Sabres not Slugs

Dedicated to eliminating the worst logo in Pro Hockey


http://www.sabresnotslugs.com/

I'm a SABRES NOT Slugs WARRIOR!
I will NEVER be forcefed that slug.
And will fight to have it eliminated!

AMEN TO THAT!!

When will you guys stop worry about this? It is a lost cause. Worry about winning a cup guys come on !

if we won the cup in our current sweaters, i would love to keep them forever

CUP PEOPLE

stop worrying about the sweaters

I've already said that if they win the cup in a slug uniform I will support the slug.

So it grew on you? Fungus grows on things too
Your the lost cause with your attitude

The slug blows. I wear the vintage white jersey.

I will not support a team who's jersey has a dog turd on the front.

It's not a logo, it's a F#$king cartoon.

You suck Larry.

I'll NEVER stop trying to get that slug eliminated, and I'm embarrassed that we have banners
with slugs hanging in our arena already.
Even if we won the CUP, I will not wear slug, they'll come out with CUP merch with our vintage logo.
To give in to the slug just because we won the CUP is stupid!
Nothing has changed, the team won the CUP, not the slug, it will still SUCK!
The fight NEVER ENDS, so quit with the join the slug clones posts, because a lot of us still care!

Giving in, is the easy way, to stand up for your teams tradition and not let some
money hungry, not even a Sabre's fan, company, try and change it, for their profit,
without even asking for fan opinion, is a longer battle, but sweet victory, and I believe
that we will win in the end. Refuse to buy slug, and watch them squirm.
I'd love to see figures on sales of slug merch, this year, compared to last year,
when the only reason it sold, was because we were kicking butt, and they didn't offer anything
but slug, and every bandwagoner had to buy it.
Make a STAND, don't give in, we are the BUFFALO SABRES, and not SLUGS!

I'm a graphic designer and illustrator by profession and all I can say about the Buffaslug is "What the $$$$ were they thinking?" That logo sucks! I mean it really SUCKS! And who put grey in the uniforms? Go back to the original uniforms and stop screwing around, ya merchandising ho's!

Dear god

Please make the suffering stop. I love Buffalo. Look what is happening here. These corporations have brainwashed many people in to likeing a SLUG logo. I can beleve some people. They will buy anything. The End must be near. Please god. Let the people rise up and make things right. We are a laughing stock. Many people ask me, why did the sabres change their logo in the first place. We had the best logo in the leauge. I guess this slug will grow on many people. So will the fungus and rust grow. I see the end coming and it will be here soon.

i've been a fan since i was old enough to know what hockey is... going to games since the early 80s... and maybe i'm in the minority here but i thought the old logo was ugly even back then.

sure i have a sense of nostalgia, tradition, history... heck i live in a 130 year old house for that reason...

but ugly is ugly. and tradition? its not like we ever won anything with the old logo to be nostalgic about.

of course the goat head was by far the worst.... and while the current logo aint the greatest, it blows the goat head out of the water... and i'd even give it a slight edge over the original logo...

as for some people will buy anything... i don't actually own any merchandise with the new logo... so there goes that theory on me at least

sorry, just bein' honest.

Get over it, its staying.
A logo has nothing to do with how the team plays.

I also cant believe you registered just to flog a dead horse....

Did the slug logo grow on you like fungus?

Your a sucker for it. You do nothing

Did I ever say I liked it? No.
I am just sick of hearing and reading people ######ing about it when it wont change.

I know it wont go anywhere any time soon, but I still hate the living sheet out of it. And I don't shut up about it either

The slug sucks. Worst logo in the league.

how many ppl have posted about this alreadY?

Personally, I think the goat head was pretty awesome.

Tell that to the Tampa Bay Bucs, whose players were convinced that they would never win as long as they wore the creamsicle colored gay-pirate uniforms.



They were right, too. Once they changed they won a Super Bowl.

Right now slugs are probably Larry's only pals.

I love the new logo. Go take your pompous over-righteous "I'm right and you're wrong" attitude somewhere else you prick.

[directed at the OP, and no one else]

I like the Goat head. some fond memories in that jersey...

The current one meh whatever. atleast we dont have the oogly red ones anymore

What if I might ask do you love about it where the majority of Sabres and non-Sabres' fans seem to hate about it?

I look at it as a trendy, swooshy nike logo that was forcibly pimped on us by a smug managing partner who took more stock in what Nevada and New Orleans focus groups had to say about the logo than actual fans. The whole process of how this logo came to be as RBK's design beeaatch for their new Edge uniform system absolutely disgusts me. That logo as an identity for the team is embarassing for which I have no emotional connection like I did for the classic...###### even the goathead a bit. To me it looks like it's a poor legless rip off of the Bills' logo as well and is easily my most hated logo of all the logos that have been used on Buffalo ice. Its only association has been with anything but something that resembles the city of Buffalo or Sabres. That is actually a severe design flaw in creating a logo if it draws such unwanted associations.

Like this:


It completely lucked out when it debuted starting 10-0 and sales riding the momentum of a President's trophy season. That is it. Complacency kills. Somehow we still let Quinn get away with opening his mouth with excuses not accountability after losing both Drury and Briere then not making the post season this year.

It's certainly going to stay as long as it is selling and IF the team is successful...regardless of positive or negative opinion. So for those who like it buy it, those who don't like it, don't buy it. Support the team by putting your butts in the building but you shouldn't feel such a sense of obligation to buy merchandise with the slug logo on it. We are all fans of the Buffalo Sabres if you sit on either side of the debate. But in 2006 awaiting the new look, I really thought that after 10 years of the Goathead, management would have been smart enough to return to the full version of the Blue and Gold we remembered...and not allow RBK to railroad them into using some abstract fecal smear to smack on their new innovative debacle of a uniform. If RBK can re-vamp their uniform system in a year, so should any NHL team hurting for a good look.

Really the only thing we can do is sway for a return to the vintage in 2009 as the primary jersey again of the team and that is what the majority of Sabres' fans would prefer. I can tell you right now the Sabres management is lucky that they have a great backup jersey to bring back and hedge against the declining slug at the cash register. Switch the roles, make the slug the third jersey for 15 games instead to not totally tick off people who love the slug (or have bought it). Larry Quinn would come up smelling like roses again and would say it was the plan all along.

I support the return to the vintage logo or a proper update to it on our current uniforms as our teams' identity. In my opinion I think that would please the majority, stop this divide among most fans, and sell a lot of jerseys which is what matters to any sports team and its bottom line.

I'm too concerned about the hockey that this team plays to worry so much about our logo. Do I like it? Not particularly. But there are far more important things to worry about than the logo that our beloved players are sporting. The Sabres should never have changed their logo as the original one is by far the best, but really, there are just other aspects of the game that you should try to focus more on....like um, the hockey part.

I'm not sure that's for you to decide. And there is no Sabres hockey to worry about at the moment.

Really? All because the season is over does not mean there's nothing to worry about when it comes to Sabres hockey. Re-signing a few key players in the offseason comes to mind. I was just giving a suggestion. But if people really want to worry more about a stupid logo than the hockey, then to each his own I suppose.

Quinn has floundered away and screwed up both the personnel and marketing side of the hockey operations. He is called the managing partner, not the toliet flusher. Both aspects of the team are important and I'm just a little more enamored with the aesthetic side of the situation.

I agree with you totally Larry shouldn't have:

Changed the logo

Let BOTH Drury and Briere leave. We were realistic as fans and only expected one to go.

Deny about wanting to trade Campbell

Lie about how the team needs to make it into the second round of the playoffs to break even and then all of a sudden tell the people at the press conference that revenue sharing during the playoffs does not allow the team to really make that much money.

I think his marching orders are to get this team very attractive to sell.

###### right. The bucs are my favorite NFL team and the creamsicle uni's weren't that bad. When the players became convinced that they wouldn't win because of the uniforms, that was when it got bad. They forgot that they almost made it to the superbowl three times in those uniforms but lost each NFC championship game by less than 10 points each time.

That logo has no affect on how the team does unless the players lose confidence in their abilities because of it.

I've said this numerous times before, no matter what the logo, I'm going to root for the team because they're the BUFFALO SABRES, not because they have a "banana slug" as their logo or whatever else you false bandwagon jumping fans want to call it.

I'm not saying that I like the logo but no matter what it is I'm going to buy their jerseys and root for them because they're my team, not because I don't like their logo. I'd still root for the Sabres if they put a heart as the logo on their jersey and made their colors hot pink and white. It's the team that matters not their uniforms.

My favorite part is the color scheme, the dark blue along with the brazen gold, love it. Moreso then the original logo colors due to their darker richer color scheme. It (In my opinion) displays more speed with it's 'swoosh' look. I really don't care what others think. It's all opinion, not ######ing fact. People seem to forget that. You can hate or like the logo all you want, and people will always have an opinion on it. But it's just that, an opinion. I love the new logo, I also like the old one, I've got two hoodies with vintage logos on them. I'm hoping to get one of the new version 'old school' Perreault jerseys. But I like the new one as well, I'm also hoping to get a Kaleta jersey WITH THE SLUG LOGO ON IT. You don't like it? No big deal, that's ok. Just don't shove your belief down my throat.

And to add it took the Bucs four years after their uniform change to win a Super Bowl. It's been two since ours, only two more to go until the cup!

And it's sad that the dude who posted this topic registered just to slam the slug. Don't be a fan if all you can be is critical.

everytime people start threads like this i just want to smash my face off a wall. i really hope we are still talking about this nonsense next year and the year after that, etc etc

whata joke

ditto
BTW
I never accepted the Goat either

Of course not! I never put a gun to your head when you came and visited the uniform forum where this sort of discussion on logos and uniforms is allowed. And I totally respect your opinion and you as a fan because you are able to give your specific reasons on why you like it. The people who like or hate the logo that have nothing constructive to add other than "Get over it" don't really think about the big picture with the logo story. But yes, you're right it is all opinion...so somehow...someway positive opinion approved this logo on our team's hockey jersey. Whether approval was driven by RBK remains my speculation but I have information and opinions from a CEO of a Buffalo marketing firm, and other people in the apparel industry that support that claim. Then all of a sudden 30,000 people protested against it when the logo was "leaked". That logo was shoved down people's throats, the ones who cared about such stuff like this. So maybe that's why guys like John Slabyk and Drew Celestino did what they did. Neither didn't like being told what the return to blue and gold was supposed to look like and tried to organize those who felt the same way.

Two opinions...the only fact I am trying to figure out is who shares the majority opinion of keeping the logo or not keeping it. Because whomever is in the majority there wins because that side's collective wallet size will be heavier in spending merchandise.

So far on my blog the voting for the following:

"Which logo would you prefer as the PRIMARY identity of the Buffalo Sabres?"

221 (82% for the classic)
47 (17% for the current logo)

Not scientific for sure but it is a pretty big gap in the numbers and the poll doesn't allow repeat votes.

I too like the newer colors and style of the uniform only. Another concern has come up as I just don't think the team should darken the vintage to match them for this season when they bring it back in 2008-2009. Why is that necessary? Our classic look is royal blue...not dark navy. That is not an authentic look and snubs the teams heritage a bit. I have concerns with some of the aesthetic marketing stunts the team is trying to pull with a look that is held very dear to slug lovers and haters alike. Get ready for the team to just do it and expect them to explain nothing.

The current ownership and management wanted to rebrand the team in blue and gold with their own full time stamp and identity...so when the slug's shelf life has expired, how will you remember this logo and look for the team? I have the fondest memories of the classic logo even when the product on the ice was terrible, the goathead was a head scratcher...a switch to a trendy color scheme...a stanley cup appearance...and the Adelphia disaster but didn't hate it. I sure didn't like it either. Meh. I just don't think this logo has the class and popularity to last 5-10 years. I will remember this as an out of touch missed opportunity and RBK corportate driven embarassment. Think of all the opportunity Larry Quinn has had to keep core players on this team...Missed opportunity? Again, my opinion but missing the boat seems par for the course with the Managing partner.

And while I hate the slug...it wasn't kewl to register just to start this thread...lol

But yeah, one would say there are bigger issues in the world to worry about right now...like oil prices. I'm going to the parking lot at my work now to syphon people's gas tanks. Thanks for reading.

If some of you are convinced that the logo has something to do with this teams play then you should support it.
When we changed to the slug we had probably the best season in Sabres history. Even though we missed the playoffs this year 90 points isnt all that bad.
When we had the goat we missed the playoffs 3 times in a row and got 90 or more points 3 times.

That last part wasn't directed at you Das, more toward that prick of an OP.

We also made it to the finals once and the CF's 3 times. In ten years.

Well so far we are at CF 1 time in 2 years. We are workin' on it.

You love slugs. Very nice.
Your brainwashed by quinn. He has got you where he wants you.
Buy my slug!

Go to he|| you arrogant SOB.

LOL. To each his own.

Those Tampa Bay uniforms were probably the single worst looking uniforms in all of sports. Even little kids learn that orange and red don't go well together. And "Bruce the Buccaneer," while he was a real trail blazer for gay mascots, never really gave the Bucs the fearsome image a football team hopes for.

It was pretty bad...I think only a handfull of people could look back on that thing with some fondness and only because it is gone.

But hey, you gotta love the newer logo for the team...A skull and football between two Sabres....Sabres....hmmmmm...What a brilliant and novel idea!

Those powder blue Oilers uniforms were nothing to brag about.

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This will never end.

Nope, never will. Even if they switch to a new, or back to the old, logo any time soon.

I'd like to add that I loved the Demonic Goathead, and am sad it left.