Not sure how elements of this article doesn't fall under "Isn't This News A Year Old At least?" category but here ya go...
http://komonews.com/sports/seahawks/you ... all-season
http://komonews.com/sports/seahawks/you ... all-season
Aros":1fqxndfh said:Not sure how elements of this article doesn't fall under "Isn't This News A Year Old At least?" category but here ya go...
http://komonews.com/sports/seahawks/you ... all-season
dogorama":ml6aypnt said:Aros":ml6aypnt said:Not sure how elements of this article doesn't fall under "Isn't This News A Year Old At least?" category but here ya go...
http://komonews.com/sports/seahawks/you ... all-season
It's such BS, I get so tired of reading from other fans around the league that we stole the 12th man . I am sure most of you already know it but the 12th man goes all the way back to 1900. I was really hoping we would drop it and just be the 12's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_man_(football)
XxXdragonXxX":g66ueaeb said:dogorama":g66ueaeb said:Aros":g66ueaeb said:Not sure how elements of this article doesn't fall under "Isn't This News A Year Old At least?" category but here ya go...
http://komonews.com/sports/seahawks/you ... all-season
It's such BS, I get so tired of reading from other fans around the league that we stole the 12th man . I am sure most of you already know it but the 12th man goes all the way back to 1900. I was really hoping we would drop it and just be the 12's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_man_(football)
Also funny that we arent even the only team paying A&M for the right to use 12th man, and I think the Colts are still being sued by them.
dogorama":7crv0j7k said:Aros":7crv0j7k said:Not sure how elements of this article doesn't fall under "Isn't This News A Year Old At least?" category but here ya go...
http://komonews.com/sports/seahawks/you ... all-season
It's such BS, I get so tired of reading from other fans around the league that we stole the 12th man . I am sure most of you already know it but the 12th man goes all the way back to 1900. I was really hoping we would drop it and just be the 12's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_man_(football)
FIFYPopeyejones":1tf5cn5k said:So the Hawks are paying 7-8x per year for even more limited use in this new deal.
I'm guessing they realized that if actually sued again their various "12" trademarks wouldn't hold up.
Edit: JPatera76 -- it's like the "Golden Arcs" of the fast food burger restaurant "McDowell's" in Coming To America. Marketing and branding your fans as "12s" or the like to get around the "12th man" trademark is referred to as "trademark dilution" and is a violation of trademark law.
Popeyejones":3evuozei said:dogorama":3evuozei said:Aros":3evuozei said:Not sure how elements of this article doesn't fall under "Isn't This News A Year Old At least?" category but here ya go...
http://komonews.com/sports/seahawks/you ... all-season
It's such BS, I get so tired of reading from other fans around the league that we stole the 12th man . I am sure most of you already know it but the 12th man goes all the way back to 1900. I was really hoping we would drop it and just be the 12's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_man_(football)
In your own link it says that the exact term "12th man" was first recorded in use for what would become Texas A&M back in the early 1920s, and that A&M had been using it continuously since then. That the idea of fans being a twelfth player predates that in a couple sources is really neither here nor there when it comes to trademark law.
Agreed that it's a silly thing to give Hawks fans crap about, though.
That said, TBH about it I think "that's really the best you can do?" is a MUCH better rejoinder than insisting that A&M doesn't have a right to the trademark or that the Seahawks don't pay for its usage.
CPHawk":2bf37zcu said:I hate A&M, I hope the campus burns to the ground.
The movie was Coming to America not Trading Places. Fun fact the Duke brothers were in both moviesPopeyejones":1t34yskz said:So the Hawks are paying 7-8x per year for even more limited use in this new deal.
I'm guessing they realized that if actually sued again their various "12" trademarks wouldn't hold up.
Edit: JPatera76 -- it's like the "Golden Arcs" of the fast food burger restaurant "McDowell's" in Trading Places. Marketing and branding your fans as "12s" or the like to get around the "12th man" trademark is referred to as "trademark dilution" and is a violation of trademark law.