Hello oh my gosh what the weird and wonderful and wild? This is a soccer team that plays in California. Recognize their shirts? They’ve got derivations of a mark made by Shepard Fairey for the Obey Giant street art campaign. Indeed that was also a remix of a mark, originally the Misfits Fiend Club logo. But wait! Wasn’t the Misfits mark taken from something else too? You betcha. Let’s talk about this interesting path right now, all during a fabulous round of the greatest game.

So! What have we got here? The Obey Fiend Football Club. What’s that all about?

A few weeks ago, a few of the boys at the office had asked the OBEY staff if they wanted to join an indoor soccer league that plays every Thursday evening. Game times vary every week, some being at 8pm and some at 3am, where low lifes try to re-live their dream of being a sports star. Unfortunately, only one person said yes, so we had our human resource department hand select the one’s who’ve been written-up due to no shows at work, and especially those needing to shave off some of that extra gut for insurance purposes. We proudly present The OBEY Fiend Fútbol Club!

That message comes straight from the OBEY Clothing blog. Now they wear the shirts with the Obey Fiend Soccer Club mark on them. That’s very similar to the OBEY Fiend Club, and of course the other Obey Fiend images Shepard Fairey’s used as well.

ABOVE: Fine art Fiend Club on record cover. BELOW: Photograph by WKinteract of a graffiti paste-up of the Fiend Face as modified by Shepard Fariey.

Yay!

ABOVE: Shepard Fariey takes the Misfits Fiend and the Fiend Club and mashes it up with his own Andre the Giant Has a Posse / OBEY graphic to create the OBEY Fiend Club BELOW: The original source for the Fiend Skull I bet you might be wondering about. It’s from the classic weird-color horror The Crimson Ghost!

So the next time you’re kicking the old pumpkin around, remember the skull!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies sports category.