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This is the best the Seahawks have ever looked. Even though I like the homes better with white pants, I still prefer the monochrome look to anything they've worn before or since.

I'm with you here... of course, I like pretty much any usage of kelly green.

They're not terrible, although I think the Cavs have (finally) been codified as a wine & gold team. But the 90's Cavs are more generic than what they have now.

If they'd have replaced the cartoonish wordmark and numbers with something more a little more simple, they'd be able to keep these forever.

This is the best the Cavs have ever looked. Too bad these are destined for the same fate as the late 90s Bengals and the Brewers Germanics... great looks sullied by coinciding with their franchises' nadir.

I really miss MLS jerseys having the their own name on the front. Despite being decently familiar with how things are done across the pond, it still looks weird to see a sponsors name on a shirt over here.

I need to ask why... if for no other reason than I doubt I'll ever know of another person who does. One is I think that's the best design they had regardless of colors, and two is that I love the purple and green design. If they had a green alt it would have been perfect. Actually I prefer the white lettering (which interestingly didn't have a side-stripe on the jersey). EDIT: A green alt without the gradient logo. I'll admit, these would've looked a whole lot better had they been green with purple trim instead of the way they were in real life. That was the reason why I preferred the garish, gradiented, deer-in-headlights alt over everything else from this era.

I need to ask why... if for no other reason than I doubt I'll ever know of another person who does. Not sure that's all that unpopular of an opinion around here. If anything, there's a consensus that pretty much every team that traditionally wore royal looked worse after switching to navy.

A button-down, belted version of these... ...should be the Brewers' full-time roads. Granted, I prefer the last version of the BiG unis for aesthetic reasons, but the powder blues are just too damned popular with the fans and the Brewers have a chance to own it in the NL, if not all of MLB.

I can think of at least a few teams off the top of my head (Brewers, Royals, Blue Jays... perhaps the Rays) that should be wearing powder blue.

I think one of the reasons its lasted this long is because when it was first introduced, it was actually one of the better MLS marks, but now I'd have to admit DCU is long overdue for a tweak.

Funny that you should mention brown since Uni Watch did a post about that yesterday. It seems that the issue that people have with brown as a sports color is that there are so few colors it goes well with. You're pretty much restricted to pairing it with variations of yellow and orange. Anything else just clashes with it too much. I'm with Big Red on this one. I love Brown. The Brown/Orange Padres of the late '80s was a beautiful look. I also like it with a little light blue trim (I think this is the official color scheme of Tufts University, but their bookstore online pretty much does not even sell the color scheme...I was thinking of buying a t shirt). It's try that Brown may not go with a lot of colors, but there should be room for at least one brown team per league. Browns, Padres, and one NBA/NHL. I think the bottom line is that individual teams want to sell merchandise. Black, blue, and red are generally what people like. Teams make the smart choice, but it makes the leagues a bit homogenous. +1 Tufts identity is one of the most underrated in college sports. I always thought brown and kelly green wouldn't look half-bad together. I don't think it's that there's not much to go with brown, I think it's that most people don't know how to make it work.

IIRC, the Horizon League requires basketball arenas to have a minimum capacity of 5,000. I think IUPUI and IPFW are both currently under that, and they still have Valpo. Oakland is probably a done deal, but I hope they go after Murray State too.

I heard this is the Horizon League's new logo: v2.0

In a vacuum, this set is the best that's ever been worn by a baseball team from Milwaukee... it's too bad they had to coincide with the absolute worst years of the Brewers franchise. In fact, I think so many fans had stopped watching the Brewers by the time they tweaked the "Germanic" look that only the most die-hard fans (and casual logo nerds) even remember them.

A kid came into my job wearing a Disney/periwinkle Angels hat, and it reminded me of how much I like that entire set. Granted, the Angels have never looked better than they do now, and literally every other uniform they wore before they became the Anaheim Angels is better than the periwinkles, but in a vacuum, it's not so bad. In fact, I still maintain that it would've been hailed as a great look if the Angels had been a 90s expansion club and it could still work today for an Angels farm club.

too bad they cant combine the eras together..... wait a minute! they can and should. No, they can't. The BiG would look completely out of place with the current set. (And the BiG is not that great of a logo) You could always recolor the ball in glove to Navy and Gold, maybe tilt it a little too. and alter the M logo to take a little detail from the barley? out and dull the M a little. Same with the actual word mark. You'd tilt the glove a little to add the same effect the wordmark seems to have. Or straighten out the wordmark. I love both Brewers identities, but I agree with Nash here, the current identity is much more fitting for the name. I'm good with them wearing the BiG uniforms on Retro Sundays. The current identity is more fitting for Miller, which is no longer technically a "Milwaukee Brewer." Maybe in a vacuum you could say the current duds are more appropriate for a team called the Brewers, but ask anyone in Wisconsin to describe "the Brewers' logo" and 10 times out of 9, they'll describe the BiG. I would also put down money that royal and yellow are still more widely recognized by Wisconsinites as "Brewers colors" than navy and gold. Even with all the alleged appropriateness of the current Brewers unis, they're still rife with unnecessary drop-shadows, unbalanced scripts and stock MS Word fonts... none of which make for a great uniform. The retros might be plain, but they could certainly get away with using them fill-time because royal and yellow are unique colors in MLB. Of course, they could always take a third option and come up with something completely new that incorporates royal & yellow, the BiG and beer-barrell man (since that's a MKE baseball tradition that stretches back to WWII). Although, FWIW, I do think this (www.lids.com/MLB/Milwaukee-Brewers/20130062) looks rather nice... in fact, I'm wearing it right now

I would settle for "Phila" on the roads. Still, I think he Phillies can get a pass on having their nickname on the roads since it's derivative of the city's name.

You hear that Grambling & Southern? Harvard & Yale? Knock it off... only schools with an athletic budget that rivals the GNP of third world countries get to have passionate fan bases!

I gotta be honest, every time I see an Idaho home game on TV (mostly clips). It has the feel of watching an FCS game. Something about the Vandals seems like they don't belong at the highest division. I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe it's the success and popularity of Boise State that makes them look minor in comparison. Think it might be that barn they play in? Both fit right within the footprint of the Big Sky Conference... IIRC, Idaho might have even been a charter member.

I couldn't disagree more. Let the teams that these guys play on retire their numbers, but allow other players on other teams who may grow up idolizing these guys to "honor" them (which I think is ridiculous, but I know I'm in the minority there) by wearing their numbers if they so choose to. I have no problem with league-wide jackie Robinson tributes or memorials, because it's a story that needs to be known by everybody, but I don't like seeing #42 hanging next to Mike Schmidt's, Steve Carlton's, Richie Ashburn's, and Robin Robert's numbers. That's why Boston does it best. Their retired numbers are in red, and Jackie Robinson's number is in blue. The Red Sox aren't the only team who does it like that.

Seeing as he has actually accumulated playing time in both those uniforms, this one is even more "wrong": Not necessarily... the Packers backup QB spot has a reputation as a quarterback college and Hassellbeck is one of its most well-known "graduates." They sure were! But in hindsight, I think it's amazing that an organization that has shown itself to be as incompetently run from top to bottom as the Bucks was even able to make it that far into the playoffs... whether or not the NBA actually conspired to keep them out of the finals. Back on-topic, I'm not sure Ray Allen has a "wrong" uniform. He's one of those rare cases of a guy whose had significant and successful stints with multiple teams.

The Blackhawks blocked a Milwaukee expansion team in the 80s, but I think things have changed enough since then that the 'Hawks wouldn't be an issue. The problem seems to be that Milwaukee's just not big enough for both the NBA and NHL. ...at least not when we already support NFL and MLB franchises. So have most of us who actually live here It doesn't "belong" to anyone, though the Blackhawks would do well to squat on Milwaukee and Madison as best they can if there's not going to be a team there. The Wild have some of their games on FS Wisconsin now... not sure how long they've been doing that for, but that alone should be enough to kill the Blackhawks claim of having a stake in Milwaukee should that come up again.

Herb Kohl has been trying to sell the Bucks for years (remember when MJ almost bought them?) but has been obliged for political reasons not to entertain offers from buyers who'd move them out of Wisconsin. Now that he's retiring as Senator, that's no longer the case. Besides, you could argue that Seattle already got the Bucks franchise back in 2003. Seattle can have them... Milwaukee would gladly take an NHL franchise and I'd imagine we'd become an instant relocation candidate if the Bucks ever did leave town.

I'd say the same thing, but there are three things that I think will keep IUPUI out of the HL. 1. The IU and Purdue directors don't want IUPUI's athletics program getting anywhere near as big as theirs... you put them in the Horizon and they take the next step towards being more powerful athletically. 2. They play in what equates to a small school gymnasium right now. 3. They don't play baseball. If Butler leaves, that brings the HL down to 5 baseball playing schools. You need six to have an automatic bid. 1. Believe me, I wish I could claim that the Horizon was just a notch under the Big Ten... or even within a handful of notches... but sadly, this is not the case. IU and PU would be ridiculously paranoid to block IUPUI from the Horizon for that reason. 2. I was about to say "Well so does Valpo" then I did some googling and... yeesh... Valpo looks like they play in an NBA arena compared to Ooey-Pooey. 3. I'm sure the Horizon knows baseball is a dying sport within its footprint and a couple of its programs (such as Milwaukee's) are already on shaky ground. Frankly, I'm surprised its lasted this long. 1. They'll sit there and say "Butler did it from the Horizon League, what's to keep IUPUI from doing it?" 2. Yeah. Valpo only plays in a high school gym by Indiana standards. 3. Eh, the schools that still have it won't vote in a program that doesn't. The automatic bid is that important. 1. IUPUI's lack of a relatively wealthy and supportive alumni-base for one, plus the fact that they play in a small gym and not one of the most historic basketball venues in America. 3. There's nothing saying they can't invite Oakland and IUPUI, but now I'm starting to doubt how important the Indianapolis market is to the Horizon League if the HL couldn't even swing a decent TV deal with Butler. One last factor at play here... you know how everyone keeps referencing the AAU in regards to the Big Ten? Well IUPUI is part of the Urban 13 just like current Horizon members Milwaukee, UIC and Cleveland State. With the absence of its flagship program in its only revenue sport, it would probably behoove the Horizon to build a conference based on schools that have ties outside of athletics.