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1 hour ago, (probably)notabandwagonfan said:

Via Uni Watch, the Yankees road uniforms are changing.

 

https://uni-watch.com/2024/01/23/exclusive-yankees-planning-changes-to-road-uniform/

 

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

On 1/20/2024 at 5:10 PM, tBBP said:

I may be one of the few who don't hate the Jets' current uniform, even with the numbers outlines in black. The problem is the alternate black uniform for which they shoehorned the black into the uniforms in the first place.

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.

16 hours ago, HOOVER said:

especially when wearing Navy over Grey

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.

1 hour ago, HOOVER said:

I cannot get over the thought of seeing the conservative Belichick coaching the Falcons in these God-awful uniforms.

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

9 minutes ago, WSU151 said:

 

If Texas Tech is switching to adidas then I think any new UA jerseys are out of the picture. 

I honestly forgot they were switching suppliers.

Does Mahomes have a logo? That tweet makes me think UA is going to give Texas Tech Mahomes-branded uniforms like the Curry-branded uniforms they make for Davidson.

13 hours ago, BBTV said:

Mike McCarthy staying with Dallas!?!?!?

 

Did not expect that.

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39331813/sources-cowboys-retain-mike-mccarthy-head-coach

Jerry's come full circle. When he first started out, he was the type of terrible owner who churned through coaches every few years because of his ego. Now, he's the type of terrible owner who keeps awful coaches forever regardless of how mediocre the team is, also because of his ego.

I'm guessing part of it is that he's 81 now - too old to rebuild.

On 1/15/2024 at 3:19 PM, The_Admiral said:

Incidentally, I'm just starting Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN, albeit in odious e-book form. I'll share my thoughts when I have them.

I actually kind of miss The WB and UPN. Neither of them had good management, but at least they tried. CW and especially MyNetworkTV are a waste of bandwidth.

2 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

Kick to the balls? Hardly. I don't speak for all Browns fans, but I'm happy for Stroud and Mayfield.  I never drank the "Browns are serious Super Bowl contenders with Flacco" kool-aid. Anyone with eyes (probably people without eyes too because it was that obvious) could see that Flacco was still throwing two picks a game during his run and that the defense was nothing special on the road. The best thing about this season was that the Browns made the playoffs without Watson. Anything after that was playing on house money.

I'm talking about Carolina fans. Having to watch the QB they passed on win a playoff game in dominant fashion, then watch their division rival win with one of their castoffs at QB, all after their own disastrous season must have been extra rough.

6 hours ago, Sport said:

Nightmare wildcard weekend for the Browns? They get obliterated by the team they traded a haul of picks to for the Walking Pornhub Clip and then watch the QB they dumped win a playoff game with another team. Only way that could’ve gone worse is if the Steelers won.

At least they're not Panthers fans, I guess? That exact same sequence of Stroud and Mayfield playoff wins is an even more painful kick to the balls for them.

TruColor lists the shade of Honolulu Blue they used from 1938-1964 as Pantone 300C, and to me, that shade looks a lot closer to the Sanders-era uniforms than 293C does.

I think they might have changed the shade of blue for print a couple times but never changed it on the uniforms.

Krause got Grant and Pippen in the same draft when Jordan was demanding Joe Wolf,  made the Oakley for Cartwright trade and ignored Jordan's pouting about his best friend being traded away, plucked Kukoc out of Europe while Jordan was off playing baseball, traded Perdue for Rodman, etc. Yes, he was abrasive, yes, his post-dynasty strategy was a failure, but the dynasty itself was built by Krause making savvy moves and ignoring MJ's dumb demands (which is the real reason MJ always hated him). It's not his or his widow's fault that Reinsdorf is an abysmal owner who still hasn't built a winner since he resigned.

At some point, it's probably time to get over it and appreciate Krause for the six rings he helped bring in instead of getting mad that he didn't win a seventh, in a league where most teams haven't even won one in our lifetimes. Even if he ran it back for a few more years, that team probably wasn't winning any more rings anyway.

11 hours ago, BBTV said:

"That's New York, that's Philly, Chicago isn't that way" - guess what douchebag - apparently it is.

That rubbed me the wrong way too. This is the same city where Steve Bartman had to go into hiding, White Sox fans attacked a first-base coach and an umpire in consecutive seasons, and Blackhawks fans chanted racist taunts at an opposing player. Even if Chicago had a spotless record of classy fandom until last night, it would still be a cringeworthy attempt at shifting blame to easy targets, but the fact that they didn't makes it ten times as gross.

I also have to roll my eyes at the media pretending this isn't at least 80% Jordan's fault so they can protect his phony image. Jordan was trashing this man since the day he became the GM because he didn't make all the roster moves MJ demanded, which were generally terrible ideas.

I don't like white helmets for the Broncos as anything more than an occasional alternate look. Especially with a mostly-white logo, and being in the same division as the Chargers.  But from the neck down, I don't see what the problem would be with those uniforms. I like the mountain motif, and it ties the Broncos in with every other team in Denver.

I still don't think anyone can dethrone the Chargers for the dumbest and most ill-advised relocation in sports history, but dammit, Fisher and Manfred sure are trying.

35 minutes ago, JerseyJimmy said:

lol screw you liberty

Liberty is the Bishop Sycamore of CFB.

22 minutes ago, McCall said:

With LSU downing Wisconsin, and Tennessee up 28-0 on Iowa in the 4th quarter, a potential Alabama win would give the SEC a 5-0 bowl season in head-to-head matchups against the Big Ten this year. Didn't even realize they scheduled that many.

It won't be 5-0 since Maryland beat Auburn.

13 hours ago, the admiral said:

Yeah, just watched him throw his drink on a fan.

The ultimate legacy of the Spanos family is that, no matter how many new and creative ways this Tepper clown finds to embarrass himself, he'll still only be the second-worst owner in the NFL.

10 hours ago, Old School Fool said:

All it would do is piss off the NFLPA and piss off the fans.

If they gave a damn about the players, there wouldn't even be Thursday games, let alone Wednesday. As for the fans, they might complain, but they'll still watch.

12 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

Only when Christmas is a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday.  NFL isn't going to have a triple header on a Wednesday.

They absolutely will as long as they can milk money from it. The Steelers/Ravens Wednesday game a few years ago got 10 million viewers. The Cowboys/Giants Wednesday game in 2012 got 22 million. It's only a matter of time.

3 hours ago, TaylorMade said:

 

I remember them doing this once upon a time and it gave us this:

 

IIRC, those were for St. Patrick's Day, not Christmas.

I do recall the Knicks wearing their St. Patrick's Day green alternates on Christmas  a couple times, though. At least one of those was against the Bulls, so maybe that's what you were misremembering.

My take on Christmas uniforms is that they should just take the teams' normal uniforms and change the colors to red and green.

The Raiders look fantastic as they always do when they bring out the silver numbers. Make the outlines thicker and they'll truly have no reason to ever wear anything else on the road.

3 minutes ago, BBTV said:

But that assumes a "static" budget.  The Marlins still make money, and should be able to pay for contracts without the owner dipping into his own personal checking account.  It's not like they have a static $500M (Bruce Sherman's estimated net worth according to Google) that will be drained by the end of someone's big contract. 

Of course. The point of comparing to the owners' net worth is more just to illustrate how crazy the kind of money is that the Dodgers are throwing around. They're now making players richer than owners. When that's the going rate to sign a top free agent now, even the mid-market teams are going to start getting priced out.

I think the sport absolutely needs a salary floor so we don't have a bunch of "start-and-park" teams like the Marlins every year. But the big-market spending is becoming so out of control that unless there's also a hard salary cap, I don't see how it doesn't eventually end in disaster for the sport.

5 hours ago, BBTV said:

What sucks for fans of the Pirates and Royals isn't that the Dodgers spend money, it's that their owners won't. 

In many cases, they can't spend money like the Dodgers. The contract the Dodgers gave Ohtani is more than the net worth of the Diamondbacks', Marlins', and Reds' owners and about the same as the Brewers' and Rockies'.

I'm not defending other teams' owners for being cheap. But what not being cheap would realistically look like for most owners would still be downright anemic compared to the Dodgers' infinite war chest. The Dodgers' spending is a huge part of the problem too.