Oklahoma City Roughnecks? Again?
Editor's Note: Another search of the Trademark database today turned up the corresponding logos for the Roughnecks.
Have the Oilers and Prodigal Hockey changed their mind? On May 7th, we reported that Oilfield Hockey and I had discovered the Oklahoma City Barons logos in the US Patent Office Trademark database. It was circulated widely and then Prodigal announced that they would announce the team name this week.
Since then, I've been checking the Trademark database each day and today, a search turns up this trademark of a crest for the Oklahoma City Roughnecks:
With a description of the crest:
The color(s) light brown, blue, white and black is/are claimed as a feature of the mark. The mark consists of the words OKLAHOMA CITY in light brown above the word ROUGHNECKS in blue and outlined in light brown and white with a black border.

and this trademark of a logo for the Oklahoma City Roughnecks:
With the following description of the logo:
The color(s) light brown, blue, white and black is/are claimed as a feature of the mark. The mark consists of the words OKLAHOMA CITY in light brown above the word ROUGHNECKS in blue and outlined in light brown and white with a black border and in the forefront a character of a hockey player.

So have the Oilers changed their mind? Was Prodigal annoyed that their surprise was spoiled? It is odd that they didn't submit the actual image, but given how the last submission turned out...
Those of you that have followed the naming process for this new team may find the ring of Roughnecks familiar, and you should. Roughnecks was the first domain name registered by Prodigal Hockey after starting their fan suggestions contest.
Are there any artistically-inclined readers willing to do an artist's rendition of the crest and the logo?
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Roughnecks or Barons
Could it be that Barons was used only to throw people off? After all, Barons was also supposed to be the name of the OKC NBA team. Even official team jersey’s were released online. Some of the national media was reporting it as well. So it was the OKC Barons…..until the day of the official announcement when it then became the OKC Thunder. If you look up who the name the domain name OKC Barons is registered to it is different than the other names you have uncovered. So I guess we’ll know for sure Wednesday. But my bet is that Prodigal never intended to use OKC Barons.
I’ve heard Barons, Bison, Roughnecks, etc. all along. As strongly as I feel for one of the contenders, we really won’t know until the unveiling at 4 pm on Wednesday.
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Bison is still owned by the Thunder.
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The picture of the shirts from the baseball game would be more believable. If there was some evidence to support the idea of the name. It just seems like a shameless PR trick by Prodigal. In a lame attempt to get fans excited.
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Hey it got us all talking and wondering. Rather than ho-hum we know what they will say when it is announced. I suppose I can see the fun in it.
I should have posted it in this thread. But I put a link to Tencer’s twitter. He pretty much says it will be Barons.
by oilerdiehard on May 18, 2010 5:20 PM MDT up reply actions

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