Before I gained control of the team in 2009, their color scheme was dark blue, black, and lavender/light purple/pinkish kinda. One of the first things I did was change the color scheme to something more closely resembling Santa Fe and New Mexico culture: dark red, yellow and black.

I found it very difficult to make anything look good with these colors, to be honest. But that's ok, because part of the fun in making a retro logo is that it's allowed to be bad... it just has to be a "good" sort of bad. And yeah, the logo doesn't particularly look "good", but the it does look rather... 80's. And the team was started in 1984, so... there ya go. :3

EDIT: There was too big a gap between retro "OMFG 80'S!!!" and the current design, so I added a stage in the middle. I also made it so the Whips were in El Paso, TX before moving to Santa Fe, as the team originally was meant to be in El Paso before the league was finalized.

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