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The CFL doesn't sell jerseys with ads on them outside of the game-worns and the NBA only has ads on the ones in the team stores in the arenas IIRC (and I guess gameworns too if they sell those). The extreme vast majority of the jerseys bought and sold in either league don't have ads on them (I also believe that is the case for minor league hockey too). I think it's kind of like what Chromatic was getting at where the ads are a part of soccer jerseys and soccer aesthetics whereas the ads on CFL and NBA jerseys are just patches added on after the fact. If (when?) NHL jerseys get ads, I would be surprised if the retail versions would have ads. *fart noise*

Yeah, I think it's part of that line of merchandise they started last year where they brought back the old kids club logo. I'm pretty sure I've seen it other places before too. It might be some sort of retro alternate logo.

Does the CFL still have the one helmet rule on the books? Because "possibly..." can be taken different ways, especially when we know there is that helmet with the 75th logo from that old Instagram clip of Bo.

Probably just wear the normal away jerseys. In the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty One, how have teams not gotten around to including full-body pictures on the players with equipment as part of their initial release dump. The website has a picture of Mitchell in the jersey, but it's only from the shoulders up. Here's a picture from the Team Store account with retail jerseys though. FWIW, I like them. I don't have a Stamps jersey and I might buy one of these.

The release says they'll be worn for six out of seven home games, and I assume that one remaining home game will be the black jerseys on Labour Day, so the primary home jersey looks like it won't be worn this year (during the regular season at least). That's also a new set of pants because the Stamps don't currently have a white pair.

Ask I shall receive I guess. The thought was that were going to be a completely new home and road set, but it does look more like just a 75th anniversary throwback/fauxback.

I went back to find last year's thread when the Stampeders jersey teasers came out and @Wackyriderfan14 posted this quote from Ambrosie With the pandemic, and the resulting financial straits, they may have decided to push that endeavor back or squashed it for now. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if anything happens.

I noticed with today's schedule announcement graphic that the Stamps have made a slight change to the 75th anniversary logo, switching "1945 (horse) 2020" to "EST. (horse) 1945" at the top. Not to get to into the weeds of seasons vs years when it comes to anniversaries, because it confuses me, but the graphic says "Celebrating 75 Years of Stampeder Football" while the original 75th anniversary related releases from before the 2020 season was cancelled use "season(s)". I don't think using "75 Years" is technically correct, again confuses me, but they probably aren't super worried about the semantics of an anniversary. Plus a CFL season takes place within the same calendar year, so "season" equaled "year" up until this year. Trying to look up what the old releases used lead me to a 2021 schedule release video from November of 2020, which I forgot was a thing, using this new EST. 1945 anniversary logo so apparently the change happened back then. They're still using a Transactions graphic on Twitter with the old 1945-2020 logo, but I assume that's probably a pre-made template that nobody got around to changing. Still nothing on these. Maybe they decided against it, maybe they forgot, maybe they pushed it back, maybe it's Maybelline. Who knows.

Adrian Dater with a real humdinger of a question. He started the question and then it got away from him (or never had a destination in the first place) and dropped an f-bomb in the middle of it. He tries to defend himself/go after Pete in the replies.

I like 1 and 3 also, but 1 is really reminiscent of Biden's campaign logo.

I believe I've mentioned it on the boards once or twice before, but a real improvement the switch to EDGE brought was the tailoring of the jerseys. Pre-EDGE jerseys were so baggy. The arm stripe is almost in the gloves, the shoulder patch is on the upper arm, Skoula is almost drowning in the shoulders of his jersey.

Well I mean, come on. There's nothing to be read in social media profile pictures and social media graphics unless the teams want us to. Your profile pic here, which I assume is the default picture for people without a picture uploaded, is a black and white version of the CCSLC logo. Does that mean the CCSLC is going to be changing colours?

You know what, you cracked the case. The Stars are going to be dropping green, a colour they have worn for their entire existence even going back to Minnesota, and changing to black and white next season because they are using a black and white logo for social media profile pics. They are going to introduce it through profile pictures by using a black and white logo, which most likely is an already existing logo in their style guide, and slowly but surely work up to a full rebrand for next season. The Coyotes Panthers and Leafs are also going to switch to rainbow colours too, based on their profile pictures, so be prepared for that also.

Keep in mind that the XFL already started talks about some sort of partnership/collaboration with the CFL. The CFL is the premier non-NFL football (professional) league and the XFL 2.0 seemed to at least be doing some things right until the pandemic and then another group with some big names swooped in to buy it. I think whatever comes out of the CFL-XFL thing, even if it's nothing, would have ramifications on non-NFL professional football in the States.

Yeah, the Stars are just getting around to the trend of posting an old logo on Twitter and asking people what players it reminds them of. It's nothing more than that.

It hasn't been fully ditched, but has moved back to an alternate logo. The mothership has the switch happening in 2019, which was when New Era took over.

What exactly would you want because those are all classic logos. The Stamps, for example, the white horse is the symbol of the Stampeders and I don't know what you could change. They added a circle behind the logo for a couple years, but then switched back to just the horse.

One of my favourite sports facts/trivia questions. During the 1984 NHL Entry Draft, the LA Kings selected two future Hall of Famers. They took Luc Robitaille in the ninth round and the other was their fourth round pick. Who was that player? To add on, including those two Kings picks, there were five future Hall of Famers selected in the 1984 draft. The other three being Mario Lemieux, Brett Hull and Patrick Roy.

The NAHL announced today that the Kansas City Scouts have been sold and are being relocated to Amarillo before they've even played a game. Lamar Hunt Jr.'s company bought the Topeka franchise in April of 2018 Announced in February of 2020 that the team would move to Kansas City (or Shawnee, KS to be specific) for the 20-21 season Went dormant for the 20-21 season because of COVID with plans to return for the 21-22 season Announced in March of 2021 that they were going to be dormant for the 21-22 season as well NAHL announced today that the team is being sold to an Amarillo group and will relocate there for (and appear to be planning to play in) the 21-22 season Kind of a weird story. --- I don't have an Athletic subscription, so I'm just going off the tweets from Athletic writers and the article preview, but it appears the AHL Pacific Division players aren't happy that they are having to play the "playoffs".

It was a joke. Like now you can see who's been the most active in a given thread so you can see when people have either a) an interest in the topic of a given thread, b) have strong opinions on the topic or, c) have a "reason" they're so active in the threads. Then you might be able jump to some conclusions based off that info like any good internet armchair detective/psychologist does. Like you, for example, with your history of spats with the mods are #1 in both this thread and in the Ask A Mod thread. It tracks. I'm #4 in the Theme Parks thread, that also tracks. There's nothing super scandalous on the boards, so nobody's wondering why someone would have a far and away #1 spot in something like a "What Rash is This?" thread, but if a thread ever gets contentious or is "controversial" you can see who's really involved.

That "Thread Info Bar" (for lack of a better name) on the side is an interesting thing. I think it might tell on some people, see BBTV being number one in this thread, but it's kind of neat, if not useless, to see the popular days and posts.

There are people here worried about little things like pOpUlAtIoN and fIlLiNg 81 NiGhTs A yEaR in the these other places, but Medicine Hat is rocking a population of 63,260, so put that one into the pro column. The stadium is also already called Athletic Park, so that's another point for Med Hat.

Well the Regina Red Sox summer collegiate team have recently submitted plans to the City of Regina for a new stadium and the City of Medicine Hat started three million dollars worth of renovations to the baseball stadium there a couple days ago. The Medicine Hat A's were Oakland's Rookie League team for the 1977 season (before they switched affiliation to the Jays the year after) so there is a history there... I think either of those would be pretty surprising and unexpected.

I think it was as simple as "Tigers" like the animal and then "Sound" was added, because Bridgeport is on Long Island Sound, as descriptor of what kind of tiger it is. Like "Oil Kings" or "Wheat Kings" (or "River Kings" or "LumberKings" or "Red Raiders" or "Sun Devils" or "Blue Devils" or "Blue Jackets" or "Swamp Dragons" and so on), Edmonton and Brandon are both the Kings, when you break it down, but their domains are different. Edmonton are the Kings of Oil, Brandon are the Kings of Wheat and Bridgeport were the Tigers of (from?) the Sound. Though, for the little I ever thought about the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in the past, I never used to be entirely sure if it was the Bridgeport Sound Tigers or if it was the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, especially since there's the Owen Sound Attack in the OHL.

What? No. They probably just used the same star for consistencies sake. --- I will still die on the hill that the Kraken jersey looks like a Ducks jersey. The striping is pretty much the same.