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Is it 2029 yet?

The real golden age of Super Bowl logos was around 1993-2006. All the ones before and after that were generic except for XXI's. Looking back, the last four logos before they went standardized were already so generic, they could have been used in any host city. It almost feels like they were getting people used to the idea first before they adopted the template.

People always say this, but the salary cap hasn't been much of an obstacle for dynasties at all. They're worse than they were before the cap. We just went from 20 years of the Patriots to the next 20 years of the Chiefs with no break in between. And it's just as malleable as the NBA's salary cap in practice. Look at the hoops that Saints have been jumping through to magically stay compliant every offseason for the past 12 years.

He started calling nothing but pass plays in the 3rd quarter. By the time he started feeding McCaffrey again, he had already blown the lead and tired out his defense. Even then, he still called pass plays on a couple crucial 3rd & 4s that didn't work.

Shanahan needs to start applying the Costanza method to his playcalling. I can't believe we're still going to have to hear about how much of a genius he is all next season. He's choked three Super Bowls and an NFC title game the exact same way and never considered changing it up.

They had enough room to put the full team names instead of abbreviations next to logos that already have the same abbreviations.

The new scorebug is really bad. The fonts don't even match the rest of the graphics. The team abbreviations are in plain Helvetica, almost makes it look like a glitch where the correct font didn't load.

That Astros cap is amazing. The A's cap is also close to perfection, though I don't understand why they recolored the logo to make it less visible. I also love that the Brewers brought back the Beer Barrel Man, but IMO, the partial version from their TATC caps looks better on a hat than the full version. The Phillies, on the other hand... WTF were they thinking. The Giants' hat kind of sucks too, and I don't know why the Tigers' logo is so tiny.

Oh, come on. Fred Durst wasn't that bad.

The Pistons and Sixers are still royal and red, and I'd assume casual fans are still more likely to associate those teams with that color scheme than the Clippers. Even with the recent uptick in success, it's hard to overlook the previous decades of futility and terrible ownership in those colors.

They've done a few alternates with the San Diego colors in recent years that were quite popular with the fans. People also liked the orange and black Braves throwbacks. And even outside of that, the team has been heavily de-emphasizing RWB in favor of black and white. Ballmer also said a few years ago that a new color scheme was under consideration for the new arena. When neither the fans or the team are particularly attached to RWB, it's not outlandish to think a new color scheme is a possibility. Doesn't mean it'll happen, but still.

A red throwback or fauxback doesn't necessarily rule out a new color scheme for the normal uniforms.

I still think the current Titans uniforms are a couple tweaks away from being perfectly fine. I'm tooting my own horn here, but I think there would have been less complaints if they looked more like this instead of having awkward elements like the side panels and weird pants stripes. Their previous uniforms had already been frittered away by years of manufacturer/template changes. The final version with no contrasting collars and a "yoke" that looked more like a racing stripe sucked. They were due for a change.

I like this idea. It reminds me of the wall of high school hockey jerseys on display at the Wild's home arena. The only thing that strikes me as odd about it is that covering the whole state would also include the Kings' and Warriors' markets. Maybe limiting it to southern California high schools would make more sense.

I think their city edition this year is a solid modernization of this look. There's a couple things I'd change about it to bring it closer to the '90s look, but it's on the right track.

I think the Flyers jersey is good. I'm not crazy about the single-layer orange numbers, but they aren't a dealbreaker. And they finally found a way to make the contrasting nameplates work within the flow of the design. The other three are boring. I'm surprised people are okay with "NYR" on the front of the jersey. To me, if you can't fit the whole wordmark, just use a front logo. This looks like a half-assed compromise.

I've always wondered if Reebok had a design ready to go or if Lou put the kibosh on it before they even got started.

That Penguins logo is nice. Adding some subtle light blue trim to the jersey would really complete the look. Not a huge fan of the Islanders concept. The front logo is too unbalanced and generic. I like those Penn and Princeton throwbacks, although I get rugby vibes from them more than hockey for some reason.

Looks like another year of the Super Bowl just being background noise for me. I can think of very few matchups over the years that have been more obviously boring than Chiefs/Niners II. I'd feel worse about it if Detroit wasn't going to get blown out by the Chiefs anyway. Dan Campbell should be fired tonight. This is the type of stuff that makes a coach lose the locker room.

He was the front office for a lot of those Clippers years. He was even worse as a GM than he is as a coach, and that's saying something.

Downgrade. I don't know why people hated the white outlines and cuffs so much, but it looks soulless without them.

I also like the Jets' modern uniforms for the most part. The one problem for me isn't even BFBS, it's their helmets. For whatever reason, that shiny finish looks fine in still photographs but terrible in motion on TV. And it doesn't appear that they'll be fixing that problem, so I don't know what switching to the throwbacks will accomplish other than giving Woody a low-effort way to pander to fans while their on-field product remains a joke.

Which they've done, like, twice ever with the current uniforms. Maybe three times. And they still refuse to wear silver pants on the road. They look like a high-school team or a low-budget MAC school 99% of the time. Then there's the Brady uniforms, which were hot garbage. The Falcons' uniforms aren't spectacular either, but acting like they're any worse than what the Patriots have been rolling out for the past 23+ years is an example of winning bias. It's also weird that anyone thinks Belichick would care how the team looks when he himself shows up to every game looking like a slob in his tattered sweatshirts.

As opposed to the Patriots' uniforms, which were always way worse?