The best comments about Cola’s potential new flag designs.

As you may remember, a contest was announced several months ago for people to submit their own design for City of Columbia’s new city flag (to replace the nearly century-old flag, emblazoned with corn + cotton).

✅ 540+ designs were submitted to Columbia Design League and One Columbia

✅ 19 chosen as finalists by North American Vexillological Association (DYK the 5 rules for a good flag?)

▶️ Public rating + commenting online now until July 10

⏩ Ratings reviewed + final flag recommended later this summer

⏭ New flag implemented (possibly as early as fall)

So – what do people think about the potential new flags?

Here are the best comments we’ve seen on the potential new designs. ⬇️

Flag design choice #1 / image courtesy One Columbia

“Columbia has a flag?”

“If you're not going to have a big chicken on it and a palmetto tree, you at least need the Goddess Columbia. . . . Maybe have her holding a fighting chicken under a palmetto tree . . . with Hootie the Fish off in the distance singing under a crescent moon - a busy flag for a busy place.”

“I love the three rivers motif…”

Flag design choice #4 / image courtesy One Columbia

“The plagiarized Argentine flag is someone trolling Sanford, right? 😉”

“I love flags. I loved looking at all the entries and making wisecracks but I applaud anyone's willingness to contribute. We need more wisecracks and flags!”

“The best choice is number 20, nice clean design, bottom right corner! All the other designs are horrible.”

Flag design choice #6 / image courtesy One Columbia

“I thought some of the flags were cool, and one of them (the navy blue and yellow with the crescent and three stripes) would make for a soccer jersey that had it been worn by a team from a foreign country, all the hipsters would mention it with envy when complaining about how bad the Team USA jerseys are.”

“Our current city flag looks super boring. It's no wonder that I didn't even know we had a city flag until this contest was happening. Admit it, y'all didn't know we had a city flag either.”

Flag design choice #11 / image courtesy One Columbia

“I'm personally super pumped about getting a new city of Columbia flag. This submission is my favorite. I like the design, but the description really pushed it over the edge.”

The bottom line? C’mon, people – we get to choose our own future (flag) here. Choose wisely.

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