HardcoreLegend Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I was watching Ken Burns' Baseball this past weekend and was thinking about the Louisville Greys and their short yet scandalous existence. It got me thinking, "Grey Sox", huh..what could have been. Did alittle research and discovered that the longest Major League team to exist in Louisville, Kentucky was the Louisville Colonels. Louisville has the 17th highest population in the United States, higher than Washington DC, Atlanta, Cleveland, Kansas City, Oakland, Miami, Minneapolis, and Arlington. Things started turning in my head. What if they stayed and kept Honus Wagner? What if they had existed in the National League all this time? What if they had been bought at the turn of the century by Hillerich & Bradsby Co. to promote their top star Honus Wagner (the original spokesman) and attempted to change team name to Sluggers, but faced backlash from community for being unpatriotic? What if some 90 years later, the team faced it's first new ownership with a purchase by Louisville based Yum! Brand Restaurants. Yum Brands! would build a state of the art stadium, incorporating many of Bradsbury Stadiums classic designs but with a wide variety of tie-ins from it's various restaurants. Even though considered unpopular, the Yum! executives replace the lovable old 'Colonel Woodswing' with 'The Colonel' from their KFC stores. Anyways, all of that aside, I dummied up some uniforms based on some stuff from the various Louisville minor league teams. This is proabably as far as I'll go with it, I probably won't even clean up the unis. Just needed to let my creativity take a walk for a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfgiantsflgators Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaptorQuiz Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Uh, dude. Great backstory - very nice uniform design (although, as you said, a little cleanup would be neccessary). I like it a lot - and I love the oak-leaf on the hat as the logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardcoreLegend Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Generally, me and the 3 other voices in my head attempt to put out a weekly sheet, however lately there has been alot of infighting and we've been reduced to bi-monthly. I'm thinking of firing the angry, Irish drunk voice because, frankly, he scares the rest of us but he has threatened litigation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardcoreLegend Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 Uh, dude. Great backstory - very nice uniform design (although, as you said, a little cleanup would be neccessary). I like it a lot - and I love the oak-leaf on the hat as the logo. It's a colonel's insignia from the US Army. I originally had an old english L, similar to the Tigers and the L that Louisville wore on it's chest at the turn of the century, but like the insignia better. The color scheme, incase anyone wondered, is orange and blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfgiantsflgators Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I dig on the insignia as well - and I like how it looks behind the team name. As for the Irish dude, I think you should keep him and have him write an advice column. That alone could be worth the price of admission. Make sure to keep a good stock of beers though; he could be more dangerous sober... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaptorQuiz Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 It's a colonel's insignia from the US Army. Well I knew that, man. I was in the Army. That's why I dig it as much as I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djg007 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Looks like the Ole Miss logo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardcoreLegend Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 Looks like the Ole Miss logo: It is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaptorQuiz Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Looks like the Ole Miss logo: Clearly NOT. He's facing the other way. Duh. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djg007 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Clearly NOT. He's facing the other way. Duh. :wink: No ****. I wasn't sure if he found the actual logo that happened to be the Ole Miss logo or he just used it for the uniforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaptorQuiz Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 No ****. I wasn't sure if he found the actual logo that happened to be the Ole Miss logo or he just used it for the uniforms. Way to not realize I was just making a joke. :rocklicker: OBVIOUSLY he took the Ole Miss logo and flipped it around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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