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Or another troublesome bump in Tony's road?
Myself, I vote for drivel, but in this litigation crazed society I wouldn't bet very much of my money on it.
An article at eracefans.com. IF you've ever been to the site it is kind of an "anybody with a keyboard" place. (PS - I edited some of it out but only background nonsense IMO, if you want the full article I can link it for ya)
It is possible that only we Tennessee race fans have noticed recently that the commentators have begun to refer to Tony Stewart as “Big Orange.” Those comments have furnished me with a veritable fountain of driver comments for Tony -- such comments as advising him he should be offended to be classified this year as Big Orange with the mighty Vols (they currently suck) and a few other similar “Big Orange” type comments.
Well, race fans, our local newspaper this morning ran an article advising us that the University of Tennessee may soon seek to copyright the word “volunteer” reserving it only for use, in the world of business and licensing (an area near and dear to Nascar’s heart), by the University of Tennessee.
Okay. Big deal.
However, this article continued on to say that the University already has the licensing rights to, among other words and phrases, “Big Orange.”
Yikes!
I did a quick search of the U.S. Trademark Office and found a number of “Big Orange” entries. I didn’t have time to check out each one of them, but the ones I checked had nothing to do with the University of Tennessee.
I then moved to the Tennessee Secretary of State’s website and again searched for “Big Orange.” I found many, many, many entries, all in the name of the University of Tennessee. Right here, I feel the need to emphasize that the University of Tennessee is at least as possessive and vicious about its licensing rights as Nascar.
I have no knowledge of these other folks throughout the United States who have Big Orange drinks and whatnot, but when Tony and the boys come to Tennessee, I respectfully suggest that they had best not be calling themselves Big Orange.
I suppose, realistically, they are entitled to say the words, but if anyone dares put it on a tee shirt, or (and I picked these following items from various entries at the Tennessee website) ceiling fans, paper weights, programs, or printed material, Tony may have another Tennessee fight on his hands.
I doubt that Tony will read this article, and I doubt that the NBC announcers will read it either. I simply wanted to do my part as a race fan, a Tony Stewart fan (most of the time), and a Tennessean who thinks that from the Bristol incident Tony has already gotten too big a taste of Southern hospitality gone nasty, and to put Tony and everybody else on alert to this newest possible faux pas.
He has already been charged, then absolved, of wrongdoing once in Tennessee and, in my opinion, rightly so in that instance (but so far nobody has thought to officially ask for my blessing on that situation). But continue to mess with our “Big Orange” and, I promise you, it will NOT be pretty.
Myself, I vote for drivel, but in this litigation crazed society I wouldn't bet very much of my money on it.
An article at eracefans.com. IF you've ever been to the site it is kind of an "anybody with a keyboard" place. (PS - I edited some of it out but only background nonsense IMO, if you want the full article I can link it for ya)
It is possible that only we Tennessee race fans have noticed recently that the commentators have begun to refer to Tony Stewart as “Big Orange.” Those comments have furnished me with a veritable fountain of driver comments for Tony -- such comments as advising him he should be offended to be classified this year as Big Orange with the mighty Vols (they currently suck) and a few other similar “Big Orange” type comments.
Well, race fans, our local newspaper this morning ran an article advising us that the University of Tennessee may soon seek to copyright the word “volunteer” reserving it only for use, in the world of business and licensing (an area near and dear to Nascar’s heart), by the University of Tennessee.
Okay. Big deal.
However, this article continued on to say that the University already has the licensing rights to, among other words and phrases, “Big Orange.”
Yikes!
I did a quick search of the U.S. Trademark Office and found a number of “Big Orange” entries. I didn’t have time to check out each one of them, but the ones I checked had nothing to do with the University of Tennessee.
I then moved to the Tennessee Secretary of State’s website and again searched for “Big Orange.” I found many, many, many entries, all in the name of the University of Tennessee. Right here, I feel the need to emphasize that the University of Tennessee is at least as possessive and vicious about its licensing rights as Nascar.
I have no knowledge of these other folks throughout the United States who have Big Orange drinks and whatnot, but when Tony and the boys come to Tennessee, I respectfully suggest that they had best not be calling themselves Big Orange.
I suppose, realistically, they are entitled to say the words, but if anyone dares put it on a tee shirt, or (and I picked these following items from various entries at the Tennessee website) ceiling fans, paper weights, programs, or printed material, Tony may have another Tennessee fight on his hands.
I doubt that Tony will read this article, and I doubt that the NBC announcers will read it either. I simply wanted to do my part as a race fan, a Tony Stewart fan (most of the time), and a Tennessean who thinks that from the Bristol incident Tony has already gotten too big a taste of Southern hospitality gone nasty, and to put Tony and everybody else on alert to this newest possible faux pas.
He has already been charged, then absolved, of wrongdoing once in Tennessee and, in my opinion, rightly so in that instance (but so far nobody has thought to officially ask for my blessing on that situation). But continue to mess with our “Big Orange” and, I promise you, it will NOT be pretty.
