Colors and Badge
The Silverbacks official colors are red, black, grey, and white, and the club logo features those four colors prominently, along with a stylized depiction of a silverback gorilla heading a soccer ball beneath the corporate wordmark. The club's name was inspired Willie B., a gorilla who was a main attraction of Zoo Atlanta until his death in February 2000.
In September 2012, a poll was posted on the Silverbacks' official website relating to a potential rebrand. The options were: to retain the Silverbacks name, a rebrand to Atlanta Chiefs to recall the team from the original NASL or a third write-in option. The name Atlanta FC was later added to the poll after receiving a "significant" number of the write-in votes.
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Famous quotes containing the words colors and/or badge:
“You look rather rash my dear your colors don’t quite match your face.”
—Daisy Ashford (1881–1972)
“Signor Antonio, many a time and oft
In the Rialto you have rated me
About my moneys and my usances.
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
And all for use of that which is mine own.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)