The_Admiral

They had the purple and gold before the Lakers, though.

Mothership says the Lakers switched to purple and gold in '66, Kings started play in '67.

I'm tellin' ya, royal purple and white with no other colors was right there for them.

This is the OHL equivalent of Rebecca Black's "Friday."

It's that time of year...

The turkey.

This wouldn't have happened if the coach's son were a quarterback.

Bonkers story coming out of the OHL tonight. The Flint Firebirds, playing their inaugural season, won 4-3 in overtime over Oshawa. After the game, ownership fired the entire coaching staff. In response, the entire roster quit.

EDIT: Apparently the owner canned the coaches because they weren't giving his son enough playing time. This is wonderful.

http://www.wingingitinmotown.com/2015/11/8/9694696/report-flint-firebirds-coaching-staff-fired-immediately-after

Wow, Peter Karmanos sold this team and they got more dysfunctional, there's one you don't see every day.

The Blackhawks should have an alternate uniform based off their original look, with just black and white.

It would get too confusing with the Kings, the Lightning, and the Brooklyn Nets Hockey Department.

circa Jerry Sloan and Norm Van Lier

What kind of team name?

Bees.

BEADS?!?

BEES.

BEES?!?

A Zen koan from Mike Babcock:

We change the game every year because we don’t want to change the game.

As a fan, he's not a fan.

Don't sweat it, one more question mark set off from the last letter of a sentence ought to trip the bug zapper.

I won't claim to have read a lot of district attorney press releases, but the tone of that one, damn, reads like

Yes, everyone knows that, and taking Kane off a video game cover was the right move, but with the way this has gone, with the DNA evidence not bearing out the accusations, the D.A. putting the girl's mom on blast for a failed hoax, the dad making death threats on facebook, and the girl finally slinking away from it all with her tail tucked, this is as close to saying "probably nothing happened" as you're going to get. People can go on booing Kane at their home games, though; they're right to be upset that someone from another team keeps setting up and scoring goals.

Saw this beautiful "OITGDNorris Division" piece posted on Twitter.

http://www.si.com/vault/1987/01/19/114715/how-they-bore-us-in-the-norris-welcome-to-the-nhls-sorriest-division-where-a-500-record-is-cause-for-jubilation-and-even-the-inept-earn-playoff-berths

At last winter's NHL Board of Governors meetings, the Pittsburgh Penguins petitioned to move from the powerhouse Patrick Division to the cozy den of Norris. ''We could compete better in the Norris than in the Patrick,'' J. Paul Martha, the team's vice-president and general counsel, said candidly. Eventually, the motion was withdrawn.

Hey, it worked when the Red Wings did it 25 years later!

Channel 23 in Rockford, which also carries IceHogs games on 23.3, is airing the WGN Blackhawks games on 23.2 this season. And it makes sense in Indy, since the Fuel are the Hawks' ECHL affiliate.

FAKE EDIT: It looks like this is because WGN has sold their games out of market. Per this WGN FAQ, this package of Hawks games is airing in Rockford, Indy, the Quad Cities, Des Moines, and Peoria (LOL Blues). And I certainly wouldn't be surprised if it made its way into more midwestern markets and digital subchannels next season.

Excellent. This is what I call "growing the game." Just gotta get Wisconsin on board now.

Oh, funny you mention Indianapolis. One of their TV stations has picked up the package of over-the-air weekend games from WGN, so 20ish Blackhawks games are now on TV there. I've been saying the Hawks need to explore this for years:

If the Blackhawks still aren't willing to have another team up the road, the least they can do is syndicate their 20-game-or-so over-the-air TV package to Milwaukee, or Milwhawkee, and see if they can make some inroads there (plus Madison, Rockford, South Bend, while we're on the topic). Otherwise, they're just squatting.

The Blackhawks aren't doing nearly enough to capture outlying areas and make themselves a fully regional team.

Case in point: just like the other Chicago teams, the Blackhawks have telecasts on WGN. However, while the Cubs/Bulls/Sox have their games aired nationally on both WGNs (9 and America), the Hawks are only on channel 9. I'm guessing this has something to do with Gary Bettman being a doodoohead and trying to further protect failing southern markets from the superstation. Anyway, the unintended consequence here is that not all cable systems in areas overlapping Comcast Sportsnet's reach--downstate, South Bend, Rockford, Quad Cities--carry the local feed of WGN, rather WGN America, so most weekend games are blacked out there, which means the Hawks have essentially re-Wirtzed their television contract. Why not work out some deal to syndicate the WGN package to local UHFs in their satellite markets, the way the Cubs have their stupid channel 26 package syndicated to similar markets? While they're at it, get that slate on in Milwaukee and Madison, too.

Weird that Indianapolis would be the first television market to get some Hawks games. I'd have gone after Madison and Milwaukee.

Is it an unpopular opinion to think the Phillies looked best during the 70s-80s in their maroon and white jerseys? I especially liked the "P" logo, and maroon isn't a color seen anywhere else in the MLB right now.

Nah, maroon and white looked grat for the Phils. They should have used the new park as a reason to go from bright red back to maroon.

Colored pants look good in baseball. For alternates.

I'd like to see Pittsburgh wear yellow pants with black jerseys but other than that I don't think I want to see pants in anything but white or grey.

The white pants are the ones they don't need. They need to go back to the burgundy pants with white jerseys and socks for road games.

So if someone dislikes how a jersey looks, it's because they're not a "true fan" of a sport?

There's my unpopular opinion... I think it's possible to enjoy a sport where you like unpopular jerseys and logos.

I prefer that hockey uniforms aren't designed to promote NBA teams.

I like the Calgary Flames' current branding.

Also, this is a decent jersey:

Do you even like hockey?

Real talk: at least ten people chanting in that video once raped someone

I don't know why teams that were founded recently should ever feel compelled to look like an older team.

The Carolina Panthers in a nutshell.

The Carolina Panthers look modern, just not over-the-top Arena League. The tapered stripes on the pants and helmet are a modern touch.

Slow days for the NHL anti thread, I see...

Like pieces of a Lou Malnati's pizza in my midst, those never last.

The problem is that the whole idea of the Perds embracing yellow is that it's become their whole rallying point: they're The Yellow Team. If they were to wear it on the road, that'd be great, but it would have to be their home uniform as well. That would be interesting for one team to have only one uniform. Maybe wear the yellow helmets on the road so as not to clash with dark helmets (but not Dark Helmet) and wear the blue helmets at home against the visiting team's white.

I know some Preds fans wouldn't mind that. From a marketing standpoint, though, I doubt the team would ever go to a single sweater for both home and away.

Perhaps you could retain the white sweaters as quasi-alternates for games where [other team's color] versus yellow would be unpalatable, like Philadelphia, or...well, I guess that's it. Yellow goes fine with everyone else's red, blue, or black.

Makes sense. I never had Beggar's or Aurelio's growing up. South burbs are a different world to me.

As for deep dish, I agree with Gino's over Giordano's, but I've never had Malnati's. But I'm not huge on deep dish, so whatever.

How have you not had Lou Malnati's? Do they not have locations south of Roosevelt? Weird. Order a thin-crust sausage pizza, it's the best.

The problem is that the whole idea of the Perds embracing yellow is that it's become their whole rallying point: they're The Yellow Team. If they were to wear it on the road, that'd be great, but it would have to be their home uniform as well. That would be interesting for one team to have only one uniform. Maybe wear the yellow helmets on the road so as not to clash with dark helmets (but not Dark Helmet) and wear the blue helmets at home against the visiting team's white.