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Maybe 300 people watching Breakers-Gamblers in Birmingham right now. The rubber's gotta meet the road on teams playing in their actual markets for season three, and as has been discussed here by others, that is going to be an issue for several of these legacy identities.

Because I am an old crank who has been on this board too long, I needed to get in touch with the coveted youth demographic to see what they thought of these uniforms. So I asked my 9-1/2 year old son, who became a Seahawks fan after seeing them in neon green, and thought the old Cards unis were "trash." His analysis:

"Oh, those are even worse than the last ones."

"The red jersey needs to go with the white pants. That looks terrible."

"Why don't the other ones have the name on the front?"

"What is with the black one? Why do they keep on doing that? It doesn't even look like the right team."

"The Buccaneers did this a lot better."

25 minutes ago, CS85 said:

stroke on the numbers

CCSLC slashfic

1 minute ago, infrared41 said:

 

Yes.

 

You can see what they were going for here, how they were looking to keep the spirit of this quintessential Cardinals look while applying some updates to it. And you can see how they botched it terribly.

Inevitably with every uniform unveiling, the team makes a social media post with a closer look at elements of the getup that says "It's all in the details." Yes, yes it is! And that's why we're making fun of you!

Just now, BBTV said:

This clown couldn't find a longer undershirt to wear?  It's a goddam uniform unveiling and they couldn't even have them tuck in their undershirts?

 

It's "drip" to wear your uniform as tight as possible and a t-shirt that's four sizes too large underneath it to negate all the advantages of a skin-tight uniform.

The most important reveal of the night is that the CCSLC servers have never been stronger.

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.

20 minutes ago, Lights Out said:

This feels like the Chargers' relocation all over again, with horrible cheapskate owners deliberately running off fans and blaming everyone but themselves. 

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.

2 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Watching a minute of a replay of Stars vs Memphis, and they just had a really interesting video replay.  Not only was it cool as hell to hear them talking about it (I guess it was Mike Pererra and the head ref) but apparently they play the whole convo over the stadium PA.

 

I don't know if having the players listening in is the best idea, but conceptually this is absolutely something I'd want in the NFL.  I got to listen to them replay and analyze the play, listen to the questions the ref had for Mike, and what Mike had for the ref, then listen to Mike explain to the ref why there was some complicated situation resulting in a kinda weird all.

 

Kinda curious why the NFL wouldn't go with this (at least for the at-home audience) unless they have something to hide.

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.

2 hours ago, kmccarthy27 said:

MLS was the ones that started that BS in the US. 

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.

22 minutes ago, PlayGloria said:

What we are getting:

A maroon, orange, gray, sparkly helmet overhaul. 

 

Again, I'm excited as a uni lover. But when you see it in writing, it seems really absurd.

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.

14 hours ago, IceCap said:

I really dug the Tampa Bay Bandits jerseys and I would have bought a halfway decent replica. But alas they just shovelled out crap. 

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

On 3/29/2023 at 9:07 PM, Bmac said:

 

Interesting BP cap for Tacoma.

 

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.

On 3/30/2023 at 1:32 PM, Cujo said:

Great Value brand replicas.

 

These are atrocious

 

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