I HATE Colorado! (its flag, that is)

Something's been bothering me for quite a while, and it's this:

I'll say it -- I don't like Colorado's flag. Yes, the broad stripes of blue over white, the sun-like disk and color scheme overall are pleasing to the eye. Yet every time I see it I'm disapponted.

Honestly... A giant "C"? Colorado is home to mountains and plains, forest, prairie, desert and tundra. Wonders abound both geographical and biological. The Maroon Bells, the Front Range, Mesa Verde, Pike's Peak, Colorado National Monument; the origin of the Colorado, Rio Grande, Arkansas, and S. Platte rivers; big horn sheep, mountain lions, lynx and, until recently, wolves and grizzly bears are all to be found here. And of all these inspiring, iconic symbols, the best we could come up with for our flag is a big letter "C."

Was it designed by school children? Because I know some state flags were, and that might explain it, but it wouldn't excuse it. Long's Peak, the Pawnee Buttes, eagles, prairie dogs, cottonwood trees and aspen groves, and our flag proclaims, "C! The C stands for Colorado, which is the name of the state!"

It's embarrassing. Allosaurus, apatosaurus, stegosaurus and tricerotops were all discovered here, you know. Take the same blue and white bars and throw a black silhouette of a stalking Allosaur on top of it. How awesome would that be? Almost anything would be better, really. It only took me a couple minutes in MS Paint to improve on the flag myself, while barely altering the design:

I'm not saying Pac-Man would be an appropriate symbol for Colorado, but it would say more about us than a big C does. The beautiful white and blue columbine, our state flower, would nicely fit the current color scheme. And look at the city of Denver's flag. It takes the same colors -- red, white, blue and gold -- bends the bars into points, drops the C and, viola, a simple but attractive iconic representation of the sun setting over the mountains (or rising, if you're on the Western Slope.) I take back what I said about kids designing flags -- this one was designed by a high school student in 1926, and when I see it, I can't help but wish it was the flag for our whole state, not just Denver.