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Huge mistake if they do. All of their success at the FCS level has to do with their ability to recruit guys who'd rather start for YSU than sit on the bench for a Akron or Kent State. That's gone if they become just another Ohio MAC program.

I think it's about time they did an entire rebrand. Their entire identity seems a bit stale. I don't mind the logos, but maybe a better color palette would freshen things up a bit. The maroon and black just seems really dull, IMO. "Appleton Foxes" has a nice ring to it. Yes, this! Supposedly, one of the reasons they dropped the "Appleton" moniker is because Fox Cities Stadium in technically in Grand Chute. If that's still an issue, they could always revert back to the Fox Cities Foxes. Either way, there's way too much history behind the Foxes name to let it sit dormant, and the fox makes for a perfect minor league mascot.

So THAT's where Park got their Panther head logo from! Still not gonna beat their SWEET primary though: Interesting... I've never seen that Park logo. Seems a bit stuck in the 1970s, but I like it.

Apparently the death of UAB football is now official. Was the UAB football program mismanaged and brought to the D1 level too quickly? Perhaps. But you can't tell me there isn't a market for college football in the biggest city in a state like Alabama. Especially when football programs have been successfully launched at other schools like UTSA, Charlotte, Old Dominion and Georgia State, which all share UAB's general profile (urban campus, large student population, former commuter school now doing research, etc.). This has as much to do with the flagship school in Tuscaloosa acting in its own self-interest than anything else. They got in the way of every effort UAB made to get an on-campus stadium knowing what a liability Legion Field was to their program... hell, the Tide stopped playing in that cavernous dive themselves for a reason.

48,000 fans to see a team as terrible as Purdue is evidence of some type of support. Even then, it says a lot about the UW System when a friggin basketball state has so many football programs, but a state that loves football as much as Wisconsin has only the Badgers, then a bunch of D3 programs. That'd be like Indiana having no D1 basketball except for the Hoosiers, or Minnesota having no D1 hockey except for the Gophers. I think it's also worth pointing out that now that UTSA has a football team, Milwaukee is far and away the biggest media market that doesn't host an NFL team or a D1 college football program. If UAB drops football, Birmingham will replace Wichita for #2 on that list.

Sort of off-topic, but UAB's situation sounds just like Wisconsin's, where the UW Board Of Regents doesn't even try to pretend that the Badgers are the only athletics that matter to them. They refuse to approve a football team for UWM even though we're the largest school in D1 without one, and they won't let Whitewater upgrade to D2 despite having the quality of programs and facilities to do so. EDIT: Apparently UWM is #2 in enrollment for non-football schools behind IUPUI. But even then, are we really supposed to believe that Indiana can support 5 D1 football teams (4 FBS, 1 FCS) and an NFL franchise, but Wisconsin can only have the Packers and Badgers?

^Beautiful! I have a copy of the logo UWM was going to put on their football helmets before the program was killed. Any chance you could do something with it?

YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!!!! (Ahem... I think kelly green is the most underrated color in sports and isn't used nearly enough.)

Not an unpopular opinion so much as an unusual one, but wide recievers wearing numbers 10, 12, and 16 look weird to me. None of the other numbers in the 10s do at this point, just those. I know 12 and 16 are probably because I still think of them as quarterback numbers. 12 is the go-to number for "glamour" QBs (Namath, Brady, etc.); and 16 is what the Packers QB (Randy Wright) and the best QB in the NFL (Joe Montana wore) when I started watching football. But that still doesn't explain why 10 still looks odd to me on receivers. Even weirder, receivers who wear single digits in preseason still look more "right" to me than those who wear 10, 12, or 16.

I hated the changes to Ohio State's sleeves when they first happened. Now its the old Steelers-style stripes that look weird to me.

I think the original Atlanta Thrashers did this better than anyone.

I'm of the opinion that the main problem with drop shadows is how rarely they're ever executed correctly. The 49ers got it right in the 1990s and its a damn shame they ditched that look.

Really liking this the more I look at it. While I get the point about the Hee Haw image, it's kind of hard to escape it when your team is actually called the Nashville Sounds. I actually like the neon sign effect on the logo too, but I don't envy whoever has to embroider that.

This sucks... minor league hockey is much better with quasi-independent teams and rosters full of those "talented for their level" guys. But if it has to be like this, could my Admirals at least get a better parent club than the friggin' Predators?

The striping inconsistencies drove me nuts with that set... they also looked like the Giants.They should have never gotten rid of the red helmet, though. I can never forget this image of Fabolous out of my head when I think of the 90s Bills unis.

I get what people mean when they say the Packers road uniforms have too much yellow, but I really only notice it when they're playing indoors or on turf under artificial lighting. I've gone on record saying that I wouldn't mind if the Packers introduced a pair of green pants (with gold-green-white-green-gold stripes) that they'd wear only for indoor games.

One of the worst days of my life as a Packers fan. Mike Holmgren really dropped the ball here, and was already one foot out the door on the way to Seattle. I saw Super Bowl XL as karma.

The only year the Packers wore the jerseys with the G's with the green-white-green striped pants was 1988. From 1984-87, the pants stripes went green-white-gold-white-green with an oval at the top with the player's number, and the G's were taken off the jerseys before the 1989 season. Either way, I think the 1988 uniforms are the best the Packers have looked since Lombardi left the team. But I still think the unis they wore in the first two Super Bowls are the best they've ever looked.

Newark? When you have two teams sharing a stadium like 15 miles away?And no way Milwaukee would ever be able to compete with the Packers for fans in Wisconsin. Call me crazy, but I think a Milwaukee team could work if it were in the AFC. That said, it's a moot point. We're officially Packers territory in the NFL, and they'd never allow a team to move here.

Hmm... I had no idea that so many hated the Jaguars teal flakes, but if so, chalk me up as someone with an unpopular opinion. Beyoootiful!

That's an unpopular opinion? Or are you just throwing your three cents (damn inflation!) into the Jags helmet discussion?

What I find more fascinating is the huge gap between each letter of 'Epps.' That's why I originally posted this on the other page... I actually liked the way his name was spaced out on the back.

Another unpopular opinion is my love for the Vikings with a white face mask. Wasn't that a one-season deal? I wonder why...The Vikings white masks were around for at least a few years.

Not sure I'd call those colors bland. If anything, I wonder why we don't see brown, Vegas gold, and orange together more often (aside from the idiotic "brown = poo" logic). Make it happen, Padres.

This is my favorite post-Lombardi Packers uniform.... only ever used in 1988. Sort-of related, but I also loved the way they stretched Phillip Epps' last name out on the back of his jersey.