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Please don't kill my vibe, because Lamar's up

Continued...figured the fellas may want t-shirts, so I sent them a few ideas (though fewer than I'd intended to, as they asked for some extra work to commemorate their recent cup win)...two are relatively basic, two are shirseys

Striping pattern is another stripes-within-stripes look, this time essentially a vertical version of my Boston U design from when I did a Beanpot set a while back.

Faux gradient has been used in at least a couple concepts, striped jumper is a new design

I have no idea whether they'll use any of my jumper ideas, but to modify a certain phrase...to get paid is glorious

Been considering phasing out Photobucket for a while now...as you can see, looks like they're phasing me out in any event, to celebrate me finding a new host, a little something I haven't had the chance to post until now, given I was largely focused on the paid work that'd stumbled upon me.

...and speaking of that paid work...not sure when they're gonna roll anything out, but they already paid me, so it's storytime.  Last month, I found out that the USAFL site was using an old Port Adelaide concept of mine to represent the Dallas Magpies (and I'm almost positive my old partner in crime is responsible), and apparently at least some of the guys down there liked it enough that they asked me for permission to use that old thing (which IMO is a piece of crap compared to when I improved on it the first time...but at the same time still better than what they had).  I offered to rework it, mainly so it didn't look so obviously made for Port Adelaide (by this, I mean no teal and no lightning), and they offered to pay for the effort, so I threw in some concepts along with the identity.  On the upside, my :censored:load of footy concepts meant there was a stupefying amount of designs I could rework in a relative hurry, I mainly wanted to give them some examples to show what they could do.  The full magpie is the primary, and there's a "Big D" secondary, as well as a winged star.

White back is modified from the Rhode Island home from my old State of Origin series, while the black back is modified from a "braces" design I first used for a Notre Dame concept.

Recolored version of my Arkansas set, basically. 

Black jumper and bottom white are both modified from my Canisius design, while the "vortex" white is a new design.

White back uses a stripes-within-stripes pattern, while the Texas flag black jumper I just did for kicks

Well, to be fair, given blue flames are actually the hottest, at least they did the research.  I'm not gonna say this is even a good logo, only that it could have been worse.  Not sure how, but it could've.  It's very clear this aint a hockey logo.

Yeh can take my life...but yeh cannae take MY FREEDOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

There can be only one...

Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver, so were Eddie Haskell, Wally and Miss Cleaver

The zipper of my trousers seems to have come undone...please allow me to excuse myself to the lavatory

In other words, Fly is open, Let's Go Peay! 

On 11/22/2015 at 8:00 PM, Discrimihater said:

As long as I'm thinking about it, IIRC in a number of the early Madden games, the Bills wore blue pants with their white jerseys despite having dumped them in the mid 80s.

....aaaand I'd forgotten about the inaccuracies I'd seen in Gameday 2004 until I decided to reenact Super Bowl XXV for the hell of it.  Unlike in Madden or 2K, teams in Gameday basically only had their then-current uniforms and one throwback set...and if the team in question had changed uniforms since going to a Super Bowl, there's usually a good chance said uniform won't be available to the current team.  Anyways, now giving you Discrim's Incomplete List of Gameday 04 Inaccuracies That You'll Promptly Forget About

90s Bills: the road whites are paired with blue pants instead of the actual white pair

85 Patriots: the home white pants' striping is blue-red-blue, when it should be red-blue-red

96 Patriots: block numbers instead of their italic digits, and wrong socks (white with red-blue-red striping, should be blue with a thin red stripe)

Eagles throwbacks (Randall Cunningham era): the eagles are missing from the sleeves

Redskins throwbacks: based on the 70th anniversary uniform, complete with a white version that has never existed

Falcons throwback: based on the red-silver era, but the falcons are missing from the sleeves

and from a few other games...not sure if it was this way in earlier Blitz games, as I don't play as or against the Chiefs often, but the arrowhead on the left side of the Chiefs' helmets pointed the wrong way in Blitz 2003, and probably Blitz Pro too.

Another oldie from Madden: the late 80s Saints home unis had white numbers w/black and gold outline IRL, but had gold numbers with a black and white outline in several Maddens.

Woof...I live about 15-20 minutes away from an actual D3 stadium (at Carthage College) and went to UW-Whitewater.  Can confirm both schools' football facilities being easier on the eyes than Fordham's (never been inside Carthage's gym).

On 4/3/2017 at 4:05 PM, kroywen said:

Our football field was literally a single grandstand of bleachers on one side of the field, with a parking lot on the other side. There's D-III programs with better facilities than us

There are high schools with better fields than what you described, and that's even if you leave out those stadiums in Texas.

Had this in reserve for a while, and I'm finally releasing this owl out into the wild...here goes Rice.

Decided to go Carlton-style for the main design, with the big English R front and center.  The third is a silver-to-white faux gradient, a Brisbane style offshoot.

For at least this season, we at the WAFA are basically operating as an outlaw league...so I can still unveil the Milwaukee Robins' 2017 guernseys

The robin's been given an addition for this year: a silver medal commemorating our Grand Final appearance last season.  The home jumper also has silver numbers and a silver collar for this year only.  The teal clash has a silver medal for the same reason...the Cup home, however, features a gold medal, commemorating our first trophy of any kind...when we won the midseason Cup final...ah man, the type of game we're almost always a lock to lose, we actually won

Sounds like this soccer game I read about a few times...you rolled different dice, depending on how strong each team is (dice used in an Arsenal-Man United match will yield a closer match than Liverpool-Stoke, for example)

Anyways, got to playing one of the print & play baseball offerings yesterday and today.  The funny thing was yesterday, I went with two great teams (82 Brewers vs 69 Mets), and today I went the opposite direction (2003 Tigers vs 62 Mets)...and despite rather disparate starting points and journeys, I wound up with the same score in both sittings: 7-3 Mets

Admittedly, since I didn't have detailed rosters handy yesterday (given that this is another one where you rate the players before rolling any dice...my best short explanation is that players can have exceptional (or exceptionally bad) hitting, power, speed or fielding (pitchers can be aces/closers, average, or scrubs), and team standings determine how many of the good traits you can afford, as well as how many crappy traits you have to assign), I probably butchered both Milwaukee and 69 NYM to various degrees, notably handedness...like I said though, the journeys to 7-3 Mets wins were notably different from one another.  About the only similarities they shared besides the score were that the Mets' bats were able to get to the opposing SP relatively early, and the Mets starter (Seaver for the 69 crew, Roger Craig for the 62's) made it to the 9th.

Not gonna bore you with the boxscores, I'm just gonna give summaries: in the first game, the Brewers actually struck first, and took a 2-0 lead in the 2nd inning.  By the end of the 3rd, though, the Mets had tied things up.  A pair of Gorman Thomas errors, as well as Robin Yount going 0-4 and committing an error himself, paired with the Brew having to turn to the bullpen in the 5th were what largely doomed the Ball & Glove boys, as after a rough second inning, Tom Seaver only allowed one more run as he was able to finish what he'd started, with special mention to the 9th inning, better known as the Ed Kranepool Show...seriously, all three outs were hit his way, the man was practically standing on his head.  One of the Mets' few lowlights was when I'd decided to send one of their slowpokes (who may have been Kranepool) home instead of holding him at third, which ended up in him being beaten by the throw home.

In the Bad-tle between the '03 Tigers and '62 Mets, I guess I caught Marvelous Marv and co. on a good day, as they had two big innings: 4 runs in the first, and then 3 in the fourth, and never looked back, even as Detroit's pitching settled down.  Errors and poor defense didn't play as large of a role as they had in the Milwaukee game, but there were a few balls that Tigers SS Ramon Santiago couldn't get to, IIRC at least one of which led to a Mets run.  Dmitri Young and Craig Monroe each homered off of Craig, though both were basically too little, too late.  Even though Monroe's blast ended Craig's day in the top of the 9th, the Tigers couldn't do anything else.  Hey, even the '62 Mets had some good days.

...And for anyone whose interest was piqued by Techno Bowl, I have good news: a second stab at crowdfunding was successful, and...well, the designer said this at BGG on the 4th:

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Also, what are we looking at for the date of arrival? Mayish? Maybe April? I can wait, but I would like to know.

 

The physical sample/proof copy of the game should be shipping out tomorrow from China. After receiving it, there will be several independent and then group reviews of the product. Assuming there are only a couple of small corrections to be made, we should be able to begin manufacturing almost immediately after that. If that happens, we should be on track for late March/early April. Any delay in that portion of the process and it will be more like mid-April/early May. I'm hoping for the former, but this isn't a portion to rush through.

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If you're wondering how this "board-game-version-of-Tecmo-Bowl" thing's supposed to work, and are too lazy to scroll up, go here.   There's a how-to video, and if you have a BGG account, you can download a few freebies, including a draft of the rules, two teams and a few fan-made items.  I've read over the rules a few times, and I gotta say...I REALLY like what I see.  And I haven't even played it.  Using jersey numbers as ratings is a sneaky-good idea, and you actually have to think about who moves on a given play, especially because the offense isn't guaranteed the first move.  Hell, they threw in a piece of NFL Fever (when passing, in addition to being able to throw to a receiver, you can also throw to a spot and hope you can get your man there before an opponent can).  There are even missed tackles?...just about the only thing you can't do is punt (because there are only four downs to score....the tagline is, after all, Arcade Football Unplugged)

For anybody who liked MLB Showdown, a few years back, you might have heard about what wound up as an aborted rebirth as MLB Clutch.  Well, they've decided there were too many hoops to jump through for an MLB license, so they'll be releasing it as Clutch Baseball, and are aiming for a spring release.

Clutch Baseball - Trading Card Game - Clutch Moments Happen Here

All the Expansion Six tribute series are over, and I've been sitting on this one for a little while...Iowa!  I choose you!

It might just be me, but for some reason the baby in New Orleans' new logo looks like Anthony Rizzo to me.  I'm dead serious.

Man, a fella doesn't check the minor league thread for a while and crap like Jacksonville happens.  I don't see what was wrong with Suns.  I mean, I like eating shrimp as much as the next guy, but I'm not big on Jumbo Shrimp as a team name.  I actually kinda like the Fire Frogs' set, but find their use of Florida rather than Kissimmee baffling, given they're in a league where everybody plays in Florida

Back on la calle and I'm twice as bad...today I give you the Chattanooga Mocs.  The choo-choo the city is famous for inspired the train track jumpers.

Right here...first link, can't miss it.  Setup's real simple, all you need is records (in this way, I'd call it Paydirt Lite, in the category of Differentiation between teams but not athletes).

On a related note, those endzone sigs got me thinking about a little side project I work on occasionally...while screwing around with Boardgame Geek, I stumbled upon a game called All-Pro Football, and decided to make a field...and then a few more...and then a Canadian version...and then an Arena version.  I hadn't really given much thought to posting any of em here (or anywhere), but I think I will soon.

IIRC the maker's running into a few problems, pricing being a notable one.  Last I'd read, it sounded like including all 32 teams was gonna cost somewhere in the $70-80 neighborhood.  IIRC they were aiming for releasing at some point during the fall...my attention's mostly been elsewhere, so as I said I haven't really checked up on it in a while.

Had something of an adventure in gaming the other day, taking on a Soren Narnia offering I hadn't previously in Nailbiter Football.  Decided on a semi-replay, 93 Oilers @ 93 Bills, which had been a beatdown in favor of Buffalo IRL, but would be an "even" matchup given both teams finished 12-4.  I figure most football games have some sort of playcalling method for solitaire play nowadays...I think Strat has one, can't remember if Statis Pro had one or not, Vince Lombardi's Game had the first "ghost coach" I felt I was able to comprehend.  Anyway, to explain Nailbiter's gameplay, imagine a tabletop variant of Madden's Super Sim, except it switches to running plays at key junctures in the possession, then switches back at changes of possession and first downs, with a few exceptions.  And each play has a "pitch count" of sorts, after which you have to roll twice and use the worse result, so leaning too hard on one play will bite you in the ass if you let it.

Anyway, I called the plays for the Oilers while the ghost coach made his best Marv Levy impersonation...and I ended up on the business end of a 60-23 beatdown.  All I can say is the dice really fell in love with Buffalo that afternoon...that, and unlike the real Oilers, I managed to put some points on the board.  Made me reminiscent of one game in my old Raiders franchise in Madden 10, when I suffered a curbstomping at the hands of the Jaguars in Oakland (though I returned the favor in the playoffs, with interest and in Jax, no less).

You might think "60-23?  How the hell is that an even matchup?"  Hey, stuff happens.  I'm gonna give it another go later.

Nice logo...but who the hell are the Birmingham Mets?   I've heard of the Binghamton Mets and the Birmingham Barons though

Finally!  Discrim...has returned...to his own footy thread

Leading off, Texas State...fun with quarters and abbreviations...as well as combining two different directions of stripes

joining them in the thread, Southeast Missouri State...fun with checkers and feathers

Finally, the Adelaide Crows...in which I give you flying crows in quasi-stripes.

1 hour ago, Totems!! said:

Tacoma would be a great market for minor league hockey but no arena means no team.

Truth, man.  My own hometown is basically the type of city you could easily imagine hosting an ECHL or D-League team...only without an arena. 

An interesting find I've come across recently...essentially, someone has decided to answer a question I never thought to ask: what would happen if you turned Tecmo Super Bowl (with a dash of NFL Blitz) into a board game?  No, really!  If nothing else, they've cornered the market on punny names, many likely easily guessed as to who their RL counterpart is (Tom Baby, Rock Knockowski, Clint Portly, Perry Freezer, Joey Mean, Roy Gonnamaulu, Ed Lazy, Rodger Dodgers, Vic Mexico, Quentin Bartholomew Eagles), some guys a bit more esoterically named (J.J. Joule, Randy Lichen, Andrew Zephyr, Mack Two, Mack Koi, Al Stop, Julian Salts, Chad Sesentayseis).

Ah, that Footscray-Fitzroy merger that never happened.  Probably a good thing, given there's very little Footscray in that jumper iMO.

As for that aborted Pacers set: Relegating gold to tertiary status?  Gradient?  Teal?  Ugh.

Just one this time, but I think yall gonna like it.  Fight on, Illini

I looked at the somewhat odd I-shield Illinois has and figured it'd be a great starting point for a jumper design, so here we are.  The vintage jumper is a blast from the past, as I'd made a similar jumper around the time I started making Aussie rules concepts.  The front design is the breastplate from the Chief Illiniwek logo.

And now, a moment no one's been waiting for the Discrim Super Bowl pre-play I (Heroes & Rallies), where the first half was a defensive struggle, and the Panthers pulled away in the third quarter.  Carolina 24, Denver 12 the final.  Some days, you don't have to break out the rare play chart at all, but today I think I saw more of it than the field goal chart: in the second quarter, Carolina broke out the ol' halfback option, with Jonathan Stewart connecting with Greg Olsen for 42 yds, and later in the game, the Broncos were able to pull off a flea flicker.  There were a lot of fumbles and picks more than anything though, thus a number of missed opportunities on both sides.