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Never heard that one...the story I recall is shortly after being hired, and given the OK to redesign the uniforms, Mike Dunleavy decided on Lakers purple and Celtics green (though he really kept the longstanding forest green and demoted it to the secondary color). Either case, my main gripe wasn't really purple's presence, so much as the fact that it'd become the main color.

Here goes nothin...not one, not two, but FIVE new sets! First, Michigan When I've done Michigan in the past, I've simply gone the Carlton route and slapped a big M on the front and called it a day. This time, I decided the blues should mimic the famous helmet somehow, so here it's a simple merger of stripes and a vee. The clash design is based on the costume of one of the lesser known Green Lanterns, Guy Gardner. Why? He's a fictional Michigan alum, of course. Finally, a fauxback based on the Under the Lights uniform, complete with the older M and printed laces. Second, Wisconsin Honestly, I could've just as easily gone with stripes instead of hoops for the home, but it is what it is. The two clashes have a broad wraparound stripe and use a cutout Bucky on the front. Now I dip into some of the more obscure probrams, starting with Nebraska-Omaha The home and clash use the same design I'd used for Notre Dame's green jumper. An old St. Kilda design, WWI era IIRC, inspired the third. Fourth up, Michigan Tech The home jumper...I was originally gonna have a chest panel stylized to resemble Upper Michigan, where MTU is located. Then I said screw that and went with an actual map. The clash...see those bits on the back of the husky logo? Yeh, they've given it the nickname "Piano Dog." I thought stripes resembling them would look at least somewhat okay, so here you go. The third...honestly, I could've seen Richmond donating a set of old jumpers to a program trying to get on its feet, if I were inclined to create a faux alternate history. Lastly, Ooey-Pooey IUPUI An old friend of mine played basketball for the Jaguars, his number's on the gold/white. Overall, the home and clash are based on the classic Fitzroy/Brisbane design, the home being black and crimson, the clash being gold and white. The third seemed like a good place to sneak in a harlequin jumper for the hell of it. Your two rusted Lincolns are welcome here!

I'll do ya one better...Jim McMahon, Packer In the same vein, Jerry Rice in his very brief stint in Denver futbol example: Alessandro Del Piero, who was with Juventus seemingly forever in an era when star players being afflicted with wanderlust is generally accepted...and now he plies his trade in Sydney And the recently retired Grant Hill...his lost years in Orlando, when the sight of him healthy was a rarity

Well, speaking from experience, house cats do whatever the hell they want. Hell, stray cats tend to do whatever the hell they want (I frequently see the neighbor's cat in my yard, there used to be a huge white stray there every now and then, and a few summers ago there was another stray that would hang around the front porch and meow incessantly). House cats don't care.

Geelong...bear with me, admittedly this is one of the weirder ideas I've had. Anyway, here goes nothin. Sorry for going the Collingwood/North route here, anyways about a week and a half ago I was doodling possible concepts and this was basically the result...an odd take on the hoops. Opted for the full cat rather than the cat face, as I feel the former is underused and the latter overexposed. Honestly, I've grown to dislike the cat face somewhat. The heritage one off, I figured historical precedent was a good enough reason to break my personal rule about using black with navy (the vintage jumper's shorts are black, rather than the normal set's navy) Queanbeyan...most of my footy concepts have been either fantasy sets or AFL sets. Years ago though, I'd spend hours perusing Full Points Footy (which reminds me, I don't visit its successor, Australian Football.com nearly as much as I'd like to) and due to that, I'd been inspired to post concepts for several defunct clubs from across Australia, like Camberwell, Sunshine, and Melbourne City of the VFA, Woodville of the SANFL, and Acton of what would become AFL Canberra. Among the few active non-AFL clubs I've done before is Queanbeyan, a club whose history I found very interesting. Funny thing...if St. Kilda and Footscray, for example, had decided to merge temporarily, and had anywhere near the unbridled success of the Queanbeyan-Acton Combine, those squads would've beed deified to this day. Hell, up here they wrote a book about the one season the Steelers and Eagles merged during WWII, and they weren't nearly as successful. I digress though...here go the Tigers Basically, if Richmond's clash resembled this in any way, calling it an improvement wouldn't do it justice. Hell, far as I know, they don't even have Essendon's excuse to fall back on. Anyways, I'd recalled seeing an older pic of Queanbeyan in action years back, and took inspiration from that. The clash...might be overkill, but you won't know if a tiger striped sash will work til you try. Lastly, in honor of the aforementioned Combine, a heritage one off.

Aside from that Rockies set, and its tweaks, I haven't done much in the way of concepts lately. Memorial Day, for instance, snuck up on me. In any event, every season since I've joined the WAFA, I've rolled out a patriotic jumper for Memorial Day and the 4th of July (the former day is largely because ironically like the Cubs, the Robins tend to be on the road on 4th weekend, so I usually push for a Memorial Day weekend home game to compensate). Though I'm considering breaking the pattern next season, the first seven were mainly teal, and so is #8. Like I said, Memorial Day snuck up on me. I considered a few other ideas before settling on a flag-like variation of the Robins' usual wings. I have a couple more ready to go, I just need to ad em up: a rather different-looking Geelong, and Queanbeyan from the ACT (Australian Capital Territory)...all I'll say for now is you might find what I've done to Geelong's hoops weird, and that one could say the direction I went with Queanbeyan's home is what I wish Richmond's clash resembled instead of the train wreck it is.

I know one thing, Don Mattingly doesn't look like Don f'ing Mattingly without a mustache. It's like with Alex Trebek, he still looks wrong without a mustache.

An unpopular opinion among those that follow Aussie football: I think the Fitzroy/Brisbane Lions' traditional leo is ugly as hell. Sadly, they whiffed rather badly with the new lion....they were so close to hitting it out of the park, but that head is

the Big Dog will always be a Buck to me...jury's out on the Little Dog, but it'd be nice if he becomes a Buck in the future Sheed...most of his memorable moments were in his Blazers and Pistons days...but who can forget his Bullets days? Or his one night as a Hawk? You know, other than almost everybody?

St. Patty's day for real now...fittingly, I unleash the Irish upon you Rather basic home jumper...though it's possible ND would be willing to go somewhat more avant garde for the first choice, if you look beyond football...anyways, the clash is beige, rather than white, a Digger Phelps shoutout (I'd read on Uni Watch one time that in the late 70s, somebody'd told him the Irish's home whites didn't look good on TV, so for a few years ND's homes were pale green, and then beige after that before returning to white). The striping is modified from one of the shirts the Columbus Crew wore right before they adopted the all-piss I so despise. The green uses gold and blue braces, a striping style I feel is somewhat underused in sports. Of course, "suspenders" is kind of a lame word, which is why I'm using the British/Aussie terminology. And now...the same thing, but with mint green clash

early St. Patrick's day...Essendon Played with the Bombers' traditional sash a bit, as the pinstripes on one side are meant to mimic an Irish harp. The number is also mint green rather than white. Hawthorn remember that preseason jumper earlier in the thread? Yeh, the same but with a few shadows...and in green...and with a little HFC over the number.

Heh, I kinda forgot to make most of my draft picks this year...eh well, here goes the 2013 edition of the Milwaukee Robins Tried a red back last year, I decided to go back to a blue back this year. The clash and third, your mileage may vary...for the former, I had thoughts of the Sabres' fauxbacks for the striping...for the third, maybe it's okay, maybe it sucks...eh well, hoops are as necessary for the Robs as the wings are. In a couple days at most: a few St. Patrick's day specials: Hawthorn and Essendon. Those are basically done, I just need to slap their ads on.

"...I wanna fourscore a deal with yooou...who's your founding father?...I see you Abey" Stupid sexy G-Dub. Anyways, Origin is still on, but here go a couple new college sets: Wichita State... all wheat everything (though the home is based on Wichita's city flag) ...and the Zags... all zigzag everything

I know Notre Dame did that once

When I'm posting, is there a way to turn off auto-saving? Wouldn't be a problem were I using broadband, but I'm stuck with dialup, and posts that used to take five minutes tops have wound up taking me at least ten.

BYU should've worn this set for longer than one season

I've had this one on the backburner cus kept coming up, but here goes DC The DC Flag, which itself is based off of George Washington's family crest, serves as the muse of this set. Home is white with navy collar and cuffs, and red stars and stripes. The clash is buff and blue, after the military uniform Washington wore during the Revolution and continued to don as President.

So in order: State of Origin, City of Origin, and Region of Origin...as Oregon was among the states I hadn't yet had any ideas for, thanks, now I do And Region of Origin is an idea I might be able to get behind (though that would likely wind up rather Euro-heavy in practice)

Aint been all that active around here for a few weeks, largely I simply needed to step away for a bit. Anyways, I bring you a Dixie two step: Tennessee and Georgia. First, the place where you're the only 10 I see The main jumper is rather basic, aside from the racing stripe, which mimics the state flag. The clash combines the racing stripe with a red penguin stripe to keep the whole thing coherent. And now the Peach State Decided peach would be the perfect base color here...cus to quote W.B. Mason, who but Georgia? Green simply felt like a good complementary color, so after a bit of thought, I decided on the Eagles' shade.

I might roll out a more green Maine as a bonus set...anyways, I bring you the state that keeps it rockin Hey, when it's a no brainer, it's a no brainer. And what would likely be termed "Commonwealth of Origin" Didn't feel like making an actual crest, so I went through my old English fonts until I found a K I liked. Anyways, the home is based on the silks of the legendary Man o' War, considered perhaps the greatest thoroughbred to ever live (but who, oddly enough, never raced the Kentucky Derby). The checkers on the clash are taken from another legend, Triple Crown winner Secretariat, though I'm open to redoing it, as if you follow college basketball at all, you can take a wild guess who it smacks way too much of.

Maybe I will, maybe I won't...what I am sure of is here goes Alabama Home is based on the plumage of the Northern flicker, known in Alabama as the yellowhammer. Away uses the saltire in the state flag in a manner similar to one of England's old change shirts (that red one with the crosses on the shoulers) ...and Maine Home is based on the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse livery, away uses a pine tree design, in reference to the state's nickname of the "Pine Tree State." The word above the numbers is Dirigo, Latin for I Guide, Maine's state motto.

Tulsa was tweaked, as the different blue was unintentional...anyways, here goes some more SoO: Indiana Granted, this might've been better off as an Indianapolis CoO, but eh. This was the best idea that came to me. Checkered flag as home jumper, green clash with checkered V. In the words of Bobbito...Peeeeeeeoooooow.... Recently entered this here in a little Big Footy contest...Crows The contest rules: we're doing Adelaide, the colors remain navy, gold and red, but you couldn't post anything resembling what the Crows have worn IRL...especially not barberpole hoops or giant birds/bird heads. Cue my birds-on-stripe from earlier in this thread, but to be safe I removed the barberpole stripes from both the crows and the stripe. Figured I may as well show it off here.

I figure it's time for a return to the college ranks, seeing as in a few weeks millions of folks will be hitting campuses across the country. First up, I revisit the Tulsa Golden Hurricane The last time I did Tulsa, blue had been the first choice. This time, I figured, they're the GOLDEN Hurricane, right? Thus, gold primary, blue clash. Yep, that would be hurricane flags on the front. The third is basically as alternate as you can get: it's red, and before yall get on me about how come I used a regular number plate here when I stated I hate it on Hawthorn, I'm mimicking a hurricane flag (granted, it's only a hurricane flag if there's two of em, just one's a tropical storm, but you get the idea). The Rangers-style HURRICANE was a holdover from the older concept (cus hey, hockey's pretty damn fast too, and I liked the idea), and yeah, I ripped the hem striping from Carolina. The weirdly cut-off horizontal pinstripes seemed like a good headscratcher to throw in. The flags on the shorts seemed like a good idea to me, jury's out on whether you do. Maybe it's an epic fail like that stupid helmet they trotted out against Rice last year, eh well. And now some new ish...Hawaii Rainbow Warriors The home and away are based on the old football unis, which had that diamond pattern around not only the left sleeve of the jersey, but wrapping around the left leg, one of my favorite uses of assymetry, even if they almost never wore the green jerseys (much like my old school frequently seems to forget their main color's purple, not black). The right side seemed to need some love, so I gave it a side pattern like the football helmet's stripe. The vintage jumper is based on all those rainbow striped unis Hawaii used to wear before football decided they were too cool to be Rainbows anymore.

Like my boy Lil Rob, I was gone for a little while but I'll always be back...a few more SoO starting with Rhode Island... The Rhode Island Red is a chicken. Said poultry's plumage is a rather dark red. And in the interests of me being a bit lazy (or if you'd believe my BSing, being green), I recycled a 40s Blackhawks-style striping pattern I'd used for a Providence Reds concept. End result, three-tone red hoops is the home. The clash is based on Freo's old jumper, anchor and all; instead of the port & starbird chest panels, I decided to take a page out of something I'd tried with a Clippers concept a few years ago, and use signal flags to spell "RI" on the front, and "HOPE" above the numbers (for those who don't know, Hope is Rhode Island's motto) Second, Pennsylvania On the east side of the Keystone State is Philly. On the west side is Pittsburgh. Philly's flag is light blue and gold. The Steel City's flag, like nearly everything else there, is black and gold. The home is a straight St. Kilda tricolor, substituting gold and blue for white and red, respectively. The clash, I figured may as well keep the theme going, though the gold panel is modified to look like a keystone. Finally for SoO, New York New York the state, more often than not, is overshadowed by New York the city. That won't be changing anytime soon, but here we go, I wanted to avoid NYC-centric imagery, though the apple emblem might seem like one at first glance. Turns out the apple is NY's state fruit...moving on, seeing as many apples are red, I chose that as the home color, and a number of other apples range from light green to yellow, I decided to go with the former as my clash. The "chainlink" striping, dark green on the home, red on the clash, is inspired by the sterotypical depiction of beavers' tails, as the dam-building rodent is also one of New York's state symbols. And now for something a bit different: City of Origin, starting with one of my personal favorites revisited, reimagined and such: Amsterdam The triple X's have served as one of Amsterdam's symbols well before...well, you know. The first time I did City of Origin, I think Amsterdam was the only one I actually posted, I had Barcelona ready to go but never released it. Anyways, that first time, I used a penguin stripe, this time I went with a sash, as well as slimmer X's. The black jumper is basically a big X, and the third has shadow X's all over it, as well as a nod to laceup jumpers. Finally, the town that apparently should not make salsa...NOO YOAK CITEE!!! I wanted to use an NY. But, obviously not the ones either the Yankees or Mets use. Anyways, home is based on the NYC flag, clash uses pinstripes as a nod to the aforementioned baseballers, and the third uses the third design of Amsterdam, with a few tweaks...cus even old New York was once New Amsterdam...