buckhopper brought up a good point in my Santa Fe Whips jersey design sheet... I had a retro jersey which followed the at-the-time-current FBA timeline, which said that the Santa Fe Whips played with the colors black, navy blue and lavander all the way until 2009, which is when the FBA actually took off as a project, I gained control of the Whips, and that was the time I asked to change the color scheme to red, gold and black.

A big oversight that had been made, however, was that there was no way the Whips would have kept those awfully 80's-tastic uniforms and logo all the way until 2009, realistically. There had to be some sort of in-between stage.

So a small bit of history rewriting happened. Now it was determined that the Whips actually came from El Paso, TX before moving to Santa Fe, NM, as the original destination for the Whips was set at El Paso before the FBA was completely set up in the earliest stages (before most of the players even existed!) Also, they made a uniform and logo transition in 1991 to a logo that greatly resembled the current Santa Fe model, but used the old 3 colors +2 (for added visual depth). The jersey also looked a bit like the modern one, but it started off plain, without side panels and pinstripes (as was the way in the early 90's) then added those elements later on, in 1998 (making for a total of 4 jersey transition stages).

The final design stage came in 2004, when the team (owned by Annie Paige, Chakat Leopardess, who inherited the team that year from her mother, the former owner Maxeen Paige) moved a couple hundred miles over to Santa Fe, NM. It was then that it made the most sense for the team to adopt its current color scheme and logo theme, and that is the design package that the team continues to use today. :)

Yay, FBA history lesson! :D

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