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Old 05-01-2007, 03:40 PM
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Default The MFCA Logo

I've had a few questions regarding the figure on the MFCA logo. I'll do my best to explain it and if anyone has more questions feel free to call me.

The inital logo that I created had no figure on it. Only a felt football and resembled the NFL Coaches Association logo.
The committee felt that it did not represent to the newbies or to the general miniature football population what Miniature Football was about and everybody agreed that it needed a figure on it. Thus the problem. Figures are made by different companies and the MFCA's prime directive (stealing a line from Star Trek) are the words "all inclusive". That mean't either cluttering the logo with many different figures or trying to create artistically a figure that represented all.

I will admit to not being Michelangelo and I'm maybe just a step above a bathroom grafitti artist. The task was mine however and with photos and a figure from each company on my desk including some customs, I did my best to make an amalgam of all in front of me.

To little detail and the figure looked old and too much detail and the figure was hard to tell from a McFarlane or real player. It took me a lot of time to draw this but it is a drawing done on my computer. After its acceptance by the committee it was pointed out to me that it looked like a "Mr. Everything" and after I made the comparisons it does have some of the look of the Mr. Everything with the arms reversed.

I just want everyone to know that the intent was to meld all the figures and create something that to the newbie said miniature football. If it says anything besides miniature football to the masses then I failed artistically in my attempt. It was never the intent to have it look like any particular companies product.

Hopefully as the MFCA grows and miniature football grows there will come a day that we need to upgrade the logo and the MFCA members with artistic ability will be able to assist. For now, good bad or otherwise it is what we have and I hope that to the majority it still says miniature football. When you look at the history of logos, they often change to keep up with the times. We are in a period now where electric football/miniature football is changing. Our logo will change too in time.

Thanks and I hope that this clears that question up.
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