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projectjohn

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  1. Don't remind me, especially in light of the disaster the Pistons have been for the last 15 years..
  2. The Pistons are using horizonal NOB today for the 20th anniversary celebration of their 2004 championship, proving it is possible on the Nike template. I wish they'd go back to it full-time.
  3. Sounds like the Bally Sports branding is going away at the end of MLB season. Hopefully a new graphics package will be something more akin to what Fox had at the end of their ownership of the RSNs. https://awfulannouncing.com/bally/diamond-sports-group-branding-rsns.html
  4. Not bad - a lot better than the black and white NWA look we all thought they would be going with.
  5. Was the Lions current set unpopular? While not perfect, I thought it was a huge improvement over the two sets that came before it. The all-gray was the worst part, and then the blank white pants being introduced late in its life cycle also weren't great, but other than that it was their best look since the Barry Sanders era set. It was definitely good enough IMO that I'm dreading the new set, fearing that there's a reasonable chance it will be downgrade.
  6. In the NBA, Zach Lowe had an article a few years back about the Heat refusing Nike's City Edition concept, and instead designing the well-received Vice jerseys in-house.
  7. I don't subscribe to "The Athletic," although there are ways to get around the paywall that I presume are verboten to discuss.
  8. Nike has pushed chrome/gray pretty hard for Detroit teams the last 5 years or so.
  9. I'm afraid. Very afraid. But then again, if the focus grouping Uni-Watch posted about a few years ago was presumably getting feedback for potential City Connect jerseys, maybe I shouldn't be. https://uni-watch.com/2021/09/22/exclusive-tigers-focus-grouping-new-throwbacks/
  10. The Pistons have pivoted heavily into black and gray in recent years (thankfully gray seems to have mostly passed), and also seem to be actively minimizing red to the best of their ability - refusing to bring back their old red alternate as the Statement edition, and eliminating their classic court design which was red-heavy. I keep hoping sanity will prevail at some point, but the trend just keeps getting worse.
  11. If the Lions are going to insist on mono-color, at least the mono-blue is the least egregious (IMO.)
  12. I hope you're right - I'm pretty concerned given the team president gave a statement (paraphrasing) the new ones are quite a change, while referring to the 2017 set as a subtle change to the prior set, as well as how heavily the Lions have leaned into the monochrome look this season.
  13. Kinda wild we're getting to the point where teams using their traditional jerseys in the same game feels like a special occasion.
  14. That honestly might be the least egregious one.
  15. I always felt like Nike really nailed a lot of their designs in the late 90s and early 2000s, both across the NFL and the NBA, certainly compared to the messes they crank out for the most part these days. For the Broncos, it seems like there's two camps, those who feel like the look is a modern classic, and those who hate it and want to go back the 80s era look. I'm in the former, but I can understand the latter.
  16. These certainly look like they were designed by a 12 year old in MS paint.
  17. NBA design has been getting progressively worse for 10 years now, give or take, as they chase Gen Z's curious tastes and Adam Silver's European soccer leagues fetish, so I was prepared for something bad here, but goodness gracious. Something's going to have to reach a tipping point soon, I hope.
  18. Thank you for this. I would begrudgingly live with the City Edition if we weren't seeing experimental/off-brand stuff beginning to creep into the Statement Edition jerseys as well. As you said, I was under the impression the Statement Edition was more or less supposed to be the equivalent to the alternate jersey of yesteryear (pretty much just a recoloring of the Icon jersey, or at least something fairly on brand.) That is starting to no longer be the case. The Pistons' above is one of the most egregious offenders, using a non-team color and a non-team font.
  19. I guess I understand the Lakers' desire to move on from the Kobe era set, but I don't understand is how they arrived at what they ended up with. They could've just transitioned the Kobe era look onto a crew-neck style jersey, perhaps with drop shadows on the numbering, and it would've turned out much better, IMO.
  20. I believe this is the first time this season they're not in a mono-color look, so baby steps, I guess.
  21. I think the Pistons' one is supposed to honor the Bad Boys, considering the Chuck Daly signature on the jocktag. Overall I'd say it's not great, not terrible - better than the "Motor City" ones they spent years rolling out at least.
  22. I have to hope against hope that at some point sanity is going to prevail and the whole City Edition program will get mothballed. Only a handful have ever been worthwhile to begin with and now that those have been blown through, things are quickly going from bad to abysmal. But I guess somebody out there is buying this stuff, or else they wouldn't keep doing it.
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