tBBP

Well, if anyone wants mini-reprieve from the ongoing Denver Colorados fiasco, how about a couple heaping tablespoons of steer-seasoned salt?? Wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out she was/is the reason for the "H-Town Blue" even being a thing in the first place...

I'll do a full critique on all this later, but these are my two quick response thoughts: 1.) City Edition/CityConnect design ideology is becoming/has become like a parasite to this new era of branding... 2.) ...This uniform set looks less like Denver Broncos and more like Denver Colorados.

YES. All they did was "take the best, and made it better." And I honestly wish more teams would follow suit. Link here.

Time out—did they just turn that panther head logo 90 degrees, crop it, and create a pants "stripe" out of its neck?? That's what they did, didn't they???

Yeeahhh this one got sidestepped/swept to the side, didn't it?? Pulled the ol' Pete Carroll on 'em...

Good call--that's exactly what they're gonna call it (or allude to it being). That's candy-coated to you, pal. (See above.) If that's real--and I believe it is--what are they even really doing right now? Like, what exactly does that stripe of triangles have to do with, well, anything? Stylistically it doesn't even fit with the art direction...unless that pattern shows up in the numbers. (Shoot..that's exactly what's gonna happen, isn't it???)

This reminds me of my first trip into Denver way back when. (This also underlies the value of feet-on-the-ground experience about places rather than going off what somebody somewhere said about a place, especially when/if they ain't been there themselves.) All my young life I heard about Denver, the Rocky Mountains, and thought the whole state of Colorado was gonna be mountainous. NOPE. Roughly the entire eastern third of Colorado is flat open prairie...and that flat landscape includes Denver. The thing that threw me off was the fact that flat, open prairies exist IN THE MOUNTAINS THEMSELVES. I was completely not expecting that. Then I got over into Salt Lake City and saw that though the core part of the city is built down in the flatter parts of the valley, much of the east and especially northeast part of town is built right up into (and in parts way up into) the side of that Wasatch front. (I'm sure that's where all the $$$$$$ lives, as well.) That said, that scenery out there in Utah...man oh man. If you ain't been, you gotta go see if for yourself. (Just don't go in wintertime...)

If ever there was a more meme-able photo... ...I know we can't blame Nike (entirely) for uniform design—but I CAN blame Nike for all this recent epidemic of "uniform nicknames". That's all them right there. (And even MLS picked up on the vibe.) It started in the NBA with the City Edition stuff, then continued with renaming the home/away/alt uniforms, then it carried over into the W with the "Heritage/Elite/Rebel" nicknames (H.E.R.—haha, how clever), and now it done crossed into the NFL. It'll be hitting the MLB diamonds soon enough. The common denominator [MLS notwithstanding]? The swoosh. Anyway, the new Lions home and away are very nice. They'd be even nicer if they wore silver pants with white jerseys more often than not (which is to say, at all). I'm not at all moved by the alternates.

Oh it'll 100% look like that H...maybe not with all the beveling, but definitely blackletter-esque.

Hold up here—I know I've been out the fray for a minute, but just what is going on with these baseball pants here? (Especially the Blue Jay player up there) What is this, the NFL meets the diamond or something??

Trust me on this: NO ONE wants the '97 jerseys... (And those were the versions that made it out after the preseason...)

The original bevel-block numbers were certainly not bad by any means...but they don't beat the '98-'08 number/NOB font pairing or the refined pants striping. I honestly thought the Jags were gonna unveil these as their throwback choice...so color me surprised when the '98 uniforms showed up on their Facebook cover. I've seen several say this about the font the Broncos have been using on their socials. I can 100% guarantee you it's not their new number font. It's just become a rather popular font to use of late. Shoot, STLCITY built out their brand identity using it...

For starters, people in, say, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, who have to drive at least that far to get to...anything worth doing. *spoken from the experience of me, a four-year quasi-South Dakotan who regularly drove to the Twin Cities, 220 miles away, to do things worth doing.

The Jags just updated their Facebook cover photo... ...Either this is the troll job of the century, or they just told us straight up exactly what throwback uniforms they plan on wearing. (And inside of two years, I HOPE they come back ad perma-primaries...)

TIL that spike bucks are an actual thing... Thanks for clearing all that up. I'm not privy to the inner workings of IP law, so that answered some curiosities I had about the possibility of the Memphis Grizz filing suit over the nickname. I didn't know they already did, so there's that.