One Day At A Time

Being a single parent to a pair of 7 year old twin boys isn’t the slightest bit a stroll in a park. Especially so seeing that its little league soccer season all over again. This year yours truly is to be the main honcho for getting the team jerseys ready.

Being one of just 3 dudes among 13 women in our team’s committee, it was quite a challenge to persuade most of the committee to agree not to change the team’s kit color from red to a color I’ve only seen on abstract paintings. But as much as we tried, we were not met with success to change the team name to The Red Bulls from The Red Flamingos.

After searching for jerseys, and believe it or not – team sponsors, I realized that our children’s soccer team did not have its very own logo. I shared this matter with the other two dads and we concluded that it might be a wonderful idea if we had our very own soccer team emblem. So we decided to create a logo concept each and exhibit them to the committee.

All three of us met up the next weekend with our designs and broke out in hysterical laughter, before we resigned to the fact that we weren’t born with creative minds. As it seems my Flamingo gave certain people the impression that it was a Woodpecker on performance enhancing substances. The designs from the other 2 weren’t that much better. One could pass off as a work by Picasso and the other appeared like bored doodlings from a ill-fated victim of a 3 hour long department meeting. But we went ahead and handed the design drafts to the committee nevertheless.

Although the committee unanimously prohibited the 3 of us from designing anything that has to do with the club unless there is a blue moon, they did agree that our little league team should probably have its own logo. So I excitedly went back and surfed the net for logo design new zealand, did some checking and picked a few the better spoken of design firms and presented them to the committee.

Now we are excited to say that our soccer team has its own team logo. We had patches made for the team uniforms and logo stickers made just for fun – thanks to the sponsorship we got from the ice cream shop we always take the kids to after a game. The logo itself ended up looking extremely cool with a a bright red Flamingo standing on one leg and the other casually resting on a soccer ball with its wings bent and resting on its hip.

There’s a rumor going around that next year yours truly will be in charge of water based refreshments. I’m thinking about taking it up a notch and am already planning to talk to Red Bull about a sponsorship deal.