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Hey, we'll finally get to play Iowa in my grad year here. Two teams in the same conference shouldn't go four years in a row without playing each other. Kinda nice that we'll be in the "easy" division too. But this really screws over IU.

This is probably very uncommon, especially from a Blackhawks fan, but I think the Flyers are the "right" team for Roenick. I was only like 4 when he left the Hawks, so I don't remember him there ata ll.

I think that one is one of the few that you can get away with. But for all sports, labels on most of these would help. Unless a guy played on a team you regularly watch, some of these are too hard to tell who it is by just their face.

Pretty much every striped sock in the NFL is ruined by the mandatory white bottom half (Bears, Cheifs, Bills, Redskins, etc.) By the way, what is the reasoning behind the NFL sock rule? Why are teams required to have the white bottom portion? And I want an answer better than "it's always been that way". Honestly, I think solid color socks look way better than the white bottom socks. The white at the bottom just looks more professional to me. Possibly because NFL teams are pretty much the only ones to wear it, but switching to solid color socks would look amateurish now.

Weird, I was just talking about how I had a Harbaugh action figure thing when he was on the Ravens last night. And that's a pretty rare Oilers-Ravens matchup.

It's all the way at the bottom of the page. It eventually went back to the mobile site for me sometime last night.

I'm on my phone right now and accidentally clicked the button to use the normal version of the site. Now when I click the use mobile version button nothing is happening. Is this a common problem it its there anything else I can do to get back to the mobile version?

That is an insanely good conference right there. I don't think we have the same idea of what an "insanely good conference" is.

It's normally on that side, but was on the left side with those special jerseys. The Adidas logo was on the right side, not above the wordmark. And that C isn't the same one that was used on those jerseys (or their normal homes).

There's that and the fact that demand is high enough for them to charge that high of a price. Their production costs are also going to be higher than a counterfeiter that is using lower quality materials and possibly not adhering to labor laws.

Boston College isn't coming to the Big Ten. Also, the move to the Big Ten will allow Maryland to reinstate the seven sports that they cut over the summer.

Short answer: Syracuse and Boston College aren't AAU members. Notre Dame isn't going to happen right now and it's better to have the New York market than Pittsburgh.

I think most schools would see empty seats when they've lost 13 straight Big Ten games.

It's looking like Maryland and Rutgers will join the Leaders division and Illinois will be the team moving over to the Legends. Bad news for Illinois football. LEGENDS: Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan State, Northwestern, Minnesota, Illinois LEADERS: Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Rutgers, Purdue, Maryland, Indiana

I think the B1G has a plan to go to 16 that doesn't include Notre Dame, but room could be made if they change their mind at any point. There's a very high chance that North Carolina will be one of the next teams in the B1G expansion and it's looking like FSU isn't going to be in the ACC for much longer. If that' s enough for Notre Dame to want out, the B1G will be glad to make them their 16th team and finish off the superconference. If Notre Dame is still content being a football independent, it's likely Georgia Tech or even Virginia will cap off the B1G expansion. What I think a lot of it will depend on is what the football playoff situation is going forward. If it comes down to four 16-team conferences with each of them sending the conference champion to the playoff, Notre Dame will have to jump ship and likely join the B1G. If there's any other format that allows Notre Dame to qualify for the football playoff as an independent, I don't see them moving to any conference.

There may not be a lot of people in New York that care about Rutgers but there are plenty of Michigan, Penn State, Illinois, etc. alums in New York that would watch the BTN to see their teams.

Miami is in there too. Wackiness a plenty. Hell, grab North Carolina and Miami and just double down on the whole "postseason ineligible" thing. Lol, be careful what you wish for. They have been mentioned too. The B1G will go to 16 sooner rather than later. Hence why I mentioned them. At least North Carolina has the appropriate academic profile for the Conference (large Public Ivy). At least until their accreditation gets pulled for the little "football and basketball grading scandal". But it's okay because they put normal students in the fake classes too... And to help out the rumors that UNC is going to be the final team in the B1G Superconference, it's Jim Delaney's alma mater.

Maryland is voting on the B1G tomorrow, Kevin Plank 100% in favor.

I own a fake or two as well, and another reason I do is that I dont live in the states and getting acces to LEGIT merchandise can be a TOTAL NIGHTMARE! Seriously, until VERY recently the NFL shop DID NOT ship outside the states, and even when it started doing so we didn't have access to the full range of stuff. Even THIS YEAR, the NFL made a big deal out of it's new NFL-UK shop, but so far each team has only REPLICA jerseys available and only for ONE PLAYER PER TEAM! Again at the end of the day it comes down to the NFL (or whichever league) making IT'S LEGITIMATE product more accessable. Price it right, and make it available everywhere (at the same price - ie exchange rate, NOT swapping dollars for local currency) which in this day and age IS NOT HARD and the demand for knock-offs will fall dramatically OVERNIGHT. For the record I'm not encouraging the trade in fakes for one second, as a designer I'm not about to encourage IP theft, I understand the consequences it has for the design industry only to well. But this issue exists BECAUSE of the way Sports leagues and apparell manufacturers CHOOSE to price and sell THEIR products. It's nothing to do with the designers! If the Leagues and Manufacturers made different decisions then CONSUMERS would too! But until THEY change how they operate the problem wont go away, and using the whole IP theft argument, or going after the consumer is the wrong way to go about solving it. Giving the consumer the real deal at a BETTER price solves the issue! It's simple supply and demand, if the legitimate producers wont provide a product at a price consumers feel is appropriate, and lets be honest here THEY DONT, $300 for an authentic jersey is CRAZY when you stop and think about it, they leave themselves open to being undercut by fakers. Clearly the NFL feels the losses they are sustaining at present to the fake jersey trade are negligible because lets be honest they could have come down MUCH harder on it before now, had they really wanted/needed to in oprder to protect their brand and profits. 9erssteve You keep saying that Nike is pricing itself out of the market by making their authentics $300. That's simply not the case. If these prices were so expensive that nobody was buying them then you'd see the price drop to the appropriate level. The fact is that the $300 price level is the right amount for the demand of the product. Of course it doesn't cost anywhere near that to produce, but there are enough people willing to pay that much to justify the price. Reebok was selling authentic jerseys for about the same price for years. I'm sure Nike had all the data they needed of those sales to determine that keeping the price there would maximize their profits on authentic jerseys. An authentic jersey is a luxury item. That's why Nike can price the jerseys so much higher than what they cost to produce. They're not losing out on profit from the authentic jerseys when people buy counterfeits, because those people wouldn't have bought an authentic jersey in the first place.

I think the Broncos would have been better off just designing an entirely new uniform if they wanted orange as their primary. This set was designed to have the navy jersey be the primary and I think that shows now that they're wearing orange full-time. I'm all for the Broncos wearing orange at home, just not with the current uniforms.

Jobing.com Arena has such bold flavors, you guys. I wouldn't be surprised to see Captain Karl's name show up as a potential investor in the next article that comes out.

I do everything right handed, but on the handful of times I've picked up a guitar I always play (poorly) left handed. Just feels more natural to me.

This thread was great when it was "Legends in the Wrong Uniforms" and 95% of the players posted had already been retired. Now it's pretty much just a mega-thread for the individual league signings and tradings threads we usually have. Not that it's bad, it's nice seeing players in new uniforms, but it definitely peaked in the first four or so pages of this thread.

If Manchester United is wrong for Beckham, then what's right?

I think this may be unpopular, but I LOVE the current look, particularly the lack of white on the road jersey. A gold alt would probably look good, too. I bet they wanted a gold home Jersey but weren't allowed to. May have even seen that in an article. If they had a gild home Jersey it would be my favorite look in their history. I actually love the lack of an outline on these which is unusual for me.