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kmccarthy27

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  1. And if I recall correctly this stadium the teams had to share the sidelines.
  2. This looks to be the same cheap jersey type/quality that the DX Jerseys they sold on wweshop were back in 1998
  3. Yea, I was thinking that, if they handed it off to Nike or UA with the rule that they are allowed to use experimental designs like Nike does with Oregon and UA (sadly) does with Maryland.
  4. Their website is now selling caps from ‘47 Brand.
  5. When the Philly Soul first started (Bon Jovi era) I wanted a Jersey, and my Girlfriend at the time now wife, lived in that area and the only thing she was able to find anywhere was a white t-shirt with the Soul logo on it. Anything else was game day only at the Arena.
  6. Yes, Champion was who did them the first time. I still have my replica Hitmen Jersey in my closet.
  7. Have they signed a deal with a company yet for uniforms?
  8. DC would have been fine if it had a better logo, and had barely anything to do with the military inspiration it was trying to put over.
  9. They are not as terrible as people thought it was going to be, I think DC got the short end of the stick of it all.
  10. Or its not Aces but something like St Louis Flying Aces
  11. Could they get away with calling the NY team the Gotham Gargoyles? Or would DC comics have a fit about that And for those with Washington Warriors guesses, Dan Snyder owns that name for a failed AFL start up, also he keeps it for potential Redskins replacement names if he has to. But that's a completely different discussion.
  12. According to https://twitter.com/TheSpringLeague/status/1108786957172334602 its the Austin Generals TSL is just the generic The Spring League helmet
  13. There was rumors also that Kings Dominion and Carowinds were rebranding the Intimidator Roller Coasters for essentially the same reason a few years back but that died off a bit. I think Junior said she is very difficult to work with.
  14. Washington is also losing the Potomac Nationals in 2020, they are moving to Fredericksburg and changing affiliates.
  15. I really like that Alpha Entertainment logo in the lower right.
  16. And its no different than what ion (PAX) did prior.
  17. That stung bro Though I think WCW's failure is more associated with the version in the thread's first post. This one, to me anyway, is associated more with the company's rise then fall. I would say this is more the failure, WWE's WCW logo than WCW's logo. WCW would have not gone under if someone else bought it.
  18. Ehhhh....I remember it being just a tad bit more complicated than that, from what I understood at the time (my ramp-rat days). Back in '92, a couple folks from the then-newly-defunct Southern and Eastern Airways banded together to form ValuJet (with just two planes, mind you). A couple years later, another group of former Eastern Airlines associates banded together to form the first iteration of AirTran Airways, which was previously known as Conquest Sun--AirTran Corporation bought it up and renamed it (I wanna say around '94, but I don't feel like digging up my Airline Football League Concept Series notes to vet any of this stuff right now--plus I can't find them right now anyways ), and moved its HQ down to Orlando. Here's where the complicated part comes in: ValuJet's holding company, ValuJet Inc, actually ended up acquiring AirTran's holding company, then known as Airways Corporation, then renamed its own airline, shortly after all that Everglades mess, to AirTran Airlines, so for a short while two airlines, AirTran Airlines and AirTran Airways, were flying around with dang-near the same name. Eventually ValuJet Inc. and Airways Corporation merged under the same certificate, I think this was '97, and the new entity rebranded itself as one singular AirTran Airways. (And after that 592 disaster, I can see why they wanted to distance themselves from that as far as humanly possible.) Airline history...gotta love it sometimes, eh? Oh dear...dastard GM, in failing to market it right (like you said) chose to kill it off, for shame. I remember, like you said, good ol' Olds DID have a super-strong following and brand loyalty (including me), so why GM chose to axe Olds and not Buick belies my comprehension--but I think that's more sympomatic of GM not knowing what the hell it was doing back in those days, with any of its brands, let alone Olds. As for that updated logo up above, if I remember right it was actually inspired from the logo they created for their then-intended-to-be-all-new-flagship Aurora, one of two cars GM built on its then-new G-platform, which I believe was originally supposed to underpin a new Cadillac supercar, only to end up underpinning the Aurora and it's frame-rail twin, the 2-door eigth-generation Buick Riviera. (I used to own one of those Auroras--this was mine--and loved every cubic centimeter of it--in fact if not for the fact that 4.0L Northstar-derived twin-turbo 250HP motor required 93 octance, I'd have probably traded my 4Runner back in for another one a while ago...you'd be surprised how many of those I've seen for sale all around Indiana.) At the time Olds desperately needed the Aurora, because I remember at that point in the '90s about the only Olds people cared about was the Cutlass (this thing, which in and itself was seventy different kinds of awesome--they're also hard as hell to find these days)--but again, that was really GM's fault both for getting away from what made Olds, well, Olds, and for the rampid "badge-engineering" they became notoriously famous for about the time that Aurora came out (you can only build the same car so many different ways...no amount of differing name tags is going to help that--mid-late '90s Buick Century and LeSabre, anyone?), not to mention blurring the lines between its own brands, particularly Buick and Oldsmobile. I think Olds/GM fell so in love with that car that every other Olds that came after it took cues from that car, and for that matter, so did the badge-twins of those cars, (in particular the Pontiac Grand Am, from the Alero, and Grand Prix/Intrigue twins). But yeah, to your point, GM/Olds effed up badly during the '90s...again, for shame. Problem with Olds and most GM cars at the time, was the badge twins. There was nothing that Olds had that you could not get somewhere else. My car in HS was an Olds Achieva which was just a Grand AM. Sad part is after getting rid of that I now own 2 Pontiacs :-)
  19. Though its was a few years after it was also the first choice for the Ravens, but the ownership wanted to go in a different direction..
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