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I had no idea complaining about third party corporate greed was sports aesthetics. Two different buckets in my view. Oh well I’m definitely looking forward to the same bored people having the same complaints about corporations and billionaires while avoiding discussions about actual jersey aesthetics over and over again. I didn’t know this was a group therapy board.

Counterproposal: The design of ads are fair game, the changing of the sponsors are fair game…the endless bashing of the entities seems out of scope in terms of “uniform aesthetics” (especially when it’s just echo chamber discussion for the most part as we all would rather not have ads) and better suited for a another thread or category on the board. The sponsor logo, and the people on the BoG and in the C-Suite, are two different things. Examples: “That Rakuten logo on the Warriors jerseys is too big and looks awful, just like all the other ads this year” - perfect for Logos/Uniforms ”Rakuten is just another greedy business and billionaires are terrible and ruining the game and my life for introducing even more ads in the game.” - perfect for Sports in General/The Lounge

nm Ridley covered it. I had no idea though that “I just want to talk uniform aesthetics” was code for “I want to bash corporations at every turn and pretend like I want to boycott the league”. My bad guys.

taken from https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/37781820/big-12-talks-expansion-source-says-commish-touts-plan

For a few people that’s true. Just hope you’re not one of them. There’s literally nothing dumber than “What if we just had a bunch of people not watch hockey so we get what we want”. It’s pure delusion/alternate reality stuff. . The ads are here to stay. I don’t like it. But nobody outside of some niche group - insert “there are dozens of us!!! Dozens!!!” meme - is going to boycott playoff hockey because of the ads. The constant circling back to “duhhhh ads are bad, I hate ads, we should boycott seriously but not really, and also, I hate ads” that occurs every six weeks or so is so tired. If you all want to beat dead horses so bad, set up a “Dead (Or Partially Alive) Horses We Love To Beat” thread. Constant groaning about ads - when this board clearly has no influence as to what leagues are doing - just sucks the fun and utility out of these yearly changes threads. #reality

Lol “Hello, Commissioner? It looks like ratings are down 9 viewers and amazingly we think they’re all from a sports logos message board….should we change our strategy?? …maybe we can set up a 2-3 hour in-person meeting on Monday with them to discuss…….sorry, do they have what, Sir? … Oh yes, they do have a Change.org petition…yes…um it has 43 signatures right now…right…no, not thousand, just 43 total…correct…Um I found two or three tweets about it with a few RTs…ok talk soon” The best strategy would probably be to set up a table outside a grocery store or in an airport and tell people not to watch hockey because of the jersey ads. I’m sure the results would be overwhelmingly positive /sarcasm

Maybe, but I don’t think putting a white outline around the logo to break up the intersection would have violated any style guide parameter.

These look very similar to the 2014 draft hats:

A lot of speculation about the Jets changing sweaters, but this hat seems unfazed: Weird that Fanatics didn't want to include one blue stripe (or possible two stripes) for the Leafs:

Fourth or fifth consecutive year where jersey stripes are a prominent feature…time to think of another idea.

Who are you quoting?

It’s one of my favorites lol. I liked the black-purple-black look with the serifed numbers. The white stripe was weird.

Devils posted this on IG, apparently the center ice logo isn’t painted onto the floor, it’s more of a vinyl wrap maybe? edit: Maybe that wrap being washed has nothing to do with center ice (the “outer” circle in the video is black, but the center ice circle is blue for games). Always thought crews painted everything. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsrBgDoPWab/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

I don’t need every team wearing icy whites thanks to fan votes.

Baltimore’s CC is BFBS? lol nah that’s not what BFBS means

IIRC, this was one of the first unveilings that really took advantage of the internet. Strong memories of looking at this “new” logo package and uniforms while using dialup AOL.

*cough*Broncos and Seahawks too*cough*

The Falcon desperately need gray/silver pants.

Would a navy helmet stripe with a red mask work? Would be a subtle nod to the Oilers (white shell, red mask). The subtle longhorn piping in the jersey is pretty cool.

You wanted the pants to be the crazy artsy colorful pattern? White pants with a colorful stripe down the sides would have been just fine. ——————— Unpopular take probably - the orange New Era flag is a cool touch on the hat.

The blue BP jersey is what I meant

The background image is from 1996; if the was to use the serifed numbers, add them to the base too. They eliminated most of the serifs when they went to drop-shadowed numbers in 1997.

Yeah the Dodgers, Red Sox, and Giants were the weakest of the 2021 class IMO. Dodgers’ City gear may not be selling very well because it’s far too close to the regular set (well, the regular blue jersey)

It is the H-Town font they’ve using on sweatshirts and tees…

Red vs green has its limitations