Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The 30 Worst Sports Logos of All Time: #28

As my boy 'Moo and I were sitting through our training class, he turned me on to a website called LogoShak that has a remarkably extensive collection of logos from sports teams and events. Since I needed something new for the blog (and because November has 30 days), I decided to list the 30 worst sports logos of all time. I designated 'Moo as creative director of the project since he a.) found the site before I did, b.) has a good eye for a bad logo, and c.) agreed to go through half of the logos on the site so that I didn't have to spend even more time than I already do with unproductive exercises. I will be listing one per day for the next 30 days. There was no strict criteria; it just had to look ugly. Sometimes the logos were too busy, some of them had terrible color schemes, and some were just way too plain. Regardless, we tried to put together list of the all-time worst for your enjoyment (or displeasure, whichever). Let's keep this train rolling...

#28 - St. Peter's College Peacocks


Let's be honest, having a peacock as your mascot is pretty legit. There's no beef with that here whatsoever (or should I say 'poultry'? hehehehe, HEEYYY-OHHHHH). Anyway, I don't mind teams that have weird nicknames, nor do I judge their athletic teams because of it. That being said, I'm going to judge them just as fairly (harshly?) as I would any other team with a bad logo. Just because I like your mascot doesn't mean I'm going to like your logo (you'll figure this out soon enough if you haven't already). Such is the case with St. Peter's. How can you have a mascot that, in real life, is so ostentatiously draped in color and character, yet you have one of the more drab logos in the NCAA? I mean, seriously, think about this. A real peacock is vibrant and proud of its feathers; the thing above looks like a pissed off blue jay standing in front of a really big Ritz cracker; I dare you to tell me otherwise. I know that St. Peter's is an old Catholic school steeped in tradition and all of that, but at least update your athletics logo to this century (heck, even the 20th century would be nice). And, while we're at it, why does that bird have a hat on? Is that his way of showing school spirit? I need to know these things; I lose enough sleep at night wondering about less interesting things as is.

~~ Lank

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