Often times, when I’m doing my morning interwebbrowsinggooglebingtumbletweet routine and sucking down 6 gallons of coffee, I’ll stumble across a picture or video that’s really cool, and I’ll be like, “Hey, the With Leather readers might like this” and then I realize that it’s three years old and it’s already been watermarked by 60 sites that had nothing to do with making it. But sometimes I’m willing to make an exception under the Burnsy Rule of “I ain’t never seen this” and today is one of those days.

Yesterday, CBS Sports re-blogged or re-Tumbled, whatever it’s called, a bigger version of the above image that features a collection of “What If?” city sports team logos. Basically, someone got all hopped up on Photoshop juice and asked the question that nobody else was asking – “What would it look like if sports teams in major cities combined their logos?” And I thought that was really cool. But the problem was, damn dude, why are those logos so tiny?

So I went back to the source of the image, thanks to Tumblr’s handy “Okay, who really posted this?” feature, and that was a dead end, because the person who blogged it 500 notes ago had nothing to do with making it. Thankfully, I know how to type and I have a functional IQ, and I was able to search a little and determine that not only did that awesome image come from a message board thread at Chris Creamer’s Sports Logos from earlier this year, but the creative kids commenting on that site went off with this fun idea.

Specifically, a commenter named “Firefly” had a field day with a variety of sports city logos from Washington DC to San Diego and back, and other commenters joined in to rep their favorite cities. Some of them are awesome and some need a little work, but after the jump you can pick your favorites and then go get them tattooed on your faces like good sports fans.

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We’re trying to get caught up on some tax stuff today, so apologies for the lapse in posting. To tide you over, here are some alternative Big Ten logos developed by fans as part of an independent design contest. Yes, thousands of people were convinced that they could create a better Big Ten logo than the Big Ten could.

Of course, most of them were right.

More contest entries and the winners are here.

Via Eamonnn Sports Programming Network

I have to say, I really like the new logo for the Single-A Winston-Salem Dash.  Very strong, very masculine.  A sense of urgency and desire.  Its players won’t settle for getting to third base; they’ll get home no matter what.  They’ll be purple-helmeted warriors out there.

“This was an exciting process, but nothing compares to actually making the announcement and introducing our name,” said [Team Preseident Kevin] Terry. “…the logo is unique, compelling and provides a lot of opportunity for integration in our game entertainment and fan participation.”

He’s right.  That logo easily lends itself for promotion nights.  Like, they could make the Dash logo into a rubberized 3-D version about, say, eight inches long and hand those out at the turnstiles.  Fan participation would be off the charts that night.

[Deadspin]

The United Football League (UFL) plans to begin its first season in August of next season, even though the league has yet to decide which cities will host its six teams.  Previously, the biggest news the UFL made was when its commissioner said he would welcome Michael Vick into the league.

Now the UFL has unveiled its new logo, a blue and green shield with a football enjoined with a star.  Yep.  Definitely a football and a star.  Well, maybe if I squint a little and use my imagination, I can see a clam eating a starfish.  But definitely not anything else.  Nosirree.  Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to watch this unrelated video loop of pistons churning, trains entering tunnels, and Georgia O’Keeffe paintings.