When was BBN started?
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Perhaps the rise in online activity shortened the phrase to BBN for brevity...but I'm pretty sure the phrase "Big Blue Nation" exceeds Google's age (and index).
2003 espn article with "Big Blue Nation"
I'd like to think it was very prominent before 2008...
Your trademark application date is off as well....
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4810:6ntxtt.2.4
the rest is history...
Around the time Nike got the keys to all of our marketing/branding.
Originality not really necessary to push product, obviously.
Originality not really necessary to push product, obviously.
Around the time Nike got the keys to all of our marketing/branding.
Originality not really necessary to push product, obviously.
Nope, we were set to doing all of these in 2000. Learned some great lessons in trademark and patents back in the day.
That's pretty much what I wanted to know. Was more looking for the answer to how long Big Blue Nation has been around, not necessarily BBN. Sorry for the confusion.
Well, Nike started it's gradual takeover of the UK brand in 1997. By the mid 2000's, about all Nike schools were using some knockoff form of the "Red Sox/Steeler Nation" thing. It's not only Nike schools, but Nike's pretty notorious for it.
It's not just in college. The "Cardinal Nation" thing in MLB is a relatively new attempt as well. And Cardinals fans are notoriously thin skinned about everything ... so be careful telling one they're ripping off the Red Sox.
pppf........shows what you know.Well, Nike started it's gradual takeover of the UK brand in 1997. By the mid 2000's, about all Nike schools were using some knockoff form of the "Red Sox/Steeler Nation" thing. It's not only Nike schools, but Nike's pretty notorious for it.
It's not just in college. The "Cardinal Nation" thing in MLB is a relatively new attempt as well. And Cardinals fans are notoriously thin skinned about everything ... so be careful telling one they're ripping off the Red Sox.
Carinals have been called card nation for YEARS. We didn't rip off anything. The Boston Redsox WISHED they were half the organization of the st. louis cardinals. Ripping off the sox my ass.
We applied for the trademark back in early 2000s. Wildcatfaithful was very big then and we started a website, in 2002, and called it Big Blue Nation. Later we published the BBN magazine that was published for about 4 years plus we had a TV show on once a week and did the shows at local restaurants and places like Matt Jones does today. We also had an apparel store, BBN Sportswear, on Nicholasville Rd for a couple of years. It was a fun time back then.
No, like I said it's hard to find something google didn't index because they weren't crawling. I think I read that in 1998 they had only indexed 25k sites. Many of the original search engines have been bought out, rolled in or went out of business so it's difficult to get a link to a page that is old and still exists in an unmodified state. LexisNexis might reveal more but I don't have an account.
Ask a question with a thread...and up pops a 3 year old thread with the answer.
Ah, the wonder of the computer age where nothing is lost. Thanks CATofnine.
Ah, the wonder of the computer age where nothing is lost. Thanks CATofnine.
