I mean if people like the Ducks foot, all power to them, It’s personal taste. But I honestly feel we have gone from one of the best logos to one of the worst, imho. JFresh on twitter did a survey about a year ago, and that was pretty much summed up.
I get so many compliments when I’m wearing my eggplant Mighty Ducks Jersey. I have also gotten a lot of love for the orange ones as well.
I think as Duck fans, we mostly agree that old logo is better than the current D logo & word mark. But I really can't complain when
I read this about the logo design:
Samueli decided to keep the “Ducks” name after the team conducted informal surveys which revealed that a vast majority of season ticket holders favored it. “If you have to change the name,” he said, “you’re wiping out 13 years of brand history.”
At least by keeping the Ducks' name, the org can use the old logo. It would have sucked to have changed the name of the team completely to where using the old logo would have made no sense to bring back often. We probably would have gone through several logo updates to where the OG logo would scarcely been seen. The reverse retro would probably be using an earlier version of a new logo not named Ducks as if it were a new franchise to help distinguish it from the old one. For example, the Atlanta Thrashers became the Winnipeg Jets. The Jets aren't using the Thrashers' logo often.
So I won't complain about the logo change, but do hope the Samueli's change it back to the old logo.
I prefer the old Ducks logo to the new one (although I like the webbed D just fine) but I think people forget just how despised that logo was league wide. It was viewed as a crass cash grab in the form of a cartoon logo by a company that didn't give a shit about hockey and was just "synergizing" their hit movie into another revenue stream.
I don't think it would have been possible for the old logo to reach its current (apparent) level of beloved icon if it hadn't disappeared for a while.
I thought the Wild Wing popping out of the ice jersey was a mistake by design to prop up the old Ducks logo. I didn't know the logo was despised league wide since I'm in a So Cal bubble and hung around other Duck fans.
It's kinda odd seeing the Samueli's build ice hockey rinks in So Cal to create grass root hockey fans through children's hockey leagues. Kids are attracted more to the old logo than the D-webbed logo, especially with Disney + having a Mighty Ducks tv show ongoing. Zegras preferring to wear the old logo could be foreshadowing too.
