In 2003, the Blue Jackets obtained a new, alternate, dark blue color jersey with two new logos. Fortunately, the fans disliked this angry insect, which caused its “death” several years later. Inspired by this symmetry, the club had come up with a new insect unknown to nature – a wasp in a Yankee soldier jacket with a stick. Yellowjacket is the common name in North America for predatory social wasps. Wasp? Why? It can seem a bit weird, but it is wordplay. The alternate logo for the franchise was the wasp. The logo much resembled the Christmas tree. The initial logo had a red ribbon with stars unfurled in the shape of “CB” letters with a hockey stick cutting through the center to represent the “J.” An additional silver star crowned the stick represented Columbus’s status as the state capital. However, the team’s logo slightly let the fans down with its neon green stick. The color scheme contains blue, red, and white, which are the colors of Ohio and USA flags. The official mascot of the Columbus Blue Jackets is Stinger, a bright green bug with red eyes. By the way, the famous cannon fired at home games whenever the Blue Jackets score a goal is an homage to Ohio’s history. So, now it is clear where the Blue Jackets’ name came from. Besides, Blue Jacket was the Shawnee Indian chief known for his militant defense of the tribe’s lands in Ohio in the late 18th – early 19th centuries. Finally, the Union’s dark blue uniforms were sewn exactly in Columbus. Several leading generals were from Ohio, including Ulysses Grant (future US president), William Sherman, James Garfield (future US president), and George Custer. It raised more soldiers than any other state. Ohio is extremely proud of its key role in providing troops, military officers, and supplies to the North Army. The team is named after the Union soldiers’ uniform during the Civil War, 1861-1865. The name-the-team contest showed that more than 14,000 fans support the Columbus Blue Jackets variant. The Columbus Blue Jackets played their first NHL regular season in 2000. Suddenly, the insurance and financial service company Nationwide announced that it would pay for constructing the $150-million arena. Columbus’ hopes for the NHL’s bid dimmed. It was decided to hold a referendum, which manifested that Columbus’s residents did not wish the publicly financed arena. But the city authorities did not want to allocate public money for sports facilities. The National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman approved the bid, as he worked to keep interested in hockey alive in Ohio. It did not mean that hockey would have no competition, the town was literarily obsessed with college football, but it would not be as fierce as Cleveland. At that time, it was a home city for the Crew, a professional soccer club. Under these circumstances, the Ohioans decided to establish a hockey team in rapidly growing Columbus, the state capital city. Though the baseball club competed in Major League Baseball, the basketball team had consecutive losing seasons with no playoff action a new football team was only planned to replace the one that escaped to Baltimore. In the late 1990s, Cleveland was not the most famous sports city. The Cleveland Barons, relocated from California in the 1970s, were merged with the Minnesota North Stars after just two seasons. Still, the NHL officials didn’t show a desire to establish any franchise here for some reason. The state of Ohio (particularly the northern part nearby Detroit) has always been partial to hockey.
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