Sodboy13

Practice squad gets practice gear. Blank helmets, screenprinted solid-color porthole mesh jerseys. Why pay for a design you're never going to sell?

"now"?

Somebody translate "integrity" into Esperanto so Ferdinand can grasp its meaning.

That's the New York-est team there ever was.

The Connecticut Tigers are now the Norwich Sea Unicorns. Their logo is a narwhal. So they could have easily been the Norwich Narwhals, which is good and sounds unique, but Brandiose gotta Brandiose.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a fair bit of switching of pants and jerseys between the sets as the season wears on. I don't expect full-time monochrome from all the teams showcasing it tonight.

Looking forward to the end of the season, when you tell us all you were a fan of [insert championship team] the whole time.

First impression rankings: 1. New York 2. St. Louis 3. DC 4. LA 5. Dallas 6. Seattle 7. Houston 8. Tampa Bay

Three black jerseys and two red ones in an 8-team league isn't good planning. Navy and black are a little too prevalent, again, just as they were in '01. That time around, the primary jersey breakdown was 2 black, 2 red, 2 purple, 1 navy, and 1 teal, with 4 of the 5 teams who didn't feature black or navy up top using it on their pants.

L.A. has something that's often desired on this board, but rarely seen: A side panel and pants stripe with matching widths and a unified design. How that holds up on the field is another story, but for now, it looks like a good attempt.

Seattle seems like what the Amsterdam Admirals would be if NFL Europe still existed. Love the helmet, but the rest could be a lot better. The two biggest disappointments so far are probably Seattle and Tampa, which are honestly the two identities I thought could look best, at least based on my personal tastes. Anyone "epic fail"-ing this launch as a whole needs something better to get upset about. There's a fair bit of good and a lot of decent on display here. It's not like we're witnessing early 2010s Russell Athletic here, or early 2019 AAF, for that matter.

That's the Columbus Blue Jackets' numeral font on the Roughnecks.

It has been funny to see the official logo of middle-aged dudes' mesh gym shorts adorning the trendiest look of The Youths. Which reminds me, I still have my Memphis Maniax shorts. Quite comfy!

Champion outfitted XFL 1.0. I don't know who owns the brand now - is it still Sara Lee? - but it's possible that was not the best of partnerships. Champion basically disappeared from pro sports after that.

Most of the XFL 1.0 uniforms had a lot of traditional uniform elements. The names were wacky, but most of the uniforms wouldn't look out of place in the NFL of the day. Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Birmingham, and NY/NJ all kept things fairly straightforward, and the wildest thing San Francisco had were the Bronco stripes Demon horns.

I actually think it works better with the Comets than it does with their parent club.

This is a brilliant bit of minor-league whimsy for the Ads' 50th season: https://fox6now.com/2019/11/21/milwaukee-admirals-unveil-alternate-uniform-logo-which-pays-homage-to-team-history/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

The indie leagues have been struggling and merging, and the two biggest indie teams will jump to affiliated ball under this plan. Indie ball has a higher level of cost uncertainty, due to no salary subsidies coming from up top, and a similar deficit in support staff and resources. Five regional reincarnations of the North American League aren't good for baseball or for anybody. Collegiate wood bat has been growing, and hey, free labor. But that level has no need for 40 new teams.

When Todd Radom can't salvage your team's name, you've really picked a stinker.

Congratulations to Don Cherry on finally finding the line to cross that made CBC/Rogers do more than let him quietly sit out for a week. I now demand at least one week where Coach's Corner is seven solid minutes of Ron MacLean silently nodding and looking to his right.

The funny thing is, if they sold to Vancouver, it could actually work in the league footprint this time.

And the nine remaining teams of the Frontier League have brought the Can-Am's five onboard, thereby giving us the potential of a Southern Illinois Miners vs. Sussex County Miners series. Winning team gets to take a leak on Margaret Thatcher's grave.

"Jax" with some white stuff dripping off the bottom certainly is an aesthetic.

Very Good and Extremely Solvent NHL Owner Eugene Melnyk is getting sued, because he's $900K in debt to an Indian casino. https://www.theday.com/article/20190912/BIZ02/190919771

"A good deal" would have been to tell the jagoff who left the country as a tax dodge to build his own damn rink with his own damn money, instead of handing him a minimum of $275 million of actual taxpayers' money. It's not like he was actually going to move the team. He couldn't even bother to put up the front of attending a Texans game with Miikka Kiprusoff or something.