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re: What has your team "borrowed" from others?
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:55 pm to finestfirst79
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:55 pm to finestfirst79
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I don't know the full story and don't pretend to, but it's a common-enough phrase that I can see a school picking up on it with no knowledge of another school already ("already" in this case being 20 years earlier) using it. It wasn't trademarked until 1989 and I have no recollection of anybody else using it at that time. Having said that, it has always surprised me that A&M was able to get the trademark.
I've read alot on this matter for ammunition purposes. A lot of schools used the 12th man thing, Iowa and Minnesota both before a&m. The 12th man was at a lot of different places it was a common term. Then, the Seahawks picked it up and pretty much made it main stream and marketed the term. Aggy wanted to start marketing the term and didnt want any one else to because for some reason they felt entitled and pushed and pushed for trademark. Now they push papers at anyone who uses it.
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Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:58 pm to CajunTiger_225
A&M trademark is from as early as 1984 and as late as 1990, which predates anyone giving a shite about the Seahawks.
Posted on 5/7/15 at 10:38 pm to CajunTiger_225
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A lot of schools used the 12th man thing, Iowa and Minnesota both before a&m.
That's well-established. In 1900 and 1917!
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Then, the Seahawks picked it up and pretty much made it main stream and marketed the term.
'91 Aggieland image:
It may predate that, I dunno. Pretty sure the sign wasn't up when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and I went to school, but "we're the 12th man on the fightin' Aggie team" (from, weirdly, the song "The Twelth Man") predates even me.
The Seahawks seem to be happy with the current agreement, so other than 120-yr old Minnesota grads and 103-yr old Iowa grads I'm not sure who should have a beef with this.
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Now they push papers at anyone who uses it.
I prefer to think of this as Triumph's "For me to poop on" defense. Why a Death Valley fan would have an issue with this baffles me, but I'm a bit slow.
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