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Four years and eleven months from now, Gary Bettman announces a five year extension for the Coyotes to get an arena deal done, saying 'he believes in the Phoenix market' and 'this time, they're really close to an arena deal.' Nine years and eleven months from now...

They're just waiting for Friday to fire everybody.

This way the owner can sell Coyotes retro t-shirts ala the Seattle Metropolitans guy, and probably make as much, if not more money, than running the Coyotes. I wonder how much of a holdup the Arizona law allowing sports team owners to own and run a casino is playing into this. Like it or not, the NHL will probably call the Coyotes a 'deactivated' team while still technically allowing the owner to 'own' the team and still run the casino until he can pay the legislature off enough to change the laws and grandfather him in to run the casino.

The ultimate move is the Coyotes winning the bid, building an arena, luxury condos, hotel and casino and everything else owners want these days, but then being unable to connect any utilities or water to the property, thus ensuring another 15-20 years in the desert awaiting the results of years of lawsuits while the stadium remains unused and the Coyotes play in front of 3,700 fans. Bettman dreams about this at night.

Are we sure the new Phillies jersey wasn't made by AI?

Right? Imagine the campaign the Royals ran and then having to blame KC Tenants for the loss? How pathetic would you have to be to do that. A poor plan is a poor plan, its just more egregious when it costs 2 billion dollars.

The vote failed 58-42, the location of the Royals proposed stadium was a disaster, tearing down blocks of existing businesses in a vibrant neighborhood that has taken 20 years to develop to this point. while a slew of empty parking lots with ample room by City Hall are vacant 6 blocks to the north. The Chiefs proposed some milquetoast 'improvements' to Arrowhead that included better club levels and a few covered pathways in the cavernous parking lot. The Chiefs arent leaving metro KC. If wonderrichboy Clark Hunt has the will to ask another county or state for money, that's possible, but there is no location anywhere in the US that would be more valuable to the Chiefs than KC. The Royals are a bit more desperate. They put the Chiefs logo front and center on every press release throughout the entire process. They blamed bad batches of concrete that gave The K 'concrete cancer' (arrowhead, built in the same lot, at the same time, does not have 'concrete cancer', so apparently the Lord was watching over the Chiefs during that process.) The Royals owner has been aching to build a downtown stadium since he bought the team, going so far as have the large construction company in town be a minority owner. The K is great, not in need of being replaced, but that boat has probably sailed. Let Kansas pay for the stadiums. Sherman is from KC, so its not likely he'll move the team, but he could sell it to Nashville or some other similarly sized or less market, but really, he hasn't tried putting a winner together in four years. The no vote, at the very least, forces the teams to regroup and come up with a better deal for KCMO for the 2 billion dollars they wanted for free.

Getting people accustomed to football jerseys without shoulder numbers just opens up space for jersey ads. I think I read Goodell was against jersey ads, but he's not going to be commissioner forever, and the NFL proves over and over it really is only about money. Remember a few years ago on the board when people here were sure MLB would be the last league to have ads because they were the most traditional and blah blah blah? Also, all the unique fonts team use now just reminds me of a school assignment when everybody has to 'design a font from scratch, but make it mean something' project. It's cool because the Texans kinda have a bull logo, and now one of the parts of the 3 on the jersey looks like a horn from a bull, isn't that creative? And intimidating?

Did anybody else notice the pearl necklace in the original leak?

It's a real surprise Dick didn't choose 69 as his number .

Yeah, the official league site probably should get that right! I check on with the NLL from time to time (former MILL NE Blazer fan back in worcester) and that website has been largely a mess for years, seems like the rebrand a few years back allowed for some major upgrades, but it still feels limited/unintuitive, but they don't have something that wildly wrong!

Ah, I glanced over that but it didn't register fully, i think there even was a reference to 3rd and goal? Are indoor fields 55 yards? 50? Not great, but I wonder how much it'd cost to reconfigure an existing football app/scirebug/scorecard for that, or if any of the other leagues have/had it.

Really? That's crazy, I had no idea. What was wrong with the picture?

Green Bay uses Jets jerseys?

The gradient dyed/sublimated socks are going to be the equivilant of the vertical stripe edge socks. Also, knees are not really a good place for logos. Even the Cleveland Browns realized the visible stitching was a garish idea years ago. The bottom hem also will probably see a few teams drop their bottom stripe, the Flyers new jerseys did that this year. The ribbed breezers don't really seem pleasurable or necessary except for fanatics own branding.