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2 hours ago, McCall said:

I don't think government agencies are gonna be using taxpayer money to buy ad space on baseball jerseys. Or I would hope not.

Of course not, they're too busy injecting beagle pups with cocaine, watching roided up hamsters fight, and studying parrot love.

I thought it was silly when the Thunder swapped the lettering on their white and blue jerseys, but I guess they were on to something, given the last several Bucks games I've watched, it feels like I've only seen one or two white at home games.

Yeah, they kinda fluctuated between "we're red and white" "no, we're red and gold," and "no, no, no, we're red and silver" for most of their first two decades.

Did no one suggest Locks?  

Maybe that too. 

On 1/30/2023 at 5:48 PM, coco1997 said:

It already leaked a while back that the Rays would be dropping their gray roads  starting this coming season. Not sure why it wasn’t met with as much consternation as the Mariners news, though.

Probably because the Rays' grays were just kinda there, while the Mariners' grays were actually good looking.

Amusingly enough, the Sibir third's design was actually born as a Sabres third, basically verbatim aside from being in vintage white with blue-gold-blue stripes...which I then reused three times, including here (Panthers and Senators being the others, though each with their own team-specific tweaks).  The home/away set I'd had in mind back in 2016 was basically a hockey version of Arsenal's bruised banana shirt, but with snowflakes (IIRC I'd had light blue flakes on navy and white flakes on light blue) but new decade, new direction.

So I now have alts for Traktor, adding some color to the black and white aesthetic.  The grayish blue and red come from the Stalinets tractors that were built at Chelyabinsk's tractor plant, the former being their livery and the latter being used for lettering and some other accents.  The red T jersey is like the home-away design, but with a mostly solid back, with the front being red and the back black.  Then the Stalinets inspired jersey is, by my own admission, somewhat experimental in its nature.

1 hour ago, TrueYankee26 said:

R.I.P Bengals.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to mourn the end of the 2022 Cincinnati Bengals season, for the Kansas City Chiefs were Dey who beat them Bengals.  I would also like to add a lament for the separation of Joe Burrow and accuracy, may they one day reconcile.

1 hour ago, the admiral said:

Burrow had more interceptions than touchdown passes; can't pin that on a questionable late hit.

Yeah, it felt like Cincy could have won this one, if they didn't keep blowing opportunity after opportunity.  

25 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Yes I’m absolutely serious. Why do you even have a guy like Josh Johnson on your roster in the first place? Remember now, he was my favorite team’s backup for several seasons. 

It's not like they could dunk Joe Montana into a fountain of youth, to be fair. 

I figure a good chunk of us have concepts we had in progress and, for various reasons, forgot about for a while...then you look through whatever folder you save your concepts in, look through and think "hey, I never finished that one, did I?"

Before certain events unfolded, I'd had a Sibir concept I'd gotten started on...and then forgot about for a few years.  And then I look through and realize I lost the original home/away set, so I had to make a new version.  I actually originally had a script crest in mind, but honestly, it looked terrible, so I'm going back to the drawing board on that one.

The third...started on it in 2016.  Being posted in 2023.  Better late than never    

Traktor used to be that Russian team whose logo was a cartoony polar bear impersonating the San Jose Shark.  Their new bear roared "do something with me" to me, and here it goes.  I'll be posting an alternate later, haven't decided what I wanna do on that front, but for the home/away set, going with a Big T seemed like a good way to go.  On the sleeves I went with a shadowed tractor tread/herringbone pattern...and then there are the T stripes on the socks.

COWABUNGA!!! 

10 hours ago, GrayJ12 said:

The Cubs need to redo their away jerseys IMO, I've never really liked the current ones. I know the Cubs have not had a perfect batting record when it comes to the away jerseys, but hopefully Nike can do something good within the next few years.

Was about to say this...I'm in the minority of people who liked the Cuba grays, I would've been fine with the Cubs junking the current grays mostly because they're kinda blah.  Not sure what the best answer would be tbh, whether it's modernizing the 60s grays, making a new version of the 80s blues or trying to polish the turd that is the current grays.

3 hours ago, WSU151 said:

3 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

 

 

The Diamondbacks never had a panel/regular mismatch, but they did have hats that didn't match the batting helmet in the purple/teal set.  I feel like there's a couple other teams that had similar mismatches. 

IIRC their first season only, the purple helmets had the D snake on it while the cap had the A.  Can't recall what the road mismatch was, other than it feels like there was one.  From 99 until they changed colors, it was a more minor mismatch on the road: both had the D snake, but the helmet version had a thick white outline that was never used on that logo outside of that one application.

There's something endearing about the happy Jayhawk that would be lost if they turned it into just another angry/snarling mascot.  

On 1/26/2023 at 12:04 PM, BBTV said:

 

Citation needed.

 

 

 

 

Here ya go

On 1/21/2023 at 9:45 AM, BBTV said:

Glenn Rivers actually publicly calls some games "scheduled losses".  I can't believe a coach would actually say such a thing, especially with all the gambling implications.  But yeah - the Sixers actually circle "scheduled losses" on their internal team calendar.

I take it, since "Doc" would imply top tier intelligence, that you feel he's not worthy of the moniker.  But yeah, saying something about the occasional loss being the nature of the game is fine.  Outright saying you made no attempt to set your team up for success is dumb.

On 1/23/2023 at 5:25 AM, edjb93 said:

Back in 1995, the Northmen avoided a redesign that screams 90's and won't be a fan-favorite at the time. However, it's at the expense of becoming the Colorado Avalanche.

Aw, you say that like it's a bad thing  

On 1/18/2023 at 5:07 PM, RayFinkle said:

I am old enough to remember when teams put NOTHING on their fields. LOL.

 

No logos, no designs, no NFL shield, no painted endzones,......yuck.

I'm only old enough to remember when, outside of baseball season, the Bengals, and only the Bengals, put nothing on their field.

5 hours ago, OnWis97 said:

 

Imagine being the guy who laid that first dude out and running around in celebration. I just probably ruined a guy's quality of life permanently and won...well nothing!

Some people are sadistic like that, that ruining somebody's quality of life is the prize.  Surprised nobody's told Bill Romanowski about this, crap like this seems like it'd be right up his alley.

Something I've thought about occasionally: I remember hearing something about the CFL having two salary caps back in the 90s, a general cap and a separate QB cap.  With MLS' Designated Player rule also on my mind, I'm thinking the NFL might benefit from having a similar rule where X number of roster spots are exempt from the cap, which would likely enable stars to get paid what they feel they're worth without teams needing to decimate their rosters to the extent they occasionally need to do now.  

They gotta bring back Bernie's lederhosen...it's bad enough there's no more giant beer mug for him to slide into.

Well, guess anyone who was going to Atlanta can get a refund, or catch a Lil Jon show or something.  Unless the Bills go Super Saiyan en masse, the Bengals are heading to Kansas City....and next up, Dallas and San Francisco...not gonna lie, I'm more rooting for the Whiners to lose than for either to win.  

9 hours ago, Sport said:

My college girlfriend used to hit me in the chest with a closed fist along with the occasional slap in the face because she knew I wouldn't do anything in response. She also threw a high heel shoe at the back of my head when I wasn't looking. Her anger management and conflict resolution skills were insane, like she thought the point of having a boyfriend was someone you boss around and get into public arguments with.

Holy crap...man I hope that wasn't a stiletto, she could've killed you with one of those if it hit heel first.  Glad you got away from her, she sounds nuts.

EDIT: You too @FiddySicks...yikes, trying to make YOU go broke because she refused to stop wasting her own money...just yikes.

4 hours ago, infrared41 said:

I still want the 49ers - Bills Super Bowl that the Giants screwed me out of in 1990

And @infrared41 has finally revealed his IRL identity....Chris Berman  

I guess you could go back to Notre Dame's occasional use of green jerseys, which began in the 1920s and was originally done when their opponents also wore dark blue.  Oddly enough, when the Irish began wearing road whites in 1950, the home jerseys were green (and wouldn't change back to blue until 1959).