I don't mean to step on Uncle Mike's toes but most of you have commented on that already so I won't feel too terrible.
One of the five websites I read every single day is the great hockey blog done by Yahoo! Sports. The editor lives in D.C. out of the blue today, he did a post about historical NHL patches. I've already e-mailed him to tell him about the incredible career of my industrious Uncle Bob at Lion Brothers and if I'm not mistaken Uncle Bob did the patch for Gretzky's 802nd goal, right? In any case, here is the link to his blog post and if he ever wants to do a story about patches again hopefully he'll contact me for your info you certainly deserve the recognition. If you search around the NHL Patches site Bob and see anything that you've had a hand in, be sure to let me know and I'll pass it along to him. We stay in touch from time to time and I was once quoted on the Yahoo Blog for a story regarding a Columbus rookie.
The Yahoo! Blog Post from Today
One of the five websites I read every single day is the great hockey blog done by Yahoo! Sports. The editor lives in D.C. out of the blue today, he did a post about historical NHL patches. I've already e-mailed him to tell him about the incredible career of my industrious Uncle Bob at Lion Brothers and if I'm not mistaken Uncle Bob did the patch for Gretzky's 802nd goal, right? In any case, here is the link to his blog post and if he ever wants to do a story about patches again hopefully he'll contact me for your info you certainly deserve the recognition. If you search around the NHL Patches site Bob and see anything that you've had a hand in, be sure to let me know and I'll pass it along to him. We stay in touch from time to time and I was once quoted on the Yahoo Blog for a story regarding a Columbus rookie.
The Yahoo! Blog Post from Today
3 comments:
Very cool, Sean. Thanks for sharing. I always win points with sports fans when I tell them about all the patches/logos Dad works on, especially the Superbowl-related ones.
Hi Sean,
Yes, I did indeed design the Wayne Gretzky 802 emblem. We made quite a few of them for the NHL.
The original emblems had an edge of black material which was 1/8" wide. As you can see, whoever had this emblem trimmed the edge off for whatever reason.
Somewhere in my attic are several of the originals. I may have even given one to your dad.
I suppose that these are worth something to NHL or Gretzky fans.
I'll look and if I can find them, they will be coming your way.
My stuff is everywhere !
Uncle Bob
Hello again,
Thinking back for a few minutes, I seem to remember that we also made some sample emblems of the same design with different lettering at the bottom. I think that they may have had the date he broke the record.
I'll search when it isn't 120 degrees in the attic, and let you know.
Bob
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