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Posted 2003 January 21

For some teams, these pages just about write themselves. The logo is so awful on some point that the comments just flood through my head, and it's only a question of typing fast enough to get all the insults written down.

And then there are pages like this one. It's hard to get worked up about writing this one, because I actually kind of like the Reading Royals' logo. It's hard to trash something you like. Sure, I could harp on the absurdity of a purple lion the way I harped on the absurdity of an all-green mallard, but the Royals clearly don't intend this to be an accurate representation. The crown on the lion's head is another potential target, but it ties the "king of the jungle" theme to the name quite nicely. And given that whole "king of the jungle" bit and the fact that a lion appears in the British royal coat of arms, I can't even fairly accuse them of using an irrelevant feature in their logo. Okay, I admit that the issue of fairness rarely stops me, but this time I just don't want to. All in all, I'm more than willing to give them a pass.

Indeed, I probably wouldn't have anything to write about had I not made an interesting discovery while doing a websearch for this team. It turns out that this isn't the only team in the world called the Reading Royals. There's a women's football (i.e., soccer) team with that name in Reading, England. Buried deep within this fact is an opportunity for fans of Reading's rivals. I can't quite dig it out myself. The best I can come up with is a drawing of someone with big boobs wearing the hockey team's jersey kicking a soccer ball. But that's a bit obtuse. Perhaps someone in Johnstown, Trenton, or Atlantic City can come up with something better. If nothing else, maybe one of them can figure out why the football club has a volleyball in their logo? If anyone can figure that one out, drop me a line.

Final Score: -3 points.
Penalties: Alliteration, 2 pts.
Bonuses: Cool-Logo, -5 pts.


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