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LA Rams would like a word with you LA Tigers.
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1964 SFL Offseason
League Logo Controversy
The SFL unveiled a lot of information about the league at the end of the NFA’s season. Along with information about the league’s schedule, which will be 10 games for each team, with the two best records playing in an 11th championship game, dubbed the American Bowl and how teams plan to acquire players among other things, the league also unveiled the league logo, which stirred some controversy. The logo displayed an edited confederate flag within a blue and white shield with a football in the center and an arched SFL above. This logo immediately ruffled some feathers because of the ongoing civil rights movement. That’s because many saw this as a symbol of racism and pro-segregation ideas. Kennedy when asked about it declined to comment at first but issued a statement on the matter, stating that the logo was misrepresented and that the new league stood with it’s new black players during this time and would be reevaluating it’s decisions. The logo has yet to be changed and nothing more has been said from the league. Here is a picture of the league logo:
SFL Teams Unveil Their Identities
The next, less controversial, thing that happened for the SFL was the reveal of the 6 identities. Starting off with the 3 teams that did not hold “Name the Team Contests.”
Atlanta Copperheads: The first team to reveal their identity are the Atlanta Copperheads, named after the venomous snake that's found all across the South. The Copperheads logo is a green copperhead wrapped around a copper letter A. The colors are copper and green, and the uniforms have copper pants and helmets, with a green jersey at home and a white jersey on the road. The team also has a unique set of shoulder loop stripes.
Birmingham Anvils: The second team that unveiled their identity were the Birmingham Anvils. Playing in the Pittsburgh of the South that's named after the industrial capital of the U.K., the Anvils nickname fits perfectly for the city. The logo is the letter B in front of the silhouette of an anvil. The uniforms are a white helmet and pants mixed with a blue jersey at home and a white one on the road.
Texas Roughriders: The third team to reveal their identity are the Texas Roughriders. Playing in the Texas Bowl in Dallas, TX, the Roughriders name fits great. They're named after the Roughriders who fought in the Mexican-American war at the turn of the century as the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Unit. The Roughriders’ logo is a silhouette of a Roughrider over the outline of Texas. The colors are red and silver with a blue star found in the eye of the horse in the logo. Red and Silver were chosen because the team tried to do a red and blue color scheme but were denied since Birmingham had beaten them to that scheme. The uniforms are compiled of a silver helmet and silver pants with a red shirt at home and a white one at home.
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Um, Kennedy is dead by now.
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MyTeamIsDr.Pepper wrote:
The uniforms are compiled of a silver helmet and silver pants with a red shirt at home and a white one at home.
I know it's just a typo, but Texas wearing two jerseys at home, and none on the road is a funny image to me.
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You mean the Spanish-American war. I'm a historian.
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BlogDunk wrote:
Um, Kennedy is dead by now.
Although JFK was assassinated prior to this point in time, James Kennedy is the Commissioner of the SFA.
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Dan O'Mac wrote:
BlogDunk wrote:
Um, Kennedy is dead by now.
Although JFK was assassinated prior to this point in time, James Kennedy is the Commissioner of the SFA.
JFK was what I thought he was talking about. #MFGA
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for the Texas RoughRiders, I would flip the cowboy around so that the horse's star eye is in the Dallas area.
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This logo will probably be around for a while, but please try not to mix politics and sports, the former topic should be left alone.
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BlogDunk wrote:
This logo will probably be around for a while, but please try not to mix politics and sports, the former topic should be left alone.
Strongly disagree. As much as we dislike it, politics and sports have been intertwined forever. This, however, is history not politics. 1964, the year this is occurring, was a major pivotal era for civil rights, evidenced by the Civil Rights Act that year. Oddly enough, it was this same day that year. (July 2nd) To say such an historical event did not impact the sporting arena would be glossing over historical facts and whitewashing history, especially with an influx of African American athletes in sports during that time after tireless work by Jackie Robinson and others during the 40's and 50's.