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yuck…totally underwhelmed.
Perhaps when it thaws we’ll see that it’s a rubber costume with fake teeth, a tongue stuffed in the mouth and a scrotum sewed to it.
source?
Updated with the source.
Bless them, they picked the logo with the least color so it would be cheaper to reproduce. What a pitiful thing.
forget thunderstruck. that’s thundersucks.
Wow. First the name Thunder and now this. Maybe the people who said we’re not ready for an NBA team are right.
I really don’t know what to think about that thing they want to call a “professional” team logo. I am in agreement with “Bless Your Heart”, it’s just cheaper to reproduce. Hopefully this isn’t the actual one. I have seen it other places “leaked” also. Damn.
The idiots have strung us along for over two months and THIS is the payoff? Booo-rinnng. I’m still going to love the NBA being here and everything, but bye bye shirt-wearing.
Hopefully this is a plant.
Awful.
Seriously? If we weren’t already the joke of the league, that logo will do it.
Ugh…the fonts clash, the “shield” looks like 80’s style art, and most importantly, it does not represent “Thunder” in the least.
Hopefully the rest of the logos will look better, otherwise Bennett needs a new PR department and design team, pronto. Better delay the announcement for another month to print some new stuff!
anyone notice that the shades of blue are pretty close to that of the Seattle Seahawks?…ironic? we take their team, we take their color(s).
you compare:
link
Sad and pathetic. I could have lived with Barons.
Utterly sad and pathetic.
Even worse the coach is still PJ Carlesimo.
How cute. It’s got a basketball in it!
Fuck
I like it. Of course, no one else will like it cause its not the name or the colors or the logo that THEY want or THEY thought of in their head. We have an NBA team, get used to it. Have you seen the other logos and team names in the NBA, it fits just fine. but of course, you guys all forked over $400 million dollars so go ahead and gripe about it. Wait a minute, no you didn’t…..
I’m not even a basketball fan and I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw this. Criminy… there’s not even any lightning on it. The current OKC logo looks better than this.
I hope this isn’t it. For the good of our town’s pride.
Actually, Elo, as taxpayers in the state of Oklahoma, we are part of a group that will fork over well beyond $400 million, so, yeah, I reserve my right to bitch.
Thunder is a great name. Who can defend any nickname. Knickerbockers? Nuggets? Lakers? Whats the difference?
As for logo, looks great to me. Let’s play ball!
This is fake. Unfortunately, whoever created this didn’t account for the leather panel, or seam, that would be cutting directly through the logo. This white leather panel, shown in the picture, is too large. Just take a look for yourself- look up an official NBA Spalding basketball and your be able to dispel your fears of this disgusting logo.
WTF cares what the name and logo are. Call them the blanks and let them wear BVds,, important thing is we get to see Kevin Durant, Desmond Mason and the rest as OUR team. Thunder is as good as anything.
It’s not that bad, but it definitely does not have the “wow” factor. They’ve matched their MLS sounding name with an MLS looking logo. blech
I hope it is a fake.
I’m sure Nuggets and Knickerbockers….Jazz (in Utah?) and Lakers were seen as underwhelming when they were introduced. Point is OKC has an NBA team! Go Thunder!!!!!
You guys are way too gullible, without having any sort of valid source for this photo. The basketball looks like one of those mail-order ones you can order for your little league team. Some kid probably created this logo on their personal computer and slapped it on a cheap custom basketball. This is my hope, at least!
Ummm, JAJim- I don’t think it has any lightning on it because the name is “Thunder” maybe- just my 2 cents.
It has to be a fake-
I hope it is a fake.
Pretty sad when our AA pro hockey team and minor league baseball club have more creative and appealing logos.
“I don’t think it has any lightning on it because the name is Thunder”. So how do you visually represent thunder without lightning? A logo made of sound waves?
BOOMER SOONER !!!!!!!!!!!
Awful design. I bought several Hornets shirts, but I won’t buy any thunder apparel if this is the design.
This could well be another teaser, like the “Marshals are leaving in xx:xx:xx (countdown)” electronic billboards around town.
Go OKC Potatoes!!!
For those that are saying this cannot be a real ball becuase of the large white panel, see this:
link
My honest guess is that this is just something done for a basketball or not associated with the team at all. The graphic itself isn’t the giveaway, to me, it’s the font used for “THUNDER” … it’s straight out of Word Perfect ‘97.
I hope and pray this isn’t the logo…the only comfort I get out of this is that if the Barons black and gold picture had come out last week we’d all be wetting ourselves about that fake jersey.
This logo is worse than the WNBA logos. It would be a good logo for a kids league but this is a mans league. Where’s the toughness?
It is rather bland, and the basketball in the logo just reminds me of the old Suns or Cavs logos. I’m hoping this is, at worst, a “teaser” logo.
BTW, Thunder could be represented by Thor’s Hammer, or the superhero Thor. Plus, not every logo has to contain a literal depiction of the nickname (Pistons, Nuggets, Nets, Knicks, Trail Blazers, etc).
Look at the ball closely. This is a fake. You can see the paper not adhering to the balls surface. Look at the white on the back right side as well. Somebody made this themselves. Fear not Sooner fan….this isn’t your logo, but I just wanted to say that you should be ashamed of your owners for stealing Seattle’s team. Your city is in the middle of no where and nobody outside of greedy David Stern gives a rat’s ass about your dust bowl of a city! It’s appropriate that some of you referenced throwing up in your mouth because that is what most people do when they find out that they have to go to OKC!
Should’ve just been a big dollar sign with a Starbuck’s cup in the background. Hopefully after making the intentionally pathetic showing of last year the Thunder can actually make noise for you. I don’t think we’ll miss ‘em up here in the Northwest though!
Hey, Oglemole, I mean “Elo Melgo,” I would be happy to shut up about it if we had not forked over millions of dollars, but we did. If you are that clueless, you really MUST be an Ogle. Do you honestly think that the renovation of the nearly new Ford Center is going to be the end of it? Do you think in five years when we are finishing our fifth year dead last in the league and attendance is somewhere around, oh, I don’t know, 12, that Clay Bennett isn’t going to come up with some new demand. The difference between what he did to the people of Seattle and what he’s going to do to the people of Oklahoma is that Seattle didn’t fall for it. Oklahoma will.
so umm…okc stole the team, for this????? shoulda just let seattle keep the team. very disappointed.
I thought they were just going to replace the tower and radio waves with an oil derrick and lightening bolts …
haha it looks like a WNBA team logo. Suck on that bennet, no one likes your crappy stolen new team
“Look at the ball closely. This is a fake. You can see the paper not adhering to the balls surface. Look at the white on the back right side as well.”
Um… what the hell are you talking about? That made absolutely zero sense at all.
My guess is that this is one of the logos. Probably an alternate or secondary type of a logo. But it looks real to me. And everyone is right. It’s hideous. What a joke.
They took this damn long to unveil that?
Wow.
Check out this link:
http://www.creativelasering.com/ballpixcom/basketball.html
It’s not too difficult to make one of these basketballs on your own. Also, most store-bought basketballs have the official NBA logo on them, so that’s not a good indication of officiality.
Good call Kris, I think I prefer this Thunder http://ballpix.creativelasering.com/100_0263full.jpg
to that one
Bobo: Knickerbockers has historical aptness and resonance. Try a 2-second Wikipedia search (”According to Ric Burns’ New York: A Documentary Film, generations of New Yorkers proudly claimed to be descendants of Father Knickerbocker, despite his fictional roots.”) Lakers made perfect sense in Minnesota, and hangs on for sake of alliteration in LA. Nuggets is reference to gold, again historically pertinent to the region.
And all of those names are plurals, which every team name should be!!
Elo: What? It costs $400mil to have an opinion these days??
I’ll still use the name the team should have, in honor of Clay Bennett: The Oklahoma City Firepants.
“looks like a WNBA team logo” hahahaha its true!
Did someone say “Bobcats”?
The same people who are hating on the logo/team will be sporting the jerseys and apparel in a few months.
apparently this is a site of some status, this story is being linked by realgm.com
http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/54253/20080902/oklahoma_city_thunder_logo_revealed/
UNDERWHELMED!!! I even like the Vancouver Grizzlies logo better than that. They should bring that team back up there in Canada…
I have to say I think this a plant. I bet the team name wont be thunder at all. The way the NBA “accidentally” has put on team schedules and website just seems too obvious. The schedule that appeared on the teams website said 07-08 and only a couple teams showed the “thunder” name. The leaks have appeared on sites just long enough to create some web roar and they are taken off. And the logo itself, it is clearly thrown together with some clipart or something in a few minutes. The way the ball is on top of a box that appears to have nothing else inside of it. I dunno, I just don’t buy it. Tomorrow we will see the Oklahoma City Barons logo on the website…watch.
that may be the logo… or one they are considering… but that is not a regulation NBA ball… that is not a regulation high school or college ball either… the seams may be painted as to not stick out, but they would still be obvious.. then again.. it may be a basket ball made for the trophy case and not the court.
Lets go OKC Barons!!!!
I swear to god if thats our logo Ima quit watching the nba and stupid david stern. he is such a mofo so letting this happen. i think im going to have a beer…
There is no way in hell I’m wearing that.
Trevor, it will be Thunder. Trust me. I can’t speak to the logo, but it will be Thunder. I am not guessing.
Is there one company, or specifically one guy, that designs all NBA logos?
I think I would have worked Zeus into the whole concept, but that probably would have pissed off a lot of uptight fundies.
Looks like a WNBA logo
seattle supersonics is better thatn this shit
Yep…its official it looks like they are letting guys in the WNBA now. Well thats what the logo says!
Who cares? We have a team. It looks fine. This is a basketball team, not a modeling firm.
http://nbainsidestuff.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/oklahoma-city-thunder/
I don’t think that’s the logo. That stuff was deisgned by a college student, Ian Baker. Here is a link to his photobucket page.
http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/InsignionDesign2006/?start=all&mediafilter=images
Travis’ post is good….the name still sucks, but the Uni’s look good.
Better names, in no particular order: Bible Thumpers, RoughNecks, Conservatives, Kerns, Burbridges, Barrys, Funk, Ogles, Lost Ogles, MAPS, Ultimate, Gout, Deanos / Rossers, KATTS, Fallins, Fat Asses, Englands, Braums, Charcoal Broilers, Del Tacos, and Potholes.
That logo BLOWS! I’ve seen better designs on pajamas.
Oh man, my enthusiasm just hit an all-time LOW! It reminds me of a cheap version of the Wizards Logo, which is HORRIBLE. We have less than an hour to go for the official announcement, and I was going down there until I saw this earlier today. I’m afraid there might be a riot. It’s that bad. A questionable name is one thing, but BAD ART is another! I’ll be SOOOO disappointed if that is it. (hey, maybe it’s all a plot so we’ll be relived when we see the real thing.)
i just seen the new logo for the first time. very bad!!!
I love it … Durant will look better in our colors than green and yellow .. Go thunder
Hiring Ackerman was the first problem, there is not one ounce of creativity in that whole firm as is apparent by this rudimentary logo. What elements of Thurder can you find in the logo? The font for THUNDER is laughable and the darting OKC across the shield looks like we are advertising an airport code. I am excited for this team, but I doubt I will much apparel with that cheesy logo. Maybe just for nostalgia.
No matter the colors or logo. We have to stand by our team no matter what. The moral to our team goes down with each bad comment. Remember we don’t have to wear that but our team does.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
that’s all I can say.
other than ha ha ha.
what an ugly, ugly logo.
it’s so hillarious.
what a joke!
I am VERY excited to have an NBA team and wish them the best, but as a graphic designer, I am extremely disappointed with the design of the logo.
Very good choice for colors. Go formers Sonics!
what a stupid name and a dumbass logo
I see the Seattle trolls have found TLO. The name’s fine, logo’s fine.
The new logo is pretty lame.
Why not something cool like the Oklahoma City Tornadoes or the Oklahoma City Twisters? To nickname a team ‘Thunder’ and not have a lightning bolt or storm cloud or anything? Only white block letters and a basketball with the ugliest colors in a box of crayolas. O-K-C can say B-Y-E to any decent merchandising sales profits.
looks like crap.
Worst.Logo.Ever.
The Uniforms arenot the problem, the coach and team suck, Durant is no savior, give anybody that many shots and a green light and 20 pts is no problem
Thanks for taking care of our team while we rebuilt our city…seriously..but I thank God that the city officals didn’t have the authority to change the Hornets logo and colors to some kindergarden level crap that they developed for your Thunder.
Everyone should get free season tickets for having to support and look at such a disaster. Maybe you can rename the team to the OKC Disaster!
NOHF — Fair enough, but you can’t blame us for the Hornets’ new uniforms.
way to have the rest of america laugh at you, oklahoma city.
logo is worse than the bobcats.
generic easy colors that dont relate to anything.
the team and its officials will ignore the 98% rejection rate of this logo and move forward.. they dont care we hate the name and logo.