Sodboy13

The white stripe makes it look like a curving road. I like it in theory, but it doesn't work for me in practice.

3 hours ago, McCall said:

I thought the plan was to build the new stadium south of Soldier Field, which would allow them to continue using it. Then demolish the "stadium" portion of Soldier Field once the new stadium is completed, while incorporating the protected exterior into a museum. Or did I misread that?

Sure would like to know where everyone is going to park, then. Maybe you can utilize McCormick Place and the giant underground garages at Grant and Millennium, but those are already used to an extent for Bears games and I don't know how much more capacity they have.

3 hours ago, Brave-Bird 08 said:

2001 was peak NFL to me. Everyone had a really nice home and away. I even really liked the Patriots uniform back then. 

That's a funny and apt year to pick, because 2002 was when the NFL went from having a whole bunch of different companies on field to giving the exclusive rights leaguewide to Reebok.

17 hours ago, Sodboy13 said:

So the mothership reports that the Vikings are also adding white helmets, to go with new leaked white alternate jerseys, which have LITERAL ICICLES HANGING OFF THE NUMERALS BECAUSE OMG THEY'RE SO ICY AND CLEAN.

 

I cannot wait for this trend to White Star Line itself straight into the briny ing deep.

Prison. No arrest, no trial, just straight to prison.

Northwestern just bulldozed Ryan Field in Evanston, which had some sort of "only college athletics here" clause in the donations that funded it, which is why the Bears couldn't play there. I imagine their new $800MM venue they want to cram full of events will not have such a clause.

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“Let’s create something for everyone.”, Texans CEO Cal McNair.

 

And that is exactly how you make something which appeals to no one.

14 hours ago, The_Admiral said:

Cards on the table, Johnson will resign due to "mental health issues and spending time with family" before he can finish his term or get pushed out. What a disappointment.

I know the popular line is that the city is just going to hand the Chicago Teachers Union whatever they want because Johnson is their guy, but between his base level incompetence and Stacy Davis Gates' incredible ability to erode support for teachers every time she talks, I believe they can make one of the uglier strikes CPS has seen.

I had forgotten the Jaguars briefly had striped black pants before going all leotard. If the '98 throwbacks got made permanent, I wouldn't be averse.

13 minutes ago, TBGKon said:

Seattle has had TV numbers not outlined on their current uniforms as well.  Its nothing new.  

Jacksonville also took a layer off their shoulder numbers when they wore the two-tone helmet contrivance uniforms. It was very much a 2010s Nike trend attempt that they're resuscitating because they're short on ideas.

Also, I know it's just for a mannequin, but the sleeve patch on that Falcons jersey is holding on for dear life. Sew something on like you care, Christ.

1 hour ago, Haz_Matt said:

All I see with that lighter blue is Boise State

Exactly what I thought upon seeing it. And in navy, it looks so much like Virginia. I can't put my finger on it, but there is something about these uniforms that just looks so mid-tier collegiate.

25 minutes ago, bowld said:

 

 

* Jaguars- throwback to wear with  teal throwback jersey

 

 

Add a white helmet for the Jaguars, according to the mothership. Duval loves to keep it icy, because that's still the slang term they use for crystal meth.

So the mothership reports that the Vikings are also adding white helmets, to go with new leaked white alternate jerseys, which have LITERAL ICICLES HANGING OFF THE NUMERALS BECAUSE OMG THEY'RE SO ICY AND CLEAN.

I cannot wait for this trend to White Star Line itself straight into the briny ing deep.

A meeting with "city officials and stakeholders" means no county or state ones want anything to do with this still. And if Brandon Johnson is out there dumb enough to throw billions at the Bears to fix their last mistake and replace it with a new and more expensive one - and he certainly is! - those rumblings about enacting a mayoral recall will get a lot louder.

6 minutes ago, MCM0313 said:

Exactly. Give him a boner and you’re good. 

Oh, this advice never works out for anyone.

8 minutes ago, Silver_Star said:

 should of

 

I've seen this enough from you in this thread to offer you some advice:

"Should have."

I said earlier that the pants and helmet would make or break the Broncos look. Well, they didn't help. Nothing about this new look really improves on what it's replacing, it's just new and somewhat different. Take out the 5280s and the Broncos wordmark, and you're looking at the new University of Virginia uniform from Nike's "eh, whatever" level of design.

Also, boy do those mountain features on the sleeves get uncomfortably close to looking like lightning bolts.

The throwback is acceptable. Not the greatest of uniforms or logos, but it brings Bronco fans back to the days of a guy wearing a barrel and the team getting its teeth kicked in at the Super Bowl every few years, so they'll dig it. Five years from now they'll replace them with throwbacks from when the franchise actually won Super Bowls, and we'll spin around again.

Dov Kleiman is an aggregator, not a source, and potentially not a person. Take it with a salt lick.

If your gate receipts are declining and your TV ratings are flat in year three, where is your money coming from, outside of hoping that Dwayne's charisma can coerce Fox Sports executives into fronting them the cash for a few seasons? At some point your business actually has to be in business, even in Silicon Valley's edgiest cases of dullards throwing venture capital at whatever is new.

Honestly, forget Birmingham and Arlington, maybe they should have headquartered spring football in St. Louis from the jump.

I am reminded of the final sketch of the terrible teenage garage band from Kids in the Hall:

"We were so close. We had sixty people at a gig."

"Yeah, sixty people!"

"That's a salad bar."

I am not exaggerating when I say, outside of the fan seating, our kids have a better setup for indoor flag football at the local rec center.

If anyone want to set a line on how many teams finish the season I'm all ears. Right now I'm seeing two in Salem and Louisiana that I'm not sure will even start it.

We haven't seen the 1983 White Sox Sunday throwbacks, though I did see an unconfirmed tweet that they've been flat-out dropped. Also not sure if their City Connects have been worn or not, because that would require watching White Sox baseball, and I've got enough problems right now.

Alex Meruelo and Gary Bettman paired up for an Arizona Q & A this afternoon, and judging from the clips, Meruelo was a lot better off when he was invisible and silent. But this must be part of his earning the purchase price.

54 minutes ago, BBTV said:

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Rachel Dolezal, or Shaun King?

If you'd like your own Mets City Connect jersey, but don't want to shell out the big bucks to Fanatics or wait 8 weeks for shipping out of China, simply go to the sports store in your neighborhood that's renowned for "lifestyle apparel" and bootleg Jordans. They've been selling this jersey for twenty years.

Lions: Solid B and way better than what they've been wearing. Lack of striping on the blue and black pants is disappointing. Worse is the retention of the ICY and CLEAN plain white pants that we're going to see in every road game.

Broncos: It's... Fine? Average? Acceptable? Unremarkable? The helmet and pants are going to make or break this. I can't believe the last set, when was seen as certifiably insane at its release, lasted 27 dang seasons.

Texans: Oh good God who cares. Yeah this was focus-grouped straight into a toilet. There are no improvements here on what was previously an unremarkable but solid and enduring set. The new font is over-quirked, the navy primary with its absence of striping and primary sleeve logos is now a downmarket Walmart jersey that costs $130, and everything about the "H-Town" alternate reeks of desperation to catch a fad too late. Congratulations on being like the eleventh team to do it.

If Wide Latin shows up for real I'm disavowing this whole league.