Evansville Otters

97

This is a rather frustrating logo. After all, it's cute. Cute logos are typically a pet peeve of mine. Be it the Charleston Dirty Birds, the Aberdeen IronBirds, or the Columbus Clingstones, a cute logo makes me roll my eyes and wonder why the logo designer is trying to make the animal (airplane, fruit, whatever) look cute.

But here, it's obvious why they tried to make the otter look cute. It's because they wanted it to actually look like an otter. "Cute" is pretty much the defining characteristic of otters. If it doesn't look cute then it doesn't look like an otter. It's that simple.

Do you doubt this? Try this: Do an image search on ugly otter. Or hideous otter. Or grumpy otter, or angry otter, or just about any negative adjective in front of the word otter. What you will is a series of pictures of cute otters. Because the ugliest otter in the world, the most hideous otter in the world, is still cute as the dickens.

There's not a lot else to say here. Otters is a bit of an odd name for a sports team, but it's certainly no stranger than Orioles, Fireflies, or Crawdads (to say nothing of Trash Pandas, Sod Poodles, or RubberDucks). So basically there's really nothing to complain about here. But I can't help but feel there really ought to be something to complain about here when the logo is this freaking cute, and so I'm frustrated.

Final Score: 97 points.
Penalties: Script, 7 pts; Equipment, 13 pts; Humanoid, 30 pts; Cartoon, 47 pts.
Bonuses: None.