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Posts posted by illwauk
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Having a football stadium downtown is a waste of a downtown. Indoor arenas can be booked solid with the right management, but what the hell does a football stadium do most of the year? Build it in the parking lot next to the current stadium and just make sure it's really nice.
Agreed. That's why you have to put on it to attract Final Fours and other large indoor events. That's why Cleveland really screwed up not putting a dome on the Browns Stadium.
Yeah, because when I think of a great site for really big events with global exposure, Cleveland comes immediately to mind...
It's no worse than Indianapolis and San Antonio, which are to the Final Four what Miami and New Orleans are to the Super Bowl.
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The Tacoma Rainiers, Seattle Mariners triple-A affiliate, have made an (unexpected?) uniform change.
The full rundown here: http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?ymd=20150306&content_id=111556470&fext=.jsp&sid=t529&vkey=
Solid choice to go with the "R," it's been an iconic mark for quite sometime, despite it being pretty much limited to the "Rainiers" wordmark for most of the past.
The red alternate top is gorgeous, the road jersey is meh, and the BP hat is a head-scratcher. I like the idea there, but hate how big and awkward it looks in the picture of the hat itself in the team store online.
Edit: And what's this with two different number fonts?
Looking at the mock up here, I feel like there are two different teams going on here. The hat (which is beautiful) doesn't match up with the home jersey. It's like they are the Mariners farm club at home (minus the cap), half of a Mariners affiliate on the road (the navy with teal names and navy with red numbers don't work for me) and then the classic Rainiers in the alternate and BP jersey. Not sure what that BP hat is, but looks more appropriate for a team with a gold rush miner type theme. I wish they had either gone with full Mariners theme for home and road then the red alternate or all red and white (and navy too, if need be). As an M's fan, I would love to see a navy hat with a silver "R" outlined in teal if they are trying to do the Mariners thing.
Also, looking at the team shop, I don't think the hats they have are the 2015 game hats. They have had multiple styles of the "R" hat online for a year or so now (and all their cool throwbacks). Also the way the 2015 BP hat is listed makes me think none of the "R" hats are Poly 5950s but rather wool customs they've had for a bit now.
I agree... this would look much better in Mariners colors. I don't always like when minor league clubs piggyback off their parent clubs' identity, but Tacoma is still the same metro area and the Rainiers name is an homage to the classic Seattle PCL club. At most, I'd want an alt with the classic colors, but just an alt.
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Any chance for the Salisbury University Seagulls to get a refresh?
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On the other hand, here he is as a Seattle Seahawk. Funny that he started his career there....
Here he is as a Texan
Yea, I probably should've posted these too, but I got lazy. In order to atone, I'll raise you Ahman Green, Omaha Knighthawk.
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Don't get me wrong, these aren't really awful... but they are SO generic. They have very few stripes on their uniforms and taking away the stripes makes it look like a standard red sweater. I have said multiple times that the Red Wings logo is one of the best logos in sports, but it's so well-detailed and something so well-detailed like their logo being paired with those generic uniforms seems to me, out of place. I wouldn't have minded if they made a slight change to the number font or at least added an extra stripe, but these just aren't doing it for me.
While I see your point, I rather like the fact that the template is so bland by today's standards, as it put the focus on the crest/logo, which is exactly the way it should be IMO.
Also, this might be an unpopular opinion of my own, but I actually like the UCLA-style font for the Red Wings. Shame it was eliminated after one year.
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Right uniform, wrong number. Ahman Green returned to the Packers in 2009 wearing number 34 and became the team's all-time leading rusher.
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I mean, if the AHL west is going to essentially act as its own league, why not... you know... just have two leagues.
Personally, I'd go with three leagues, bring back the IHL, and have a CHL-style tournament to determine the overall champion.- 1
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I like the Eagles' midnight green. If anything, I'd rather see the Jets switch back to kelly green so they, the Eagles, and the Packers would all have a unique shade of green.
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Rhode SoxI saw the name "Rhode Island Red Sox" thrown around in a Boston Globe article (I think that's what it was).
But I think fans will just call them the Pro-Sox.
RoSox?
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Providence Quahogs?
SIMPSONS DID IT!
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While looking for that I did find this from the lone meeting between the creamsicles and Panthers.
I played this matchup so many times on Madden ('95, I believe... the one where the Panthers and Jags were ridiculously powerful hidden teams) that this doesn't look weird to me.
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- Giants: Too much separation of red and blue
Yes.
The amount of love this garbage gets is truly mind-boggling. The colour balance is horrendous - to have both jerseys completely devoid of one of your primary colours looks cheap and amateurishly inconsistent. The all-red jersey with the primarily blue helmet is comical; they look like a rec team who ordered their helmets, then found out money was tight and could afford only one colour on their jerseys. Then there's the fact that the jersey designs are completely different, which makes them look like two completely different teams. Again, horribly inconsistent. And that home jersey? Literally the only non-mandated design element is the "ny" under the collar, which is so short width-wise that is looks awkward. There's minimalist design (Colts), and then there's boring. This looks like the same rec team went "Shít! We can't even afford customized stripes, either!". This might be one of the worst looks in the entire league.
The original road uniforms with that set were perfect.
Every change they've made since then has been a massive downgrade.
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I wish they could've figured out a way to hook the M on the bat. I hate when the word is just hovering there, like the Louis on the Cardinals alternate jersey.
Pretty much how I feel about it. Still a nice looking jersey, though.
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This has been the Packers' alternate almost every year that Rodgers has been the starter... how is THAT a wrong uniform?
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Also, I agree that the Yankees' uniforms are extremely overrated. I don't care that it's "traditional," there's no excuse for a professional organization to be using at least three different versions of the same logo at once:
The cap version is clearly the best and should be the only one used across the board.
I can tolerate the jersey version since the cap version would get lost in the pinstripes, but there's no reason the cap version shouldn't be used everywhere but there.
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I feel so bad for people stuck with the ECHL. What's the point, even. You might see someone's future backup goalie?
I'd actually welcome an ECHL version of the Admirals at this point... the Nashville affiliation has made this team painfully unwatchable.
At least the ECHL makes up for its lack of true NHL prospects with fights, which are pretty much the entire reason anyone outside of hardcore puckheads even care about minor league hockey.
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Washington vs. Houston, 1971. Only time this matchup happened:
I don't know what it is, but I love those Oilers uniforms.
I guess the Cowboys aren't the only team in Texas to have worn a fustercluck of differently-shaded silvers.
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It's not "fitting" at all. The logistics for a smaller minor-league footprint make much more sense. Western teams mean more travel time, more travel expenses, and more difficult scouting. This is dumb and I hope it fails.
If that's the dance we have to do to get the IHL back, bring it on!
*observes moment of silence for one of my favorite AHL punchlines (the league having two teams called "Admirals," which led to many a funny joke)*
But just a moment... we had it first!
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I thought the Bruins were looking to move their ECHL club to Worchester.
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Still not sure what's with the attachment to colors they've only used since 1998 when they spent 20 years prior to that as a blue & red team, and had been reincorporating their "classic" identity in recent years. Are the Sounds really that well-known as a red and black team?
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Even that wouldn't be so bad compared to the Bucs-Jags preseason game from this past year.
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In my perfect world, the Timber Rattlers are known as the Fox Cities Foxes, have a golden fox as a mascot, and use the Brewers' old colors (royal blue, athletic gold, and powder blue).
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Stumbled upon this today... apparently this was the original idea for the Appleton Foxes' 1995 rebrand that eventually begat the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.
I still think getting rid of the Foxes identity was a mistake, and still hold out hope that it'll return someday; but if it had to happen, this would've been the way to go. I assume Phantoms is a reference to the ghosts that supposedly haunted the northern end of the valley (hence, why Kaukauna High School is known as the Ghosts, and has a ghost on its water tower), and "Fox River" still specifies where the team actually plays.
The Timber Rattler is neither native to the Fox River Valley, nor is the team the only Midwest League franchise in Wisconsin.- 1
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It still looks good, but they ruined the neon sign vibe that the original updated logo had. I preferred the orange as well. Disappointing.
Being that they're now the A's AAA affiliate can't say I'm worry to see the orange and black go. It didn't feel right having their top minor league team wearing their cross town on and off field nemesis' colors.
Georgia is also one of Vanderbilt's nemeses. Yet...
UGA is predominantly red though. Oklahoma-Nebraska probably would've been a better example of the point I think you're trying to make here.
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Green Bay would be the easiest, most obvious solution. Have them affiliate with the Milwaukee team to create another Milwaukee-Fox Valley connection like the Brewers and Timber Rattlers.