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Four years and eleven months from now, Gary Bettman announces a five year extension for the Coyotes to get an arena deal done, saying 'he believes in the Phoenix market' and 'this time, they're really close to an arena deal.'

Nine years and eleven months from now...

They're just waiting for Friday to fire everybody.

1 hour ago, Klondyke said:

The way it was phrased, was more to do with a legal situation. They don't the current Yotes owner to have reason to sue them. If he gets to keep the rights to the name/IP of the Coyotes/Jets history, and gets first rights at a new team (which is speculated to have a 5 year window), he would have less reason to sue the NHL.

This way the owner can sell Coyotes retro t-shirts ala the Seattle Metropolitans guy, and probably make as much, if not more money, than running the Coyotes.

I wonder how much of a holdup the Arizona law allowing sports team owners to own and run a casino is playing into this. Like it or not, the NHL will probably call the Coyotes a 'deactivated' team while still technically allowing the owner to 'own' the team and still run the casino until he can pay the legislature off enough to change the laws and grandfather him in to run the casino.

The ultimate move is the Coyotes winning the bid, building an arena, luxury condos, hotel and casino and everything else owners want these days, but then being unable to connect any utilities or water to the property, thus ensuring another 15-20 years in the desert awaiting the results of years of lawsuits while the stadium remains unused and the Coyotes play in front of 3,700 fans.

Bettman dreams about this at night.

Are we sure the new Phillies jersey wasn't made by AI?

1 hour ago, Red Comet said:

The Chiefs could leave Kansas City…..Missouri. They’d go to KCK over by the Speedway at worst. As far as the Royals? Maybe they do go to Nashville? Maybe these teams actually try to come up with a competent plan that doesn’t rely on recent championships or radically change the second any resistance is encountered? Or hell, maybe don’t hire people from failed Presidential campaigns to run a campaign. Crazy idea, I know. Nah, it was the  KC Tenants who hacked this totally winnable election, not big money thinking that they didn’t have to compete and that winning was their birthright. 

Right? Imagine the campaign the Royals ran and then having to blame KC Tenants for the loss? How pathetic would you have to be to do that. A poor plan is a poor plan, its just more egregious when it costs 2 billion dollars.

The vote failed 58-42, the location of the Royals proposed stadium was a disaster, tearing down blocks of existing businesses in a vibrant neighborhood that has taken 20 years to develop to this point. while a slew of empty parking lots with ample room by City Hall are vacant 6 blocks to the north.

The Chiefs proposed some milquetoast 'improvements' to Arrowhead that included better club levels and a few covered pathways in the cavernous parking lot.

The Chiefs arent leaving metro KC. If wonderrichboy Clark Hunt has the will to ask another county or state for money, that's possible, but there is no location anywhere in the US that would be more valuable to the Chiefs than KC.

The Royals are a bit more desperate. They put the Chiefs logo front and center on every press release throughout the entire process. They blamed bad batches of concrete that gave The K 'concrete cancer' (arrowhead, built in the same lot, at the same time, does not have 'concrete cancer', so apparently the Lord was watching over the Chiefs during that process.)

The Royals owner has been aching to build a downtown stadium since he bought the team, going so far as have the large construction company in town be a minority owner. The K is great, not in need of being replaced, but that boat has probably sailed.

Let Kansas pay for the stadiums. Sherman is from KC, so its not likely he'll move the team, but he could sell it to Nashville or some other similarly sized or less market, but really, he hasn't tried putting a winner together in four years.

The no vote, at the very least, forces the teams to regroup and come up with a better deal for KCMO for the 2 billion dollars they wanted for free.

Getting people accustomed to football jerseys without shoulder numbers just opens up space for jersey ads. I think I read Goodell was against jersey ads, but he's not going to be commissioner forever, and the NFL proves over and over it really is only about money. Remember a few years ago on the board when people here were sure MLB would be the last league to have ads because they were the most traditional and blah blah blah? 

Also, all the unique fonts team use now just reminds me of a school assignment when everybody has to 'design a font from scratch, but make it mean something' project. It's cool because the Texans kinda have a bull logo, and now one of the parts of the 3 on the jersey looks like a horn from a bull, isn't that creative? And intimidating?

Did anybody else notice the pearl necklace in the original leak?

It's a real surprise Dick didn't choose 69 as his number .

Yeah, the official league site probably should get that right!

I check on with the NLL from time to time (former MILL NE Blazer fan back in worcester) and that website has been largely a mess for years, seems like the rebrand a few years back allowed for some major upgrades, but it still feels limited/unintuitive, but they don't have something that wildly wrong!

2 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

How long is an IFL field?

What does the drive chart show?

Ah, I glanced over that but it didn't register fully, i think there even was a reference to 3rd and goal? Are indoor fields 55 yards? 50?

Not great, but I wonder how much it'd cost to reconfigure an existing football app/scirebug/scorecard for that, or if any of the other leagues have/had it.

Really? That's crazy, I had no idea. What was wrong with the picture?

Green Bay uses Jets jerseys?

The gradient dyed/sublimated socks are going to be the equivilant of the vertical stripe edge socks.

Also, knees are not really a good place for logos. 

Even the Cleveland Browns realized the visible stitching was a garish idea years ago.

The bottom hem also will probably see a few teams drop their bottom stripe, the Flyers new jerseys did that this year.

The ribbed breezers don't really seem pleasurable or necessary except for fanatics own branding.

This thread is 16 years old and begins with a new Tampa proposal! In that time, seven teams have new ballparks, and Tampa's current stadium is now the 7th oldest in baseball.

How time flies when you're having fun! I refuse to check on Arizona Coyotes posts here.

The 'D' of San Diego actually stands for Due North. You can tell by its placement in the logo.

6 hours ago, TrueYankee26 said:

New jersey patch for KC 

 

Improve literacy rates via a sleeve patch? That's not even how you spell 'cutie'.
 

Also, the third proposed downtown location for the Royals is plopped down in an existing neighborhood of local businesses, which are now banding together to stop it. They better get part owner (1%) Patrick Mahomes II on the streets to get their sales tax extended.

Somewhere In Mississippi, Brett Farve is getting very excited and having a fever dream about talking Bettman into bringing a team to Hattiesburg.

3 hours ago, McCall said:

SLC is not getting the A's full-time and they know that. But they're also looking at making an impression for the future.  Memphis knew that with the Oilers/Titans in Nashville, they were never going to get an NFL team of they're own. Tennessee is just not a two-market state in any sport. But Salt Lake can get an MLB team even with the A's in Vegas (not saying they will, but it's a possibility that doesn't exist in the Memphis-NFL scenario), so yes, it is a very strong possibility that they have a big turnout for the A's, even if only for a temporary basis.

It worked for Oklahoma City and the Hornets.  The NBA had no problem allowing the Supersonics to relocate there after OKC drew nearly 16000 a game for two years.

42 minutes ago, DrunkKidCatholic said:

I've always thought the Jets should just steal the Colts template.  Simply switch out the blue for green.

 

 

 

 

 

Instead, they'll just steal the Cowboys' template, change the blue to green and call it a day.

What they should do: what admiral said, take the reduced 00s Namath jerseys and add the brighter green, hoping that the same bastardization of them doesn't occur with every biannual template change and always avoid heading to military style olive green, which is almost where that set ended up.

I don't mind the 80s look for nostalgia reasons, but everybody must admit it's a pretty basic jersey. The 80s helmet logo however, is light years better than the thing they wear now.

For anybody following the mess the Royals have created trying desperately to leave Kauffman Stadium, here's a pretty good rundown, and here's a story about Frank White's block to extend the sales tax.

I think we can stop with the sanctity of the Yankees uniforms. Classics yes, but there's an ad patch on them, so the hand wringing over an alternate jersey is closing the barn doors at this point. Plus, they've worn every mother's day, little league, camoflauge and other assorted merchandise MLB has offered over the years.

I'd like to recommend a documentary to everyone then I'll go..."

Valparaiso debated going with an angry anthropomorphic Ark of the Covenant shooting laser beams and destroying Nazis but then they ultimately chose a different studio besides Brandiose. The alt was a smirking squirrel with a bullwhip and fedora.