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Now I am stumped as to which direction to take the Utah franchise to complete the Northwest. No color scheme yet, but here are some names I am thinking of...

- Salt Lake Locomotives

- Utah Stags

- Salt Lake Pioneers

- Utah Raptors

As for the potential Austin franchise...

- Bats

- Desperados

- Marshals

For Los Angeles, they will be called the Avengers, after the old Arena League team of course, but I want to do something different with them, but I don't have a color scheme for them either.

Las Vegas will definitely be the Vipers, but as of today, I don't have a color scheme for those guys yet.

I plan to have Memphis be the Pharaohs, but I can't decide if I want them to be black and gold or blue and gold.

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Up next, the Breakers of the USFL.

For this concept, they will be based in their original home in Boston.

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As a bonus, I have added a "24 Hour" prototype helmet a la the 1991 49ers fiasco, mostly because I botched the color placement on the wave logo. I made up for it by adding the classic white Breakers helmet just above it.

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Rough list for territorial draft rights of each team...

Amsterdam Admirals: Netherlands, Belgium

Austin Bats: Texas, UTEP, Texas Tech, Baylor, SMU

Barcelona Dragons: Spain, France, Italy

Birmingham Vulcans: Alabama, Auburn, UAB, Troy St, South Alabama

Boston Breakers: UMass, Boston College, Harvard

Chicago Crusaders: Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Indiana, Purdue

Denver Gold: Colorado, Colorado State, Wyoming

Frankfurt Galaxy: Germany

Hawaii Islanders: U of Hawaii

Las Vegas Vipers: UNLV, Nevada-Reno

London Monarchs: United Kingdom

Los Angeles Avengers: USC, UCLA, San Diego State

Memphis Pharaohs: Memphis, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, MTSU, UT Chattanooga

Mexico City Aztecs: Mexico

Michigan Panthers: Michigan, Michigan State, Central Michigan, Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan

Montreal Machine: McGill

New York Knights: Rutgers, Syracuse, UConn

Omaha Nighthawks: Nebraska, UN Omaha, Iowa, Iowa State

Ohio Glory: Ohio State, Cincinnati, Miami-Ohio, Kent State, Akron

Oklahoma Outlaws: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Tulsa

Orlando Thunder: UCF, Bethune-Cookman, FAMU, Miami FL, FAU

Philadelphia Stars: Penn State, Pitt, Temple, Penn, Villanova

Portland Platypus: Oregon, Oregon State, Portland State

Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks: UNC, NC State, South Carolina, Clemson, Duke

Sacramento Surge: San Jose State, Stanford, Cal, Fresno State, Cal Poly SLO

San Antonio Riders: UTSA, TCU, Texas State, Houston, Texas A&M

St Louis Stallions: Mizzou, Kansas, K State, Wichita St, Missouri State

Tampa Bay Bandits: Florida State, USF, FIU

Toronto Huskies: U of Buffalo, U of Toronto

Utah Pioneers: Utah, Utah State, BYU, Weber St

Vancouver Orcas: UBC, Calgary Dinos, U of Alberta

Virginia Tritons: Virginia, VA Tech, Old Dominion, Norfolk State, Richmond

Here are some territories/schools I'm not sure where I should assign to:

Washington

Washington State

Eastern Washington

Kentucky

Lousiville

Murray State

LSU

Louisiana Monroe

Louisiana Lafayette

Tulane

Ole Miss

Mississippi State

Southern Miss

Georgia

GA Tech

Georgia State

Grambling St

Arizona

Arizona State

Northern Arizona

New Mexico

New Mexico State

Idaho

Boise State

Montana

Minnesota

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Republic of Ireland

Sweden

Finland

Denmark

Norway

Iceland

New Zealand

Australia

Japan

Russia

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I like the look. It's hard to have a well-executed red and green team, but this definitely pulls it off. I will say that I think you should try mixing up your designs a bit more. It seems like you've kind of fallen into a rut, where every team has numbers on the shoulders and a logo on the sleeve. Don't get me wrong, it looks good for each team individually, but when you take the whole league together, everybody is going to look the same.

As for the 76 Bucs, 08 Lions, and 91 Skyhawks; I'm inclined to lean the opposite direction. The Lions could probably beat the Skyhawks, and either team would absolutely obliterate the 76 Bucs. Players have just gotten so much bigger, stronger, and faster as time has gone on that I don't think it would be a fair matchup. In fact, with the average offensive lineman outweighing the average defensive lineman by more than 50 pounds, I would go so far as to say that the 2008 Lions could compete for a playoff spot in 1976. I'm not sure how a USFL team matched up against an NFL team, so I'm less confident on that one.

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Here are the Michigan Panthers, USFL champs of 1983.

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The problem I had with this concept was trying to recreate the champagne silver the team wore. I feel I didn't do that great with it. The secondary logo on the sleeves was supposed to have the claw marks form an "M" for Michigan, but in the end, it looked better horizontally.

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I really like that you can see the claws at the beginning of the claw marks. That being said, I'd say the same thing about this that I said about the last one. This is basically the same design as most of your other uniforms: you have TV numbers on the shoulders and a mark on the sleeve, the only differences are the colors and what the mark is. Maybe mix it up by putting the claw marks somewhere else, possibly down the side or having them come across the chest over the numbers.

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