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  1. 32 minutes ago, stumpygremlin said:

    Seriously... why do pretty much all the new NFL uniforms not have TV numbers? Cardinals, Patriots, Rams, Commanders, Chargers (they have helmet numbers), now Texans. I hate it.

     

    They'll point to a team like the Panthers and say something about how modern uniform cuts make shoulder numbers almost vestigial, and that the idea of "TV numbers" need not apply in the age of HD.

     

    Really it's because they get to charge the same price for thousands upon thousands of replica jerseys whose margins inched up just a little by eliminating two print locations.

  2. I just can't shake a parallel here to the University of Houston wearing Oilers knockoff uniforms. These look and feel like there's a school named Houston Tech or something, it's their first year of D-II football, and they really want to make a connection to the big team in town, but this is as close as they could get with the available stock options in the Don Alleson catalog.

     

    Maybe the full set proves out. But I'm not seeing anything above a lateral move so far.

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  3. 13 hours ago, LogoFan said:

     

    I.E. Dani and her assistants, probably. 😉🤣

    I think this is completely unfair to Under Armour, who we all know are fully capable of designing garbage templated football uniforms all on their own, without any outside assistance.

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  4. This whole rollout is almost universally a mess, and giving every team the same template in different colors for the secondary (three teams in different shades of pink, no less) is perhaps an unintentional callback to season one of the NWSL, when everyone got stuck with Nike Teamwear off the rack.

     

    Nike Soccer is in The Bad Place right now and something needs to be given a hard reset in that operation.

  5. The Supernovas are now selling sleeveless replica jerseys that, in a move I can't recall seeing anywhere else, come packaged with the official matching team arm sleeves. It's a cool and weird idea, but also feels like the starter pack for an aspiring volleyball Full Kit Wanker.

  6. Jerry Reinsdorf is using a shell company headed by two guys in the White Sox front office to overpay for empty lots around United Center. The big payouts are going to a family with long connections to the Daleys and a former associate of Tony Rezko, who had to do some solid Chicago Way prison time for his business practices. So yes, Jerry has the money to spare for whatever his grand vision is, and he's still playing things like it's the 1990s.

     

    Also, we get treated to an attorney named "Rodney Slutzky."

     

    https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/02/22/jerry-reinsdorf-united-center-parking-lots-purchasing-white-sox-south-loop-ballpark?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=022324 Morning Edition&utm_content=022324 Morning Edition+CID_13071de3eb983469654777515a3ee070&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=Why is Jerry Reinsdorf spending millions buying up parking lots around the United Center&tpcc=022324 Morning Edition

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  7. Johnson tepidly expressing support yesterday gives me hope, in that anything he puts his weight behind seems to burst into flames in short order. I know all the local politics geniuses think the CTU has him in their pocket, but I am convinced he'll end up causing a longer teachers' strike than Rahm or Lori did, possibly by accident.

  8. Jerry Reinsdorf would apparently now like to talk about that, as he sat for an hour with Greg Hinz, who currently has one foot out the door from Crain's Chicago Business. Some of the comedic highlights:

     

    * It is much more important for him to build a winning team in Chicago than to make money.

    * He expects the entire cost of the stadium - $2 billion - to be paid for with the hotel tax, bonds and the TIF district scheme. In other words, not a penny out of his pocket.

    * If the deal doesn't get approved really soon and he dies, his family will sell Jerry's stake to the other White Sox owners. And while Jerry, dear sweet Jerry, would never move this franchise out of Chicago, well, there no telling what all those other owners would do, but he has an inkling!

    * What happens to Comiskey, that stadium the state still owes money on 33 years later, when the Sox move? I dunno, rip off the upper deck and make the Fire move there or something. Not his ballpark, not his problem.

     

    https://archive.is/20240221225356/https://www.chicagobusiness.com/sports/chicago-white-sox-need-new-stadium-compete-stay-city-jerry-reinsdorf

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  9. 19 minutes ago, M59 said:

    Unfortunately paywalled, but the Atlantic weighed in on the Nike fiasco today...
    https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/mlb-jerseys-nike-fanatics-quality/677512/

     

    The author posted a gift link, so hopefully it works. It's not a reactive of-the-moment blurb, either; she did her homework and notes a lot of the changes we've seen and chronicled on this site through the decades.

     

    https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/mlb-jerseys-nike-fanatics-quality/677512/?gift=mZJJfvLLK2-N-97mYsXvt4twDIXd7nmg5h3ZxsW1ZBI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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  10. 1 hour ago, The_Admiral said:

    I've given Reinsdorf credit for knowing how to work the government better than the McCaskeys--the bar is the floor on that one--but JB Pritzker and his quiet-but-not-that-quiet presidential aspirations may make him a worthier adversary than Madigan or Big Gay Jim or whoever else Jerry could buy off.

     

    So much has changed since Jerry's big heist, too, including his paying his own way for half of the United Center. Big Jim's raking it in for one of America's most prestigious and vile law firms, Mike Madigan's on the slow train to prison, Biggest Sox Fan Richie Daley should be on the ride with him but has opted to cede all of his family's power and influence instead of face the slammer, and if you asked Brandon Johnson who his favorite baseball team was, it's entirely possible he'd stare at you mouth agape for three minutes before blurting "PACKERS!" and running out of the room.

     

    That, and we've all had enough object lessons in the true economic benefits of publicly financed sports stadiums that when someone starts with the purple prose and magical number, anyone who's been paying attention knows that person is either getting their cut or is an impossibly dense mark.

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  11. 5 hours ago, adsarebad said:

    And now ladies and gentlemen...... what you have been waiting for:

    for only $450 you can now get your team's jersey with the ad patch on!

     

    Even on a retired player's jersey!...... Johnny Damon or Scott Hatteberg with sleeve ad 😍

     

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    https://www.mlbshop.com/nike-jerseys-nike-elite/br-3095+d-8927887814-01744801+z-9-513770804?pageSize=48&sortOption=NewestArrivals

     

    Like, I think soccer fandom is widespread enough in the US and Canada now that we get the ads are part of the deal when you buy a jersey. We don't have to like it, but there they are, can't really get around them. The idea that you have to pay twenty dollars extra for the privilege of wearing an advertiser's logo on a jersey that's already priced like high-end designer wear... Man, it takes some absolute brass ones to try that move.

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  12. https://capitolfax.com/2024/02/20/reinsdorf-says-i-dont-want-to-talk-about-that-when-asked-why-his-ballclub-needs-another-state-subsidy/

     

    Quote

    As White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf emerged from one of his meetings with legislative leaders today, Isabel tried to get him to justify his subsidy plan…

     

    Isabel: Sir, why do the White Sox need another subsidy after being…

     

    Reinsdorf: Oh, I don’t want to talk about that.

     

    Then what brings you to Springfield on this fine February Tuesday, ya putz?

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