(11-28-2013 12:56 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  Man, there was a website that had basically ALL the helmets of just about EVERY college team out there (I think it was down into DII last I looked).

I wish I could find it again.

Are you speaking of The Helmet Project?

http://nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/

That's the one!

And I kinda like the App State helmet from 1982:

(11-28-2013 01:35 PM)AppinVA Wrote:  

(11-28-2013 08:40 AM)Wild Bill Kelso Wrote:  

(11-28-2013 07:04 AM)AppinVA Wrote:  

(11-28-2013 12:39 AM)Wild Bill Kelso Wrote:  I suppose everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but IMO the "new" old logo is what Appalachian is all about. It seems as though some are ashamed of the school's heritage. Everything was fine with the old Yosef until a bunch of uppity yankees became entrenched in ASU's administration and faculty back in the early 80's. They said the "hillbilly" logo with the corncob pipe and jug wasn't sophisticated enough for our university. Some even went as far as to ban playing of Bluegrass music at university functions. Some of us old farts began saying ASU was trying to become the Harvard of the Hills. ASU was founded by mountain folk and their fierce independence and ability to eek out living in such a hostile and isolated environment is what makes being the Mountaineers so special. Like the folks in Louisiana who embrace their Cajun heritage I am proud to be a Mountaineer. This garbage of dressing him up like a city slicker, as they did with the logo being retired, is just plain idiocy and I, for one, am glad the people in Boone have come to their senses. Interesting how it was the alumni and students who shoved them back in that direction. Now if we can just get the PTB to drop using the yeller and switch back to real gold, the journey will be complete.

Oh by the way Mr Moehler, the helmets App wore during the Brakefield era were some of the best looking in college football.

Amen. Glad to see Floating Head Yosef gone. We should be proud Of our heritage, and the new, old logo states just that. We also need someone to put a long rifle in one of Touchdown Yosef's hands and a shine jug at his feet.

From the day it was unveiled I have referred to that statue as the mad farmer. He looks nothing like Yosef, but like a farmer shooing crows out of his corn field. If we ever were to make a change away from the vintage Yosef, which I hope we never do, I'd be more inclined to go with the statute depicting Daniel Boone sitting around the campfire with his dogs. Leave the Davy Crockett look with the coonskin hat and buckskins with all the fringes to West Virginia.

The Mad Farmer is a good name. It's not a coincidence that the more we've been true to our roots, the more attached the school has become to the region to the west of I-77. If we hope to repliate what ECU has done in the flat lands, we will have to be sure not to turn our backs on our heritage.

Exactly!

(11-28-2013 02:02 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  That's the one!

And I kinda like the App State helmet from 1982:

The "Snow Capped A" created by head coach Mike "ASU Football Ain't" Working. Cool design than never had a shot after he was fired. Last of the Vegas Gold helmets. Mack Brown came in 1982 and changed them to black and they've been that way ever since.

I've always been a huge fan of the "Block A" and it's instantly recognizable to most fans IMO.

The Yosef Head was introduced in 1999 along with this new updated Yosef mascot.



It lasted one game. Granted, it was the 1999 Auburn game which we almost won, but still it was a joke and they went to the cartoon with a stuffed belly and grey beard.



In I believe 2008, they sent him to the gym and gave him a beard coloring kit.



What they really should do is have a Mrs Yosef and then a real-life mascot, like a Daniel Boone, who wears an open flannel shirt or at least something showing off the upper body kind of like ECU's human pirate. He can fire the rifle, carry around a moonshine jug and take pictures with drunk coeds feeling him up.

Replacing a strong, modern logo with a cartoon....sounds about right for Appy.

It's called football tradition. Oh that right, sorry gaSt

(12-02-2013 09:43 AM)Panthersville Wrote:  Replacing a strong, modern logo with a cartoon....sounds about right for Appy.

Smack from a GA St fan how cute.

(12-02-2013 09:43 AM)Panthersville Wrote:  Replacing a strong, modern logo with a cartoon....sounds about right for Appy.

I don't understand why exactly you chose to come in to this topic to talk smack, just trying to troll?


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(11-27-2013 03:14 PM)HiHiYikas Wrote:  

(11-27-2013 02:58 PM)slycat Wrote:  Is the Yosef head the old man with long beard one?

This is the one that's being retired

https://www.irononsticker.com/images/201...nsfer).gif

Looks like a Mortons seafood logo. Good move to retire that.

I wish we'd get rid of the swirling Eagle in a blender logo and go with something a bit less derivative of Boston College.

(12-02-2013 01:14 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 09:43 AM)Panthersville Wrote:  Replacing a strong, modern logo with a cartoon....sounds about right for Appy.

Smack from a GA St fan how cute.

Agreed. You have beat someone (anyone) before you should talk smack.

I don't understand the tradition of this logo but I actually liked the other one. This one makes me think of the Simpsons. Again, I'm not familiar with the tradition...many people may see Beautiful Eagle Creek as a drainage ditch so to each their own.

Eagle Creek - I'll let others be the judge whether it is beautiful...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eagle_...orgia).jpg

(12-02-2013 01:35 PM)Check Yosef Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 09:43 AM)Panthersville Wrote:  Replacing a strong, modern logo with a cartoon....sounds about right for Appy.

I don't understand why exactly you chose to come in to this topic to talk smack, just trying to troll?


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Because logos interest me. This move is clearly a regression.

(12-02-2013 03:21 PM)gsu95 Wrote:  I wish we'd get rid of the swirling Eagle in a blender logo and go with something a bit less derivative of Boston College.

I wanna see that!

(12-02-2013 03:51 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  Eagle Creek - I'll let others be the judge whether it is beautiful...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eagle_...orgia).jpg

Like I said, to each their own. I'm not exactly App State's target market ;-)

(12-02-2013 04:02 PM)Panthersville Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 01:35 PM)Check Yosef Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 09:43 AM)Panthersville Wrote:  Replacing a strong, modern logo with a cartoon....sounds about right for Appy.

I don't understand why exactly you chose to come in to this topic to talk smack, just trying to troll?


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Because logos interest me. This move is clearly a regression.

While to some extent I agree there are strong arguments for and against doing it, keep it off the uni and I'm pretty happy


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(12-02-2013 09:43 AM)Panthersville Wrote:  Replacing a strong, modern logo with a cartoon....

Hate to agree but always believed they took Mammy Yokums' pipe and her husband Pappy Yokum direct from the Li'l Abner cartoon series and movies.
Al Capp cartoon series ran from 1934 until 1977, based in Dogpatch, Arkansas.

(12-02-2013 04:05 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 03:21 PM)gsu95 Wrote:  I wish we'd get rid of the swirling Eagle in a blender logo and go with something a bit less derivative of Boston College.

I wanna see that!

I've always calledl it the flying skunk logo.

It started out in 1997 as our primary logo, and was quickly relegated to second tier status as the University fortunately embraced the secondary logo.



The logo we have now is one I'm growing on, but at least they've really moved away from the earlier primary logo.

(11-27-2013 05:46 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  I hate that bald headed Yosef with a pipe.
Really who wears a beard like that? Looks like something on a goat.
I have always liked the mountain range logo the best.
I know, most like the "Victory Yosef".

Well, in fairness.... it probably would be on a goat at some point.. I mean on and off again, and on and off again..

Just ribbin ya!

Hey.. this is what I think of when I see that old logo.. but then again.. Aint non of my beezness!