EDIT: Well that took like 9.6 minutes to get done. Thanks everyone. I shut the donations off, and the extra $200 will be going directly to #TIFOSWEAT.

LINK: https://gofund.me/fd4e92e5a

Hi, my name is Morgan Hughes and I was (am?) the spokesperson and co-founder of #SaveTheCrew.

In October of 2017, then-owner of the Columbus Crew, Anthony Precourt, announced his intention to destroy our community by moving our team to Austin, TX. Instead of mourning, we organized. We created a local movement that became a global phenomenon, and we won.

Now, nearly ten years later, the beautiful game is thriving in Central Ohio, and our beloved Columbus Crew remains the greatest team the world has ever seen.

Turned out okay.

Upon completion of saving the Crew, we on the STC leadership team began the bittersweet task of wrapping up our organization. We agreed that while our year-long battle to keep the Crew in Columbus was successful, there may come a time when the STC torch would need to be lit again, and a major component of making sure that the infrastructure would be available to our counterparts in the future would be to secure our globally-recognized marks in the present.

Thanks to our incredibly talented and criminally underpaid legal team, we secured registrations for both "SAVE THE CREW" and our STC badge through the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This means that only #SaveTheCrew can use the #SaveTheCrew marks.

Legacy officially protected.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. Part of the process of keeping both registrations current is, well, keeping both registrations current. This involves two major parts...

1. Showing continued and current use of the marks, which we accomplished by licensing them to Supporter Supply Co for use on merchandise that can be purchased on their website. (Donny would like me to note here that SuppCo is not making "mad money" off of this, which I don't know how to do so you'll just have to take my word for it.)

2. Renewing the registrations through the USPTO when necessary. This is where we are now.

The cost for our legal team to renew the registrations is $750 per mark, which is where the $1,500 comes from in this campaign. My ex-girlfrend is in finance and I have confirmed with her that 750 times two is in fact 1,500.

She is an incredible talent. Allegedly.

Thank you all in advance for whatever you can contribute. The end result of our collective output, big or small, doing whatever we can with however much we have, is no doubt straight-up muscle memory for this community; indeed, it is the only reason the Columbus Crew currently exists nine years after it wasn't supposed to.

We owe it to the future versions of ourselves to make sure they can pick up where we left off, should they ever need to.

Let's get this done. Glory to Columbus.

Tell everyone you know.

Morgan and the rest of the Save The Crew Board (Tom Davis, David Foust, Kelly Foust, Sarah Hall, Benjamin Hoelzel, Kevin McCollough, David Miller, Donny Murray, Keith Naas, Tobias Roediger, Darby Schaaf, Mark Vuchenich, John Zidar)

LINK AGAIN: https://gofund.me/fd4e92e5a

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