The_Admiral

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Are we talking NBA, Big Four, or Big 4+1? Because the Chicago Fire accidentally ripped off a gang symbol and had to walk it back as soon as possible. And the alarm-clock Buccaneers were so poorly received that they basically went back to their old uniforms, though whether that was a rebrand or just new uniforms within an existing brand is up for debate. But as far as the NBA goes, I can't think of a rebrand that went worse than Utah's.

Nope, NFL playoff berths are lottery tickets, get as many as you can. This isn't 46-36 NBA purgatory we're talking about. The Steelers and Packers are always better off getting in and seeing what happens than not getting in and not seeing what happens.

The Bears talked themselves out of hiring Jim Harbaugh because they're still deathly afraid of the head coach being anything but a polite gentleman. Tell me again how Kevin Warren was going to change everything because he has a law degree.

It wasn't a missed opportunity. It was a just plain miss. All they were trying to do was cash in on the Mark Cuban Mavericks. Sloppy logo recolor, MS WordArt scripts, phantom side panels. None of it was good, but the board consensus at the time was that it "screamed Utah," to this day one of the most enervating board memes.

That's Illinois, now get it right or pay the price

It didn't work when the Red Sox did it either time: Because the Yankees don't have a home script to begin with but rather a monogram, they're not bound to any sort of matching across jerseys. The Red Sox have their distinctive Tuscan red lettering at home, but had an ugly mismatch with either a single-layer navy version the last time or plain block the first time around. Both were bad but the newer one was worse because they should have known better by now. The other thing that made it worse was the lack of the team's dominant color. I've been steadfast in saying that the Red Sox need a balance of navy and red, with navy undershirts and jackets contrasting with red lettering and, of course, socks. The Red Sox had since gone all-in on red circa 2004 to be in opposition to the Yankees' midnight blue, a move I never liked because most of their red-base stuff just looks worse. The Red Sox went so far into the home/road split that initially they even wore blue socks. That's ridiculous.

Well, teams change their entire uniform sets upon new stadium moves all the time, but the Yankees obviously weren't changing their home uniform. Would have been a good time for the Mets to have dropped the black outlines, too.

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I think the Mariners could commit to a true sea foam green and not just the Kraken's pale greenish blue that sometimes looks sea foam green but technically isn't. Or they could go with neon green like other teams in town (presumably any returning Sonics team would add it in the way the Storm did). I just feel like the current identity has been so poorly maintained through both on-field play and actual tinkering that, since it's not their inaugural color scheme anyway, there's no imperative to keep it anymore.

Opening of New Yankee Stadium and a return to select pre-renovation aesthetics, e.g., frieze moving back from outfield to grandstand, natural stone exterior rather than whitewash. I mean, they could have done it at any time before or after that, too, but that would have been the cleanest break.

Amy Winehouse didn't tell her fans that she was their best friend and that she cared personally about each and everyone one of them. Mostly she just threw up on herself. We didn't know how well we had it. It's more fun if you believe he is. To put it in 2024 terms, I'm oafpilled. I'm galootmaxxing. I'm in my lummox era and I'm here for it.

lol at the Bucks doing peak-era Lou Lamoriello as if they're a paragon of organizational excellence and not, you know, a sand castle of taxpayer subsidies and history's first really tall Greek guy.

Not 100% sure on the stalking, she always has people breaking into one of her twenty different mansions. However, I don't think it's an outgrowth of paparazzi culture so much as her own brand of lore and world-building: while I was discreetly googling for a picture of her looking like she's farting into her microphone, I saw some other image trying to show that her nail polish matched the lettering on a t-shirt from a music video and was thus a special easter egg for her devoted fans. This parasocial insanity used to be reserved for people trying to expose The Truth About Israel or to impress Jodie Foster, but now it's just acceptable content creation for marketing girlies. Anyway, hoping for a 49ers-Chiefs rematch as I enjoy their work but Lions-Chiefs would be fun too.

I think she's the first woman to be a be a pop superstar while radiating sexlessness. I mean, Madonna and Britney Spears, obvious, but even Bjork and Kate Bush had some sort of energy there that's lacking here. No wonder she's the idol of upper-middle-class girls on SSRIs.

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Finally the Yankees did it. They should have done this in 2009. The Mariners have taken their '90s design about as far as it'll go. Time for neon green and some modern flair.

No, but the investors who subsidized the Hornets' layover, Aubrey McClendon and Clay Bennett, did.

I don't think the Chiefs are much like the Patriots, but Taylor Swift is. She's distasteful the same way the Patriots were distasteful: pretending to be an underdog while running up the score.

And then there was the time the Jets had a logo made of a football and a landing plane coming together to make an angry face: It reminds me of the talking post-it note from Homestar Runner that said "hey! dorks! you stink." EDIT:

I don't like the phantom yoke either but the colors are spectacular. There's never a reason for the Calgary Hitmen not to wear pink and black. It's theirs and theirs alone (well, and Bret's, but).

The league really needs to mandate that names and numbers contrast with the base color. Form has to follow function here. That Marlins jersey is a failure and the Mets one isn't much better.

I don't want to hear about how the 49ers are white supremacists so give me any of the other three but preferably Chiefs-Lions.

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