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K's spaceman logo is on wrong list

Yoo-hoo. It’s me, Justin Cohn’s stunt double, standing in for the man himself, who’s otherwise occupied with some football team in Indianapolis today.

And before the puck goes down for the Komets vs. Flint, here’s a little item to get your outrage stoked.

Don’t knew who these guys are, but they took it upon themselves to rate the the Worst Hockey Logos Ever. And right there on their list, along with the Calgary Radz (??) and the Fayetteville Force (double ??) is the Komets’ fabled spaceman logo from the 1960s.

Altogether now: What the (bleep)?

Look, if you want a Komets logo to put on this list, put the year they wore that stupid fort on the front. That WAS one of the worst hockey logos ever.

But the spaceman? Really?

Sorry, but that invalidates their entire list. That, and the fact that nowhere on the list will you find that garish mustard junk the Vancouver Canucks wore in the 1980s.

As they say down in Texas, I have spoke.

Justin A. Cohn, pro sports coordinator for The Journal Gazette, has been covering the Fort Wayne Komets since 1997. His reporting includes game stories from home and away, features about the players and personalities associated with the Komets, plus coverage of issues affecting hockey at all levels. A native of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Cohn graduated from Emory University in Atlanta. He can be reached at 260-461-8429 or by email at jcohn@jg.net.

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