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Replacing black with silver as your secondary color, but keeping all-black alternate uniforms. Using the silver in a way that renders it invisible from any distance on the home and road uniforms. Dropping all adornment from your red jersey including sleeve/shoulder numbers and slapping a giant "Arizona" on the front so it looks like a t-shirt. Maintaining the "ketchup bottle" look that's been mocked for 20 years, and elevating it to your primary. Monochrome all day, all night. Perforated twill. Congratulations, you're so bold and revolutionary, you're Adidas in the 2010s. Keeping the "block numerals that are just messed up slightly so we can call it a proprietary font" garbage that Reebok was so keen on in the mid-2000s. "BIRD GANG." Oh, you.

I have come to the determination that the lack of leaks on this one has far less to do with the Cardinals running a tight ship that it does with the incredibly small number of retailers who are interested in selling Arizona Cardinals jerseys.

Look, @tBBP, you can't slide Vancouver Grizzlies relocation history into a thread and not expect me to bring up the attempted push at making them the Dixmoor Grizzlies.

Also, Montréal says "Allo." I read the Review-Journal rah-rah "story" on this and it makes so little sense. You're building a 30,000 seat ballpark, minuscule by MLB standards, with a "partially retractable roof" in the middle of the desert. So you're building small and cheap. And not only are you building small, you're doing it as the "who needs to draw fans, we get free money from broadcast rights fees" business model is completely evaporating in front of your eyes. Like, teams are literally not getting paid what they are owed right now by Sinclair/Diamond/Bally and MLB may have to take over the responsibility for production of their telecasts. And the ownership of the regional sports network covering Vegas is very loudly announcing its desire to sell off its RSNs to somebody, anybody, please. "But 30,000 a night in Vegas is still better than 4,000 a night in Oakland" yeah well maybe if ownership spent its time and money on fielding AN ACTUAL BASEBALL TEAM instead of blowing it all on lobbyists the next state over, the people of Oakland might be more inclined to show up.

This has been the accepted standard for replays in Australia's NRL and AFL for as long as I've watched them, and given how American sports leagues shield their refs and the NFL shields... the shield, I would not be surprised that it doesn't get implemented here as primarily a CYA move.

Major League Soccer did not grace us with The Iconic Jaws of Husky Stadium. Nike was pumping out the Nikespeak long and hard back when MLS was just slapping crests on whatever Adidas template was on offer.

I don't think that's what we're getting, but here's a reminder that could absolutely rule:

I would like to note that the last full Cardinals revamp, dang near twenty years ago, absolutely melted this site down for a little while. And then when we were all able to log back on, we talked about how it was an immediately dated and substandard look from the neck down.

Here's a TV ratings breakdown from the first week of XFL + USFL. https://awfulannouncing.com/ratings/usfl-xfl-audience-broadcast-cable-caveats.html USFL drew more eyes, but also had games on free over-the-air TV, which is in more homes than cable/streaming even today. The more important number I see is that, head-to-head in that prime football Sunday afternoon slot, adding the USFL and XFL audiences together basically gets you the 2022 USFL viewership. That suggests a ceiling to me.

I just read the @TruColor recap and feel as if I have taken crazy pills on multiple levels. Not that I'm calling Donovan crazy, mind you. It's just... Oh, Cardinals, what is you doing.

If it interests you, Royal Retros has been doing quite a bit of 1983-85 USFL merch, and recently started making jerseys in the current league styling with the original logos I bought a Pittsburgh Maulers jersey because it was getting cleared out for $45, and the quality was good enough that I would consider buying one at or close to full price from them. Held up through the wash, too. As for Memphis, between the white names on the yellow background, the yellow stripe on white pants, and the lack of shoulder/sleeve numbers, it has the feel of a project that got rushed through the night before it was due.

DC has had a great showing all through this and the last XFL. I don't know if this is how it works anymore, but you'd think with this strength of fan support, the market would have to be on the radar to land an NFL franchise one of these days.

Liberty Bowl is extremely vacant for the Showboats' inaugural game, and Memphis' uniforms appear to not so much have been designed as just simply occurred. Something you'd get out of create-a-team in a PS1 game. On the bright side, the end zone walls have advertising, so someone in this operation is at least working to bring money in besides the Fox checks.

For all of the original XFL's mistakes, at least they realized their replica jerseys should sell for $45-50 because that was the NFL's going rate at the time.

"Hello, Pittsburgh residents, or as we like to call ourselves, 'Yinzers!' Just one of your favorite local sports teams enjoying a night out, watching one of your other favorite local sports teams! Black and yellow, bay-bee!" https://twitter.com/USFLMaulers/status/1645761026917318656?s=19

Horse should have another leg for a team named the Studs.

I get the Wolves constantly being at loggerheads with their affiliates since Atlanta (the Thrashers were easy enough to work around because Atlanta Spirit was too busy suing itself to know what was going on,) but boy this seems like a recipe for disaster unless they've definitely got other teams lined up for the ride. You're gonna field an entire team of veteran castoffs with fewer than 260 pro games on their resumes? Or what, you're gonna make like the Frankes 15 years ago and fund your own IHL, with a Turner Cup, and hookers, in fact, forget the Turner Cup because it just fell apart on the ice?

The Arizona Coyotes finally have a plan for sustainable revenue, and it is "Sue the city of Phoenix for $2.3 billion for reasons," announced with a press release that reads like a Donald Trump tweet. It's going as well as it ever has.

I thought the flimsy, sublimated, somewhat inaccurate replicas of 2022 were a low, but look who went and burrowed under.

Minnesota's looks very nice. New York's simply is not as good as the one it's replacing. Dallas wasn't doing much for me until I saw the shorts, which make the look pretty dang good and just the right level of 1990s out-there. Washington's looks cool with the currency-style numbers, but I can't help but be reminded of the Wizards' unfortunate foray into this color scheme when I look at it. The Fever look like a low-end rec league team from any distance greater than five feet, which I suppose is the perfect fit for the overall "eh, who cares" vibe of the Indiana Fever.

The former majority and current minority owner of the Coyotes appears to be jailed after allegedly trying to strangle his wife. Look, buddy, you can't be doing NFL Owner crimes when you don't even have NHL Owner money. https://www.aspendailynews.com/news/arizona-coyotes-co-owner-hedge-fund-manager-andrew-barroway-arrested-in-aspen/article_cffb770e-ca86-11ed-839c-97ce3fc9d49e.html#ath

The Arizona Coyotes have been given more shots since 1996 than any resident of the state has gotten since 2021.

The league's backup plans for the Coyotes: 1. Prescott 2. Scottsdale rec rink 3. Glendale, we've changed baby, we swear 4. Shoveling dark money to Kari Lake's next run for governor with a promise to rebrand as the "Arizona Unwokes" 5. Pulling an '83 Blues, attaching a $1 billion expansion fee to the "new" team with money that simultaneously does and does not exist 6. Moving out of state

Rampant sexual abuse and a fatal bus crash? Now that's a real hockey market! Move the Bruins there post-haste.

Western Trad RETVRN accounts, but make it sports.