I was convinced I hated the Portland Fire’s new logo. I didn’t think it was great to take the city’s most precious symbol and light it with a match. I thought the flaming rose that the team called ...

The uniform revives the team’s original bold colors, and front-facing numbers from the late ‘90s and early 2000s.

So what won the day on the first day of the Portland Fire was not the discomfort over the team’s name, or the grousing over ...