08-22-2019, 04:37 PM
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#61
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by blankall
The Stampede started in 1912....It wasn't some modern marketing gimic. Calgary has a history of farming and ranching, which is genuine. Prior to the discovery of oil, Alberta was primarily as ranching and agricultural economy. I'm not sure what your pre-requisites are for a "real ranching and farming" lifestyle.
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It started in 1912 as a marketing gimic to celebrate cowboy culture and a fading way of life by a guy from New York
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/calgaryh...on-earth-2/amp
It’s always been faux nostalgia for a time passed by that never existed. That was the whole concept. It was offered to Winnipeg. It’s based off of wedicks experience with Buffalo Bills Wild West show.
Last edited by GGG; 08-22-2019 at 04:40 PM.
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08-22-2019, 05:01 PM
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#62
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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FanAttic has officially announced/launched the new hat online:
https://twitter.com/user/status/1164641395535015936
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08-22-2019, 05:04 PM
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#63
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GGG
It started in 1912 as a marketing gimic to celebrate cowboy culture and a fading way of life by a guy from New York
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/calgaryh...on-earth-2/amp
It’s always been faux nostalgia for a time passed by that never existed. That was the whole concept. It was offered to Winnipeg. It’s based off of wedicks experience with Buffalo Bills Wild West show.
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But irrespective of the Stampede's origins, after more than 100 years of smashing success in Calgary it absolutely has become an integral part of the cultural fabric of the city, and by extension the Western culture that it celebrates. It seems silly to me that anyone would attempt to hand-wave away something that is undeniably an essential element of the identity of the city of Calgary.
It's not "fake." It may have been in many respects manufactured, but this only as an honorific exaggeration of something that was always imprinted upon the region—in this case, the agricultural and ranching roots behind Calgary's settlement and growth. It is to the point now where the origins don't even matter anymore—certainly, they matter much less than what the Calgary Stampede has become, and how important it continues to be to the identity of Calgary.
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08-22-2019, 05:11 PM
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#64
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Oct 2018
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I’m the furthest from the type who’s “working to confirm” but a guy at OJs said what we obviously know, full time retros around the horn. Home/away with Horse as 3rd. That type of fashion is trending. It would sell very well.
19 will look beautiful on Horsey.
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08-22-2019, 05:17 PM
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#65
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dube
I’m the furthest from the type who’s “working to confirm” but a guy at OJs said what we obviously know, full time retros around the horn. Home/away with Horse as 3rd. That type of fashion is trending. It would sell very well.
19 will look beautiful on Horsey.
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Interesting, because that seems to contradict a previous tweet from Popowich:
https://twitter.com/user/status/1106982885280477187
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08-22-2019, 05:37 PM
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#66
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
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08-22-2019, 07:52 PM
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#67
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All I can get
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Didn't think about the 40th Anniversary angle, but it makes sense from a marketing perspective.
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08-22-2019, 08:15 PM
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#68
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
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Putting the logo aside, damn that's an ugly hat. The Flames released some beauties around playoff time, including the gorgeous official playoff hat. but these are pretty ugly and the quality seems lacking.
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08-22-2019, 08:50 PM
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#69
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Participant
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Originally Posted by Rando
Putting the logo aside, damn that's an ugly hat. The Flames released some beauties around playoff time, including the gorgeous official playoff hat. but these are pretty ugly and the quality seems lacking.
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Zephyr hats are trash.
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08-22-2019, 09:03 PM
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#70
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Zephyr hats are trash.
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New Era or nothing for me.
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08-22-2019, 09:14 PM
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#71
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Calgary
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Randos Hat link is a bad hat
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08-22-2019, 09:15 PM
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#72
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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I don't care who makes it, I'm still buying one.
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08-22-2019, 09:24 PM
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#73
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
But irrespective of the Stampede's origins, after more than 100 years of smashing success in Calgary it absolutely has become an integral part of the cultural fabric of the city, and by extension the Western culture that it celebrates. It seems silly to me that anyone would attempt to hand-wave away something that is undeniably an essential element of the identity of the city of Calgary.
It's not "fake." It may have been in many respects manufactured, but this only as an honorific exaggeration of something that was always imprinted upon the region—in this case, the agricultural and ranching roots behind Calgary's settlement and growth. It is to the point now where the origins don't even matter anymore—certainly, they matter much less than what the Calgary Stampede has become, and how important it continues to be to the identity of Calgary.
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Winnipeg, Saskatchewan and even Edmonton have the same agricultural and ranching heritage yet don’t slap a cowboy hat and a horse on everything.
I agree that it is a mythology that which Calgary Identity is based
As for the Saddledome the Saddle as part of the western theme did not occur to the origina architect
https://web.archive.org/web/20090122...a-39821fa3f0f9
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Graham and his team never set out to build a stadium with a western theme.
Graham McCourt Architects, now GEC Architecture, was experimenting with a number of designs that would fit the multi-use building's technical and budgetary requirements when the saddle shape "just happened." "There are a lot of factors that go into a building -- acoustics, air volume, mechanical systems, camera positions, structural design," Graham explains. "We were exploring all the options. We did not want to do just another arena barn. The sense of the team was to do something special. It had to be unique in form, character and function, but there was no comment about making a western statement
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It’s interesting that the saddle shape became part of the western mythology of the city.
Anyway I like the horse head logo on hats and shoulders and will stop detailing the thread.
Last edited by GGG; 08-22-2019 at 09:31 PM.
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08-22-2019, 09:26 PM
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#74
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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I just don't get what's wrong with a couple cowboy hats and horses here and there. It's not like the old-timey aesthetic is deterring Calgary from advancing and modernizing as a city. It's all just a part of what Calgary has to offer, nothing more.
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08-22-2019, 10:01 PM
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#75
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Zephyr hats are trash.
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Probably chosen on the cheap because..
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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
I don't care who makes it, I'm still buying one.
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08-22-2019, 10:15 PM
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#76
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Rando
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Yike!! This official playoff hat has too much sweatpants feel to it, and IMHO, far from gorgeous.
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08-22-2019, 10:32 PM
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#77
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GGG
Winnipeg, Saskatchewan and even Edmonton have the same agricultural and ranching heritage yet don’t slap a cowboy hat and a horse on everything...
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Well, yeah. It’s because none of these places are fortunate enough to have the Calgary Stampede. They are all poorer for it.
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08-22-2019, 10:48 PM
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#78
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Dear... God... no.
Leave that abomination of a logo on the trash heap of history where it belongs. Appropriate that it was worn during the worst era of Flames hockey in franchise history.
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08-22-2019, 11:06 PM
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#79
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Split98
Lol, if I must
This was the best re-colouring I came up with without altering Blasty too much. Re-designing the fire is a givin', but so far this was the best balance I could find with the palette
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Awesome work, as per usual.
Maybe a thin strip of gold against the red in the nose flames and the forehead might help spread the pallet around?
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08-22-2019, 11:35 PM
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#80
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Lost at C (of Red)
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That hat looks like they found a box of unsold inventory from the 90’s when they were cleaning up an unused storage closet in the Saddledome after the flood.
Zephyr? Chip & Pepper weren’t available to manufacture the hats?
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