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I think that the owners of "The Saint" ie. Simon Templar, took action to ban the St Kilda Football Club from using the "Stick Man" as shown in the 1977 Logo. I understand that they may also take action against a rogue Saintsational poster who is using a licensed DVD product as his avatar!!
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except the saints one.... nah its alright but not as good as everyone else why are we stuck with a stick man?? while they got proper drawings of things??
I always assumed the blonde 1975 guy was modelled on all our blonde footy players of the time - eg Trevor Barker. I had a towel with that blonde guy for over 20 years! (Hardly ever used it, because I regarded it as a momento) But I must admit, I always loved the Saint stick man.
It was before my time but I vaguely remember hearing that we got into copyright trouble for using the stickman because it was the figure that was used on the TV show The Saint.
Our club in its infinite wisdom just blatantly stole the idea. God bless 'em.
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