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I came up with a new laziness fear. The Eagles script without the shadow and outline. 

Design in general seems to trend towards less. It seems like all the newer team name scripts are one solid color with no outline. I don't care for it myself. Outlines give it a little extra pop. I believe the last outlined team script was for Super Bowl XLVII. 

Maybe the Broncos template is the official "first draft" template of the NFL. If you remember back to Super Bowl 50, you'll get the joke!

I thought you'd like this little tidbit Pitt.... 

https://twitter.com/jimsteeg/status/952663220329861121

I could see the lettering for the Vikings being yellow also. It's that way on their jersey. 

34 minutes ago, rjrrzube said:

Can we see the four possible end zones? 

Go back about 2 pages. 

I found the answer. It was called Grassmaster. Heinz Field did use it for one season. The problem was they still had to grow the grass, it couldn't be resodded because of the way the grass was intertwined with the artificial turf. So they switched back to grass. 

Green Bay still uses that system, but they only play a minimum of 10 games on it, and they can drag lights out on the field to grow the grass. Where Heinz Field gets more use because of the Steelers and University of Pittsburgh. 

6 hours ago, pitt6pack said:

 

Pitt, do you know if they still use that hybrid of real grass with the sewn in artificial turf? I think Green Bay does. The field looks in great shape. 

22 minutes ago, pitt6pack said:

 

but let's hope the NFL doesn't go all college football championship on us.

 

That's my worry if the Vikings make the Super Bowl. I could totally see them taking the lazy route and leaving one Vikings end zone and only putting in the wordmark for the AFC champion. 

Didn't you post a black Steelers end zone concept once? Maybe the alternate Super Bowl thread? The way the current template is, with the logo and the offset script, a black end zone with yellow lettering might work. Or even white lettering? 

Yes. His attention to detail is amazing. Thanks Pitt! 

2 hours ago, pitt6pack said:

 

Some others as well...

 

 

 

 

In the past few years (Super Bowls XLVII, LI) the NFL has put in a completely new turf field, and since Minnesota has a sewn in field, I expect they would also just put in a completely new field, and add the watered down paint as they did for last years Super Bowl.

I'm not so sure on the sewn in field. They use that stadium for baseball believe it or not. 

Yes, seems to be a lack of pride lately. 

I believe the league wasn't happy with the Jaguars altering their "brand." I was shocked to see the 49ers having fun. 

Here is what I am talking about. The border reaches the goal post on every other field except in Oakland. 
 

One thing I have noticed, and for a few years now, the end line border for the Raiders field appears to be less than the required six feet. I'll see if I can dig up a photo. 

A little different management....it may not have failed. In a way, it is still around today. 

I think the NFL threw a fit about it. Can't be altering the "brand" for a little fun. 

Slight possibility for a white outline around the Falcons script. But recent history would say no. 

4 minutes ago, Capt. America said:

If memory serves, the Steelers have done a gold background with black lettering over the last few super bowls, right?

 

Every one of them. 

Who knows. It seems like the last few years we've has little surprises we didn't see coming. Like no conference logos last year. No Elvis on the left side but under the Patriots script the year before. Broncos orange script before that. And even swerved us when we saw the pallet of gold paint for the 49ers and we got a red end zone.

Just saw that on Twitter. We've been getting surprises the last few years, good and bad. 

I think we could see an orange Broncos end zone. I think SBXLVIII was just an anomaly because of the cold weather, and maybe not being able to get into heavy detail.