Henry Hudson's Public House in Bricktown will host the 2015 SECFOR reunion. We will occupy half the floor space of the spacious building and have access to a large-screen plasma TV. The OIL is in discussions with a major American sporting franchise to host the draft at its stadium. If that happens, this day will be solely for the reunion. If it falls through, we'll also draft our OIL rosters at Henry Hudson's.
Who: All SECFOR Brothers What: 2015 SECFOR Reunion When: Labor Day Weekend, Saturday, September 5, 2015 from 1100 to 1800 Where: Henry Hudson's Public House, 27 East Sheridan, Bricktown, OKC Why: Come reconnect with your SECFOR brothers. This will be a part of our 10-year reunion for all the SECFOR brothers. Be sure to spread the word about the reunion occurring on Labor Day weekend. September 5, 2015 will be exactly 10 years since we arrived at Fort Lewis. What we do on that Friday and Sunday is still in the planning stages. Feel free to make suggestions.
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It was a long process, but readers of the OIL have chosen a winner. Shane Maddox's and Anthony Wustenfeld's Oklahoma City Infantry ended up garnering 34% of the votes to beat Blake Campbell's Roughnecks (26%) in our "NFL in OKC" design contest. Congratulations to the men. And thank you to everyone who submitted designs, shared the page, and voted in the poll. A special thank you goes to Uni-Watch, who linked to the contest multiple times. Click the image to see the complete Infantry submission. Shane and Anthony can now choose something from our online store as a prize. Let me know what you'd like by emailing me and I'll make that happen.
Craig Priestley is the latest to submit a design for our Oklahoma City uniform contest. He said he didn't have a team name for his submission, but that it was inspired by the Oklahoma City flag. Does anyone want to take a shot at naming this team in the comments? If you want to help create this hypothetical NFL team in Oklahoma City, send logo/uniform designs to [email protected]. The deadline is March 15, and the winner may get something from our league store.
Thank you to Mr. Priestley and everyone else who has submitted designs so far. Wow. Shane Maddox and Anthony Wustenfeld responded in a big way to our call for design submissions for an Oklahoma City NFL team. As a reminder, the deadline for submissions in the contest is March 15, 2014. Shane owns T-Mac Sports, and he partnered with Anthony Wustenfield of Pro Line Designs to bring us the Oklahoma City Infantry. Here's what he had to say about his submission: "I had wanted to create a concept for quite some time now, and with my access to resources (being the owner of T Mac Sports), and the intrigue of an Oklahoma City football team, I figured the time was now. I enlisted the help of Anthony Wuestenfeld with Pro Line Designs. He ownes an Oklahoma based company, who more recently brought NFL attention to OKC via a photoshopped “OKC Seahawks” t-shirt. Between my resources and design ability, and Anthony’s knowledge of Oklahoma, we were the perfect team. Wow. I am impressed. The OIL started in Baghdad as all the managers were members of the Oklahoma Army National Guard's 1st Bn 158th Field Artillery regiment. We were field artillery though, not infantry. Still, we are proud of the 45th Infantry Division. The 45th Field Artillery Brigade began as the field artillery element of the 45th Infantry. We also proudly wear the T-Bird on our shoulder. So, kudos to this team of designers for incorporating the 45th. Now, to the uniforms. My wife noticed this and said she wouldn't mind taking shelter with Norman Reedus. Kudos to the Salvation Army for talking The Walking Dead star into helping out Oklahomans in their time of need. Now if only they could convince Lauren Cohan to do the same . . . Andrew Seagraves previously submitted a design for the hypothetical Oklahoma City NFL team design contest. His original design centered on Rattlers as a name. We liked the overall look of the design but wanted to see what he could do with Roughnecks. He sent an updated version using Roughneck: "Here goes the rebrand of the Rattlers into the Roughnecks. I incorporated a soot color and black into the scheme. For the helmet symbol I tried to make my own Manual tongs (I hand drew it) and the font I used for the word mark is 35 dollars for a commercial license (I found out) and since this is for a competition I believe it is okay. If i were to make money off of it then I'd have to purchase it. I also hand drew one and outlined it in paint.net and I wish I had illustrator to make it better. Skott Schoonover previously submitted a design for the hypothetical Oklahoma City NFL team design contest. His original design included a slanting oil derrick made up of the letters 'R' and 'n,' which was unique and clever. But the slant was a little too much. He sent an updated version without the slant: "Hi, I updated my roughnecks design. I took away the slant to the logo and the numbers. I like it a lot better. I think the logo could be a bit more legible as the 'R' and 'n,' but I'll work on that. Hope you like the updates." I like the numbers without the slant more. And the overall look of the oil derrick logo looks better, but I did like the 'R' and 'n.' I think Skott can find some happy medium between his first submission and this one that would be perfect.
Thanks for the extra work, Skott. If you want to submit your own design, send them to [email protected]. The deadline for entries is March 15. Here are the other entries:
The winner may get something from our league store. The latest submission in our design contest for a hypothetical NFL team in Oklahoma City comes from Lennie Nelson. His Roughnecks design includes my favorite logo of the contest thus far. I do not love the turquoise, but I appreciate Mr. Nelson's reasoning: "My design is centered around traditional Native American shades of Again, I love the logo. It is simple and clever. The overall design looks very good. Thank you to Nelson for the work he put into this and for sending it to us. His design will be added into the contest update entry, which you can find here. Nelson did not provide a Web site or social media account, which is a shame because he's clearly talented.
To submit your own design, please email [email protected]. Keith Good designs logos at his Web site: keithisgood.com, and tweets from @keithisgood. He sent in this Roughnecks design, and we appreciate his work. Here's what Mr. Good had to say about his design:
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