The Detroit Lions, long-standing holders of the worst NFL logo have such and ugly look that Detroit fans have taken it upon themselves to design a new logo. According to a March 10th post on Uni-Watch, a blog featured on ESPN.com that obsessively studies “athletic aesthetics” the Detroit News held a public competition for a new look for the Lions.
I recently heard on Sports Center that the Lions will be wearing new uniforms next year, but I can’t confirm if it’s just new jerseys or if the team really is donning a new logo. But, rumors abound that there will be a logo change in 2009. Either way, the Detroit News held an amateur competition for a new look. And here’s the winner by Lonnie Walker…
For all you Point Loma Nazarene University Alumni… does that look familiar? Does it look eerily like our very own PLNU Sea Lion? Like this…
It’s one thing to check out the work of other artists for inspiration, it’s another thing entirely to take their work and simply tweak it and call it your own. If it came down to it, I can’t see how this logo would ever pass muster from a legal standpoint. I will say this, at least our Lion is looking at his prey, the Detroit Lion seems to be thinking about something else. Anyway, for now this is just an amaetur competition, but keep an eye on it because we can’t let a lousy NFL team steal our logo!
I actually like the old one. I think the worst NFL logo award goes to either Jacksonville or Carolina, they look like arena league logos.
Either way, the amature who “designed” this Lions logo obviously copied the Pt. Loma logo.
Wow, I just had a laugh looking at some of the other ones! That is really funny though. Maybe a PLNU Alumn graphic designer lives up in Detroit, ha ha.
What was wrong with the old one? It has vintage appeal.
I like the older Lions logo better than the current one (http://sportslogos.net/logo.php?id=472). But the current one is just so un-dynamic and flat. All that and the color scheme makes me want to take a nap. Gray and blue and a silhouette logo? They can do so much better.
J.R. I’d agree with the Carolina logo, but I actually really like the Jags logo.
Since someone has copied our logo does this mean we can go back to being the politically un-correct but at least they existed Crusaders… and not a lion that comes out of the sea.