The best comments about Cola’s potential new flag designs.
As you may remember, a contest was announced several months ago for people to submit their own design for City of Columbia’s new city flag (to replace the nearly century-old flag, emblazoned with corn + cotton ).
✅ 540+ designs were submitted to Columbia Design League and One Columbia
✅ 19 chosen as finalists by North American Vexillological Association (DYK the 5 rules for a good flag? )
▶️ Public rating + commenting online now until July 10
⏩ Ratings reviewed + final flag recommended later this summer
⏭ New flag implemented (possibly as early as fall)
So – what do people think about the potential new flags?
Here are the best comments we’ve seen on the potential new designs . ⬇️
Flag design choice #1 / image courtesy One Columbia
“Columbia has a flag?”
“If you’re not going to have a big chicken on it and a palmetto tree, you at least need the Goddess Columbia. . . . Maybe have her holding a fighting chicken under a palmetto tree . . . with Hootie the Fish off in the distance singing under a crescent moon - a busy flag for a busy place.”
“I love the three rivers motif …”
Flag design choice #4 / image courtesy One Columbia
“The plagiarized Argentine flag is someone trolling Sanford , right? 😉”
“I love flags. I loved looking at all the entries and making wisecracks but I applaud anyone’s willingness to contribute. We need more wisecracks and flags!”
“The best choice is number 20, nice clean design , bottom right corner! All the other designs are horrible.”
Flag design choice #6 / image courtesy One Columbia
“I thought some of the flags were cool, and one of them (the navy blue and yellow with the crescent and three stripes ) would make for a soccer jersey that had it been worn by a team from a foreign country, all the hipsters would mention it with envy when complaining about how bad the Team USA jerseys are.”
“Our current city flag looks super boring . It’s no wonder that I didn’t even know we had a city flag until this contest was happening. Admit it, y’all didn’t know we had a city flag either.”
Flag design choice #11 / image courtesy One Columbia
“I’m personally super pumped about getting a new city of Columbia flag. This submission is my favorite. I like the design, but the description really pushed it over the edge.”
The bottom line? C’mon, people – we get to choose our own future (flag) here. Choose wisely.