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It is a good thing I check my SPAM folder. Otherwise, Andrew Seagraves's submission for his Oklahoma City Rattlers would have never made it to okiraqi.org. Mr. Seagraves found our contest on Uni-Watch.com, so thanks again to that site. They've referred over 10,000 unique visitors to our site. We appreciate it. Our original post asking for logo submissions is: NFL in OKC? Here is what Seagraves had to say about his design: 
"Dear fellas,

I saw your link at uni-watch.com and decided to do an NFL in OKC uni a go. I know there is the Rattlesnake roundup in Oklahoma and wanted to do something along those lines. The colors are Chrome Yellow (you can find the hex code at encycolorpedia.com), Midnight Russet and White. I decided to use a "dark gold brown" for the dark color to closely resemble the color patters on the back of diamondbacks, timber rattlers and a few other breeds of rattlesnake. I thought about using old gold or vegas gold for the helmet, yet I thought that would look a lot like New Orleans. I decided to try UCLA Gold, then found Chrome Yellow and settled on that. After I had started the uniform, I realized the uniform looked like the Gadsen Flag. I have included a Home, Away, and Alt uniform with Wordmark and helmet decal. I used some photos as inspiration for the rattlesnakes and if you're patient enough, you can use paint.net to trace the photos and combine your lines to make a drawing! HA!! The fonts used are Railroader for the numbers, Millenium 3 for the OKC, Iron Man of War Non-commercial 2 for the name on the back and Garuda STD for the Rattlers.

So, here we go - your Oklahoma City Rattlers!"
It's not Roughnecks but I like the design and concept. Here's his full entry: 
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Helmet logo

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Wordmark logo

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Home

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Alternate

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Away

I think this color and uniform scheme would look good on a team named Roughnecks. I shared that with Seagraves. He agreed to try his hand at converting this into a Roughnecks entry, and we'll see what he designs by the weekend. Thanks again to Mr. Seagraves.

Designing the Roughnecks

If you want to help create this hypothetical potential NFL team in Oklahoma City, send logo/uniform designs to OklahomIraqis@gmail.com. Be sure to include your Web site or social media handle. The winner may get something from our league store.
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