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FWIW, Calgary Stampeders GM and head coach Dave Dickenson mentioned in an interview a couple days ago that he feels the shrinking of the UFL from 16 down to 8 has already been better for the CFL because the pool of players is bigger (a thought shared by the vast majority of CFL fans online I've seen).

The Blazers brand has always been so tied into the Oilers because they started as the Kamloops Junior Oilers in 1981 and then kept the colours through the name change after Pocklington sold them off in 1984. They went what I would call "throwback inspired" with their current primary set in 2015, which is essentially just the Oilers navy/copper/red set in navy/orange (and the same jersey template Red Deer has been wearing in black/maroon/silver since 1997), so it makes sense they would look to Edmonton for an alternate. Back to the point, Kamloops had those River City alts for last year at the very least as well.

UniWatch posits the Angels might be promoting the 70s throwbacks to a full time alternate because the throwback hat listing on the MLB shop says "on-field". New Era makes retail versions of whatever hat is worn on-field and these throwback Angels hats were up for sale whenever they have worn them before, but I don't recall what they (or other team's different hats) were designated as before. Is there any truth to that specific wording or designation of hats?

A Twitter thread continued in the quote underneath The part I don't think I agree with is the part about investors not going to invest based on the future value of the business. People do that all the time. Also, I don't know if the Forbes values are taken into consideration or how actual they are because IIRC, some of the sales related to this most recent Ottawa Senators purchase didn't match the Forbes value. But Fisher clearly has money issues right now.

I also do find it funny they specify in the graphic that it's the second blue jersey they've had when the first blue jersey was their primary jersey from the day they started in 2011 up until maybe two years ago.

I think the outline numbers were a bad choice for a jersey that already has other prominent colours. If it was just a blue and white jersey, fine, but not a jersey with other colours. It looks like someone forgot to use the paint can tool to fill the the numbers in with black. I do think the shoulder patch is great though, especially for a Royals team that has struggled with them.

It was more so the Penn Gambling Bowl, but Penn was using Barstool as essentially their marketing department while they owned Barstool. I don't think Barstool ever really wanted to do it all that much and definitely don't now. Portnoy has said previously they're getting out of live sports after today with the bowl sponsorship contract being done. Regardless of it not being their premier event, it's still pretty par for the course for large Barstool production though.

An update to this, the Cavalry game has been moved to Victoria because of the frost concerns with the grass field. McMahon Stadium in Calgary (home of the CFL's Stampeders) doesn't have CONCACAF approved turf and Commonwealth Stadium up in Edmonton is already booked, so Victoria was deemed the best option. I don't really follow the team but I have seen a little online that the fanbase is understandably not happy about it. I guess Cavalry never acknowledged any potential chance of the game being moved until the move was announced (then disabled replies on social media) and had been using the potential for priority pre-sale tickets to CONCACAF games as part of the season ticket renewal blast. As for Hamilton, their turf is FIFA approved and the climate is typically warmer than Calgary so I guess they don't have the same concerns. Sidenote probably more suited for the logos section: The name Cavalry FC bothers me. It's too close to Calgary to not be Calgary and it gets spelt wrong as the place where Jesus was crucified, like you in the post I quoted.

The Iowa Wild do (did? some photos have them wearing white helmets with these jerseys) have a wheat coloured helmet for their wheat jerseys. which is essentially cream. and it looks much different in different lighting. It just doesn't look good and that's with only CCM making all the helmets so at least the colour is consistent. Imagine how much variation we could see in the cream helmet colour across different brands.

With my recent-ish post about the Saddledome banners, I completely forgot about this one raised last year.

Switch out the Uncle Sam hat on the bat for a mortarboard, ala this logo,

You're just going to drop that in there partway through your manifesto? I also think swapping wives and subsequently families is something that is going to get some level of mocking and questioning. The two of them were also the ones that made it public in the first place.

Yes. What's Diamond Baseball Holdings' deal? I know they're a subsidy of a private equity firm but is there that much money in buying and then owning a bunch of minor league teams?

I do miss the Perds blue triangle. Why it was there in the first place, I don't know (potentially worried about a fairly white/light based logo on a white jersey?)

The Honda Center is 30 years old and the Samueli's are doing a $4 billion project to turn the area around the arena into one of those entertainment districts. The project isn't projected to be be done until 2029 plus they've put a bunch of money into the arena within the last decade or so, so the Honda Center is looking like an arena that'll be around a while as well. I also think the Samueli's and the Ducks org as a whole are seeing what's happening directly across the freeway with Arte and have decided to be better civic members of Anaheim.

I didn't follow the league as much back then so I don't know about that. However, I don't think there's any interest in Edmonton because the Oilers essentially ran the Rush out of town. So it would be ill-fated, I would think, to have an Edmonton team that wasn't owned by the Oilers and they haven't appeared to want a lacrosse team.

I think Arte might be on the horn with Greinke's agent right now. The Angels have let Trout kind of control his own destiny. He's never made much of issue and seemed to always value, for whatever reason, staying with the team. The Angels issues are top down and everybody knows it. There was this Athletic article from the end of September that is kind of the most recent comprehensive coverage of the entire situation. Arte runs cheap to make money and now his biggest cash cow is gone.

Maybe this will be the death blow to Arte's ego and chequebook? One can only hope. I'm just sad I never got to see him in person with the Angels.

Not for nothing (but it probably is), the Roughnecks have started using red as an accent colour on their website and social media graphics this season. Since the, sponsorship related, rebrand in 2021 they had been using the teal from the turf. I'm not expecting the red to come back officially any time soon but it's an improvement over using the teal, even just on principle.

It's not even that somebody saw a person and mistook them for Shohei. It was college football-esque tail number tracking because someone noticed a private jet chartered from Anaheim to Toronto along with all these "reports" saying Shohei signing with the Jays was a done deal, so it just had to be him. Then later, better, reports said Shohei was still at home outside Anaheim with no decision from him yet and then the plane landed with Mr. Dragon's Den, further confirming that Shohei wasn't signing with the Jays tonight.

I think the Marlins current colours are great, it's the application that stinks with only thin slivers of colour. Also, the stitching in the logo is dumb and the placement has made me think the marlin needs to visit a urologist.

I quite like the primary logo and the top left N, but there's too many logos here.

There's been discussion on the last two pages of this thread about the team. I thought the name was already dumb as a concept, see at the top of this page, but I didn't know the local angle of it and didn't really know the absolute lack of connection to the Golden Knights, which makes the name even dumber. Re the Reno and the lack of parking thing; I've never been to Lake Tahoe, nor know the surrounding areas, but it kind of reads to me like a situation I'm familiar with being from Calgary with the nearby Banff National Park (the arena mockups scream the architecture style of towns like Banff and Canmore). Touristy nature area with towns that don't have a lot of available real estate, including parking, and what real estate is there is legislated by the government? Is it a case where the team isn't able to easily house the players and build an arena.

Obvious bias, but IMO, the best Teddy Bear Toss jersey was worn yesterday. It's fun, but not garish as still looks like normal jersey and has become a defacto alternate jersey because it's been the same (minus minor template changes and a font update) since about 2010.

Is this serious? With the visuals and that music choice, it's like a video version of these posts, Inside you there are two wolves.