[Husker] WHB 810: Nebraska & Mizzou Invited to Join Big Ten

[Dick Karre]

Brad Roth wrote:
> This afternoon I started wondering what kind of counter-offer we might get from the Big 12 to stay?!?  That said, it is both intriguing and exciting to think about the possibility of a move to the Big-whatever conference.  I hope they will finally get the number correct in the name! 
>
> I also did a bit of searching at the USPTO.  The Big XII has filed for the trademark "Big 14" - still in prosecution.  Obviously, not in use, as such, registration will be difficult to impossible...
>
> BTW - "The Big 16" has been claimed by some bakery in Canada...I don't see much of an issue of conflict/confusion, then again...  8^)
>   
Somehow the "Big 16" (or 15 or 14) doesn't have quite the same cachet as 
the Big Ten. It sounds more like the name of a porn star with a really 
big . . . uh, ego.

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Dick Karre
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