Brave-Bird 08

Carp. you really think that concept is awful? I think it looks incredible. But yeah, I would re-iterate. Anybody can get behind a keyboard and get the internet riled up over stuff like this, and Reddit with its anonymity is probably the worst source you can use without corroboration. Same as the Broncos rumors, I think it's all people just looking for dopamine hits by breaking the internet knowing this is the time of year people are sitting around speculating about these things. I actually think it's extremely unlikely a paralegal, even without an NDA, would be willing to compromise their position by leaking something like that -- especially admitting they work with Nike. Seems really strange.

My biggest pet-peeve with the Buccaneers, since they are actually wearing red tonight, is that the orange stroke on the numerals is too similar to the red and makes it look like the numbers are just pewter-red-white instead. They should widen that stroke, change the shade of orange, or even drop the pirate ship logos from the sleeves and add a stripe sequence where the orange pops a bit. Just a shame that the color is part of the scheme, but really gets drowned out by all the pewter and red.

With all of the blue in the Rams uniform, the all-blue for Detroit is just unacceptable. Grey pants would make this game so much easier to look at. There really needs to be a branch of the NFL that governs uniform matchups from the top, down.

Houston's problem is the *way* it wears its uniforms, not the uniforms themselves. Unfortunately it's almost a guarantee that we will get monochrome dark, white and alternates with the redesign and they will be digging more into diluting their look than anything else. The color blocking -- sigh, that is barely a thing these days -- on the original uniform was so great.

It's unbelievable to me that this was an NFL uniform.

I just don't like Seattle's new color scheme and the way they are applying it. The hues in the green and blue are too similar, one needs to be lighter and one darker for better contrast. The lighter color in the key-line is confusing -- is it going to be used a lot? A little? In this case it's an entire base for a sweater, and it just clashes like crazy with the badge colors. Still snagging a cap with the whale logo on it though.

Commanders are definitely the worst offenders. At least with the Eagles, Texans, Vikings & Cowboys there's some white in the helmet.

What makes the Broncos white helmet good is the D logo -- it combines really well with the helmet stripe to provide perfect color balance. It's just a damn good helmet. The white horse is also insulated by the orange D. Trying to put the mostly-white demon horse logo on a white shell would make them look like a high school/college team doing some last-minute shell x decal mixing, which is the worst.

Netherlands, or FC Cincinnati?

Yeah. I understand why it was despised, objectively. But personally love it. Gives Columbus Crew vibes.

Every layer of that post re: Broncos is not credible. I wouldn't read into it at all.

Don't underestimate the sway of some marketing person either internally with Detroit or at Nike being like, "yo, that all-black slaps" and everyone being like yeah the Cardinals did it! The Falcons did it! We need to do it!

"Gentleman, bear witness. While I've been mourning the Falc-jackings that never were, one of them has been unfolding here before me. This is no 2023 NFL changes thread, this is a party."

1) "The Falcons have never had a great uniform" 2) "We're here because demographically we have to be" I'm sorry, but what?

This reads like I've been mistaken for a Saints fan. I'm... I am going to need the rest of the year to recover from this...

I don't mind that change for the Mets. I have always had appreciation that they iterate the cap logos to match the jerseys -- like the road caps from a few years ago that had the silver monogram outlined in orange to match the shirt -- but in both the silver and this case, the cap logo is a bit too busy. Doesn't need to be, and it's okay for cap logos to not entirely follow the style of a jersey script. This will probably help with cap sales too, which wouldn't surprise me if that is why they changed it.

I weep, because we had it SO RIGHT.

Not entirely against adidas bringing back these tapered, swooshy stripes. Will need to see it on a full kit. Feels so mid 2000s to me. Nike utilizing single side panels is not my favorite, especially if it continues down the shorts (Tottenham's third kit, for example)

The NBA is going to look better today than it has in years.

The Raiders regular road uniforms are perfect. I don't get the motivation to switch to something where the numbers are harder to see. Personally would love to see a glossy black helmet and 1960 throwback uniform. Would probably confuse the hell out of people though.

Only once. Cowboys-Dolphins just looks incredible. It's a shame professional football didn't take the same liking to traditional styles as MLB has. I enjoy a good modern uniform plenty, but if i am honest with myself none of them ever look as good as the classics. Just sitting here daydreaming about how a 1980s Falcons road uniform vs this Dolphins set in 4K ... sheesh

Can we give a shout out to the USF equipment team and their first-year HC for clearly bringing them back to Earth with their uniforms this season?

Resident Chattanooga soccer thought leader here: When Red Wolves came into the picture, they actually snatched up one of the key front office members from CFC and did their best to literally just absorb CFC's front office/operations people as whole. As well, they attempted to secure Finley Stadium for home games which threatened CFC's existence. As an NPSL club, CFC truly relies on playing at Finley as a reason for why the club has seen so much success -- match days in town are pretty great, surrounded by breweries and other things to do. It's a huge boon for them to be there. USL L1 ignorantly thought that just declaring a professional soccer club would mean the end of CFC. It totally backfired. They failed to absorb all of CFC's people, and the brash attempt at a takeover got folks so riled up that CFC used the tension in the room to spark a fundraising campaign so that they too could be a professional club if they found a fit (soon after joining NISA). CFC are essentially now the Green Bay Packers of soccer, and this campaign even cultivated a relationship from Bundesliga side Wolfsburg in Germany (both clubs have been sponsored by VW which has obviously a massive presence in Wolfsburg and, as well, in Chattanooga). Or in short, Red Wolves absolutely played themselves. Instead they had to settle for building a small but decent venue off of I-75 over in East Ridge. It's not a nice area, but it does have a considerable hispanic population that theoretically makes it a place to plop down a soccer team. But there's not really anything Chattanooga about it. Just about everyone I know says they would support CFC over the USL L1 team even if they dropped back into being a semi-pro team or even completely amateur (and that they hate the USL as a whole). The best thing that the Red Wolves franchise has going for it is actually its relationship with the town of Dalton, GA, which is a soccer hotbed and has become a foundation with their academy and USL L2 team, Dalton Red Wolves. They probably could have built the same stadium there and actually see the same numbers at the gates as they do being in East Ridge. But in terms of being a "Chattanooga" team, nobody in Chattanooga gives a s---- they exist. I type all of this to say, it might be best if the club completely rebrands...maybe adopt a generic name that doesn't declaratively say they're a Chattanooga team, but instead something more geographic to north Georgia/Tennessee line. There's already a similarly branded team in that league with South Georgia Tormenta, who most people simply refer to as Tormenta.

It's a child replica. That's why the logos look big.

I appreciate the Rams current uniforms. The helmet color/finish looks wonderful Yeah, the number application is different, but it's not bad. The numbers are legible, the swooshes in the trim are subtle but tasteful. Yesterday was a good example of how the blue pants should be worn ... it's a gradient doing what it's supposed to do and isn't distracting. My only issue is that the "bone" jerseys are in a different category. The sleeve cap area is a hodgepodge of sloppiness...looks like a broken AI program spit it out. The use of white on bone in both the jersey and pants don't make sense. If the Rams just ditched the bone uniform, they're fine. Contemporary, colorful, but still unquestionably the Rams at first glance. I would still personally wish for the 2018-19 Super Bowl year uniforms for home and then a white-and-navy "clash" to wear on the road and for select home games -- really disappointed they didn't go that route when it kind of felt like they were leaning that way with the white horned helmets before the rebrand. Their biggest problem is the logo set, if anything