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Post by frogmorton2 on Mar 10, 2022 10:34:23 GMT -4
I'm curious to know who in the organization picked the Sea Dogs as the team name? Surprised they didn't try to go with Fire, Blaze to tie in when the Flames were around.
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Post by Briwhel on Mar 10, 2022 10:38:04 GMT -4
It was a public vote among a few finalists (I think 3). There was nothing Flames-related that made it to the public vote (and the franchise was specifically trying to sever ties to the Flames-era because the former Flames owner bid against them for the franchise).
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Post by Briwhel on Mar 10, 2022 10:41:56 GMT -4
It was a public vote among a few finalists (I think 3). There was nothing Flames-related that made it to the public vote (and the franchise was specifically trying to sever ties to the Flames-era because the former Flames owner bid against them for the franchise). There was a submission process where the winning fan won something. First cut was based on number of times the same name was submitted and Flames was explicitly forbidden for the submission process. |
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Post by frogmorton2 on Mar 10, 2022 10:50:56 GMT -4
Interesting to know! Shame that the previous ownership wasn't very good. I'd be curious to know what some of the other submissions were that came close.
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Post by ysj28 on Mar 10, 2022 10:52:26 GMT -4
Sea Dogs and Ice Men were the final two names. The Telegraph Journal, a number of years ago, had the alternate jersey renderings in an article.   |
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Post by frogmorton2 on Mar 10, 2022 10:54:59 GMT -4
Between the two glad it was the Sea Dogs that got picked.
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Post by Briwhel on Mar 10, 2022 11:12:27 GMT -4
Sea Dogs and Ice Men were the final two names. The Telegraph Journal, a number of years ago, had the alternate jersey renderings in an article. If memory serves correct, wasn't Fog Devils the third, but St. John's took the name before the vote so it had to be eliminated? |
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Post by Reesor on Mar 10, 2022 11:18:54 GMT -4
Sea Dogs and Ice Men were the final two names. The Telegraph Journal, a number of years ago, had the alternate jersey renderings in an article. If memory serves correct, wasn't Fog Devils the third, but St. John's took the name before the vote so it had to be eliminated? Should've pulled a CFL (Roughriders) and had the Saint John Fog Devils and the St. John's Fog Devils in the same league. |
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Post by Briwhel on Mar 10, 2022 11:47:40 GMT -4
If memory serves correct, wasn't Fog Devils the third, but St. John's took the name before the vote so it had to be eliminated? Should've pulled a CFL (Roughriders) and had the Saint John Fog Devils and the St. John's Fog Devils in the same league. I believe that they were allowed because Roughriders and Rough Riders were considered just different enough. |
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Post by frogmorton2 on Mar 10, 2022 12:09:59 GMT -4
Fog Devils would have been great. There's enough nature and history (not including the fire) to have a creative name that ties well into Saint John.
Tide, Rapids, Fog Devils, Shipbuilders, Loyalists, Zeplins(?) for when the Hindenburg flew over once lol
Shame most names around Oil had already been taken up.
If they did become the Fog Devils they would need a proper fog horn in the arena. Honestly surprised they don't have either a train horn or fog horn in the arena. Would be more fun than the pre-recorded horn lol
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Post by ysj28 on Mar 10, 2022 12:44:48 GMT -4
Interesting to know! Shame that the previous ownership wasn't very good. I'd be curious to know what some of the other submissions were that came close. Don’t think it was necessarily the Flames local ownership wasn’t good but more so wanting the new team to have their own identity |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2022 12:54:00 GMT -4
I can remember back when Saint John had a Junior A team named the Alpines in 1995. They were the first Junior A team that I can remember having their own coach style bus and it was painted in the white, blue and red Alpine beer colours.
Moncton went by the Alpines name during their first season before going to Wildcats.
Back in the Nova Scotia Senior League - Windsor used the Schooners name and logo which I thought was really sharp - with a Bluenose outline and Toronto Maple Leafs colour scheme. I'm not a Leafs fan - but they were sharp uniforms in that era.
I realize that teams no longer want to identify with alcohol and there must be things like copyrights and trademarks in place, but the Saint John Schooners would have kind of tied in with that Halifax Mooseheads Maritime feel. JMO.
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Post by frogmorton2 on Mar 10, 2022 13:34:47 GMT -4
Yeah I agree with having an identify that feels like it fits with the city and the history. I think of names like the "Cataractes", "Drakkar", "Saguenéens", "Foureurs" and to an extent the "Islanders". All have a more unique, localized name.
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Post by Briwhel on Mar 10, 2022 13:37:51 GMT -4
I can remember back when Saint John had a Junior A team named the Alpines in 1995. They were the first Junior A team that I can remember having their own coach style bus and it was painted in the white, blue and red Alpine beer colours. Moncton went by the Alpines name during their first season before going to Wildcats. Back in the Nova Scotia Senior League - Windsor used the Schooners name and logo which I thought was really sharp - with a Bluenose outline and Toronto Maple Leafs colour scheme. I'm not a Leafs fan - but they were sharp uniforms in that era. I realize that teams no longer want to identify with alcohol and there must be things like copyrights and trademarks in place, but the Saint John Schooners would have kind of tied in with that Halifax Mooseheads Maritime feel. JMO. So the solution for two of our rivals being named after Saint John beers (though Moncton did change their name to Wildcats which is significantly better) is to name ourselves after a Halifax beer? |
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Post by ysj28 on Mar 10, 2022 14:11:39 GMT -4
Can we name the team the Saint John Oland's and have our logo be a hammer?
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