Atletico Mascalucia

The rampant lion has been used on badges, flags and coat of arms for centuries so not sure we can have much claim to it. Interesting though.
 
UKLL1981 said:
The rampant lion has been used on badges, flags and coat of arms for centuries so not sure we can have much claim to it. Interesting though.
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I thought our rampant lion was different.. I might be wrong here but I was told the 1986 badge was designed a graphic designer from Dickens and they used a griffin from a book taken from Middlesbrough library.

The Atletico Mascalucia badge is clearly a rip off.. I wonder what the connection is?
 
newyddion said:
Anybody else spotted this Sicilian team playing in the 8th tier of Italian football..

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Interesting stuff, well spotted.

The redesigned Boro badge is an abomination and it hurts my eyes just to look at it, Atletico are welcome to this badge for me and we can get around to creating a proper redesigned Boro badge with some fan input.

We might then have a badge to be proud of instead of some dusty old King Arthur Coat of Arms which Gibson (or someone senior at the club) has forced upon us.
 
newyddion said:
Yup that's the lion.. someone was telling me that our 'Lion' is infact a Griffin.. 3 points to Griffindor anybody?
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If it's a Griffin then where the hell are it's wings?! I think whoever told you that was probably misinformed and talking out of their Griffin anus.
 
theredrooster said:
Interesting stuff, well spotted.

The redesigned Boro badge is an abomination and it hurts my eyes just to look at it, Atletico are welcome to this badge for me and we can get around to creating a proper redesigned Boro badge with some fan input.

We might then have a badge to be proud of instead of some dusty old King Arthur Coat of Arms which Gibson (or someone senior at the club) has forced upon us.
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I would have liked to have seen the crest of Henry Bolkow used as our 'new badge' - i''m pretty sure it would have caused more controversy than the current badge. a bit like when the horse punchers kicked of about having seahorses on theirs.
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the motto translates 'to undertake and to accomplish'
 
theredrooster said:
If it's a Griffin then where the hell are it's wings?! I think whoever told you that was probably misinformed and talking out of their Griffin anus.
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I can't remember the exact points (unbelievable jeff) he was some heraldry buff, it wasn't straight forward, but I definitely remember a griffin being mentioned. Might have been b***ks.. maybe someone on here has heard or knows something similar. Why in heraldic terms it may not be a lion (or fully a lion)
 
The badge we have now is a result of a Sevilla official commenting to Gibson after Eindhoven that Boro had come a long way since their founding in 1986. Hence the demand for a more "traditional" badge. The commercial manager at the time (think that was his job title) had a relative who was good this sort of thing and he came up with the original version of the badge we have now. If you think the one we have now is an abomination you should have seen the original. Hillprint were asked to make a better job of it, they said it was impossible, it needed redesigning from scratch, but they were told it'd already been shown and publicised, so they did the best they could with it, which wasn't much. It had been a total mess and the best they could do was make it look as if it was merely amateurish.
 
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FartingGnome said:
The badge we have now is a result of a Sevilla official commenting to Gibson after Eindhoven that Boro had come a long way since their founding in 1986. Hence the demand for a more "traditional" badge. The commercial manager at the time (think that was his job title) had a relative who was good this sort of thing and he came up with the original version of the badge we have now. If you think the one we have now is an abomination you should have seen the original. Hillprint were asked to make a better job of it, they said it was impossible, it needed redesigning from scratch, but they were told it'd already been shown and publicised, so they did the best they could with it, which wasn't much. It had been a total mess and the best they could do was make it look as if it was merely amateurish.
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I remember how bad it was when the design first came out. Beyond amateur
 
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