The_Admiral

Fox was barely a network before the NFL. It was the old Metromedia stations agreeing on an expanded syndication package with a brand name. Amazing what football did for them and what losing football did to CBS.

EDIT: and another thing! How remarkable is it that the NFL on Fox theme has never changed in 30 years? The CBS and NBC themes have both been heavily rearranged (NBC twice since 2006 I think) but I don't think Fox has changed the main theme one note. Another mark for the Permanent '90s.

5 hours ago, sayahh said:

 

Tyler Herro: "Taylor Swift wrote a song about my Auntie Herro"

it's me

hi

i'm the wi[BEEEEEP], it's me

2 hours ago, BShaw20 said:

3 hours ago, chakfu said:

Whatever happened to the salt palace?

I thought they used that for the 2002 Olympics.

That was the E Center, where the hockey team plays. The Salt Palace was redeveloped into a convention center.

2 hours ago, Germanshepherd said:

As a fan, Heat Culture looks dope on a jersey, but I don’t want to see that in a game for one simple reason. 
 

It would look very stupid if you wore a jersey advertising your team’s culture and lost. 

Tyler Herro: "mah culture is errrting ta me" 

4 hours ago, MNtwins3 said:

It's actually kind of pathetic that Kansas State nails the Cowboys look better than the actual Cowboys

Don't forget your power towel.

Bring it to every game.

9 hours ago, pepis21 said:

Last but not least I bring quote from Pop:

"It doesn't make sense for an NBA team to call themselves world champions. I don't remember anybody playing anybody outside our borders to get that tag."

Greg Popovich? being sanctimonious? It's more likely than you think.

I yelled at my dad for drinking and driving when I was 5. It was a Diet 7-Up.

My suggestion was five bye weeks from Weeks 7-11, with 6-6-8-6-6 teams taking those byes, so no team had to play more than 10 games in a row (I was working on the superior 16-game framework). Thursday games can only come after your bye, with Thursday games ending with Thanksgiving in Week 12 and the package moving to Saturday night after that. This way, a team's games are never fewer than six days apart (there'd be no Monday to Saturday). 

That would preserve some partial Thursday/Saturday package to ramp up excitement over the season but aid in player safety by eliminating Sunday-Thursday turnarounds.

30 minutes ago, pepis21 said:

USA ain't world.  Term "World Champions" came when NBA had basically only Americans players because many best non-US players either lived in an Iron Curtain countries or didn't want lose their eligibile to playing for their respective NT's (like Oscar Schmidt).

In Soviet Russia, guard shoots YOU!

8 minutes ago, SCL said:

Terrible idea and I like the bear head...

Wait until you hear about the terrible idea to put a domed stadium off a two-lane arterial.

I believe I laid out some scheduling ideas in the Pointless Realignment Outpost, mostly centered around consolidating bye weeks and limiting Thursday games to those who come off them, but I could get on board with the first week being fully interconference as a counterpart to the last being fully divisional. Kind of a baby dumbed-down college thing. I understand the impulse to open the season with a big game like Bears-Packers or Cowboys-Giants, but Week 1 is gonna be big no matter what, so keep the powder dry on those for the heart of the season. Besides, what fun is Bears-Packers on an 80-degree day?

Wow, the players get to keep the company-issued article of clothing they bled and sweated in? Wow, cool! Maybe they'll get a pizza party, too!

I have a memory of the media jerking off the Spurs in 2005 for putting "NBA Champions" on their banner instead of "World Champions" in deference to the game's international growth and their international roster, but image search was showing all of their banners reading "NBA Champions." But then I added "2003" and a-ha, they did go back and change them all later:

I guess we can get a list of all the teams (it's the NBA, so it won't take too long), but

* the Lakers and Celtics still use "World Champions,"

* the Bulls split the difference with "NBA World Champions" both on the original Stadium banners and the remade/96-97-98 ones at the United Center

* the Pistons were World Champions at the Palace but NBA World Champions on the new banners downtown

* the Spurs use "NBA Champions." Now, at least

* the Warriors used to use "NBA World Champions" for the old ones but have just been "NBA Champions" for the new ones

* the nouveau-riche Heat use neither qualifier and just have "champions!" with the Heat ball for an o

* Mavs and Cavs are NBA Champions

* Bucks and Raptors are World Champions, so much for deference to their international rosters

* the Sacramento Kings' banner reads "ROCHESTER [NBA logo] WORLD CHAMPIONS 1951," so how you score that one is up to you, I suppose

* I guess we haven't seen which way the Nuggets will go yet

So it looks like the standard/custom I thought had been instituted was not, as evidenced by three of the last four. I don't think there's any reason to stray from "World Champions" on these with the knowledge that this was the best assemblage of talent anywhere that year. 

12 hours ago, TheRealPepman said:

Do you think some NBA Champions should change the "World Champions" text on their banners in favor of just "Champions" or "NBA Champions"?

Absolutely not, but hang tight for the "2026 NBA Champions Presented by Verizon" banner-raising.

11 minutes ago, spartacat_12 said:

I really like the incorporation of simplified logo elements into the stripe (Edmonton's oil drop, Carolina's warning flag design, Winnipeg's jet silhouette), but can't stand teams that force their entire logo into the stripe (Anaheim, Detroit, Nashville, Calgary). 

Totally agree. There's just not enough resolution there to do stuff that's that detailed. For example, a perfect idea for the St. Louis  Blues would be five thin red lines, i.e., a music staff. A bad idea would be couple dozen tiny repeated Blues logos embedded in the red line. Penguins, good idea, triangles. Bad idea, the actual Penguins logo. Senators, laurel leaves, Perds, guitar picks, Stars, stars, you get the idea.

4 hours ago, Kramerica Industries said:

Posting this here because it feels more appropriate here than the broadcast graphics thread...Fox having the Bear head logo instead of the C in their scoring graphic just looks weird.

It looks weird and bad, but C stands for Chicago, and Chicago makes Bears fans hide under the bed.

On 9/1/2023 at 9:56 AM, MJWalker45 said:

 

Maybe years of BBTV have gotten to me but I don't even buy Andy Reid as a coaching mastermind on par with Belichick, which makes it even stranger that opposing teams repeatedly outwit themselves against the Chiefs. Both teams have been, of course, beneficiaries of generous offensive pass interference calls, but then that's probably everyone if you went and tallied it all up. It just seems like Brady and Mahomes get deus-ex-machinaed out of every jam.

Yeah, the vibes are shifting. They're even floating bringing the Skins back!

Darker and muted colors signified refinement/sophistication during one of the most upwardly mobile periods of American history

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Another will be traditional but modernized. One will get wild with the bull theme. 

hell to the yes, I'm gonna will Horn Devices into being

The time to design a uniform that celebrated elements of their stadium was when the stadium was new. Now, it's not even the only southwestern stadium with roll-out grass. However, I don't think sports uniform design was that foofy and CCSLC-ified in 2006, and even it were, the eternal punchline Arizona Cardinals would have been too stupid, cheap, and lazy to do it then anyway. Now they're paying tribute to the glory of performated aluminum wall panels at a time when the stadium is much closer to the end of its life than it is to the beginning, which, as you sit and count on your fingers and toes, is a massive problem unto itself.

41 minutes ago, Ark said:

Those things were just design inspiration for a decent set. A lot of users here make uniform concepts with many different design inspirations. Why do people here have to be angry about everything?

I explained myself, didn't I?

The Glendale stadium is 18 years old. Why are they now designing uniforms around it when in two years, they'll start demanding that taxpayers replace it? What a stupid idea.

26 minutes ago, Morgan33 said:

Since the Red Wings can be Red & White while the Devils are Red, White and Black...  Why can't Minnesota be Green, Yellow and White while Dallas is Green, Yellow, White and Black? 

Because teams will use black for their merchandise even if it's not a team color. I believe the Wings have done just that.

Of Minnesota and Dallas, one would have to use light green and the other dark green.