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I don’t know that you’ve seen this news today, but let me tell you at the outset: it is going to make you very upset.
The Minnesota Timberwolves, which you vaguely know as that occasional professional basketball team, unveiled a brand new, well, ... brand ... on Tuesday afternoon. Here is that team’s new primary logo:
#Twolves unveil new team logo, which will be implemented beginning with the 2017-18 season. Full logo: pic.twitter.com/CTq17I4KOT
— Timberwolves PR (@Twolves_PR) April 12, 2017
Is there a smack of familiarity that comes with that image? There is, isn’t there? It took me a bit. I had to think on it, I just could not quite place it. BUT THEN. Sometimes it takes some real internet hard work to get to the bottom of things.
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Internet, ZOOM AND ENHANCE.
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From this angle you can clearly see that, aside from the Minnesota Timberwolves transforming into the Svelt-Power Atom Mimes, they’ve obviously borrowed an artistic theme from this humble blog site. And for this I demand, unequivocally, a large bounty of apology cakes. I drive a hard bargain but feel this is only fair, especially considering the deep emotional toil this has caused myself and this entire community.
I intend to take this straight to the president of Minnesota***.
(***Does anyone have Brett Favre’s phone number?)