http://www.broadstreethockey.com/2015/6/9/8752761/aston-rebels-nahl-relocation-2015-rio-grande-valley-philadelphia
Kind of weird that they'd name a team right outside of Philadelphia the rebels... also kind of weird that theyd make the guy, supposedly a rebel, wearing a british uniform... #Brandfail.
british wore red coats, blue coats were the colonists fyi
The rebels (Americans) wore blue during the revolution, so the logo makes sense.
#americaneducationfail
^ British solider of the american revolution. Common misconception that the british wore only red.
then both sides wore blue. look at any picture of a colonist and hes wearing a blue uniform with a bit of red in it
I'm sure the British wore varying uniforms, but the picture you posted looks exactly like what the Americans are always depicted as wearing.
It was something like
British: red
Americans: blue
French: light blue
British artillery and engineer regiments wore dark blue and the hessian line infantry also wore blue. Most regiment decided their own uniform, and there was rarely consistency across the board.
for example, the hessians mostly looked like this
So what's your point? Should the logo be wearing a red coat?
Blue is obviously what's most often identified with the Americans. Not seeing the "brand fail" here.
we were rebels in the revolutionary war ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well I just had a look into the uniforms, was pretty cool actually haha.
The stereotypical US one (and the one used in the logo) looks like its from the 1st Maryland.
The 1st Delaware and 2nd New York wore slightly similar.
Most of the 'British' forces primarily wore red at that point.
However, artillery and Calvary predominantly did not. Also the loyalists and German regiments did not.
Artillery generally wore blue.
Calvary were a bit of a mishmash, some wore green, some white, some blue, some red...
German regiments wore dark blue. (I believe some wore grey as well.)
Loyalists generally wore blue or green.
The fact remains though that up until 1800 there was no 'regular' infantry in the British Army wearing any colour other than red.
Considering the number of actual British soldiers involved in the war I imagine only around ~40% of the British forces wore Red though... due to the sheer number of Loyalists and Germans fighting on that side.
well the brand fail was mostly in relation to the fact that a team outside of philadelphia is being called the rebels, a term largley associated with confederacy of the civil war, while the character is wearing a uniform indicative of the american revolution (regardless of side)
It's associated more with the Civil War if you're ignoring the American Revolution entirely, and also failing to notice that the logo is wearing what is commonly considered a Colonial uniform.
british wore red coats, blue coats were the colonists fyi
I thought this was going to be a news article about a player called Nahl that the flyers were interested in...
Excellent history lesson this morning from this thread.
Thanks guys.