Published 5/12/2009
at Yahoo! Sports - MLS News
Major League Soccer's newest team will be called the Philadelphia Union. Team officials announced the 16th MLS franchise's name, logo and colors before a crowd of cheering supporters at City Hall on Monday. The team's logo is a vintage gold rattlesnake on a field of blue that was inspired by the "Join, or Die" political cartoons created by Franklin during the 1750s that advocated colonial unity...
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