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Mike Ryan Ruiz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1161 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

I went on a super, super deep dork dive last night on the Buffalo Bills where I actually went and then tracked down the illustrator of the charging buffalo on the side of the helmet.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

He was a former aerospace illustrator named Stevens Wright, Stevens plural.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

He created that because his wife worked for NFL franchises and NFL Network.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

And then he went on because of the success of Buffalo Bills.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

to create two of the absolute worst logos.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

One would be the San Francisco 49ers quote one day logo that lasted six days and they hated it so much because it kind of looked like a bad gas station sign.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

And then the one after that that he created was actually a prototype of the Flying Elvis.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

It was in 1979 and they released it to the fans in Foxborough.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

They hated it so much that they boot it out of existence.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

That was kind of weird.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

You're forgetting Grimlock, though.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

Like a flying Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Football America! Top NFL Games of Week 12 with Conor Orr, Drip Drill with Mike Ryan Ruiz on the AFC East, And Why Miami is Better Than Notre Dame

But that's the correct answer.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The George Soros of Journalism (feat. his beneficiary, Pablo Torre)

Okay, maybe there are two rules, but the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Jagermeister, must be drank ice cold.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The George Soros of Journalism (feat. his beneficiary, Pablo Torre)

Or don't drink it at all.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The George Soros of Journalism (feat. his beneficiary, Pablo Torre)

And let me remind people, Tony's Top 5 is presented by Smirnoff, the official vodka sponsor of the National Football League.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The George Soros of Journalism (feat. his beneficiary, Pablo Torre)

Smirnoff.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The George Soros of Journalism (feat. his beneficiary, Pablo Torre)

Please drink responsibly.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The George Soros of Journalism (feat. his beneficiary, Pablo Torre)

The Smirnoff Company.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The George Soros of Journalism (feat. his beneficiary, Pablo Torre)

New York, New York.