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An incoherent mess that clearly doesn't belong together? Shortsightedly going after things that were popular a decade ago? Going with a company that's ill-suited for the job at hand to probably save a buck? Yep, that sounds like Dan Snyder's tenure alright.

I don't know about that. Winning a playoff game was a relief, but getting to the Super Bowl is the reset. The Browns won a playoff game last year, but I'm pretty sure they're still a long-suffering fanbase. Sidenote: Toledo has basically been the nexus of long-suffering NFL teams and fanbases. Lions to the north, Browns to the east, and Bengals to the south. It's no wonder I went elsewhere for a team. Unfortunately, I still managed to find one of the dumbest franchises to root for.

So Washington goes from a manchild who treated them as his own personal fantasy team, to a lady who treats the team as her own boutique fashion line. Jeebus forking christ.

Hilarious.

So I decided to order a shirt. Fk Dan Snyder. I'd rather my money go towards Joe Burrow's real diamonds.

Even the merchandise is inconsistent. They can't even put the damn helmet logo on a hat without screwing up.

The black sleeve stripes are memorial bands, representing the death of my fandom.

Dang. Well then count me in for buying the Broncos. First order of business is bringing back the Orange Crush uniforms full time.

They went through the charade of asking fans what they wanted when they clearly didn't care. Nobody asked for Commanders. People were asking for variations of Wolves, Hogs, or Redtails. Not being able to use Wolves for legal reasons is perfectly understandable, but why the hell didn't they go with Warthogs or Redtails? Instead they go and fellate the military with a clunky name and ugly, incohesive uniforms that nobody wanted.

Does that mean your Packers stock is up for sale?

I'll withhold my full disgust for the actual reveal. The shirt was a nice distraction from the hideous reality.

I'm guessing this is the photo they used:

Library of Congress

Goddammit.

It looks like snakeskin. That jersey is suspicious. Why does it have a chest patch scribbled out when we know the home has a wordmark under the collar? Why does it say 2021 on the tag? Why are the perforations on the numbers not diamonds? If the numbers are stenciled, why is the 7 not stenciled on the preview we saw? Either that jersey is fake, or they have 3 completely different jersey styles. Unfortunately, this franchise is stupid enough to do that.

We need a dislike button.

The Bengals letters are noticeably shorter than the NFL shield, while the Commanders wordmark is at least as tall as the shield, mostly thanks to those lines. The condensed nature of the letters makes it appear larger as well, even if the letters themselves aren't that much taller than the Bengals. Hopefully it'll look better when we see the whole thing.

That wordmark looks too big. Not quite collegiate size, but that weird in-between size like the Jets went with. The rest of the home uniform seems nice from what we've seen, but Nike always has to throw in at least one stupid design choice, marring an otherwise good uniform. The Bucs seem to have avoided that, but they clearly told Nike to just go back and not touch a damn thing.

They had three stripes when they introduced their unique blue-grey/blue-silver, and they wore them from 64-66. The star logo didn't have a blue outline yet either.

I've always really liked this look too. I think it works better than the Titans for a few reasons: - The grays aren't competing for attention with another light color like Columbia blue. - It uses the sword bevel within a traditional stripe framework. It's creative without being wacky. The gladius/xiphos shape with beveling just makes it too cartoony for me. Maybe a straighter blade shape would look better, but I'm not sure. On the other end of things, Rutgers has had some nice attempts at using a sword shape without actually being a sword: I prefer when teams take inspiration from an object, but don't cross into straight up imitating it.

That's definitely better than what they have, since it's actually cohesive and has better color balance. I still don't like using the two-tone "realistic" sword though. It's just too busy. Make the sword shapes solid Navy or Columbia, then you're on to something. You get the idea of the sword without being cartoonish and gaudy.

Why The Titans Uniforms Are A Dumpster Fire [Abridged] - Their shoulders are giant swords. - The alternate logo that the shoulder swords are based on is no longer anywhere to be found on the uniforms. - The swords add two shades of gray to an already crowded color palette on the jersey. - There's more gray on the primary jerseys than Columbia blue. - The Columbia blue pit stains look like an afterthought. - The numbers are the bastard lovechild of the Bucs' alarm clock numbers and West Virginia's pickaxe numbers. - The already overly-outlined logo was made worse by putting it on a blue helmet, requiring yet another outline. - The only use of red on the jersey is to highlight the NIKE logo. - Their. - Shoulders. - Are. - Giant. - Swords.