I have never been a fan of this Nashville Predators logo. I understand that there are limited options for saber -toothed tigers when it comes to a logo, but this logo looks like a cheap cartoon version of the prehistoric cat. Of the two most important logos that the team has used, it falls too short and he looks like an NHL team logo, but perhaps that’s why the name “predators” is, because even that name feels like it can be better. However, what should be noted is that the other options that the team approached were also pretty terrible options.
The Associated Press Let this newsletter fall on December 19, 1997.
If someone would run a match where “predators”, “Tigers”, “Fury” and “Attack” were the last four options, I actually learned “predators” with my voice. Yes, Tigers would work and offer a number of marketing opportunities, but that may only have increased the rivalry that Nashville has found in the Detroit Red Wings. Fury and Attack are just terrible when one is considering the Predators logo.
I feel that this report is nothing more than a generic update of the Give-Them-Them IS. Those three names are names that you would find in one of the Games of the EA Sports when creating a team. I know that Owen Sound of the OHL is the attack and there have been a handful of anger teams on the continent at different levels, but how does a Tiger logo with Sabre-Tooth fit with one of those names?
The tiger of course fits the name “Tigers”, but the NHL already had a Tigers team when the Hamilton Tigers played from 1920-25. That does not mean that Nashville could not use that name, because I doubt whether someone has a trademark at NHL level, but that name feels much too generic for a saber-toothed tiger logo. I am sure that the Smilodons of Nashville would not work so well either, so they had to wonder why they chose the Sabre-Toothed Tiger as their logo.
On September 25, 1997, Craig Leipold and Jack Diller held a press conference where they have unveiled the logoTwo days before the season tickets were for sale for the 1998-99 season. At that press conference it was explained that “[t]The logo was a reference to a partial Smilodon skeleton that was found in the center of Nashville in 1971 during the construction of the first American National Bank building, now the UBS tower “. With that tie in the established city they simply needed a solid name to build their brand.
According to reports, the three names of “Tigers”, “Fury” and “Attack” were limited from a list of 75 possible names, but Leipold went on and added a name he liked in the last mix – predators. Fans was asked to vote for one of the four names after the logo was revealed and we would be named Nashville on November 13, 1997.
I will ignore the bizarre statement of Leipold that this was “the most investigated name in team sport history”, but having a 2-1 votes for predators is a fairly significant margin, but should we be surprised if the other options were so bad? As I said above, I would vote for predators if I got those four options, so it’s not a broken.
At the end of the day the name the owner wanted the one who finally got the team. I am not saying that owners should not have a say in this matter whether they are investing hundreds of millions of dollars, but in the case of Nashville it feels that “predators” never had any doubt compared to the other three options. If that were the best names of the 75 with which they started, but I wonder what the other 72 were.
Until next time, keep your sticks on the ice!
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