You've pretty much answered it right there. It is cartoonish and sophmoric. It just overblown and bombastic and instead of being cool and aggressive just comes off as a laughable retro mess like something out of the Venture Bros. Also the colors, midnight blue and steel grey aren't Rockets' colors. Those along with the pinstripes just seem liked a lame attempt to follow the 90's trends of extremely dark colors with non-contextual historical references. I mean the Orlando Magic had those kind of uniforms and we swept them the year before. The classic Rockets' championship team logo and uniforms were like the Rockets teams themselves. They were understated but clean and concise as a Clyde Drexler fast break. They didn't need teeth or pinstripes to be aggressive but just the contrast of italicized letters over a basketball. They were the perfect logo for a team whose motto was "Stay Humble, Stay Hungry." Wheras the pinstripe uniform was the perfect logo for an undisciplined Francis team that also mistook bombast for coolness. To them a no look alleyoop was more important than making a perfect pass to a backdoor cutter. There game basically matched the logo. Some flashy elements but overall one big mess.
sorry if its yours, but I dont like it, it doesnt represent the rockets for me, looks more like the cavs, wtih those gray spades.
The whole flying dildo thing is wrong. I have never used, bought or seen a dildo with a pointy antennae protruding from it...or whatever that is. I don't need my dildo to protrude like that in such a disgusting elongated vintrofilmofornication of market demand dicks...even if it does make Donald Trump feel less adequate. That is crazy.
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I was but a preteen when this logo came out, and I thought it was the coolest thing... until I saw the face on the rocket. Keep in mind, I was an art student and had a serious problem: every freakin' thing I drew was inflicted with unnecessary faces (e.g. sun, moon, cars... people) and even I thought the rocket face was cheesy. If I remember right, the original logo was faceless, but Les asked the artist to add it to give it an aggressive look or something. Rocket face aside, I think the logo was very uhh 90's appropriate... and like everything from the 90's, it aged very quickly. Time will tell if the 2000's wave of simple clean icon-type logos (e.g. grizzlies, thunder, etc.) will last. The old ketchup'n'mustard logo is nice for nostalgic reasons, but I find the generic basketball logo template thing rather dull (i.e. current logos for the lakers, clippers, knicks, pistons).
Since the vast majority hates the dildo pajamas... the more appropriate question is how can Anyone like that crappy logo?
I understand wanting to change your logo.... but changing logo and color scheme RIGHT AFTER winning back to back championships is just crazy to me. you're reached the pinnacle for your brand...and, instead, you rebrand. I'm sure someone who claims to be a lot smarter than me was behind that decision...but what they ultimately chose absolutely sucked.
