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    The script appears to be a middle ground between the old-school cursive and the Metrodome wordmark.
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    It's nice to see the road pinstripes back, I guess. The rest of the look feels interchangeable with half the other teams in the league.
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    That was the most pathetic call I've ever seen, and Brady has had plenty of bogus calls in his favor over the years to choose from. It was a normal sack like you see in any NFL game. I don't even care about the Falcons and I was pissed when I saw that.
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    The Jaguars were so close to wearing their only good combo today, but alas, they went with black socks instead of teal.
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    This is really nice. Only suggestion I would make is flipping the colors of the white jersey's sleeve stripes.
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    I also liked that look for the Flyers, and I agree that an orange version would have been nice as well. The sleeve stripes were almost wing-like. A while back, I made a concept to that effect. I also think the Islanders nailed it with their Edge 1.0 look and every change they've made since then has been a downgrade. The orange sleeves popped, especially on the road whites. And as much as people complain about phantom yokes, I think they were used to great effect here. The front numbers were unnecessary, and the shoulder patches should have been on both sides, but beyond those minor details, this was a fine look. Unlike most of the early Edge experiments, this could have been worn in any era without raising an eyebrow.
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    I always did like the teal jersey (black numbers and all) and the white jersey. The other two, I could take or leave.
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    Maybe he didn't want them to do this while he was still alive.
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    Even knowing the history, it still has to be said: UCLA wants their uniforms back.
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    "We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas."
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    Not sure how unpopular this opinion really is. IMO, those uniforms were the only redeemable aspect of the Padres' navy era.
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    Kind of weird that they're just not acknowledging the Minneapolis era even though they still claim those championships.
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    Bone was never going to work because it's not an appealing color. It's just dark enough to clash with their bright shades of blue and gold, but still way too light to work as a grey jersey. It really does look like they forgot to wash their road whites. It will always boggle my mind that a team wanted to look unsanitary and gross.
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    While I'm not sold on all-black for the Mets, or most other teams for that matter, I honestly do think the Pirates somehow made it work back in the day. The "bumblebee" combo also looked nice.
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    The new helmets are an improvement for sure, but I wouldn't go that far. They're still pretty bland. Overall, I still don't think they look better than Clemson, FSU, UNC, VT, or (unpopular opinion) NC State. If Miami ever fixed their stripes, they would move ahead too. I think Virginia had the basis for a nice identity with the uniforms their basketball team wore for their national title and they should have just copied that in every other sport.
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    No? They modified the logo after the lawsuit to make it look less like Iowa's. They've worn the new version on their helmets as recently as 2020 (against North Alabama). As far as I can tell, the tiny cramped double-decker wordmark has stuck around out of some misguided sense of "tradition" after being in use since 1990, not due to legal issues.
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    I'll go further and say that their best helmets had an actual logo, not a tiny cramped wordmark that's illegible from a distance.
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    I guess USF is just never going to come to their senses and wear gold helmets/pants again. Then again, if Georgia Tech's new look is any indication, Adidas would probably screw it up.
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    That's just not true. The original Hornets were a huge deal, routinely leading the league in attendance and selling tons of merchandise, despite being a treadmill team in a mid-tier market... until word got out on what the owner was doing. George Shinn permanently damaged the NBA in Charlotte by being such a slimeball. The league also gave Charlotte the Cleveland deal upfront specifically to avoid the PR fiasco that the NFL had with the Browns' relocation, so it's a bit unfair to blame the city for not reacting so strongly when the NBA made sure they didn't have to.
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    FIU's brand is just so dull and uninspiring, especially for a school in Miami. It's like the Wish.com version of Pitt. Their continued blandness reflects the apathy that's gotten them stuck in CUSA hell when they arguably could have made the same leap that UCF did if they had real leadership. At least when Raja Bell and Carlos Arroyo were playing there, they had something resembling a brand of their own, as over-the-top '90s as it was. Their baseball team also used to have its own look instead of ripping off the Padres.
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    They couldn't at least try to match the helmets like the Rams did?
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    That shade of gold on the pants is so far off the mark, it's distracting. Adidas just sucks, period. They can't do modern or traditional looks right. There desperately needs to be more than three (really more like two with UA's issues) brands in this space.
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    I didn't think it could get worse than the Jazz's new look, but here we are. The Cavs didn't even try. I liked their outgoing uniforms more than most, but surely everyone has to admit they're at least a billion times better than this glorified practice gear.
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    I don't know why people are still so hung up on the Clippers changing their name. Ballmer already said last year that it's not happening. I can tell you the fans don't want it. It would be a lot more special to finally break through and win a ring as the Clippers.
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    I still don't get the league's growing fascination with plain black and white. I mean, I liked the Heat's Blackout and White Hot alternates back in the day. And the Clippers' Mister Cartoon alternates have grown on me too, although those have some subtle traces of color that enhance the look. But with Utah's disastrous rebrand, Memphis' leaked City uniforms for next season, some of the Warriors' alternates over the years, etc., it's getting to be too much. Was the Nets' rebrand really that influential? I've always found their standard uniforms to be dull as hell - not ugly per se, but more just void of any personality or fun, the NBA equivalent of this: The Nets weren't selling a lot of merchandise until recently, and even then, people are only buying it because they've had big names like KD, Kyrie and Harden, not because they love the White Label Beer aesthetic so much. So if teams like the Jazz are doing this because they think it will boost sales in any way that isn't short-term at best, they're nuts.
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