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  1. Back with the next team. So far I had only offered one AFC North team, the Browns, so here is their Ohio state bestie, ok, their rival, Cincinatti. This is largely based on a design I did back in 2020. I added the all white look (notice no orange at all), because the Bengals got it about half right IRL.
  2. A few thoughts: MEM: I like the addition of grey to their palette. Works well with the blue & gold. ARL: I might try to keep some version of the yoke, since you pretty much have all 8 teams using standard sleeve stripes, which made sense in 1983 but is not really aligned with the current cut of jerseys without sleeves. The 2020 version of the Renegade jersey worked pretty well with a yoke and shoulder stripe combo. HOU: Here I would look at using different sleeve colors, again like 2020. Either that or some form of striping that makes use of the "oil slick" effect from the 2023 uniforms. STL: One of very few improvements from 2020 to 2023 was turning the sword stripe on the Battlehawk helmet into a stripe that resembled the Gateway Arch. I think even with a blue helmet that would make sense. DC: I like the return to the lightning motif on the sleeves and pants. But why a single stripe on the helmet. Perhaps no stripe is needed? SAN: I like the pant and shoulder stripes. Not sold on the white helmet. Overall an improvement over the XFL style we see IRL.
  3. And the Bills, with a new alt idea. BUFFALO BILLS NOTES 1. Most of the current look stays, with just a few tweaks and a wild new alt. 2. Removed the last vestiges of navy from the horrible 2000's. 3. Decided to update the wordmark a bit with a script "Buffalo", which will appear on the jerseys. 4. Kept the white facemask and the slightly widening helmet stripe. 5. Did the same effect to the pant stripe, slightly widening at the hip. 6. Created a new secondary logo from the script "B" and the front of the Bills logo. 7. White on white is possible, blue over blue should not be done. 8. Decided that we are assuming all teams have a standard throwback look, so no need to go the red helmet or standing buffalo look. Instead decided to lean into the snowy weather and go with a white over white over white look with only thin red and blue piping. It would certainly be different. Might drive the announcers crazy to try to read numbers. OK, on to a new division.
  4. Decided to finish up the AFC East. Starting with the Fins. I doubt I will change much for the Bills as I love their current look. MIAMI DOLPHINS NOTES; 1. Went back to the logo from the late 90's, which I think was their finest, far better than the airline logo they use now. 2. Also opted to keep the navy blue added at that time. 3. Jersey is heavily based on pre-2000's look, with logos on the sleeves and the cuff being the only striping. 4. Opted for a motif of a thick main stripe with two thinner stripes, one of which is always Navy. 5. Miami can go white over white in the hotter months, but should never go aqua over aqua. 6. Wanted to do something other than invert the colors for the alt uniform. Not sold on the ombre effect as the right thing.
  5. Moving on to the NFL East. We have already seen my Eagles' concept. Now we have 2 more division rivals, each with their own challenges. NEW YORK GIANTS NOTES The Giants may seem an easy team to peg. Their look has been pretty simple and pretty classic for a long time, but the key is how you combine elements. I decided to combine elements of the current look (helmet) with elements of the Simms/Taylor era (sleeve & pant stripes). I also wanted to have both logos "NY" and "Giants" somehow involved. So, ended up going with the NY helmet and using the Giants wordmark on the chest. I am not feeling confident about the alternate look, but I did not want to just do another throwback. I wanted a different helmet color and a design that would clearly not be just a rehash of past designs. White over white over white may not be ideal for the Giants, but it is at least different enough to clearly be an alternate. DALLAS COWBOYS NOTES The challenge with Dallas is not so much the design, a pretty consistent stripe pattern and overall look. The problem is the colors. Two very different blues, up to 3 kinds of silver, and they don't all go with each other at all. So, I decided to basically follow what they sort of do now, having a darker blue for the dark jersey, pants, and socks on the darker set, and using the brighter royal blue on the white jersey and with the pants on the white set. I have both colors in the helmet stripe, but stil think it might look odd as the only bright royal element with their dark set. What I also did was limit the team to one silver color, and opted for the somewhat unique greenish silver from the home pant set as the only silver. That may make the helmet again a bit odd, but I think overall it works. For the Alt I went with elements of past throwbacks. A white helmet, navy jersey with white yolk and white pants. Not exactly the look from any of their throwbacks, but something of an homage to lots of past looks. Next up is the Commanders, and I will keep that name because we just don't know what the new ownership is really going to do there.
  6. I agree that the alarm clock numbers were a huge issue, but I also really did not like the "pewter" shoulders on that Bucs design. For me, when you try to do pewter in a non-metallic material like jerseys or pants it just comes out looking like a muddy grey, like dirty dish water. Some colors just don't work if you don't have the metallic finish (dazzle fabric). I point to the current UFL Stallions and Panthers. Without a metallic sheen champagne and Stallion gold just turn into khaki, and khaki rarely works as a good uniform color.
  7. OK, a major drop as I completed the three remaining NFC south teams over the weekend. Most needed only minor tweaks. Only Atlanta was a major overhaul. So, we will start with the minor adjustments and then hit the Falcons. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS NOTES 1. Back to gold pants as the norm, and stripes on pants as the requirement. 2. Gold lettering, but i stuck with the lighter, more modern gold. 3. Brought back the Louisiana Fleur De Lis secondary as a chest patch. 4. Added numbers to the pants just to try something a bit different. 5. Went for a black over black alternate even though I generally don't like unitards. Striping helps. 6. Revived the old shield logo and use it at the base of the helmet stripe. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS NOTES 1. Pretty much their current jerseys/pants but with a new number font. 2. Decided to remove the flag from the logo and just go with the skull & crossbones. 3. Tried out a few alts, but ended up just ensuring that they have a Bucco Bruce creamsicle option. Generally I am assuming that all teams have a throwback look, so my alt uni is not that, but with Tampa Bay, the throwback is so essential that I thought it was the only alt uni they needed. ATLANTA FALCONS NOTES: 1. I know a lot of folks want a straight-up throwback look, but I generally don't. Not for Atlanta. So, I tried to merge some elements of older looks with some new elements. 2. The helmet works for me as black on black. Saving the red option for the alt look. 3. Decided a version of what the NY Jets currently do works better for the Falcons, and I like it more than the side panel stripes on the current jersey. 4. With Atlanta, it is more about taking away bad elements (oversized ATL on front, side panels, ombre jersey, etc.) and going with a more basic but still modern take on a red jersey and silver pants (or black). 5. The Alt is again not a pure throwback, but includes a bit of a mix of old and new in the helmet, then just a black alternate jersey and a white pant set. I could see the Falcons combining these looks in lots of ways (Red helmet w. red jersey and silver pants, all black alt, black jersey and helmet with silver pants, etc.). So, there you go, the entire NFC South is done, as is the NFC West. Next up is likely the NFC East.
  8. That does make sense. I went back and looked at some Dickerson jerseys and that is what it was, so here is a revision.
  9. Having already posted my concepts for the Cards, Niners, and Seahawks, I figured I should wrap up the NFC West with the Rams. NOTES 1. Brought back the St. Louis Ram logo with the new brighter colors. 2. A return again to my youth and the ram horns on the sleeves, now with the split from the current design. 3. Not sure about the home blues having a white horn segment, but the blue just did not make sense. 4. Wide pant stripes, like the 9ers, just works for the Rams' yellow pant set. 5. Decided to go with white numbers on the blue jerseys because otherwise it is a lot of yellow. 6. Added some white highlights to the helmet design, just to add a bit more contrast. 7. The Alt is a fauxback to the days when the Rams were a blue and white team, without the gold. All in all, a design I could see Vince Ferragamo or Eric Dickerson applauding.
  10. And one more for this morning, a very retro pastiche look at the Philadelphia Eagles. NOTES: I wanted to bring back the Carmichael/Jaworski/Montgomery era look I remember as a child, but not lose a lot of the newer elements, so... a version of the multiple stripe sleeving from the 80's a color lighter than Midnight Green, but not all the way back to Kelly, with still some blue to it. Let's call it 9pm Green since it is not nearly as dark. Kept the more modern main logo and number font. Kept the current wings, which I think are just perfect. Modified the pant stripe They can and do wear the white jersey with silver pants, but (as per my rule about unitards) never the green pants with the green jersey (but not a real green dress, that's cruel, to quote BNL). Added an alt that brings back the simplicity of the Randall Cunningham era, but with the white helmet from the 60's (70's?) but also the newer eagle head logo in place of the flying eagle logo. It is another mix-up of past eras with just a bit of new.
  11. I tried several versions. Did not care for the blue on silver with no white, but then when I added white to imitate the sleeve stripes it got way too busy. If you look at version 1, I think that is the best pure "vertical" stripe version I could come up with.
  12. I decided to take another crack at the Lions, removing some of the unfortunate 0-16, Matt Millen era items (number font for example) and doubling down on the Northwestern Stripe motif by adding it to the numerals. Switched the pant stripe around as well. Perhaps a bit too new-school for the Lions, but it still maintains the NW Stripe as well, so maybe not.
  13. Next up is Detroit. A lot of Sanders-era to this look, and why not? It is iconic. We keep some elements of later looks (number font and updated logo for example), but largely a return to the Sanders look. NOTES: 1. I decided to simplify the striping on the pants and helmet compared to the sleeves. 2. They probably would wear the silver pants even with white, but I wanted to give a blue option. 3. No grey socks, because no. 4. Added an Old English "D" logo just to have something different to use on the pants. 4. The alt is a nod to the BFBS craze that infected Detroit. I paired the all black look with the classic logo just to mix things up a bit.
  14. I guess my commentary would be to sacrifice some authenticity for smoother lines. Most pro sports logos are about motion and lines that lead the eye in a particular direction. Some examples of lines that could be simplified would be the dorsal fin, the "neck" and head lines, and the rear edge of the tail. I would say to take a look at some other fish logos out there for comparison. The Chris Creamer main page has several you could use as examples: Minnesota Fighting Pike (Arena Football League) Columbus Catfish (minor league baseball) Gwinnett Stripers (minor league baseball) Victoria Salmon Kings (minor league hockey) Idaho Steelheads (minor league hockey) Waco Blue Cats (minor league baseball) Minnesota Muskies (minor league hockey) Florida Tarpons (indoor football) Northern Kentucky River Monsters (indoor football)
  15. Decided to do the NY Jets next. In my mind the key with the Jets is to find ways to combine the Namath Era with the Sack Exchange Era. So, what you will see is a mix of both in the standard uniforms, and even the alt uniform, which again blends 2 eras. Notes: Some of the changes/decisions made: 1. I wanted to stick with the green helmet, so I combined the 1980's JETS logo with the football from the current logo. 2. The jersey is mostly Namath-era, but with a more consistent green color than we saw in the early NIKE years and with the new combined logo on the chest. That Namath era striping is so unique and identifiable with the Jets that I had to give it preference over the 1980's 2-stripe design. 3. Pants are Sack Exchange Era. 4. For the Alt, I basicallly remixed the whole thing. Sack Exchange era jersey, with 2 stripes, which combines with the 2-stripe pants and the 2-stripe white helmet from the Namath era and a retro logo. So, once again not entirely 1969 or 1985, but a mmix of both. What I think works on the alt is the consistency of the striping.
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