As many of you know, I spent a year in Australia while I was still in school. I had a great time, primarily cause they like a lot of similar things as I do, aka sports and beer. While I could tell many a story about beer, I only like to tell them while drinking more beer. So if you'd like to hear those, buy me a beer.
So we'll talk about sports instead. I spent a lot of time choosing my teams while I was there, cause quite frankly, I had no allegiance to any of them. And by "a lot of time" I, of course, mean that I supported the first team in any sport that my newly made friends suggested. So I got quite a few new teams while I was there. I got an English Soccer Team (Go Spurs), I got a favorite Aussie Rules team (Go Bombers), I got a favorite state (Go New South Wales), I got a favorite Cricket club (3 time repeat champions of the World Cup, Australia), I got a favorite cricket player (Go Gilchrist, Man of the Match for the finals of the World Cup), and of course, I got a favorite Rugby League team. Which brings us to our story of the day.
My rugby league team is, was and always will be the Balmain Tigers. But since Rupert Murdock is an evil man, the year that I was there was the final one that they existed. They merged with the Western Suburb Magpies to form the "Wests Tigers." And, for the record, they won the Grand Final in 2005, Go the TIGERS!
But I digress. My Wests Tigers jersey is important to me. It was a gift from my friends as a going away present. They didn't actually sell these jerseys yet, as the new logo was announced only days before I left the country. But they managed to go to the Balmain office and talk someone into selling one to them. So I have one of the first Wests Tigers jerseys in existence. It was worn by one of the players during the press conference to announce the new logo. Pretty cool, huh?
Regardless, because of this, I know this logo pretty darn well. Which is why I was absolutely shocked to see the newest logo of a sports team in Wichita. The Wichita Wild.
Now I'm just shocked about this. And I'm going to write the Wild and ask them where they got this logo from. It shall be interesting to see what they say. Perhaps they have permission to use it. Perhaps they don't even know that the logo they are using is directly copied. I'll let you know when I find out!
