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Honoring Pat Tillman 10 Years Later

April 22, 2014 marked the 10 year anniversary of the death of Pat  Tillman. The act of patriotism that Tillman showed leaving his NFL career to become an Army Ranger is something that no one should ever forget. Tillman should have a statue at every NFL stadium as far as I am concerned.

I am guessing that for the 10 year anniversary of Tillman’s death the Arizona Cardinals and Arizona State would both have some kind of helmet decal honoring   this anniversary. I personally dislike the way that sports teams try to honor a fallen teammate or owner. The traditional logo/sticker is a black circle with the persons number or initials inside the circle in white. I would like to a honor logo/sticker that has a little more thought put into it. My thought is that if someone is important enough to honor shouldn’t we do something more fitting of that honor?

Below are some ideas I had for a logo. I wanted to have all 3 badges Cardinals, ASU, & Army Rangers plus the 10 and Tillman in the logo. My fav is the first. I really like the idea of using the uniform name badge on this logo. I played around with a couple different versions of the 10 and added some yellow for ASU in a couple.

I really think that all NFL teams should wear the sticker on their helmet the week ASU and the Cards wear it as the main logo. All season would be better but I don’t know if you can get that to happen.

I would also like to see all of the service academies wear this sticker on their helmet too.

If the Cardinals, ASU, any NFL team, any service school, or any school for that matter wants to use my logo creation they can free of charge just contact.

Let the NFL & the Cardinals know you want this to happen. Stop tweeting out cat videos and retweet this.
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tillman 8tillman 9tillman logo 5 tillman logo tillman logo 2   tillman 3 tillman 4   I also would like to see a weekend where both the Arizona Cardinals and Arizona State wear a full sized honor decal on one side of the helmet and a digital camo version of the team logo on the other.

 

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Thinking Of Doing A NFL Rebrand What Do You Think

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If you are like me you can’t wait until the draft happens and need something to keep you entertained between baseball games and mock draft updates. I have been every busy doing paid work but people keep asking me to do a version of their favorite team. So, I am thinking about doing a full NFL rebrand between the college concepts that have already been comisioned. I know other people have done this but eh whatever.

I think that there needs to be some rules before this task is started. The NFL does have some rules and I will follow these for the first round of designs. The biggest rule is the new one helmet rule.

I will make a home, away, alt, and throwback or faux back for each team. I will make 3 helmets for each team following this new rule by keeping the same base color. I will do this for all teams even if I do not think they need to change their helmets.

So, before you start yelling let me agree with you that the Chiefs, Steelers, Browns, and a few others teams need to stay with their current helmets. I still will make two other versions of a helmet for these teams just for fun.

Some teams I will redo/tweak their logo myself, some I will use the current logo, and others I will use cool logos I stumble across online.

I will probably start by posting helmets for each division and then move onto the full uniforms.

I am also thinking about doing some future/fantasy teams like what a new Redskins team name might look like, a Toronto Bills, London Jags, etc…

Lastly I will post some ideas of some stuff that doesn’t meet the new uniform rules but would be cool to do.

Let me know what you want to see your team look like if they rebranded. If I like the idea I might run with it. If you think I should do this let me know

 

 

Tampa Bay Bucs Ship Helmet Concepts

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Tampa Bay Bucs Concepts

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Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

Charles Sollars Concepts @charlessollars

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What is Under Armour Thinking

Under Armour has paid to be the official sponsor of the NFL Combine but yet they are letting Adidas run the 100k for the fastest 40 time contest.

Why are they letting another brand run a better marketing campaign in the event they paid to sponsor? You already spent the money why not give whoever runs the fastest 40 time a two year shoe deal at the same 100k but name one of your shoes after them plus do a TV ad with them on draft day.

If you tell these guys you wear a UA shoe and run the fastest 40 time you get your own signature shoe and a tv ad not a single kid there would wear Adi. Adi would have to spend some real money to get the attention of the players. Naming a shoe after a guy runs you $0 dollars

Just saying someone at UA needs to fired for letting this happen and the guy at Adi needs a raise because a 100k is nothing.