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Foogos Around the Web

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It feels good to see your work scattered across the web. Monday and Tuesday have been two of those when just that has happened. Here’s where Foogos has reared its deformed head across the vastness of cyberspace:

Buzzfeed posted 21 Beautifully Geeky Foods, in which the Ninja Turtles pizza drops in at #3, behind a funny Chewbacca bento box and some outstanding Legend of Zelda cookies. (I also especially love the Hello Kitty/Avengers mash-up cupcakes and the Star Wars AT-AT made of gingerbread.) Continue reading →

Congratulations, Scott Gomez

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Quick recap: Scott Gomez was a heck of a hockey player when he received the Calder Trophy as the NHL‘s rookie of the year in 2000. His New Jersey Devils won the Stanley Cup that spring, lost in seven games the next season, and won the whole shebang once more in 2003. He was a key component to the near-dynastic Devils, and as age and free agency forced the team to reload, he moved further and further up the depth chart.

Then he jumped ship to the rival New York Rangers, cashing in on a $7.5 million annual payday. Personally, I thought that was a gross overpayment for a really good complimentary player, and along with a few million other armchair analysts, I was right. Continue reading →

Fixing the NHL All-Star Game (Kinda sorta)

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The NHL All-Star Game is one of three big events crowding my Sunday. Of the trio, the hockey game is the only one I don’t care if I miss, and I may, because I’ll be running/recuperating from the Miami Marathon. (Track me with Bib #1156.)

The players don’t care. Neither do I. (Alex Ovechkin, 2009)

I’m a HUGE hockey fan. I mean, I made a website devoted to recreating hockey logos out of food! (Pssst. It’s this one.) Yet I’m going to run 26.2 miles on the 29th instead of tuning in. NOW THAT’S MALAISE!

Why is that?

Well, plain and simple, the NHL All Star Game is less relevant and more fake than the WWE Royal Rumble (the other event I plan on tuning in to Sunday night).

The two best/most recognizable players in the league – Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin – won’t even be there, and regardless the reason (concussion and sand-in-the-crotch-itis, respectively), that means that at best, this is the NHL Most-Star Game.

Then there’s Jonathan Toews, only a cloud or two below Crosby’s stratosphere. He’s out. Same for rookie sensation, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. Both worthy. Both injured.

From the AP, via the Washington Post:

…the All-Star game has turned into the Missing Stars game, extracting some of the fun out of the showcase weekend. Injuries are the main culprit for the All-Star withdrawals, though Ovechkin pulled out this week because the game fell during his league-issued three-game suspension.

It’s a meaningless game that the players don’t want to participate in, with even the hockey media lukewarm to its significance.

ESPN columnist Pierre LeBrun summed it up best in an interview with Aaron Murphy:

As an event, [the Winter Classic is] better than ever and this has really become the NHL’s signature event in the regular-season schedule. It’s making the all-star game obsolete. The Winter Classic is the event you must attend as media, sponsors, anyone who’s anyone in the game. The TV ratings for the game in the U.S. reflect it. People love this game. It’s the Super Bowl for the NHL.

Obsolete. That’s the key word. So how do you make All-Star weekend better?

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Fantasy Winter Classic

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Now that the annual Winter Classic is in the bag, we can all begin the speculation for next year’s event. The likely pick is Detroit. Here are some future Classics I’d like to see, with the caveat that the teams involved would actually be at or near the top of the standings with some exciting talent: Continue reading →

12 Foogos of Christmas

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In honor of the holiday season and the 12 Days of Chistmas, here’s a dozen logos I really want to execute in the near future, both here and with our friends over at SportsLogosNet, in no particular order:

1. Maine Mariners – AHL (Okay, this is definitely #1 on my list.)

2. Moncton Golden Flames – AHL3. Dallas Stars – NHL Continue reading →

Heading to the A

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One of the fun things about this project is finding new logos to Foogosize. Logos you might not expect. I mean, initially, the goal was to recreate every NHL logo and call it a day. Granted, that mission has yet to be fulfilled. [For everyone keeping score I've got 13 primaries, a secondary (Chicago), retired alternate (Calgary) and six other defunct logos.] But the expansion of this – in addition to being a little intimidating – is a friggin’ blast.

And so begins my foray into minor league hockey logos. To start, I’m going with one of my personal favorites, the Providence Bruins. The logo itself may not be anything too special, since it’s a knockoff of the Boston Bruins logo. But therein lies the charm. Providence is the AHL affiliate (“farm club” for you non-sports fans) for Boston, so the logo represents continuity. Continue reading →

Crosbaby Food

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I hate hate hate hate hate Sidney Crosby.

And it’s not even because I’m jealous of his success or he’s so good or blah blah blah.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s absolutely (and annoyingly) mythic to miss ten months, then come back and drop 4 points in your return. It’s unreal to be The Man with the Golden Gun and score the gold medal-winning overtime goal at the 2010 Olympics. I was about 12 rows off the ice and witnessed that first hand. After every blessed thing that already happened in 87′s career to that point, it was unbelievable. In the I-just-threw-up-in-my-mouth-a-little sense of the word, but unbelievable nonetheless. He’s a got a Cup, at least one MVP trophy (I don’t have to stomach to actually fact check that) and a bread endorsement: Continue reading →

New York Islanders Sign Foogos to Bajillion Dollar Contract!

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Okay, so that’s not true. But if it was, would you really be surprised? At the least, I do think this new Foogos should be starting on defense for the Isles, or at least used for their third jersey.

Personally, this is my new favorite Foogos to date. I got the idea for a rice concoction months ago, way back in the spring, but was waiting for the right moment to do it, aka when we ordered a lot of Chinese food at work and were stuck with a few buckets of leftover rice. Continue reading →

Slapshot: A Sketch

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I would never sully the name of the most epic movie on God’s green earth, Slapshot, by trying to pass off the following as a final stamp-of-approval Foogos, but I like this “sketch” of the Charlestown Chiefs wordmark for two reasons:

1. It’s a decent first draft to familiarize myself with the shapes and contours of the letters, which will come in handy when I make a final version of this in the future, and

2. I learned a lot about the limitations and attributes in using corn muffins, butter and maple syrup as ingredients. Continue reading →