Blackburn applied, along with 110 other applicants, and got the job. When the SuperSonics joined the NBA in 1967-68, the team needed a play-by-play voice. In 2002, Blackburn was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame for his Special Contribution to Sports in Oregon. He was employed by the network flagship station, KEX of Portland. When OSU created its own sports radio network in the late 1950s, Blackburn became the radio voice of Oregon State football and basketball. In 1958 he moved to KXL, and then back to KPOJ in 1959. In 1957 he moved to KPOJ also doing the afternoon shift. In 1953, he became the sports director of KEX, a station where he also had his own afternoon disc jockey show. During that time, Blackburn was also a play-by-play announcer for University of Oregon and Oregon State University (OSU) football games in Portland, over the Tidewater Oil Company's sports radio network. Eventually, he landed a job with the Portland Beavers Pacific Coast League baseball team, and was part of the Beavers' broadcast duo with Rollie Truitt on station KWJJ for 18 years. He also attended college at Fresno State Normal School. īlackburn managed to land a job at a radio station in Santa Ana, California in 1942, and worked his way up. Blackburn's uncle had told him his strength was in his "loud voice," so a career in broadcasting seemed like a good idea. While listening to college sports broadcasts, he dreamed of being behind the microphone. As a child, he was bedridden with tuberculosis. His tenure with the SuperSonics included the team's first season in 1967-68 and its NBA Championship run in 1979, when the SuperSonics beat the Washington Bullets four games to one in a best-of-seven series.īlackburn grew up in the Los Angeles area.
He called games for the team on KOMO radio and KOMO-TV, and later on KJR radio. It’s a display sans serif typeface created by Neville Brody and published by the Linotype font foundry.For other people with the same name, see Robert Blackburn (disambiguation).īob Blackburn (Octo– January 8, 2010) was the original play-by-play voice of the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association. The word “Thunder” on the Oklahoma City Thunder logo is given in the team’s official font, Industria Bold. The club’s majority owner Clay Bennett mentioned that the Oklahoma City Thunder logo design borrowed elements of local sports teams, including two university teams. Neither the old name of the team, nor its logo or colors could be used in it as they were left in Seattle for a possible future basketball franchise. The new team’s logo was introduced on September 3, 2008. Second, it’s the home of the Thunderbirds division of the US Army. First, Oklahoma City is located in Tornado Alley. Having relocated to Oklahoma City, the team adopted the name “Thunder,” which was chosen for two reasons. A green crest had a yellow basketball placed on its bottom part and a white and yellow inscription above it. In 2001 the visual identity of Seattle Sonics was changed to a more traditional badge.
The “Seattle” part of the inscription was written in delicate white letters over the green background. This time the lettering was a star of the emblem, placed diagonally and executed in a bold thick Sans-serif typeface. The color palette of the emblem was switched to green and brown in 1995. The yellow background and green stitches of the ball were accompanied by a green landscape of Seattle. Now the weird mark was set in two levels under the yellow and green basketball with its bottom part cut horizontally. In 1975 the badge changed its concept and gained a new color into its palette - yellow. The next year, a huge wordmark appeared to the right of the basketball, which, in its turn, diminished substantially. In 1971, the shuttle and space needle disappeared from the Oklahoma City Thunder logo leaving only the green basketball with the old name of the team written across it. It was a very simple badge, yet still memorable due to the use of an intense color palette. The redesign of 1970 kept only the green ball and placed a white wordmark on it. The lettering in a thin italicized Sans-serif was set on the right from the ball. The orbit was aiming up and finishing with a rocket. It was a cool and modern badge in a green and white color palette, with the green basketball having a stylized green orbit around it. The initial emblem for the Oklahoma City Thunder club was designed in 1967 when the team’s name was Seattle SuperSonics. Back then, the team’s logo was based on a green basketball with a space needle inside. The Oklahoma City Thunder, which was founded under the name of the Seattle SuperSonics, joined the NBA for the 1967/68 season.
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