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Sabres fans ranting over sword-less logo
Good article I saw on the front of the Buffalo News Friday. 15000 signatures!!!!!! 
Many Buffalo Sabres fans have been anything but kind.
They have called the team's presumed new logo - the head and hunched upper body of a buffalo - every name in the book.
They say it looks like - take your pick - Donald Trump's hair, a banana slug, Bobby Hull's ratty toupee, even a colostomy bag.
At the center of the firestorm sits a 24-year-old Cheektowaga man who has mobilized this resentment into a Web site petition that now carries more than 15,000 "signatures."
The purpose of Drew Celestino's Web site, www.fixthelogo.com, is as subtle as a center-ice hip check: "Our sole purpose is to give the fans a place to voice their disappointment, displeasure, hatred, loathing and general disdain of this design," the Web site's mission statement says.
One word of caution: Only the Buffalo Sabres and the makers of their new uniforms know for sure what the jerseys will look like, and top Sabres officials adamantly refuse to discuss anything about the team's new look for next season.
Team officials have said the Sabres are going back to a blue-and-gold color scheme, but there has been no hint the crossed swords will be featured on the jerseys. That's where much of the fans' anger comes from.
More: http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial...21/1052810.asp
Many Buffalo Sabres fans have been anything but kind.
They have called the team's presumed new logo - the head and hunched upper body of a buffalo - every name in the book.
They say it looks like - take your pick - Donald Trump's hair, a banana slug, Bobby Hull's ratty toupee, even a colostomy bag.
At the center of the firestorm sits a 24-year-old Cheektowaga man who has mobilized this resentment into a Web site petition that now carries more than 15,000 "signatures."
The purpose of Drew Celestino's Web site, www.fixthelogo.com, is as subtle as a center-ice hip check: "Our sole purpose is to give the fans a place to voice their disappointment, displeasure, hatred, loathing and general disdain of this design," the Web site's mission statement says.
One word of caution: Only the Buffalo Sabres and the makers of their new uniforms know for sure what the jerseys will look like, and top Sabres officials adamantly refuse to discuss anything about the team's new look for next season.
Team officials have said the Sabres are going back to a blue-and-gold color scheme, but there has been no hint the crossed swords will be featured on the jerseys. That's where much of the fans' anger comes from.
More: http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial...21/1052810.asp
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