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Originally Posted by TimBone
I refuse to accept your reply for two reasons:
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Really, I said I didn't really know. I only speculated as to why it
could be that way.
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1. Cleveland is not in the south. It makes no sense, geographical or cultural, for the Browns to spell dog with an 'aw' for the purpose of adding a southern drawl to the pronunciation.
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It may not be, and doesn't have to to matter. Certainly not what I was alluding to. Could be just to be different from what people think of a dog pound, to keep their identity separate. However, I've seen the word "nawth" used as a spelling mocking "nawthun" accents too. In fact I've used it to copy it.
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2. My point of the google search comment is that a person who hears a team referred to orally as the Dawg Pound is going to google search the term Dog Pound, because they have no idea that the team is spelling it differently. It would be confusing.
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I got what you were saying and thought it was a good point. So I googled it. BUT...
It was coined BEFORE the internet. I would think their public know how it is spelled by now. You can't suddenly change it. Again, I said I didn't know their rational and simply posed some possibilities.
It comes up dog for that and some are for the Dawg Pound fyi.
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Therefore, I think it's far more likely that the person that made the logo is slightly undereducated, and merely spelled the word incorrectly by mistake.
That is much more reasonable than your explanation.
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Actually it isn't. It's more likely to have been deliberate. Do you think someone in management would have approved it that way if just a mistake and leave it that way for so long. It could have been done just to stand out and stand out as different with their own identity. I've seen such a thing done often in the advertising industry. They even coin new words using parts of other words even for naming a product. A LOT goes into a name including strategy.
But you're free to reject it. I would ask the Browns why, myself. You sound more like you're on the web side of the industry?