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1 hour ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Canada/Mexico stopped in the 85th minute because some of Mexico's worst fans can't control themselves.

 

Terrible.

And then Mexico scores in the 9th minute of stoppage time to win it. Horse poop.

34 minutes ago, johnrafael said:

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Someone has information on the Olympic TV Graphics font?

I would guess Frutiger, probably light or roman, and horizontally squished in some applications.

1 hour ago, TaylorMade said:

I'm hearing the Kraken's jerseys will be "officially" unveiled Wednesday at the expansion draft.

 

They'll go on sale September 15.

That's officially official now: https://www.nhl.com/kraken/news/kraken-jersey-to-go-on-sale-september-15/c-325690568

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It's been roughly a year since the Kraken name and brand was unveiled, providing a sneak peek at the jersey's colors, marks, fonts, stripes and overall design. Reviews were overwhelming thumbs-up and the question was asked: "When will the jerseys be available?" 

 

The short answer: About a year or so. The longer explanation: It requires 12 to 14 months for league jersey sponsor Adidas to fine-tune the design, be precise about the high-performance materials used to maximize player output and be sure the official jersey can be consistently produced to the utmost quality and authenticity standards.  

ALRIGHT that's enough talk about riots. I see how it got here, and I get that discussion veers off when there's not much to talk about, but drop the riot/politics talk because it's going to go down paths it has gone down before and don't end well.

If it's not about NFL uniform or logo changes for 2021, don't post it.

Yeah, I have to think it had to do with shorts. If Spain didn't have a good option aside from the navy shorts to go with the red jersey, they may have had to make the wholesale switch to white.

Looks like we're getting Sweden in yellow vs. Ukraine in blue. When the Euro 2020 Twitter account posts the lineups  about 40 minutes before kickoff, the formation graphic has been very reliable for showing which kits will be worn (the photo with the lineup in numerical order, not so much; scroll through to the right). I think the only time they got it wrong was when Denmark wore their all-red third kit, and the graphic showed their red home kits with white sleeves.

Their live blogs for each game (what the above tweet links to) also shows the team formations and subs in the kit colours.

1 hour ago, MJWalker45 said:

Unfortunately that means they'd be all white and Germany would be all black. 

You called it. 

Welp, this one didn't play out the same as Croatia-Spain ... it was even MORE dramatic. 

29 minutes ago, GriffinM6 said:

This Italy vs. Austria match is absolutely beautiful. Amazing contrast and good on both team for wearing their primary looks. 

Yeah, I was worried we might see one or both of the ugly Puma kits in this matchup.

Poland, Spain, Hungary and Germany all broke out their away kits for the first time in the last Euro 2020 group game today. I guess they gotta get them on TV at some point.

4 minutes ago, spartacat_12 said:

 

I was OK with this until "modernized look." That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Found this on Reddit today and immediately thought of this thread:

Here's a pic of Mitchell where you can see the pants.

It looks like he's wearing red socks in the video @monkeypower posted. And there may be a new helmet on the way if the Stamps' social media team is to be believed:

New Stampeders "threads" (as they put it in a comment on their Instagram post) coming Friday:

Lots of black vs white so far today. England in their home jersey vs Croatia in their aways, and both Austria (black) and North Macedonia (white) in their away kits. 

I've never known for sure but always assumed teams -- national or club -- must have clauses in contracts with manufacturers stating they have to wear their away and/or third kits so many times in a season/tournament. That is the only reason I can think of for some of the nonsensical kit matchups we sometimes see, like AUT-MKD today.

I've also started a Euro 2020 kit tracker on the mothership, in case anyone might find that sort of thing useful: https://news.sportslogos.net/2021/06/11/euro-2020-kit-tracker/soccer/

Notably there have been three red vs. white matchups out of the first four matches. It could have been 4-for-4 if Finland wore their white kits against Denmark today.

9 minutes ago, 90reds said:

 Euros starting strong with both teams in their away kits for some reason. Italy has one of the most beautiful primary kits in the tournament so I'm excited for them to wear these hideous Puma shirts for every match 

Turkey's red jersey is their home jersey. The white one was listed as home in the UEFA store, but their team page confirms it's the red one. (Scroll the way to the bottom.)

For folks wondering if there was a way to find out in advance of kickoff which kits teams would be wearing, the Euro 2020 Twitter account posted this earlier today for the TUR-ITA game. It could be an indicator, but we will have to wait and see.

In case anyone wants to see all the Euro 2020 kits in one place, here's something I put together for the mothership: https://news.sportslogos.net/2021/06/09/heres-what-every-team-will-be-wearing-during-euro-2020/soccer/

1 hour ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

I just learned that if you scroll all the way to the bottom on desktop where it says "Theme," you can select "Default." It's the same basic look and feel, but ULTRA WIDE.

Though I wouldn't suggest using that theme if you're not on the ad-free version. The theme was already tweaked to be narrower so ads along the sides didn't run over board content.

18 hours ago, Digby said:

Is my phone calibration off or is North Macedonia using a maroon or burgundy color as their primary shirt? Nice and distinctive if so.

Looks like to me as well. Both the red on the primary jersey and the gold trim on the secondary (white) jersey look darker than what they wore in qualifying.

2 hours ago, McCall said:

Ok. I've never used Patreon before and just signed up and paid. Now...

 

How exactly do I access the ad-free version site?

As Chris mentioned in the initial post: 

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Implementing your ad-free experience is being done manually, one user at a time, by me and me alone, so there will be a delay between the time you signed up and when your ads are removed - my goal is to keep this delay to just a few minutes but if you sign up while I'm sleeping or driving or taking my kids to school you may have to wait a wee bit longer.

He'll switch you over to the ad-free version as soon as he can.

Also, new kits for North Macedonia in time for Euro 2020: https://todosobrecamisetas.com/2021/05/north-macedonia-2021-jako-kits/

Italy wearing their new away kits with text across the chest v San Marino today:

It's not terrible in action, but I think other countries (and maybe clubs rumored to be using this template) were going to have bigger text.