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I wonder if this was a matter of materials. This would be the time when a lot of team were making the transition to mesh short-sleeved jerseys with screenprinting, away from the traditional heavy long-sleeved durene with everything sewn on. Maybe the Bears couldn't get their numeral font screened at the time, so they just settled for block. That doesn't explain why they also had the two sets of navy jerseys at the time, though, with both sporting the custom numerals. I guess until proven otherwise, I'll go with the most common Bears answer: "Ownership was late to making a leaguewide change and was too cheap to do it properly."

That's it. It's over. It's all over.

Well, guess what. Meruelo is already abandoning his Coyotes "ownership" after botching the land auction, and so... From here, I would guess it's going to be a very short road for the supposed billionaire casino owner who was always suspiciously short on cash.

The NHL stopped believing Alex Meruelo just in time. He doesn't even have an imaginary arena plan for the land auction he was definitely going to win anymore. It would have been another fifteen years at the Mullett.

The West Texas Desert Hawks, who briefly exited the league due to a lawsuit from the NAL and then returned a couple days later, have folded following a 65-61 weekend win. The league now stands at eight teams after eight weeks, which works out to one team going under every week of the season on average.

Should not have gone with the solid blue pants here along with the wavy multiple blues of the jersey. It looks like they forgot to finish. White pants with a wider stripe mimicking the "ripple" effect of the top would have served this look a lot better.

Should have just revived the old Prairie Thunder identity wholesale, if this is the route they wanted to take. Though there is a nod to it with the little thunderbolt on the bison's cheek. It's Abe Lincoln's hat, which is for Springfield, over an hour away. It's done in Chicago colors, over two hours away. The US Highway shield is presumably for Route 66, which congratulations, does actually go through BloNo. Shove the whole state in the periphery just in case. That's a whole lot of mess with very little payoff. They could have just done the cartoon bison sans hat in the shield and be far better off.

And now we can all ponder the delightful coincidence of the Minnesota Vikings using a font very similar to the one used on "The Love Boat."

Of course they're using when tweeting the reveal. What trite nonsense. It reminds me of the fad-chasing of 20+ years ago when every mid-major college team needed the Denver Broncos' side panels on their jerseys. Except this is the NFL and you're supposed to be dictating the style, not chasing it.

By dropping the shoulder numbers, one of their primary colors, and their proprietary wordmark in favor of something Agency-adjacent, the Minnesota Vikings have done an outstanding job of creating a uniform that makes them look like a high school team attempting to mimic the Minnesota Vikings.

This just reminded me of how Wisconsin rebuilt I-94 through Kenosha and Racine Counties, then their doofus governor signed a cocktail napkin deal with Foxconn, so they had to rebuild the same stretch of expressway again just a couple years later to add a lane in each direction for those 13,000 full-time jobs that were coming to Mount Pleasant, and then ope! What I'm saying is that the conclusion the McCaskeys will draw from this mess of their own making is that they need a Scott Walker in office to get things done for them. They are going to try to become explicit political players and it is going to be hilarious because all they know is how to run a football team and we all can see how that goes. Can't wait to see who they handpick and set $100 million on fire for to become the second coming of Richard Irvin.

Good God I had just read that article and had come here to share the result. We gotta get off this wavelength.

Ohhhh, he's going to try to pretend he got ousted because the other owners are racist. Buddy, you're "the best lawyer in Minnesota" or whatever. You don't want anything from this league with your fingerprints on it going to discovery.

I eagerly anticipate Lee Hutton releasing a statement reasserting himself as the true commissioner of the AFL, along with his own roster of active franchises and weekly schedule. Give me an Indoor Football Antipope!

Bad tweets killed the Minnesota Myth, definitely not the whole "not paying any of the employees" thing.