From the “You Had One Job” department, ESPN managed to alienate the fanbases of two schools on Sunday. During a SportsCenter segment discussing the last four teams in the NCAA Tournament, ESPN listed Syracuse, Wake Forest, Kansas State and Rhode Island. And ESPN used the teams’ logos.
But the problem was that ESPN chose the Kansas Jayhawks logo to represent the Kansas State Wildcats. And it looked like this:
It managed to get fans in the Sunflower State a bit perturbed:
https://twitter.com/LinktheMissing/status/840926069217624064
https://twitter.com/nerdrium/status/840926287472533504
So this is Kansas State’s logo:
It doesn’t look anything like the Kansas logo. You’d think the quality control would have been a bit better preventing such a mistake, but in needing to fill hours of content, something is bound to slip through the cracks. If you’re going to alienate fanbases, there’s nothing like using the logo of a hated rival to get blood boiling.