Cleveland Is Having A Contest To Design A New Flag For The City Because The Current One Sucks

Well I'll be the first to admit that I didn't know we had a Cleveland flag. But it appears that I didn't know that for good reason though, because the Cleveland flag fucking sucks. Here's what we've been apparently trotting out to the citizens for 128 years:

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Progress and Prosperity? Symbols that "showcase the city's industry and maritime interests"? Get outta here. I'm all on board for changing the flag under one rule: that we actually make it cool. Because it wasn't too long ago that we also changed something that stood in Cleveland for a very long time, and we did not follow that rule of making the replacement cool at all.

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It's a damn good thing that the Guardians are a good baseball team, because if they sucked, this logo and that name would get a lot more chirping out of me. But that's not the point of this blog. The point of this blog is that apparently 3 guys from Cleveland traveled to Chicago, saw the flag, and realized it'd be cool if we actually had one too. I mean, think if our flag was so cool that we had players running with it across the field before games to fire up the crowd…

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I guess the way this is going to work is that citizens are allowed to submit designs, then a committee (dedicated group of local leaders, experts, and community members) will narrow it down to a final group that will be voted on by the people of Cleveland. 

Let me say this: this has potential. Let's not fuck this entire thing up with random symbolism and weird colors to showcase equality and other buzzwords like that. I'll start this thing off with my first submission: