Yard Dawgz Unveil New Logo

Friday December 14, 2007

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz have unveiled their new official team logo.  The new logo was designed as part of a logo redesign contest sponsored by the organization. The team chose three contest winners, all whom received a $500 savings bond, 2008 season tickets, and Yard Dawgz merchandise.  The winners were Linda Poetter, Artisha Crawford, and Charles Wonsey.
 
Poetter is an art teacher at Destiny Christian School and has been an artist for as long as she can remember.  Her involvement in the school system allows her to use her creativity for school events. Poetter encouraged her art students to enter the Logo Redesign contest as well.  Three made the finals and one, Artisha Crawford (13), joined Poetter in the winners circle at last nights unveiling.

Wonsey is a research analyst and webmaster for PolicePay.net, Inc. and moved to Oklahoma City three years ago from Michigan with his dog Mala.  He’s always been interested in design and was a marketing director of several years before moving to Oklahoma.  Wonsey heard about the contest during an interview with Yard Dawgz Head Coach and President, Gary Reasons, on KJ103. 

The contest was the first of its kind organized by the team and was open to all interested parties.  The contest winners were decided by the Yard Dawgz front office staff and the franchise held a “Logo Unveiling Party” at Ford Center last night to reveal the winning rendition.

The previous logo, which was first put in use by the franchise in 2004, will be replaced by the new logo which features the words ‘Yard Dawgz’ and ‘arenafootball2’, two criteria for the contest.  The Dawg head, along with his right paw, are placed over the team name and feature the brick red, black, white, and silver color scheme of the team.

Team President Gary Reasons said, “We essentially had two goals with the logo redesign contest.  The first was to create community involvement with our team and the second was to include the verbiage ‘arenafootball2’ on the logo.  Both goals were achieved as we had a large number of terrific entries as well as a tremendous turnout at Ford Center for the logo unveiling.”

Merchandise featuring the new logo is available for purchase through the Yard Dawgz office.  Please call 405.228.3294 or visit www.okcyarddawgz.com for more information.

Season tickets start as low as $66 and are now available!  Call 405.228.3294 or visit www.okcyarddawgz.com for more information.