The_Admiral

6 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

I am getting so tired of teams wearing all one colour monochrome. The Broncos in all orange with a white helmet looked stupid. The Eagles and Chiefs in all white with white socks… come on, wear some contrasting socks please. 

I swear I remember something about how the Chiefs' white/white/white combo was Lamar Hunt's favorite and that they wore it for the first time in a long time as a tribute to him after he died. That's kind of neat. Maybe they should reserve it for games against the Raiders or something. They have to include the striped socks, though.

The Broncos made a huge mistake and the Eagles look even more terrible than usual lately.

4 hours ago, henburg said:

It feels like branding for an app

Upsettr: for hurting the feelings of the Chinese people with one tap on the go

Not 100% sure what the Titans are going for here with light blue socks and red Performance Arm Tubes. It's like Titans with Oilers characteristics.

There should be no international games. NFL games are too precious to waste on Dusseldorf and they disadvantage the teams that have to host and/or travel to them. All the taxpayer money that goes into building these palaces and then one of their single-digit home dates gets farmed out to a stadium where people would rather be watching Grumblehampton Rovers FC. 

Give that man the $10,000!

On 10/4/2023 at 8:34 PM, BBTV said:

 

Been watching NFL since late '80s and it never occurred to me that there's not always games on both channels.  I'll have to pay attention to what airs when one can't broadcast here.  Assuming informercials or "this week in golf" or some crap like that.

They've relaxed it a bit but there are still weeks where if you have the home game in a doubleheader, it has to run unopposed. But it's not every week. Hold on, 506 Sports explained it and then I'll copy-paste it here.

Nice logo. they really typed the crap out of it.

When you have a classic logo, you should make sure not to wear it 15% of the time and replace it with a flaming-snot horse from when the team really sucked and everyone wore unnecessary black.

16 hours ago, DTConcepts said:

 

am i crazy or does their logo evolution read as "plop"

Ploppo Trap House

They'd have to use the palette from the 2002 throwbacks rather than the old gold/beige mishmash, but that nice deep burgundy is where it's at.

The Commanders, stupid name, looked absolutely hideous on Thursday night. 

It's an insignia over the heart. It goes where a front pocket would go. Doesn't strike me as that weird.

Just popping to say what a miserable road uniform this was:

Part of the reason I don't want them to roll back to their first set is that I don't want them to revisit anything like this. It does so many things I hate in one place: 

- vests

- pinstripes on grey

- black for black's sake

- black drop shadows

- becoming dark and drab on the road 

- knocking out a team color from the home uniform completely

- cap monogram that is the first letter of the nickname

- cap monogram that isn't same as the one at home

- the late '90s Matrix numbers

Brick/sand/black probably makes the most sense for them. I really like the brick/turquoise/black combo, but the Marlins decided to come too close to it. 

On 10/5/2023 at 11:04 AM, kimball said:

 

What the hell was this?

That's an excellent point. The whole idea behind Football Night in America was that it was the replacement for NFL Primetime. I'm sure the idea was that highlights are obsolete When There's So Much Great Content On TikTok and more pregame content is a higher priority, but it was a nice way to wrap up the day and head into the last game of the weekend. 

There's also their years-long commitment to Tony Dungy, who is controversial without being interesting.

On 9/29/2023 at 4:07 PM, Rygi13 said:

This appears to be a nod to the "Madhouse on Madison" the old Chicago Stadium. While similar to the iconic Chicago theater marquee, the font looks more like that on the roof of the building but is rendered vertically like the marquee outside of the stadium.

It's not a very effective reference to the Stadium if the lettering never looked like that.

What's left to say about how bad this is? It's an extremely poor use of space, it looks cheap, and besides, Chicago Stadium mythos is more a Blackhawks thing than a Bulls thing. The Bulls were just the Blackhawks' tenant and generally played to light crowds as most NBA teams of the '70s did.  By the time the Bulls were winning championships, the architects were already drawing up the United Center.

As with Al Michaels doing play-by-play for a website, a slightly diminished John Madden was still something special and pretty damn good.

NBC indeed had the best presentation of any network, but they tinkered with it into oblivion and took away anyone and anything that made the game: the Rockefeller Center, Al Michaels, Bob Costas, Fred Gaudelli, a recognizable John Williams score instead of just LOUD SOUNDS. It feels like ESPN coverage, especially on the studio side: some dudes who got fired from the jobs they'd rather have and a woman so that no one can get mad at them.

I went to the city today to see friends, buy books, see a movie, and soak up what was probably the last nice weekend of the year. It was 85 degrees and cloudless, which is just my kind of weather. The other bookish introverts I work with tend to coo over fall and sweaters and pumpkin spice, but I actually have the brain of a caveman: me like when hot because not cold and cold bad. And bouncing around from neighborhood to downtown to neighborhood to neighborhood and back, I was reminded of my conviction that as long as the weather isn't horrifying and no one is smoking crack cocaine in my train car, Chicago is the greatest city in the world.

I was blissfully oblivious to the Bears game today (I actually forgot they were at home until I saw everyone boarding the train) other than catching a glimpse of the Bears up 21-7 near the end of the first half. But the point is that it was a glorious day full of people wearing Bears stuff, and it made me outraged at the Bears fans who hate Chicago so much that they want the team to move to Arlington Heights.

Notwithstanding the fact that Soldier Field is mildly inconvenient and sort of a dump, notwithstanding that the bars in Lake View can put the game on TV equally well if the game were in Arlington Heights instead of downtown, the idea that so-called fans want to take this team away from what's basically the nerve center of the entire Midwest and stick them in a walled-off suburban parking lot/strip mall is just repulsive. Those people are horrible fans. They're pig people. They're snorting, squealing pig people who appreciate nothing of meaning and only want what they mistake for maximum comfort and consumption. Those fans don't deserve Chicago, but they don't deserve Arlington Heights, either. They deserve farmland west of Huntley and they deserve every hilarious loss this team takes, from the ones on the field to the ones where the McCaskeys get owned by the mid-level bureaucrats they didn't bother to learn the names of. I hope this stupid team goes 0-17 and Arlington Heights realizes that doing business with them will be bad for the village and bad for America.

On 9/28/2023 at 6:02 PM, Red Comet said:

The Bidwells and the McCaskeys (or McCasket in Virginia’s case) have to be the best arguments I’ve seen against aristocracy. 

The McCaskeys don't actually like football. They just like passive income. Michael McCaskey's real passion was landscape photography or something. George McCaskey wanted to work in television news. We're getting into the fourth generation of family ownership and I'm guessing most of these kids are also just stupid dilettantes who, too, will fail at their rich-kid pursuits and get warehoused in the Bears' ticket department and mailroom. 

None of these people have ever bothered to learn the business inside and out. The only one who did was George Halas Jr., who died under Carroll Rosenbloomian Mysterious Circumstances before he could inherit the team. That's why they have to keep hiring executive search firms to hire anyone, or digging Bill Polian out of mothballs to be like "yeah sure some guy from the Colts is fine." They're also remarkably out of step with Chicago politics--Reinsdorf is notoriously connected while these dopes got ambushed by the Cook County tax assessor.

On 9/28/2023 at 2:54 PM, Cujo said:

"NSFL" makes it sounds like it's an entirely new spring league, ala UFL & AAF. Unidentifiable basically.

It makes it sound like 1guy1jar

Right, which is why the old name won't come back. The media class simply won't use it. The CBC won't even say "Blackhawks." (But as we found out this week, the CBC will say other interesting things.) Still, I never thought the issue was anything a giant sum of money wouldn't fix. And I think that in ordinary times, it probably would have.

I'm guessing they'll go with one of the Red_____ names bandied about and a return to a familiar burgundy-and-gold setup.

Crazy to think that this hideous uniform is directly downstream of the death of George Floyd and millions of infectious disease deaths. They made this possible. Couldn't have done it without you guys.

The Bruins here look more like what I thought the Penguins should look like (black and white with some yellow as opposed to Boston's black and yellow with some white). The yellow yokes and socks do indeed matter a lot.

Neither/nor, it's time to forget about jade and eggplant, forget about black and beige, and go with the dark green and orange that they should have gone with in 2006. I normally don't advocate for team color changes but this Ducks situation is really bad!

White socks would work perfectly fine for the Colts if they had two blue stripes. They should also go back to plain black cleats.

Are there any talents you could lend to such a project? Copywriting, research, anything like that besides design/dev? Or are you just saying "somebody ought to do something about all the problems"?