Ugliest Patch … Ever? (Redux)
Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on November 13th, 2006 at 4:51 pm 
Back in Frebruary 2006 Bob McCanless blogged about what he called the ugliest patch ever. The winner of this distinction is the patch to the left, dating back to his days with the Tri-State Area Council. You can read the whole story here.
Now with apologies our friends in Jacksonville, FL we have some competition for this honor.
Robert Mathis from Florida sent me the image of this patch. With apoligies to the folks in the North Florida Council and Echokotee lodge, I believe this patch should be in the running for Pastor McCanless’ dubious honor.
The various Florida lodges have a long and rich history for well-designed and original events patches. Surely the folks in the NFC could have worked with the lodge to come up with something more impressive, and isn’t a borderline cariacature of special needs children.
About the only thing that could have hurt this was if they threw a neon pink border on it, instead of the dark green.
[...]  In October, Echockotee Lodge 200 served as the staff for the North Florida Council Special Needs Camporee, serving Scouts and other children involved in special educations classes. As regular readers of this blog will remember, John had referenced the patch for the 2006 event as one of the ugliest OA patches ever made. Well, some improvement have been made. [...]
[...] It was also discovered this weekend that the patch made by Echockotee for staffing the 2006 “Special Needs Camporee” (previously named as one of the “ugliest OA patches ever” here and here) has a variety. A re-order of fifty patches had been made, and came back with darker green lettering, lines, and fleur-de-lis. Oddly enough, this actually made the design look worse.  The Winter Fellowship was the first weekend where a comparison was made of the two orders. [...]