As I often mention on Oppo, I live in Madison, WI and grew up in the DC suburbs. Every so often, I see people sporting Washington Nationals script ‘W’ logo hats, stickers, etc. I can’t help but think these people are not my fellow DC natives and instead think the ‘W’ is a University of Wisconsin logo. It’s not.
This is the University of Wisconsin’s current “motion W” logo:
In the entire history of University of Wisconsin logos, there has never been a logo with the same script W as the Washington Nationals’ logo. Apparently from 1961 to 1969, UW used this wordmark:
But that’s not the same W as the Nationals, and it wasn’t the main UW logo at the time.
Now, it’s entirely possible that some of these folks sporting Nationals logos are in fact from DC, or Nationals fans for some other reason. But I see the Nationals logo a little too often for that to be the case all the time.
In fact, I once owned a Nationals script W baseball cap, as a subtle way to rep my hometown while also flying under the radar in Madison, since it’s both red and a W and maybe people would think it was something to do with the University of Wisconsin. But I stopped wearing it because the total amount of attention I’ve paid to baseball in the last 20 years is less than the amount of time I’ve spent typing this post.
Bonus: someone actually bought a VW Jetta Hybrid!