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Clicked the link, and it looks like the spiritual heir to the Riders BFBS jerseys of the Y2K era

I might know a place where Utah could get a good deal on some Yeti-themed jerseys

The NHL leaves a lot of money on the table by having only one NHL team in all of southern/southwestern Ontario. (Well, Buffalo has a presence in the Niagara Peninsula and Detroit is Windsor's NHL team, but those barely move the needle relative to the GTHA and what a second NHL team would be able to pull off there.) In some respects it's amazing that the league hasn't been able to broker a deal with MLSE for a second GTHA team.

Salt Lake City seems like a weird landing pad for the NHL. It's a pretty small market (smaller than Calgary and Edmonton from a population standpoint, although I'm sure their GDP is a fair bit higher), and it already has a significant competitor in the form of an established NBA team. Usually the NHL only goes for smaller markets when it's clearly the biggest game in town (Columbus, Raleigh, most Canadian cities). Maybe they'll be able to make it work, but it seems odd to me that they'd choose a small, relatively crowded market as opposed to a huge city like Houston. Even a place like San Diego is significantly bigger and without direct competition (the NBA and NHL teams up the road in LA/OC don't really count).

I had a lot of jerseys for various teams in my teens and early 20s, but I only bought one in my 30s...a jersey for my favourite team that I'd wear to games and not really anywhere else. Then around the time I hit 40 my oldest kid really got into sports and I ended up buying a total of seven more jerseys, all for the various home teams. I wear them to games but not really anywhere else. They're hockey and football jerseys, so it would feel a bit odd at this point in my life to wear one around town randomly, although I used to do it all time when I was 17. I also don't want to get them messed up, I like keeping them more or less pristine. I'll probably just hand them down to the kid at some point, I'm sure he will appreciate them. I've built up a pretty good jersey collection for him, he's almost 11 and he has, I'd estimate, probably about 40 different jerseys.

Presenting Valour FC. The whites are inspired by the Winnipeg Fury of the CSL's looks of the late 80s, and the darks feature Indigenous designs. Kind of surprised they're still going with the OneSoccer jersey sponsor look given everything that's happened.

I'm not that familiar with the Chase Center... was it actually built with hockey in mind, or is it a basketball-first venue like Barclays Center where hockey would require massive compromises? I guess the same questions could be asked about the post renovation Oakland Arena, for that matter.

It's sad, but it is offset by the fact that the entire range of major league and college sports are just a short drive away. As a NHL fan I find it annoying that the Sharks play in San Jose instead of the "real" Bay Area. If only they could move to the Oakland Arena. Sigh. That would give Oakland a major league presence once again.

Not to get too off topic here, but ATL doesn't "feel" like a big airport, let alone the world's busiest. It just feels like a bunch of small/midsized airports mashed together and connected by PlaneTrain. It has nowhere near the gravitas of a place like Hong Kong, Dubai, Heathrow, etc.

It's not impossible to imagine a scenario where the WNBA leapfrogs ahead of MLS and becomes the first true major league focused on women's sports (leaving aside well established individual women's leagues like the LPGA, WTA, etc.) . If the WNBA got a critical mass of personalities it could take the "next step" the same way that the NBA did in the late 80s/early 90s. ...but we are nowhere near that point right now. MLS is a niche league but the WNBA is ultra-niche.

I'm not a soccer guy so I admit I'm not really tuned into the culture. But having to come up with a new look every year sure leads to a lot of contrived designs that just reek of a designer struggling to come up with something in the face of a looming deadline.

The only reasonable response to this silliness? Just don't buy them.

I think you make a good case for soccer as the fourth (or frankly, higher) ranked US sport. But soccer interest is too fractured to rank MLS as a league over the NHL. So much soccer fandom in North America is directed at the big fish (Premier League, Bundesliga, etc.), the "old country" leagues and international teams that MLS struggles to capture attention on a national level.* Not to say that MLS couldn't get there, it is still a somewhat new league after all. But it's simply not there yet. * the NFL and MLB are the opposite situations where they capture virtually every football and baseball fan in the US. It's almost absurd to imagine a dedicated baseball fan who is totally unaware of what's happening in MLB, for example.

I wonder if in cases like that it may be a situation of a club team that gets turned into a varsity program? I know that, for instance, the University of Regina's sports teams are called the Cougars but the football team is called the Rams because it was a pre-existing standalone junior football program that was absorbed into the university's athletics program.

Interesting, thank you. Some of them make sense (Gentlemen doesn't really work for a women's team) and some identities are more closely related than others . But why Lady Techsters instead of just Bulldogs? The decision making behind some of these is curious.