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  1. Why am I now picturing the Kings in Dodger blue jerseys with red numbers?
  2. Imagine finally going to your first game at Yankee Stadium and seeing this on the field. There is one uniform the Yankees belong in at Yankee Stadium. I'm woefully biased, but they're baseball's premier franchise playing in the Stadium. There's only one look they should be wearing there. Also, why do the Yankees need an alternate at all? They have a classic home look and a classic road look, both recognizable, and any fashion jerseys or BP jerseys will set like hotcakes without ever being worn in a regular season game. I'm glad the Yankees are one of the few clubs never to wear an alternate and I don't ever want to see that change. The Players' Weekend jerseys and the horrible Mother's Day/Father's Day/Memorial Day alterations are bad enough. (One of the very few times I will ever say "if the Boss were alive...")
  3. I suspect most players like carrying over their HS and college numbers wherever possible. With the NCAA opening up eligibility for numbers over 55, I bet we'll see more high numbers in the NBA in the future.
  4. I was about to say, we have an all-time great entry in this category after last night.
  5. I think I like the 2012-21 the best? The new one is easily the worst, IMO -- having an outline looks so much better on a powder blue uniform, regardless of whether it's white outlined in royal blue, or vice versa. This entire set is a downgrade.
  6. I hate the giant stripes on the sleeves, but other than that, those uniforms all look good. Think I prefer the script "Kansas City" to the block letters, but that's probably just what I'm used to. Objectively, block lettering looks better for a two-word name. Though the A being split down the middle is .
  7. Personally, I'd prefer white pants, and white pants only, for the Ravens. Go Black/Purple/White/Black at home, and Black/White/White/Black on the road. But if they must have a second pair of pants, it should be gold. The black pants pair terribly with a purple jersey, and you wouldn't even know their primary color is purple when they wear the Black/White/Black/Black combo on the road.
  8. Having two unrelated Latin phrases on the same banner? Talk about overkill. This is Cuomo at his most Cuomo, though.
  9. The red helmet always stuck out like a sore thumb to me. It didn't go with the rest of the Bills' uniforms, IMO. And the gigantic center stripes were hideous.
  10. Back off topic: I'd contend that there's a legitimate rivalry between SF and LA that goes beyond sports. They're stuck, by an accident of history, in the same state, competing for the same resources and tax dollars, and historically, competing over being the West Coast's preeminent city. (It was SF from the time of the gold rush until probably the rise of the movie industry in Hollywood, shifted down to LA with the concentration of the entertainment industry there, and is probably right now in the process of shifting more toward SF due to the tech boom, and the movie/music industries being less concentrated in LA.) There's a whole urban versus suburban, tech versus entertainment, hipsters versus trendy people, etc., thing going on there, that I think stretches beyond sports. Boston versus New York? There's definitely some rivalry there outside of sports, though it's primarily a sports-fueled rivalry. But there's a palpable difference in attitudes between the two cities, with each one having a strange mix of admiration and disdain for the other. Growing up in Connecticut (and well within the Tri-State area), there was definitely a little identity crisis in our neck of the woods between wanting to be stereotypical quaint New England towns, and touting our great access to the nation's biggest metropolis. So I think that plays into the Boston/New York thing a little, but it's mostly a sports thing (give truth serum to most New Yorkers and they'll tell you they secretly love going to Boston... and vice versa). Neither of these top Toronto/Montreal though, if for no other reason than there's no gigantic language or cultural difference in our country as there is in Canada.
  11. They were folded into Mercedes' brand in 2013, and then revived as "Mercedes-Maybach" in 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybach And I drooled over one for a solid 10 minutes at the New York International Auto Show this year. I wouldn't associate it with failure; I'd associate it with prestige.
  12. I generally love the existing Oakland A's forest green and gold color scheme (it's one of my favorite color schemes in sports), but kelly green paired with gold seems to fit LA far better than forest green would. Seems very SoCal to me - brighter shades, vibrant colors, very 60s/70s without looking dated. It works so well. And I love the interlocking LA, moreso than the existing "A's" monogram. My favorite "what if" in sports, to be honest. While watching the Dodgers/Mets game last night - a matchup between a team that ditched NYC and a team that exists only because the former ditched NYC - my wife and I were talking about how different baseball would be today had the Dodgers stayed in NYC. And we came to realize that our own lives may be very different today - her grandfather grew up a huge Dodgers fan, and never really latched on to the Mets. My wife wound up a Yankees fan since her family was 'homeless' in terms of fandom for decades, but she likely would've inherited Dodgers fandom from her grandfather had they stayed in NYC. Part of what brought my wife and I together was our shared love of the Yankees, and watching/going to games together - that very well may not have happened had she been a Dodgers fan. So in a strange way, the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn four decades before I was born may have contributed to me meeting my wife, in some circuitous way. Anyway, totally off-topic tangent, but I guess it shows how impactful those relocations were, even in unexpected ways decades later.
  13. I get what you're going for with the LA Athletics concept, but I think there's way too many competing colors. Red, green, and gold are all very strong colors, and you add white to the mix (rather than allowing gold to be the 'neutral' light color), and the colors all wind up competing and clashing with one another. To be honest, the red jersey reminds me on the Pirates' infamous red vest - it looks like red was shoehorned into what's otherwise a very nice dark-color-and-gold identity. The Philadelphia Athletics identity, on the other hand, is sheer perfection. To the point that I wish the A's stayed in Philly as the long-dominant team in that city, and we got to see that identity to come fruition in reality. It'd be considered as classic today as many of the surviving 'original 16' teams' identities.
  14. I'm suddenly realizing just how good that Motre Bame monogram looks in the BiG colors. Thing is, I have no clue how it would fit in to the BiG identity without seeming shoehorned in. And I don't think the rest of the Motre Bame identity would look good recolored in BiG colors.
  15. Good lord, these MNF graphics on ESPN are hideous. Way too bright, reads very blurry from a distance, and commands way too much attention. Whoever designed this didn't get the "flat graphics" memo from like, 8 years ago, did they?
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