OKLAHOMA CITY — 2020 marks 15 years since the 1st Battalion 158th Field Artillery regiment deployed to Iraq on the SECFOR mission; it is also the 15th season of the OIL. To commemorate the occasion, the OIL Tuesday unveiled a new logo to be worn for the 2020 season. 
OIL 15th Season Logo

OIL 15th Season Commemorative Logo

The 15th season logo draws on the league's heritage by taking the form of a challenge coin, using stenciled font, and displaying the 1st Battalion 158th Field Artillery unit motto — Unusual Efforts Expended — in Latin. Of course, the logo incorporates the now-familiar OIL logo that has been around since 2015, and the color scheme mirrors that of our flagship logo.

The OIL logo has changed quite a bit since the website was first launched In March 2010. Back then, the commissioner's design skills consisted of finding a photograph of a football and superimposing text and a crude Iraq-inside-Oklahoma image on top of it. When the league ordered its first trophy from SculptureAlley.net, it was told the logo was simultaneously too simple to look good yet too complex for their engraver to replicate. Their art department designed a cleaner, more professional logo, which the OIL used until 2015. As the 10th anniversary approached, the logo was simplified once again, resulting in the current iteration.
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2010: Designed by Jim Horinek in the Cameron Collegian newsroom.
2010-2014: SculptureAlley.net cleaned up the original logo when the OIL ordered its first trophy.
2015-Present: The league went through a brand simplification, going from "OklahomIraqis League" to "The OIL." Lost City Market Design redesigned the familiar OIL logo, streamlining it in the process.
2015: In anticipation of a 10-year reunion of SECFOR brothers, Lost City Market Design created this commemorative logo.
2020: Lost City Market Design created this 15th season commemorative logo.