So I'm wanting to design my own Blazers t-shirt without violating copyright laws, and mixum's "Craziest season ever" thread got me thinking about Blazer history. It'd be kind of cool to create a shirt with simple icons representing every year since the Blazers' inception. So for example, the season ending in 2010 will clearly be the year of injuries, so I'm thinking a graphic of a crutch. (Designed correctly I suppose it could also look like Greg Oden's dong, which also works.) 2000 would be two hands crossed in a choking manner. 2003 or so would be the Mo Cheeks facepalm. After that I start to get a little stuck. Maybe a few of you could help me fill in some blanks. Ideally you can come up with an icon to represent the season, but even just a defining event from that season would be helpful. 1970 Franchise starts. Maybe just a basketball? 1971 Sidney Wicks afro 1972 Head of LaRue Martin 1973 1974Lenny Wilkens (); Head of Bill Walton 1975 1976 Jack Ramsay's pants 1977 Championship trophy 1978 50-10 and crutches 1979 Michael Thompson 1980 Billy Ray Bates 1981 Jim Paxson 1982 1983 if you could get a silhouette of the #1 dunk in this video [video=youtube;SvjJA93Xy9Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjJA93Xy9Y[/video] that would be cool. ; Clyde Drexler 1984 Broken leg; Kiki Vandeweghe 1985 TP ; Sam Bowie 1986 1987 a face of Mike Schuler yelling 1988 1989 Buck Williams; silhouette of a Duck-hook 1990 The Uh-oh Poster 1991 The Perfect Quarter/Cliff fumbling the ball out of bounds; Magic's ball toss 1992 Jordan's shrug 1993 Uncle Cliffy 1994 1995 The Rose Garden 1996 Sabonis and Sheed 1997 Damon Stoudamire 1998 1999 Brian Grant getting stitches from Karl Malone (and still winning!) 2000 The Choke 2001 The Meltdown (basketball whose lower half is just a glob of goo) 2002 National Anthem (US flag?); Qyntel and trading card; 2003 Mo Cheeks facepalm 2004 Sheed traded; Cut The Check (an icon of a check should be pretty easy) 2005 Ha! 2006 Brandon Roy rookie of the year trophy 2007 Three white balls in pyramid shape with a #1 on the top one to signify the lottery 2008 Roy's clutch three point shot against Houston (see 53 second mark from video) 2009 The future comes early; baby for the youngest roster in the league; small playoff bracket to symbolize our return to the playoffs 2010 Crutches; wheelchair Still not quite sure how it'll lay out. Probably need both front and back of the shirt to make it work. If it looks good, I'll probably put it up on Cafe Press for sale. Probably something I'll work on in my spare time over the coming month or so. I'll update as slots get filled in. If several ideas come from any season I'll try to add them all so I've got choices to work with.
Awesome moment. The thing I remember about the actual moment is he had a funny way of pulling his jersey to the side that one time only (see the 56 second mark in the video). For a second it looks like he's going to rip off all his clothes because he's so happy. I might just do that in silhouette.
Yeah, that was the same year as the National Anthem. I'll add it, but I kind of think Mo Cheeks helping the little girl was more iconic. Hell, it was the closest he ever came to actually coaching.
2007, since that was the summer of the year of the draft. Maybe 3 white balls in pyramid shape with a #1 on the top one to signify the lottery. I'm a little stumped at how to represent that one graphically. Hmm.
lol. Not bad, but a little tricky to communicate in a 1x1" space (which is probably how each icon will come out). Besides, I'd argue it was more of a nosedive than a watershed.
2004 - Cut The Check (an icon of a check should be pretty easy) 2009 - Perhaps an icon of a baby for the youngest roster in the league *waits for Ed's head to explode* I mean, the youngest active roster in the league?
1970 Franchise starts. Maybe just a basketball? 1971 Sidney Wicks afro 1972 1973 1974Lenny Wilkens () 1975 1976 1977 Championship trophy 1978 50-10 and crutches 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 if you could get a silhouette of the #1 dunk in this video [video=youtube;SvjJA93Xy9Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjJA93Xy9Y[/video] that would be cool. 1984 Broken leg 1985 TP 1986 1987 a face of Mike Schuler yelling 1988 1989 Buck Williams 1990 The Uh-oh Poster 1991 1992 We had a team these years? 1993 "" 1994 "" 1995 "" 1996 Sabonis and Sheed 1997 1998 1999 Brian Grant getting stitches from Karl Malone (and still winning!) 2000 The Choke 2001 The Meltdown (basketball whose lower half is just a glob of goo) 2002 National Anthem (US flag?); Qyntel and trading card; 2003 Mo Cheeks facepalm 2004 Sheed traded 2005 2006 Brandon Roy rookie of the year trophy 2007 Three white balls in pyramid shape with a #1 on the top one to signify the lottery 2008 Roy's clutch three point shot against Houston (see 53 second mark from video) 2009 2010 Crutches
For 2009 you could do a small playoff bracket to symbolize our return to the playoffs. 92 you could do something regarding our appearance in the finals against MJ and the Bulls. 95 could be Clyde being traded.
1970 Franchise starts. Maybe just a basketball? 1971 1972 Head of LaRue Martin 1973 1974 Head of Bill Walton 1975 1976 Jack Ramsay 1977 Championship trophy 1978 "50-10" 1979 Michael Thompson 1980 Billy Ray Bates 1981 Jim Paxson 1982 1983 Clyde Drexler 1984 Kiki Vandeweghe 1985 Sam Bowie 1986 1987 Mike Schuler 1988 1989 1990 Buck Williams 1991 The Perfect Quarter/Cliff fumbling the ball out of bounds 1992 Jordan's shrug 1993 1994 1995 The Rose Garden 1996 Sabonis 1997 Damon Stoudamire 1998 1999 Brian Grant getting stitches from Karl Malone (and still winning!) 2000 The Choke 2001 The Meltdown (basketball whose lower half is just a glob of goo); Tipped over beakers of fizzing solutions 2002 National Anthem (US flag?); Qyntel and trading card; 2003 Mo Cheeks facepalm 2004 Sheed traded 2005 Ha! 2006 Brandon Roy rookie of the year trophy 2007 Three white balls in pyramid shape with a #1 on the top one to signify the lottery 2008 Roy's clutch three point shot against Houston (see 53 second mark from video) 2009 The future comes early 2010 Crutches
