I also don’t hate the Crawford. The “Wahoo” looks like it was built the way Sam would do them, but he got scrunched on that first loop so only did the second. If you were gonna fake the “Wahoo”, why would you mess up the W? Why wouldn’t you just write Sam Crawford? I don’t like that the “f” wasn’t crossed, but I think it’s probable that it was semi-rushed on a spherical surface.
The ball is in the middle below: