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I always thought it was like a piece of paper with information that got hung up. Named after all the flyers lining the walls and streets of Philly.
Utah Mammoth new name for Utah HC?
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red devil
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What is a Philadelphia Flyer? | Flyers Alumni
Nowadays the Philadelphia Flyers are a world renowned sports brand, but in 1966 the team name was born in a diner on the Jersey Turnpike.
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One night, Ed Snider, his wife, his sister and his brother-in-law Earl Foreman spent an evening out in Manhattan to have dinner and see a Broadway show. On their return trip from the show, the group decided to stop at a restaurant on the New Jersey Turnpike. During this stop they had another team name brainstorming session, during which Phyllis (Ed Snider’s sister) suggested the team be named the Flyers. The name captured the speed of the game, had an alliteration while being short and sweet. Ed Snider immediately knew this would be the team name, however; he knew his sister could not be the winner of the Name the Team Contest!
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I like the 2nd top one with blue in the background. The blue is appropriate to represent the ice of not just for hockey, but also for when Mammoths lived. Also, the fact that you made the Mammoth itself have blue eyes means it matches. It looks more seamless because of that.
Good logo IMO.
With the name itself, I agree with those in the topic saying they'd prefer it were Mammoths (plural) and not singular.
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As a WoW player and a Shaman lover I still wish that Seattle went with Totems lol; Mammoth is a fun one but shouldnt it be plural?
I actually looked that up after my last reply.What is a Philadelphia Flyer? | Flyers Alumni
Nowadays the Philadelphia Flyers are a world renowned sports brand, but in 1966 the team name was born in a diner on the Jersey Turnpike.
One night, Ed Snider, his wife, his sister and his brother-in-law Earl Foreman spent an evening out in Manhattan to have dinner and see a Broadway show. On their return trip from the show, the group decided to stop at a restaurant on the New Jersey Turnpike. During this stop they had another team name brainstorming session, during which Phyllis (Ed Snider’s sister) suggested the team be named the Flyers. The name captured the speed of the game, had an alliteration while being short and sweet. Ed Snider immediately knew this would be the team name, however; he knew his sister could not be the winner of the Name the Team Contest!
I mean don't get me wrong. The name is fine to good in practice today but that's really my point. If we view a lot of the team names already in existence from the lens of something proposed for a brand new team, I'd bet more than half would draw reactions like "awful. What the f***, why?" etc.
Our standards for what is lame also evolves over time. I'm sure Outlaws would've sounded bad ass in the 20s-50s but these days it sounds like an arena football name.
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I found this to show how they came up with the name. Agreed that a lot names would be ridiculed if they were named today instead decades ago. You can through all of the big four sports and find names that would be laughed at and people what find dumb if they were named today.
Some of the names we don't really think about these days may have even been considered lame at the time they were created. I wouldn't know for sure since I don't have a time machine that enables me to go back in time, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least bit if even "Red Wings" (just as an example, I don't mean to single them out in particular) was considered a stupid name by some people at the time the team first started playing. As for "Utah Mammoth" (if that's what it ends up being) I'm sure that it won't really take me very long to cease having an opinion about whether I like the name or not, since by then that'll just be what the team name is.
On a side note, the 1990s were certainly... a weird time in the world of naming teams. I believe that when the Nordiques relocated to Denver, one of the names they were actually considering for the team was "Rocky Mountain Xtreme" and that it may have even had some decent traction.
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I did so many variations because I couldn't decide what colors looked best
but I would love for them to add brown to the color scheme, as II think it's vastly underused. But I have to admit. I just googled a mammoth logos/art/clipart... etc and just manipulated it to match UHC colors and added the state as the background. I just don't have the talent to make a logo from scratch 
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The one on the right, middle row looks like a dude's butt with his legs wrapped around the A!
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Thank god they didn’t keep hockey club. Mammoth is cool. Matches their colors.
If their mascot doesn’t look like a Wish.com version of Mr. Snuffleupagus on bath salts, I will be very very upset.
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The Utah Arizona Coyotes has a nice ring to it.
Chet Manley
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Can't wait to see teams of men with spears hunting mammoth. We've gotten to the point that sports teams are being named after prey animals. Scratch that, a singular prey animal. Enjoy that world I'm getting too old for.
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I think it's an okay name. Much better than Kraken. And I'm sure in time, 'Utah Mammoth' will start to roll of the tongue more easily.
However, nevermind the nickname, am I alone in thinking they should've went with 'Salt Lake' instead of 'Utah' to begin with? I never see it being mentioned.
However, nevermind the nickname, am I alone in thinking they should've went with 'Salt Lake' instead of 'Utah' to begin with? I never see it being mentioned.
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Well, unless you're far older than expected, that already existed. The Colts, Broncos, Bucks and Rams are all prey animals.
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Utah Mammoth is fine, as long as you can come up with a nice appropriate logo for them, and it also gives them an obvious mascot.
Utah Hockey Club is the most boring possible choice for a name. Then everything about the color scheme, logo, mascot, etc. is completely arbitrary. Yes, many clubs in Europe are simply called "hockey club" or equivalent, but I don't think that it's very ideal. Marketability is important.
Utah Hockey Club is the most boring possible choice for a name. Then everything about the color scheme, logo, mascot, etc. is completely arbitrary. Yes, many clubs in Europe are simply called "hockey club" or equivalent, but I don't think that it's very ideal. Marketability is important.
