Digby
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Even the Nets themselves came around — we’re now on year two of their heavily using the 90s New Jersey look, and that’s after they did more than any other rebranded, not-quite-moved team of trying to erase that era from memory.
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i don’t know if it’s “inspiration” exactly when it’s the same ownership trying to create the sibling links between the two teams, which the Kings/Lakers have had on two separate occasions. Kind of like the European tradition of multi-sport “clubs” that share a brand.
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Celtics had to invent a fauxback court because the real throwback court would just be plain green, parquet, no logos/branding opportunities.
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How did the USA manage to get away with this for a goalkeeper kit? (I realize the answer is probably "Concacaf is barely functional".) -
Reminder! Dwayne Wade has just a token piece of ownership; the team's money now comes from a millennial tech CEO who made a fortune convincing websites to pop up focus-group survey questions at you all the time. We must expect only the worst of branding choices as long as they're owned by the type of guy who wears flat-brim caps and mid-priced Nikes to CEO speaking engagements at boring conferences.
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Sloppy moments for the USMNT but it was a more solid game than it looks. I know it’s a tougher than usual cycle but the rotations need to chill. Adams is the game changer everyone wants Pulisic to be; stick with something like this XI and they’ll be fine.
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Beyond the WFT investigation launching a sideways missile at Gruden, we've also got Schefter formalizing his status as NFL PR guy. Lucky for him that ESPN has no interest in pretending, either. https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2021-10-12/nfl-jon-gruden-emails-washington-football-team
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Welp, not anymore! I know the depth on this USMNT is better than we're used to but it's not "pick a squad out of a hat and expect a road victory" deep.
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The obvious answer is that it was a huge mistake to colonize Florida from the jump.
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That new scorebug from Fox is atrocious. How are we backsliding to the aesthetic of the early/mid-00s? It was a nice, if brief reprieve for those few years where even the sports media discovered minimalism. Relatedly, if not about the graphic style per se, but watching the ESPN broadcast of the Wild Card game, I had to confirm that I actually wasn't watching the Statcast special. There is just too much information on the screen! I do not need to see the pitch sequence of the previous five pitches of the at-bat persist in the upper left corner. Just get out of the way.
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Springsteen's was the best of that Classic Rock era but it was a high-floor, low-ceiling time. I loved how that era's bands always wanted to play something from their new album of the late 2000s. Shut up and play the old stuff!
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Halftime show production switched from that Emmys guy to Roc Nation a couple years back so I think we're just kind of seeing the reflection of that. I was pretty surprised they got The Weeknd last year but that was the best one since Prince. Perfect choice for the pandemic bowl. I think it's cool to have some real L.A. curatorial spirit (and also Eminem, sure) for an L.A. Super Bowl, like a modern, hopefully less-corny update on the more locally derived themes of the pre-2000 shows. And combining Dre, Eminem and Kendrick covers your bases across like three generations in a way that makes a lot more sense than 15 seconds of Big Boi and Travis Scott between Maroon 5 songs. It's got potential!
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If you look at last year’s, they already did change the font from their usual one on the regular jerseys to Condensed Futura on the “banner” jersey. The new patch has the win-win of making the company name more prominent — does anyone really know the Vistaprint V Logo? — while matching the team better too. And I know for most companies, adherence to brand standards is key, but for a company like Vistaprint whose job is design, there’s probably actually more value in demonstrating an ability to be customizable.
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I'm fine with it that they didn't use those 2000s-tastic side panels. It is weird to elevate a one-off, forgettable City uniform to the level of your first two, classic, well-remembered uniforms (have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of that on these mashups). But in this case it does look better on its own merits and doesn't clash with the rest of the look; applying one uni's color scheme to another's design is a safe way to do this but here we see it gets results.
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I never understood why ESPN hired her, presumably at a hefty salary, just to like, give her a web series that didn't get promoted. Why does ESPN have cost problems? Seems like throwing money at every single thing but not being able to support every single thing is maybe unsustainable.
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Feels more "City" than "fauxback mashup" with those Spectrum side panels. I think the early leaks of the particularly wacky Phoenix and Miami jerseys threw us all off, and maybe this won't be as big a departure from the City program (which is already a pretty big departure) as maybe we all thought.
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Not sure whether the snake graphic or the crypto sponsor is the more corny element, but in both cases UEFA is saving a once proud club from themselves.
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In fairness this is nothing unique to Nike; every year Adidas will tout the local inspiration on any given new MLS shirt, assuming we haven't noticed it's an element recycled from the previous year's international jerseys.
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as if Jeff Tweedy hasn't worn the gear of every MLB team in the upper midwest.
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European soccer teams have always left gambling sponsors off of kids’ fan jerseys, and the NBA has barely sold any sponsor patched jerseys to the public at all, so there’s your precedent.
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Any photo of navy/bronze Edmonton has me convinced I've developed colorblindness or my monitor is broken or the photo was left in the sun for 4 years.
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Soccer stadiums in an urban setting?
Digby replied to CaliforniaGlowin's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
I actually like the old side of the Portland park too. Feels like Fenway Park, for better or worse (classic charm vs. obstructive poles and crush-load concourses). Kind of unique among American soccer stadiums that are all newer but kinda samey. -
The Coyotes did play there in the 90s, but that’s one of those basketball-first arenas a la Barclays where the hockey rink doesn’t quite fit and a lot of the seats can’t see the rink.
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Soccer stadiums in an urban setting?
Digby replied to CaliforniaGlowin's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
I hate the monstrosity of a new stand that Portland build on the northeast side. The way the stadium originally (at least as a full-time soccer stadium) opened up to the tree-lined sidewalk was so cool, with the trolleys passing by. I guess it's cool on its merits being so tall and steep, but knowing what it replaced is too bad, and what terrible timing to build that just before Covid. -
I'm most shocked at how quickly we moved past gambling sites being the seediest, but most prominent sports sponsors.
