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Well, it’s official — the Chargers are moving to Los Angeles, to be the second NFL team of a city who seemed pretty okay with having no NFL teams a couple of years ago. To commemorate their move, the Chargers unveiled a logo which was immediately trashed pretty much unanimously by the whole internet. But the Tampa Bay Lightning, who couldn’t help but notice similarities to both their logo and that of the Los Angeles Dodgers, opened up their own can of worms with this tweet:

*checks mentions*

*squints*

*clears throat*



for the record, us & the @dodgers are just friends https://t.co/jBoJhZlYVD — Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) January 12, 2017





That is A-plus corporate tweeting right there, and it precipitated this kinda-weird, kinda-great interaction:

@TBLightning you said you'd call. — Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) January 12, 2017









But it didn’t stop there with official team accounts. Some other teams, most notably the Dallas Stars and a bucketload of minor league baseball teams, decided to try their hand at Chargers-style branding.





Story continues





We're not ones to fall behind the times. pic.twitter.com/IUuKvO2KUk — Montgomery Biscuits (@BiscuitBaseball) January 12, 2017





.@RAIDERS If you're looking for a new logo idea when you move to Vegas… pic.twitter.com/KIiFKwTizR — IronPigs (@IronPigs) January 12, 2017

















Don't worry… Baseball will be back in a FLASH pic.twitter.com/t9IH6jMVDw — QC River Bandits (@QCRiverBandits) January 12, 2017





So you think the new #Chargers logo looks like the #Dodgers logo? Just be glad they didn't follow through on that rumored move to Rancho. pic.twitter.com/O2DY1E7SMQ — RC Quakes Baseball (@RCQuakes) January 12, 2017









Everyone's going crazy over the #Chargers logo, and we're just over here still fighting with the Broncos ¯_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/7X7J1FLoYb — Durham Bulls (@DurhamBulls) January 12, 2017





BREAKING: #EMUEagles debut new logo in honor of Chargers move to LA #Chargers pic.twitter.com/bgmRG35mUz — EMU Athletics (@EMUAthletics) January 12, 2017





Crazy how everyone made a few changes to their logo today…guess everyone is charged up for the 2017 season. pic.twitter.com/VJABR9lpyH — J.C. Cardinals (@JC_Cardinals) January 12, 2017









All these @MiLB teams tweeting their logo + ⚡️… been there, done that! ¯_(ツ)_/¯ #Chargers pic.twitter.com/YBtUk8yktI — Lake Elsinore Storm (@Storm_Baseball) January 12, 2017





The Lake Elsinore storm have a point. One team that seems to have completely missed the point of this little game is the Florida Panthers, who made a meme about… having games to play?

When everyone's tweeting about a logo change but you've got back-to-back games to prep for. ☕️pic.twitter.com/yOjX0nde0r — Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) January 12, 2017





Does a Panthers player or coach run the account? Is that why they’re claiming to be so busy? Isn’t making a meme to make fun of others making memes the equivalent of reading an entire article on a sports blog only to comment, “Slow news day, huh?”

The capper to this story makes it even better. Now the Chargers are telling everyone that the logo everyone’s trashing isn’t their real logo:

The @Chargers told me this is NOT their new logo- you won't see it on helmets or uniforms… it was for marketing purposes today. pic.twitter.com/xZaucUmYgT — Liz Habib (@LizHabib) January 12, 2017





To which we all say, “Yeah, sure.”

Love this move. Unveil a logo, then when everyone hates it say you were just kidding and pick something else https://t.co/d8hVqOFPBv — Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) January 12, 2017



