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image located by Valentin Poposki, 9 July 2006
Source: http://www.optrans.org/sistercity.html
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White flag with a large disk toward the fly, the upper half orange, lower half blue, the orange showing a bridge silhouetted, and rising from the blue field a tower extending beyond the disk. Over the disk and extending to the fly a white stripe, bordered blue, containing PORT HURON in blue.
Valentin Poposki, 9 July 2006
Being on the border, Port Huron's minor-league hockey team is known as the
"Flags".
The city has had various teams in different minor leagues over the years, but
their current UHL (United Hockey League) team took the Flags name in 2005. Their
logo, visible at www.porthuronflags.net
is based on the old logo from the 60s and 70s team, visible at
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/logos/logos.cgi?logo_file=ihl/pthflag.gif
The logo(s) feature a blue flag with an American Eagle, and a red flag with a
Canadian Maple Leaf. These flags are flown from hockey sticks. The old logo may
pre-date the Maple Leaf Flag. In between, the city has had teams called the
Wings, Flags (again), Clippers, North Americans, Border Cats, and Beacons.
A criticism of the name and logo are at
http://www.bushleaguefactor.com/teams/phu.asp, including the flag related:
The black and yellow eagle is particularly odd. And by the way, when has there
ever been an American flag that looked like this? I know there were flags with
rattlesnakes during the Revolution, but I'm unaware of any flags with eagles on
them. And why only seven stars? Thirteen I could understand. Twelve I could
understand (it's easy to miss Delaware). But how do you miss Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, both Carolinas, and Georgia?
Dean McGee, 12 July 2006