Virgil created the Blue Flame logo and was part of the 57 game regular season streak at the school. “I was about 7 or 8 during the 70s when (Pickens) had the big winning streak,” Turner said.

Virgil’s blue flame design replaced the white block "P" on the side of the blue helmets. After the logo change, Pickens’ football program made history by winning 57 consecutive regular season ...

Pickens High School wasn’t always the Blue Flame. Long before, it was once the Pickens Wildcats. Around the late 1920s, Gary Hiott Sr., the former editor of the Pickens Sentinel, once wrote that ...