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I am curious if they will even get team names and identities this season other than being Washington XFL team in Red, and San Antonio XFL team in Yellow/Gold. You can see here each team is color coded:

https://www.xfl.com/teams

15 hours ago, insert name said:

It's been over 2 decades since the Oilers name was retired. In that time, the Texans have grown to be a natural NFL brand. Do people even wear Oilers as a nostalgic retro brand? They don't seem to even carry that retro cash grab the Expos, Nordiques and Whalers got. The brand is dead. 

Its enough that NFL/Fanatics has a section for them:
https://www.nflshop.com/?query=houston oilers

20 minutes ago, MJD7 said:

The logo feels like a bit of a downgrade, if only because there’s no longer anything to signify “baseball” in it anymore. Now it sort of just looks like a variation on Google Photos.

 

I’m curious to see if Nike will end up taking over most of the uniforms, though.

It looks like an app icon probably because an app will come out with that as the icon during the competition to stream stuff on that is separate from MLB

On 6/23/2022 at 11:24 AM, Luigi74 said:

The biggest reason GM kept Buick was due to the brand being tied at the hip with GMC Trucks, plus Buick fit nicely between Chevy and Cadillac, while Pontiac and Saturn were on par with Chevy.

 

 

In my area all the GMC stuff was tied with Pontiac. So I thought Pontiac/GMC was the equivalent to Chevy. The Buick and Olds were the semi-luxury brands and then it all funneled to Caddy. 

This is the rumored cities and coaches for each city:
https://sportsnaut.com/xfl-teams-coaches/

 

Little background. Dunkin Brands (BR and Dunkin) got purchased by Inspire Brands. They own Buffalo Wild Wings, Arbys, Sonic and Jimmy Johns as well. I get the feeling this logo change was done of new overlords wanting to change something to put their mark on the company. I expect Dunkin to have some modified logo soon as well. 

This is the exact same move that Keurig did when they took over DrPepper/Snapple and changed the Snapple logo for sake of making changes to put their mark on the company. 

16 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

Unless it's Stanford, haven't all marching bands leaned into a military theme?

 

I kind of mean more into the military like embellishments on the uniform itself to put over the COMMANDERS theme even more:

8 hours ago, ptaylor said:

Washington's Band Will Return

 

"Part of the Commanders' rebrand will include a revival of the franchise's marching band — which wasn't a feature of the organization's home games during the past two seasons — the team announced Thursday.

60 performers will make up the group, according to a press release, and it'll debut this summer at training camp. Co-owner Tanya Snyder helped design uniforms that will be burgundy and gold and contain other "new details."

 

Dear God, they've done it AGAIN

I really really really hope she did not lean into the military theme with the marching band uniforms

52 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

The Commanders really should’ve went the Maryland route with faux-mesh

Is this their consistent uniform or the one of 75 different ones they wore over the the past years being Under Armour's Oregon. 

18 minutes ago, TBGKon said:

To this day (taking the colors into consideration), I still think the LA team was going to be called the LA Wildfire.  The year prior to the team names being announced had some major damage caused by wildfires, so I suspect a name change happened last minute.

It was also rumored they swapped Houston and Dallas' names too.

Its just the intro to the new logo set to stock footage of XFL 2.0 games
https://twitter.com/XFL2023/status/1511735486825390080?s=20&t=OiJ0JbL896FzwT-JJYBT1g

Reverse color image on the website:


Media Assets page: https://xfl.photoshelter.com/galleries/C0000OKu6bQBZ4OY/G0000uqVSqWlSPmM/XFL-2023-Brand-Identity

Marketing Speak for logo:

New Logo and Visual Identity
The new visual identity centers around the idea that the XFL is the intersection of opportunity and captures the essence of the league’s vision: the XFL is pushing football forward. To do that, the brand needs to be modern, dynamic and inviting.

The “X” represents those intersections, the point at which everything comes together: sports and storytelling, players and fans, partners and a passion for innovation. We elevate it to unlock the opportunities that will push football forward, so that together, we can build tomorrow’s league.

As a platform for co-creation, the XFL’s new identity seeks to elevate the stories and communities that enhance the game. Built as a platform, the league’s black-and-white color palette ensures the individual personalities of the teams are able to seamlessly coexist and stand alongside the league as partners versus separate organizations.

Did The Rock just tease a new league logo:

https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/1510875912509689859/photo/1

https://twitter.com/XFLNewsHub/status/1510958500461092865/photo/1

5 hours ago, SilverBullet1929 said:

I like them except for the WSH, which is kind of a big part of it. 

 

But I'm curious is there any "reason" said for choosing the gray and the off-white color? 

My best guess the Gray was the call back to the Negro League team, and the off white is the color of the monuments

48 minutes ago, WSU151 said:

 

Yeah my only gripe is the WSH. Nobody really refers to that...it's just something you see on scorebugs.  DC would have been better.  The pink, gray and the blossoms are fantastic

I dont mind it, I am surprised that DCA was not used, as much as its the Airport code, I recall that being used a lot in the area growing up there.

DC I think is too common for what they were trying to do as Nats had DC branding at somepoint, and I miss the interlocking DC logo.

At least they did not go with WAS
 

I really like that WSH on the jersey, wonder if they could adopt that block letting for a normal looking alt in the future. 

On 3/16/2022 at 10:01 PM, Sodboy13 said:

 

My belief is that they were placeholder names with MLB intending to sell the naming rights to each league like the NBA did to its minor league. But then MLB found out that the market price for branding a regional league that they had turned into damaged goods by stripping out its history and massacring a quarter of the product wasn't what they'd hoped for.

I still think this is happening in some form like:

GEICO Eastern League 
or 
Eastern League sponsored by GEICO

And if not the leagues totally whatever AllStar/Championship games that eventually come to MLB Network (not that they already are not there)

8 hours ago, Ridleylash said:

And pass up the chance for them to squeeze their increasingly-smaller fanbase dry with a :censored:load of new jerseys? Danny Boy would never.

HE usually does that by signing a Jersey mover every other year. I swear I think his free agent signing and draft picks have less to do with how they do on the field and more to do with how many jerseys they can sell from the idea. Don't think them getting Wilson, Rogers, is an attempt at getting a good team on the field. Its everything to do with that player selling jerseys

1 minute ago, Bill0813 said:

Pollin's wife favored it out of the 5 choices, the other's being Dragons, Express, Stallions, and Sea Dogs.  Now we get the Commanders' uniform mess because of the owner's wife.

I knew there was something else with it and some similar controversy that people felt that was not the one voted for. 

1 hour ago, CS85 said:

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33198434/washington-commanders-nfl-franchise-search-new-nickname-logo

 

Once the team settled on a name, Nike's Best in Class design team worked on the uniform. The team received three uniform designs and plans to add a fourth in 2024, with fan involvement, Wright said.

 

"One thing Nike does is they focus on the young consumer," said Marc Reeves, a former head of brand at Nike who is now with Relo Metrics. "All the research I've ever seen [on] the younger generation says it's more than just a sport. ... People take this seriously. It's incredibly important to a community. As polarizing as Washington is, sports is one of the rare things that unifies. It's critically important to get this right."

 

Coach Ron Rivera was among those weighing in on the logos and uniforms. Washington co-CEO Tanya Snyder was more involved in the uniform process, owing to her days in fashion as a former model and clothing representative, among other roles. It took two months to come up with uniforms they liked. To prevent leaks of designs, they worked with a small number of vendors on merchandise. They wanted merchandise immediately ready so they could parade alumni through town handing out gear and have it for sale.

 

 

So we should be blaming Nike, Ron Rivera, and Tanya Snyder for all collectively having awful taste and making bad decisions.

I would think you would spend more than 2 months on jersey designs. They def show the lack of time associated with it. 

5 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

Looking back, how the hell did the ex-Bullets land on Wizards anyways, and not some cringe DC related name like the Presidents or Monuments?

There was a mail in suggestion thing. That somehow ended up on the top 5 list. They did a “fan vote” thing with NBC4 and they said that won. It could be Polin liked and did what Snyder did with Commanders and just do some false vote to make it seem the people wanted it. 

57 minutes ago, Bill0813 said:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/02/02/washington-commanders-name

She was the one responsible for all the Mall locations of the Team shop closing. She wanted them to be more boutiques and not one stop team shops. Essentially she thought there was too much merch in stores. 
 

Numerous people I know got let go from just her taking over. 

10 minutes ago, Lights Out said:

 

Except we know that's not the case because of the material that got released from Washington's proposed 2009 rebrand. For example:

 

 

These proposed alternates, which are now 13 years old, already had a lot of the same ideas as the Commanders' new uniforms. All three options obviously have BFBS. Option 1 has stripeless pants. Option 2 has an oversized wordmark on the front (like their new home jersey), stripeless one-color socks, and pants stripes that are similar to their new home jersey's sleeve stripes (thick outlines, thin center). Option 3 has a pointless collarbone patch like their new alternate jersey. And this whole process was playing out with Reebok, not Nike. Different manufacturer, different designers, same franchise, same owner, similar results.

 

I have a hard time believing that Snyder would let Nike do whatever they want without meddling when he won't even let his own football executives do that. In general, I don't think the ultra-wealthy egomaniacs who own most NFL teams can resist the opportunity to put their stamp on their team's new uniforms, even if the result flat-out sucks because they have no taste and/or no idea how graphic design works. As a former Chargers fan, you should remember the decades that the Chargers spent wearing boring navy uniforms because the Spanos family hated powder blue and they didn't care what the fans wanted. I think that's the kind of mindset at play most of the time in these uniform changes.

The polo shirt they made us wear on game day and working at the Team Store around that time was roughly the color pallete what middle design looked like. It was all black and the shoulder area had stripes like the pants with the logo on it. 

It was this one

1 hour ago, LMU said:

I'm sure that despite the illusion that teams have veto power that Nike has some semblance of creative control built into the contract and can turn a few screws to make teams accept their vision.

I am convinced MLS teams have 0 power. They tell the league office they want a change and they hire some tone deaf logo designer and adidas just does what they want, and the league forces them to keep it. 

16 minutes ago, leopard88 said:

 

. . . which hasn't existed since the retrocession of the Virginia portion of the District in 1847.

Essentially Arlington and Alexandria

7 minutes ago, pepis21 said:

Do you think NFL aren't considering of putting ads on uniforms? After NBA made a first step and NHL followed them I guess it's gonna be sooner rather than later when NFL and MLB introducing (unfortunately) ads.

 

 

The practice jerseys already have them