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Weymouth company creates 180-foot long Pats logo on ice ahead of Super Bowl
The company unveiled the giant Patriots logo, printed on Weymouth’s Back River, earlier this week on social media.
If you’re gearing up for the Patriots to clinch another Super Bowl this Sunday, you’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger show of support than this.
3A Gear, a Weymouth-based custom printing company, created a giant version of the Flying Elvis on the ice of the city’s Back River. The company unveiled the massive logo in a Facebook post Tuesday.
“We all we got. We all we need,” the company said in the post. “Weymouth showing out for the New England Patriots!”
The company took its motto — “If you can dream it, we can print it” — to heart. Designing the 180-foot print was quite the undertaking and took two days to complete, according to owner Frank Hoyt.
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“We used land surveying equipment to scale up the design and marked out the corner points of the logo and letters,” Hoyt wrote in an email to Boston.com. “And then from there we connected the dots with the correct colors by spraying food coloring on the ice.”
The river rarely freezes, so the timing and temperatures had to be just right, according to Hoyt. Luck was on 3A Gear’s side this time around, and hopefully, the same can be said for the Patriots.
“My father had done this back in January 2004 before they played in the big game!” Hoyt wrote. “It takes the perfect combination of frigid weather and championship football for us to be able to do something like this!”
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