Update the Celtics Logo: Do it for Red

The Celtics are losing. They're losing so much it's made history. Fifteen in a row. Fifteen. Just before this year's season started Red Auerbach passed away. The team has worn a special patch on their jersey's to honor Red this season – but perhaps it's time to take a more drastic step and revamp the logo to honor the great coach of the home town NBA franchise. According to the NBA's website on the history of the Celtics logo:

The Boston Celtics logo was designed by Red Auerbach's brother, Zang, in the early 1950's. Zang was a creative and artistic man who assembled the familiar leprechaun with the words Boston Celtics arched around it in a circle.

The world-famous figure has his left eye winking at you, his left hand resting on his shillelagh, his right index finger is pointing straight upward with a brown basketball sitting atop, his left foot crossed over and to the side of the right foot, he possesses a big smile (with a pipe projecting from the right corner of his mouth) and he is dressed in black buckle shoes, black pants, a gold front-button vest with a matching bow tie (with green three-leaf clovers displayed prominently in view on both), a long-sleeved white shirt and all topped off with a black derby hat with the same matching three-leaf clovers.

How about we lose the pipe and replace it with a Blackstone. Red wouldn't be without a cigar, it was iconic. When we remember Red Auerbach it's with a cigar - even in Hitchcock-esque silhouettes (see top banner or the banner in the background here.). If the Celtics have to be without Red, maybe they'll have better luck if they honored the late, great coach with an update of the logo his brother created.