Iowa and Southern Miss in Logo Dispute

Iowa and USM have decided to settle this issue by meeting in the Ticket City Bowl on Jan. 2.

 

Universities and professional franchises are getting more and more hardcore about this. Legally, they usually win hands-down.

Every single high school in the nation (and certainly every college) that fields sports teams has access to a computer with some kind of drawing/graphic design program.

If they don't they need to dump sports and concentrate on computer graphics.

Find some student or faculty member who can sketch and doodle, and tell them to come up with a trojan/wildcat/tiger/panther/eagle/ etc etc etc. all of your own. Then trademark it.

Problem solved.

Oh, while you're at it, find some kid or music teacher who plays piano or or Casio keyboard or guitar or something, and tell him to bang out some kind of 30-second fight song and dump the ND victory march. 3-4 chords, verse-chorus verse-chorus with a big fist-pumping finish.

Voila.


Back to the Iowa-Southern Miss dispute, the logos don't look close enough to me to constitute infringement.

 

That notch in the paw has always been there ... They took an impression -- maybe plaster? -- of an actual tiger back in the 70s when that logo was in process.

 

Conversely, the Pittsburgh Steelers were not the first Steelers. That goes to Farrell High School up by New Castle.