Some background on Pat Patriot. He originally appeared in a 1959 editorial cartoon by a Boston Globe artist named Phil Bissell. After Billy Sullivan got permission to use Pat for free it became the Patriots' logo.
Phil Bissell himself referred to Pat as a "a lopsided Chinaman" in an essay by SI's Leigh Montville, who in the same essay called Pat "the worst logo anywhere." *(Couldn't find link)* In the early 1970's Billy Sullivan's son-in-law tried to get the logo changed after spending $30K to create a new one but a fan vote at half time of a game had Pat Patriot as the winner.
Personally I like both logos but the Flying Elvis logo looks sleaker, modern and tougher. Pat is tough in his own way and people around here might relate to him more. Jim Donaldson put it well in 2002, "Elvis is cold. Pat looked like the sort of guy Patriots fans would want to have a beer with. In fact, Pat looked like he'd already had a couple of beers." Pat Patriot is more New England in some ways, maybe that's why people miss him. Donaldson also said, "Pat had character. That was fitting, because he was from an era when the league had more characters. He looked tough -- not in a thuggish way, but in the same way as a rollicking sailor, coming down the gangplank of a whaler just returned to Nantucket."
That's all well and good and I do like old Pat Patriot logo but why make a change when there is no need to at this point? The new unis look great, we win so there is no prob. Keep things as they are. Different unis for different eras, embrace them both and appreciate them. Some old players might prefer Pat Patriot but all the new players have played with Flying Elvis their entire career, save for a throwback game here or there. If it ain't broke, why fix it? And this way we miss old Pat Patriot a lot more.
This is an interesting site on the AFL, link to Patriots page:
http://www.conigliofamily.com/Patriots.htm
I had no idea there was this many die hard AFL fans still out there.