Bills, Toronto unveil eye-pleasing middle finger to city of Buffalo
The Bills and the Rogers Centre have unveiled their “series logo” for the team’s upcoming games in Toronto over the next several seasons. This expertly-crafted graphic has everything you would expect from a major sporting event logo– maple leaf, that CN Tower dealie– everything except any mention of the word “Buffalo” in conjunction with the Bills.
My corporate-speak dictionary tells me that “series logo” is a euphemism for “new team logo as soon as the old man finally drops dead.” Buffalo fans who are troubled by a seemingly inevitable move should look at the positive side– it will be a lot easier to follow the Bills in Toronto than if they were to move to, say, Los Angeles.
Tags: bad MS Paint, marshawn lynch = problems at the border, toronto bills
June 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Sheriff Bud Boomer is not amused!
June 17th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
blow up the Peace Bridge!
June 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
It’s time to stop fucking around and invade Canada now. Who’s going to stop us? Their curling team? Rick Moranis? As long as we stay away from Don Cherry, we can take those bastards.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I heard this is what really killed Tim Russert.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
The NFL loves you.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Universal health care is good for when you have a heart attack shoveling 9 feet of snow, and when Marshawn Lynch is on the lam.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
@Gut Out
There is no-one to stop you, it will be a mere matter of marching.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
As someone who remembers the wonderful “San Antonio Saints” banners, I will join my Buffalo brethren in saying “Up yours Canada, eh?!”
June 17th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Don’t forget, the NFl will support the building of a new stadium to house the Toronto Faux-Bills.
That just means one thing, Welcome to SB XVIII in Toronto!!! Nobody will be able to attend because of the city will be shut down by snow.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
super bowl 18 in toronto? someone obviously isn’t roman.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Shouldn’t that logo be ten yards wider on each side?
June 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Canada:
America, Jr.
The 51st State
The Maple Leaf State
America’s Hat
America’s Parking Lot
Chris Berman’s Pharmacy
How do you spell Canada?
C-eh-N-eh-D-eh
June 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Another bright side: $4 round-trip mega bus tickets!
/struggling college student
June 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Just what Toronto needs: a third pro sports franchise that will not make the playoffs once in our lifetime.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
(boooom I snuck in both a hockey AND a baseball reference)
June 17th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Does this mean “Kids in the Hall” will be on the air again? What about “DeGrassi Jr. High” and “SCTV”?
June 17th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
i’ve said this elsewhere, if the Bills leave, even (especially?) to toronto, Bills fans should throw their united support behind the Browns. That way, you can the largest group of some of the most horribly tortured sports fans all together in one place. Hell, there are already loads of Indians and Cavs fans in Western NY.
(but jim kelly said the Bills would never leave Buffalo)
June 17th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
@ gut out:
Bring it on. You guys can’t even put down a third-world country full of Stone Age technology and some rag-tag religious freaks.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
If you go thru Fort Erie, you can always stop for the ballet and duty free booze.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
+1 to the sieve
June 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
“it will be a lot easier to follow the Bills in Toronto than if they were to move to, say, Los Angeles”
Exactly! Now is that so hard to understand?
June 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
As a Bills fan, I am ashamed of my KSK handle
June 17th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Good riddens Bills. Cheers to the peelers and duty free.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
@futuremrs. – So you managed a football, baseball, and hockey reference in a post when your basketball team is winning the title tonight? Shouldn’t you be gloating and ending all of your posts with “NUMBER 17 BABY!!!!!!!!1!!!1!!”? If it were any other Boston fan I’d make some jab about passive racism, but for you I’ll abstain.
/depressed, bitter Pistons fan
June 17th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
On behalf of seasoned alcoholics, I applaud the NFL’s willingness to use Molson Canadian colors.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Maybe Clay Bennett’s group can by the Bills to keep them in Buffalo.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
That is one fugly-ass logo. It looks like they threw some shit into a random logo generator and called it a day.
The addition of “Up Yours, Buffalo” actually improved it significantly. I would have bolded that and made it sans serif, though.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
LaBatt Blue used to come in 11.5 oz. bottles and cans instead of the regular 12 oz. That always pissed me off, so I didn’t buy it. You’d get short-changed a bottle per case. Have they staightened up and begun to fly right and moved to 12 oz bottles and cans?
Also, Canadia’s always cool with me- as long as they don’t get too uppity.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
See, the problem with invading Canada is twofold. First, you have to go to Canada. Then, you have to stay and occupy Canada.
What we really want to do is annex Canada.
“You’re part of America now”
-”Nuh-uh, eh”
“Yes
-”Oh.”
June 17th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Well we know that the Toronto Bills players will be making more money on average than other NFL teams if they are getting paid in Canadian dollars. Lord knows we’ll be going up there trying to spend our greenbacks at some point this year just to be told “We don’t take uour Monopoly money ‘ere eh.”
June 17th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Homer to Queen Elizabeth: “Maybe we’re not perfect like our brother Canada, who’s never had a girlfriend- I’m just saying…”.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
But what about the Hamilton Tiger Cats? This could ruin them! Why won’t any think of the Ti-Cats? Why is there no room in this world for teams with redundant nicknames?
As a Bills fan what really sucks is that this is a DOLPHINS game. To take away a home game vs Miami is truly a cockscrubbin move.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
@ Gino Tourettsa, “What about ‘DeGrassi Jr. High’ and ‘SCTV’?”: Yes.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207113,00.html
June 17th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
@ Dan Daoust
Take off, eh. Coo-loo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coooo… It’s the Great White North, eh.
Also, how many Zit Remedy albums do you have, broom head?
June 17th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Well we know that the Toronto Bills players will be making more money on average than other NFL teams if they are getting paid in Canadian dollars.
Yeah, but they’ll blow it all on hydroponic weed from Vancouver and bilingual/bisexual strippers from Montreal, so it’ll even out.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
@samsquantch
What do you think Bubbles, Steve French (the cougar) and Trina (Ellen Page) would think of this developement?
June 17th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
If they do move the team to Toronto, I really hope they rename them the Roughriders.
You can never have enough, and the condom sponsorship just writes itself.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
@Otto: sounds like you’ve been to Montreal, frieind.
@Gino: to my knowledge Labatt’s still comes as 11.5 oz. Don’t forget they go by metric up there, so it’s actually 340mL.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Dyno-supreme herb from British Columbia, bisexual lady strippers who don’t speak English from Montréal, hockey and (mostly) good beer and rye whisky… let’s make Canadia a state- or at least a US protectorate.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
@Gino Tourettsa
Steve French would be too baked to respond after eating all the weed but Conky surely would be happy with this development. He’s eeeeeevil. As Lahey would say, Bills fans are being treated like ’shit puppets in a shit blizzard’ by the NFL on this one.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
So if you open up the skydome, do the balls of this Freudian slip fall out?
/Panicking bills fan with no outlet for his frustration.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
/shits pants
June 17th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
the who are moving where now?
June 17th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
@Shinons
At least the Celtics didn’t get jobbed out of a title by crappy officiating and the most ridiculous and unwarranted set of suspensions on pro sports history.
/bittter, disaffected, still pissed off Pacers fan.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
@Gino
I just checked the fridge, bottles are still 11.5, the cans are 12.
/Kelly and Thurman have money lined up somewhere. They shall be kings of Buffalo once again!
June 17th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
+1 misfit. remember, he is a man possessed.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
re: labatt’s bastardized 11.5 oz bottles
my uncle was a beer distributer and i asked him about that once. it’s to avoid paying taxes that kick in at 12 oz bottle when importing their brew to the states.
he’brew beer, take note…
June 17th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
@ mini dagger, deafjeff and Rocco
I’m glad other degenerate KSK readers noticed that Labatt’s bottles come in un-American 11.5 oz and the cans come in freedom-loving 12 oz. I didn’t know it was a tax thing, but that makes perfect sense.
Also, will he’brew control the beer media?
June 18th, 2008 at 2:34 am
it is interesting that you turned the comments off on the night that we massholes brought another championship home
June 18th, 2008 at 6:47 am
If there’s anything that can make me feel better about the NBA on a night that the most historically douchy franchise in the league brings home the title, it’s remembering how bad the Pacers suck. Thanks Monkey Business.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:34 am
@head
Yea, it’s a mass conspiracy. Go fuckyourself.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:05 am
it is interesting that you turned the comments off on the night that we massholes brought another championship home
Unless you were on the court last night, princess, you didn’t bring home anything. The mercenaries you brought in from Minnesota and Milwaukee did.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I heard the Celtics’ Leprechaun fixed a couple games and now that he’s in trouble he wants to make a deal.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
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June 21st, 2008 at 2:55 am
it is only 3 people in Canada that want this to happen Ted Rogers owner of Rogers communications, the owner of the maple leafs who is a cunt, and the owner of the blue jays who is also a cunt……… these guys have more than enuff money to bring the bills to canada or a new franchise……… But Ted rogers is the fool behind this buffalo bills deal, he is speeding 78 million to have the bills play 8 games in toronto. if you want this to end contact ted rogers of rogers communications and get the american government to help stop this !
August 14th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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August 18th, 2008 at 10:30 am
haha i laugh at all these posts about refusing the bills to toronto… UMM GUYS HELLO HAVE U EVER LOOKED AT UR CITY,… buffalo is the shittiest city i have ever been in , imean there are more borded up building downtown than ones that are in use.. buffalo is definitely a struggling city…. cant wait for the bills to move to a real city. an international city, a city thats economy can actually produce revenue for the team .. haha buffalo what a joke… see you guys in toronto in 2012 when the bills are OURS ahhahahahahaha