don't think the Flames will go in this direction.

[Juventus3]

Why not just the Q?

[Reggie Dunlop]

After a 45 second photoshop hack-job, here is what would have preferred the logo to be (obviously not perfect but you get the idea)

That looks like a "G."

It's not the Guildford Flames.

http://www.eurohockey.net/logos/uk/guilf.gif

[Reaper]

Why not just the Q?
They wouldn't just use the Q because the team is not located in the city of Quad. They're not the Quad Flames. They're the Quad City Flames.

[JBR]

Didnt one of the QC'ers suggest that logo on pretty much day 1?

That would be me

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/yycflames/logo_flames.jpg

[Juventus3]

They wouldn't just use the Q because the team is not located in the city of Quad. They're not the Quad Flames. They're the Quad City Flames.

You're right. That would never work.


Signed,

http://www.sportslogos.net/images/Baseball/AL/NYY_7205.gif

[Drunk Skunk]

Well, now that it's been 'released,' I don't know that I'll be going all the way over for the little cerimony. I like it, though.

[KevanGuy]

That would be me

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/yycflames/logo_flames.jpg

No, not that one. The one with both letters. But, whatever. Is the logo official now?

[Robbob]

Is this official then?

[CaptainCrunch]

Here's my take.

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/2341/logoflamingblackckz1.jpg

Although I don't think the Flames will go in this direction.

Looks like an O dryhumping a C.

Disgusting.

[Reggie Dunlop]

There was a limited timeline for logo creation (the need to get get it out to the public quickly after the snap decision to move into the QC).

Not surprisingly, it's a derivative logo.

[Hack&Lube]

It's really too busy...they should have stuck with a single Q. Skip the C.

[cgy2london]

That looks like a "G."

It's not the Guildford Flames.

http://www.eurohockey.net/logos/uk/guilf.gif


Go bees

[Drunk Skunk]

http://www.intotheboards.net/hockey2/uploads/1/quadcity.gif

[Joborule]

This logo looks so lazy, lol

[Bobblehead]

Doesn't look great, doesn't look bad. It will be interesting to see how it looks on a jersey.

[Sylvanfan]

Well....a Flaming Q just as I feared.....That could either be brilliant or offensive...

[Drunk Skunk]

Calgary has been ripping off our logo for years.

[ricoFlame]

jeez, they could have been a bit more adentureous with the logo, it is the minor leagues after all.

[Drunk Skunk]

I actually prefer something simple and understated. Too many teams have cartoon logos(including the former Mallards) or other, way out there, logos. Simplicity is the best in this case, I think.

A dragon would have been cool, though.

[jdoggivjc]

They had the pictures of what the jerseys will look like at the revealing. I got pics of them, but for whatever reason this site will not allow me to post attachments (can someone fix that?)

Anyway, A lot of us were right as to what logos were going to be used - the QC on the front; I was right about the Calgary logo being on the right shoulder, and there's another logo in the works for the right shoulder.

Basically, similar to the Calgary jerseys - for the white jersey, it's a red w/ yellow outline QC, for the red jersey, it's a black w/ yellow outline QC.

[Drunk Skunk]

Upload them to photobucket and link them here. Or just email them to me and I can link them.

[Ruttiger]

Not a lot of originality there. Maybe from the same guy that came up with the Flames Central logo. But yeah, time constraints may well have had something to do with that.

[jdoggivjc]

Upload them to photobucket and link them here. Or just email them to me and I can link them.

Good idea - thanks

Sorry the quality's pretty lousy - I used my cellphone and it was a little on the dark side.

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z203/jdoggivjc/whitejersey.jpg?t=1181878987

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z203/jdoggivjc/redjersey.jpg?t=1181879068

[browna]

Good idea - thanks

Sorry the quality's pretty lousy - I used my cellphone and it was a little on the dark side.

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z203/jdoggivjc/whitejersey.jpg?t=1181878987

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z203/jdoggivjc/redjersey.jpg?t=1181879068

Thanks for that...whats below the neck line...just the tie ups? Tie ups on the white...that would be new.
And whats on the bottom middle of the back of the jersey?

Also, it looks like a smaller name bar on the back...different font maybe coming?

Logical to wonder if this is a direct preview into the newly designed Calgary jersey too? If so, a bit busy along the sides and bottom.

[Drunk Skunk]

Stupid RBK Edge jerseys .......

[jdoggivjc]

for edge jerseys, they're not horrible. however, call me a traditionalist. maybe these new unis will have the same appeal as the composite ball had in the nba and the nhl and ahl will clamor back for the original jersey.

[Drunk Skunk]

I give it two full seasons before they are back to the original style. I know there's alot of people in the game-worn jersey collecting community that aren't happy.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Logical to wonder if this is a direct preview into the newly designed Calgary jersey too? If so, a bit busy along the sides and bottom.

Yup. No reason not to think that those jerseys are identical to what the NHLers will wear (different logo, of course).

Methinks we've got ourselves a scoop.

[Prototype]

Shoulda stuck with just the Q

[Resolute 14]

The logo is pretty bland, but meh. The vertical striping is horrible though. I wish for RBK to suffer a thousand bankruptcies for what they are doing to the look of hockey jersies.

[tanguay'sstillgood]

Yup. No reason not to think that those jerseys are identical to what the NHLers will wear (different logo, of course).

Methinks we've got ourselves a scoop.

Ya, thats the first thing i thought as well. Not terrible, but a step back from last years jerseys.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

I'm not a fan of the logo or jersey design.

As another poster said, a dragon or something would have been a little more original and probably a heck of a lot cooler.

The RBK jersey style just looks like they're trying to push a more 'modern' look onto us fans.........what is wrong with the old-time look??

Not a big fan.

[NSFL]

Looks like a practice jersey more than anything you would play in.

[Thunderball]

crap... I bet thats what we're treated to... similar, but just different enough to render our old jerseys visibly obsolete.

I hate freaking "rbk"

[Drunk Skunk]

Excitement for hockey in Q-C heating up

By Don Doxsie | Friday, June 15, 2007 No comments posted. (http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/06/15/sports/doc467213d0355cb061725103.txt#qccomments) | Rate this article (http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/06/15/sports/doc467213d0355cb061725103.txt#rate) | Default (http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/06/15/sports/doc467213d0355cb061725103.txt#) | Large (http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/06/15/sports/doc467213d0355cb061725103.txt#)
The design of the Quad-City Flames’ new logo wasn’t really much of a surprise or a secret.
The American Hockey League team’s new logo was included in an e-mail sent to patrons of The Mark of the Quad-Cities on Thursday morning. And as co-owner Kevin Murphy stood waiting to pull the drapes off the logo at Sully’s Pub in Davenport on Thursday night, he was wearing a black shirt with the logo emblazoned on it. He suddenly realized it and slapped his hand over his heart to cover it.

The new logo — a large red

Q-C with flames flickering off the back — is very much like that of the parent Calgary Flames. It’s exactly what almost everyone expected.

What was unexpected was that more than 200 people would jam into the small northeast Davenport establishment to witness the unveiling.

“Hopefully, this is an indication of what we’re going to see when the season gets here,” team president Tim Taylor said.

The gathered fans may have been there as much for the free hors d’ouvres and souvenirs, but they applauded wildly both before and after the unveiling.

“I think this just shows that the excitement for hockey is back in the Quad-Cities,” Murphy said.

“We really didn’t advertise this thing that well and look at the turnout. I was excited when I pulled into the parking lot and saw how many people were here.”

Both Taylor and Murphy said they already have seen evidence of the renewed enthusiasm in season ticket sales.

Murphy said many fans signed up for tickets at Thursday’s gathering. He thinks many of those who had Quad-City Mallards tickets in the glory days of the 1990s are drifting back to the new team.

“We’re seeing them come back from every level,” he said. “It’s not just the middle-class fans or the upper-class fans. They’re all coming back.”

http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/06/15/sports/doc467213d0355cb061725103.txt

[Barnes]

Well fired up ol' Photoshop.....

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5931/redflamesjerseycx6.jpg

I'll do the whites tomorrow.

[Barnes]

Okay. One more for tonight.
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/2499/redjerseyqcez4.jpg

[Joborule]

I'm not a fan of the logo or jersey design.

As another poster said, a dragon or something would have been a little more original and probably a heck of a lot cooler.

The RBK jersey style just looks like they're trying to push a more 'modern' look onto us fans.........what is wrong with the old-time look??

Not a big fan.
Old time looks get old.

Whats wrong with the old stadiums/arenas that are demolished?

You have to change eventually.

[JerzeeGirl]

Maybe it's just me, but I really liked the logo that they used in Omaha and it's too bad the organization didn't try and do something in that vein in the new location. Not that the new jersey designs are awful....just as someone said above, they look a little....lazy imho.

Altho maybe someone can confirm (as I really can't remember why I think I heard this somewhere) but didn't Rbk say they wanted to get away from cartoon type logos and go more to text or something? This could just be a half drunk pseudo remembering so ignore at will....

[jdoggivjc]

yeah, I was hoping for something a little bit more orignial. look at the iowa stars - it's generally the same theme as the dallas stars, yet it's done in their own style. i would have preferred something a little bit more creative and original.

At least, however, there is another logo coming. our left shoulder patch is TBD, which leads me to believe it's probably going to be a logo that pays homage to the quad city mallards.

[Textcritic]

Maybe it's just me, but I really liked the logo that they used in Omaha and it's too bad the organization didn't try and do something in that vein in the new location...
No, it is not just you. In fact, I would go as far as to suggest that the Knights Logo was among the best soports logos ever—especially within the past fifteen years.

[QuadCityImages]

I like the simplicity and clear tie-in with the parent organization. But I'm not a big enough hockey fan to buy a jersey, so my opinion doesn't matter that much.

[tonyrock1983]

my opinion on the logo is that it is ok. i would have liked something different, but what we got looks good. another thing is most (if not all) ahl clubs that share the same name as their nhl team have similar logos.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Old time looks get old.

Whats wrong with the old stadiums/arenas that are demolished?

You have to change eventually.

Pretty massive difference between run-down arenas and hockey sweaters/logos, no?

Or do you think the Leafs, Canadiens, Blackhawks, Rangers, Red Wings and Bruins should all change their logos just because they are old?

Just because RBK decides to go with a new look for the jersey design doesn't automatically mean it's cooler or newer or more hip........just means it's different.

Different isn't always better just because it's newer.

[tonyrock1983]

one thing we all have to remember the jersey designs we see are based off pictures taken with a cell phone. lets hold of judgment until all is said and done.

[jdoggivjc]

gotta say, i love how canadians call hockey jerseys "sweaters"...

[Hemi-Cuda]

gotta say, i love how canadians call hockey jerseys "sweaters"...

that stems to way back to the early days of hockey. players didn't have any kid of upper body protection and they literally wore sweaters, as the last Vancouver team to win a cup displays

http://www.geocities.com/kinhobo/kenora/1912vancouver.jpg

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

gotta say, i love how canadians call hockey jerseys "sweaters"...

...then I think you'll get a kick out of this:

http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/films/film.php?sort=director&director=Cohen%2C+Sheldon&id=13316

[NSFL]

...then I think you'll get a kick out of this:

http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/films/film.php?sort=director&director=Cohen%2C+Sheldon&id=13316


I must have seen that in every single french class I've ever been in. French and English. God, memories.

[Joborule]

Pretty massive difference between run-down arenas and hockey sweaters/logos, no?

Or do you think the Leafs, Canadiens, Blackhawks, Rangers, Red Wings and Bruins should all change their logos just because they are old?

Just because RBK decides to go with a new look for the jersey design doesn't automatically mean it's cooler or newer or more hip........just means it's different.

Different isn't always better just because it's newer.
Logo is team idenity. That neccassarily could never get old because it's a image that they are reconized by.

But jersey wise, updating to an better fabric which can give an advantage to players over these older jerseys is never a bad thing. Almost all leagues have changed their jerseys fabric one time or another in the past 30 years.

It's been done in the past before after all.

[Jay Random]

But jersey wise, updating to an better fabric which can give an advantage to players over these older jerseys is never a bad thing. Almost all leagues have changed their jerseys fabric one time or another in the past 30 years.


True. That still doesn't make the vertical stripes a good idea.

Improving the fabric is one thing; switching from a good design to a poor one is another. There is absolutely nothing about the physical garment that requires it to be tacky. :p

[Dr. Zvyagin]

I wish we could have been a little more creative with the logo.

[jdoggivjc]

I wish we could have been a little more creative with the logo.

I love the handle, man. Those were some great memories - Zyvagin, Topor, McFarlane, Tkatch (which is also my last name)...

[Tim KILLR Daniels]

I was a Mallards fan for a long time.I like the new look;I love the AHL and I love having glass seats.It's going to be a great season of hockey!!!:ph34r:

[Hoody]

Welcome aboard, Killr. Hope to see you around here more, and at the games.

Hoody

[Drunk Skunk]

Nice to see old fans are returning.

[HOOT]

Its weird how everyone keeps mentioning how it is too busy. I don't find it that bad, very obvisious but it shows what team they are playing under that is for sure.

Plus when you compare it to the Knights logo it really ain't that busy.

Look how disgusted Darrly was when he saw it ;)

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/topstory/sports/ahl_flames0328.jpg

[Drunk Skunk]

That's the exact same look I've made when I saw someone's baby for the first time. It's the "Oh my God this is hideous, but I can't look repulsed" look.

[Hemi-Cuda]

did they use 2 different logos in Omaha? when i search for the logo, i get this

https://www.strategicairandspace.com/membership/membershipimages/OmahaKnights.gif

but on the players jerseys there is a much cleaner one, which IMO looks awesome. looking at it now i'm actually quite sad that it's gone

http://press.creighton.edu/100705/images/knights.jpg