the real wells wrote:

No, I am not bashing Bill. Just speaking up for how I am feeling as of Late. Dont take it personally, I just wanted to be more involved than I am. Take Care Guys!

TRW, just shoot Bill an e-mail and express your concerns with him. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.

Ez Street wrote:

Please tell me that is not the "new" logo..... http://www.nahl.com/teams/index.cfm

Yikes, that is ugly indeed.

::::::Think you are good enough?

Our website has this header for the final tryout applicants consideration.
Seems like they do not want to attract too many guys to attend. We need all the money we can get and yet they post this blowoff.

smnexpressfan wrote:

I agree 100% with what Punisher36 and the real Jackbag have to say on their previous posts. The big picture is that we have a board of directors on the team and they are doing what they are supposed to do. I also hope the Express are in the same division as N. Iowa, Bismarck, Albert Lea and Alexandria come this next season. It'll be interesting to see what the league decides to do with the division format.

Why do you hope that the Express are in the same division as N. Iowa,Bismarck, Albert Lee, and Alexandria?

That's the group of teams we played with last year.

Why do you want to play against the same teams again that you played against last year?

Let poop Chute run your Website.. He is another Jackbagass

dave wrote:

::::::Think you are good enough? Our website has this header for the final tryout applicants consideration. Seems like they do not want to attract too many guys to attend. We need all the money we can get and yet they post this blowoff.

The Express are only having one tryout camp this year becouse the team came together late in the year. July 17 - 20 was the only open ice left for the Express to use for the camps. Next year they will have two camps like the first three years. The header is just a question. Not away to keep the boys from coming to the camp.

Poop Chute Ruth wrote:

Why do you want to play against the same teams again that you played against last year?

For the same reason the Yankees and Red Sox do. For the same reason the Islanders and Rangers do. For the same reason the Vikings and Packers do. RIVALRIES!!!

Anyone know how the locker room is coming along? Haven't heard much about that lately. Wanted to know if anyone had any insight on that.

I did see in the Owatonna Sunday paper that the county actually put in new lights in both rinks and it is supposed to be brighter as a result. Good to see!

the real wells wrote:

No, I am not bashing Bill. Just speaking up for how I am feeling as of Late. Dont take it personally, I just wanted to be more involved than I am. Take Care Guys!

I wanted to be more involved and I have no financial stake in the team, but I've sent ideas I've had directly to Dave. I can understand it would be frustrating to have money in it and still feel uninvolved, but venting on a public message board isn't going to help much. Hang in there, TRW.

Ez Street wrote:

Please tell me that is not the "new" logo..... http://www.nahl.com/teams/index.cfm

They got all the Faribault green out of it.

Where is the guy who always says "are you kidding me?" Apparently he hasn'ty seen the fisher price website the "new" Express put up. Gay. Gay. Gay. Holy fuckin shitbags are you fuckin kidding me? I don't know if they have a junior D league but if they do i bet there website is better than the heap of gay ass horsepoop these tard farmers are passing off as legit. i hope your team is better than your website or you will suck worse than kenai river.

Do you think they were smart enough to get permission from the old group to us a reworked logo? Wonder what the IP lawyers R gonna think?

Do you think the original franchise owners were smart enough to get the logo rights secured in the first place? I just ran a search of the US Trademark Office and found nada...

I'm not sure any of the logos in the league are trademarked.

I don't recall seeing TM or R under any of them.

I wouldn't trust that anyway, especially if teams accidentally forget and let the trademark lapse... I'd look it up on ustpo.gov...

Neat thing about atty's is they dont have to necessarily be right to file a claim and then bingo...the cash register starts running. Wonder what the buy/sell agreement had in it?

the real Jackbag wrote:

Poop Chute Ruth wrote: Why do you want to play against the same teams again that you played against last year? For the same reason the Yankees and Red Sox do. For the same reason the Islanders and Rangers do. For the same reason the Vikings and Packers do. RIVALRIES!!!

I love rivalries.

Trademarks concerns?

These are tier II junior hockeys teams, not Fortune 500 companies. I doubt anyone cares enough (or has the money) to hire a lawyer to be concerned about a trademark. If they can keep enough people in the stands to break even, this is a good thing. If they are going to waste money on a lawyer over a trademark,.......Good Luck.