No. I’ve seen some schools do that, though. As a lawyer, I’d be nervous about doing it today than I would have been 40 years ago because of the prevalence of the internet.
For their fight song, my school did use the melody from the University of Wisconsin’s “On Wisconsin” but with words written by students and teachers from our school. Interesting trademark/copyright issues there (though I believe that our bands bought legit copies of the song to play from, so we might have been OK.)
Ours was ripped from University of Oregon. Everyone in our division used college/NFL logos. 2A-3A schools. Always thought it was interesting and wondered why we did that.
No, and straight up, fuck the high schools that do that. There are plenty of graphic designers out there who’d be happy to make them an original logo for cheap.
Mine did not. The commissioned a local artist for one when the school was built in the 70s. But just about every rival school used one from a pro or college team.
No, ours was drawn all the way back in the 1920s! With some clean up over the years, of course. There was a huge fuss when the school district decided to redo the logo entirely a few years ago. It looks more like what a pro team would have now, but it’s still entirely our own
I know some schools do that. We had a very specific and unique logo. The other schools around as far as I recall had unique logos. There’s a school my kid plays against that uses the local university mascot.
We stole the Indianapolis Colts’ mascot and colors. Mostly used our own colt image, but there are times the horseshoe was used. We also stole Notre Dame’s fight song tune, but had our own lyrics.
When I was in school, no. The logo was done many years ago by a student. We used that for decades. After I graduated, they took the craptacular logo of the Atlanta Falcons and changed the colors. It looks horrible and generic.
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No, we had our own.
We shared a mascot with a pro team but used a different logo.
Ours was just a dumb ass wave. Probably a stock photo or something.
Nope.
Technically yes but it was more of a “it just kinda happened” thing but it was the chargers
The logos are usually copyrighted so that would be unusual. But also, no.
No. I’ve seen some schools do that, though. As a lawyer, I’d be nervous about doing it today than I would have been 40 years ago because of the prevalence of the internet.
For their fight song, my school did use the melody from the University of Wisconsin’s “On Wisconsin” but with words written by students and teachers from our school. Interesting trademark/copyright issues there (though I believe that our bands bought legit copies of the song to play from, so we might have been OK.)
Ours was a blue version of the Philadelphia Eagles. I just went and checked and it looks like they’ve since changed it to a custom eagle logo.
Mine? No. Our sister school much like all the others that used a horse cheated off tht Broncos
No, we were the eagles and had some generic drawing of an eagle.
I went to a middle school and high school in different districts that both had eagles as the mascot, it has to be the most generic school mascot.
Im not sure how schools that use a college mascot get around copyright.
Bro my high school mascot was a Lambkin. No one else has that stupid of one. We were on a David Letterman Top 10 list of lamest school mascots.
There’s only so many ways you can do an “M”… for mermaid man tho
Ours was ripped from University of Oregon. Everyone in our division used college/NFL logos. 2A-3A schools. Always thought it was interesting and wondered why we did that.
No. A student designed it when our high school opened.
No, and straight up, fuck the high schools that do that. There are plenty of graphic designers out there who’d be happy to make them an original logo for cheap.
Mine did not. The commissioned a local artist for one when the school was built in the 70s. But just about every rival school used one from a pro or college team.
Nope. My highschool has the same mascot as a an NFL team, but 100% used our own logo.
My HS in Indiana used Packers logo and colors
No. We had our own.
My high school mascot doesn’t really exist a Purgolder for the purple and gold school colors
Yeah, our football helmets were same Giants word mark as NY Giants football team
My HS used the Minnesota Vikings logo but our colors were black and gold
My high school used the Wisconsin W while I was there, the Washington W now.
No, ours was drawn all the way back in the 1920s! With some clean up over the years, of course. There was a huge fuss when the school district decided to redo the logo entirely a few years ago. It looks more like what a pro team would have now, but it’s still entirely our own
The same colors and logo as SMU (my high school was 30 minutes away from it)
I know some schools do that. We had a very specific and unique logo. The other schools around as far as I recall had unique logos. There’s a school my kid plays against that uses the local university mascot.
We stole the Indianapolis Colts’ mascot and colors. Mostly used our own colt image, but there are times the horseshoe was used. We also stole Notre Dame’s fight song tune, but had our own lyrics.
When I was in school, no. The logo was done many years ago by a student. We used that for decades. After I graduated, they took the craptacular logo of the Atlanta Falcons and changed the colors. It looks horrible and generic.
It would’ve been easy, as the mascot was the same as a pro baseball team, but no, they had a very lame looking mascot.
My HS mascot was the Trojans but our logo doesn’t look like any of the 20+ colleges that also use the Trojan as their mascot.
Smallish high school. Uses the same name and mascot logo design as the Duke Blue Devils.
At risk of people figuring out where I’m from. . . No. We used a character from a local company that literally became a meme. I won’t elaborate.