New logo is great - but I liked it from the start. Felt like a step up to the 21st century. A little edgier which is great for UCONN. And it's the old logo that really looked nothing like a Husky. You mostly see black and white huskies, or brown and white. Very few huskies are pure white, so those complaints don't hold water (that the new logo looks less like a husky than the old one).
Plus, a white husky looks too much like a samoyed, which obviously isn't a husky at all and so very confusing...
Husky vs. Samoyed
So what? A friend of mine used to breed the all-white Siberians. They are very rare, like our old mascot used to be. Now we're the same as everybody else. Alums of schools with husky mascots have accused us of stealing their logos.
Jonathan I was the great grandson of one of the huskies on Admiral Byrd's North Pole sled dog team in 1909.
Jonathan II was a cousin of Jonathan I. In September, 1936 at a football game vs. Brown in Providence, he chased the Brown bear up a tree. The bear was so traumatized he refused to come down from his perch. The Providence Fire Dept. had to be called in to rescue the terrified bruin.
Jonathan III chased the Yale bulldog all over the field at the Yale Bowl.
Jonathan IV, who served in the late 1940's and 1950's, was a Siberian-Eskimo-Samoyed mix. He bit Yale's bulldog on the nose. He's also famous for making an appearance at MSG in 1951 for UCONN"s first NCAA tournament appearance. The crowd at MSG went wild when he entered the arena.
Our all-white Siberians were tough!
