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Good thread idea.

17 hours ago, Germanshepherd said:

Huge upgrade if that's official

Couldn't agree more.

So, Benjamin Harrison was POTUS the last time a team had a nine game winning the streak after losing 110 games the previous season.

The List --

1890 Louisville Colonels

2022 Baltimore Orioles

On 7/7/2022 at 4:55 PM, stumpygremlin said:

I like that idea. The only issue might be a trademark thing with the Harlem Globetrotters/Washington Generals.

. . . and the other issue being that the Washington Generals are perennial inept losers.  Otherwise, I think it's a great name.

1 hour ago, McCall said:

Which makes it even more mind boggling when you look at the popularity of the SEC and they're in nowhere near the amount of major markets the Big Ten is.

One advantage the SEC has is that many of its schools are in states with little to no competition in the Big Four sports.  Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Kentucky, Arkansas and South Carolina are the only games in town. Beyond that Tennessee and Vanderbilt were the only games in town until the mid-90s.

I'm putting this firmly in the "I'll believe it when there is a formal announcement" category.

That said, Pete Thamel now says it's a "formality", with an announcement expected within 24 hours . . . perhaps as soon as tonight.

EDIT -- Looks like I'm a little late on the Pete Thamel news.

On 6/26/2022 at 8:15 AM, FinsUp1214 said:

I think that’s an upgrade, but the bear also looks like he just stepped on a Lego. 

This is a brilliant description.

If memory serves me, the jerseys didn't have the stitching initially because MLB didn't allow it.  The theory was that the stitches simulated a baseball and would be confusing to hitters.

9 minutes ago, dont care said:

Yet it’s not a relatively cool car when still no one is buying them. Even older generations aren’t going out of their way to get them. They are buying and going to continue to buy what they knew from their younger years. They might not buy the sports cars anymore outside of a midlife crisis, but if they grew up on brand loyalty to Chevy, ford, Toyota ect that what they will stick to. Only exception would be going to a luxury brand in the same family which Buick just does not fit.

I'm 54.  Despite the best of efforts of Tiger Woods, Buicks will always remind me of my grandfather's LeSabre and the car driven by the seemingly old father of one of my best friends back in the mid-70s (who, in hindsight, was probably 8-10 years younger then than I am now).

. . . and my 85 year old mother drives a 2002 Century.

On 6/21/2022 at 8:54 AM, VDizzle12 said:

Only now looking at the new look it really shows how awkward that "M" was and how bland the branding has been. It's not a drastic change that many will notice, but it's a big improvement.

The one thing they didn't change is the M in the logo . . . which is one thing that has always annoyed me.  I know it's a little anal retentive on my part, but it has always bothered me that the outer downstrokes on the M are at a different angle than the upper sides of the outline (for lack of a better description).  I've always thought they should be parallel to one another (but I'm also the person who is bothered by the fact that the bottom strokes of the F and L in the current NFL logo aren't aligned so as to meet at a point if they were extended).

On 6/10/2022 at 5:09 PM, DTConcepts said:

Lateral move. I just don't understand what prompted the change. What about a shift towards electric cars prompts a very minor rebrand?

You took the words right out of my mouth.  The only change that might have been worth the (minimal) effort would be to eliminate the chrome effect in locations other than grills on cars.

11 hours ago, dont care said:

Should have kept pontiac. They have so many more memorable models like the trans am, fire bird, GTO ect. Buick has what? The grand national and that’s it.

I think Buick was worth keeping, but I also think they should have kept Pontiac.  It had a much hipper image than Buick, even up until its demise.

It tells you all you need to know about the Buick image that they had to build an entire ad campaign around the idea that people were surprised to find out that a relatively cool car was a Buick.  It was the modern day equivalent of the "not your father's Oldsmobile" campaign.

Space Force has an "historic" symbol?

Also, I would have lost the bet on the wings.  I forgot about the chapel, so I was thinking the wing to the viewer's right (which is the bird's left wing, for the record, contrary to the summary) were representative of the Rocky Mountains.

20 hours ago, 4_tattoos said:

Random thought came into my mind watching Maryland vs Cornell.

 

Would the NCAA men's lacrosse finals draw well if it were held in Denver? I know LAX is big in the Denver area, but would people from the northeast be likely to make the trip (excluding students/family/fans of the participating teams)?

 

I know a guy here in the DC area that pretty much goes to the finals every year. Those have been trips to Baltimore, Philly, Boston and Hartford though. Two locations of which are easy car trips from the DC area. Not so sure he'd make the cross country flight to Denver though.

I think you would get a few of the hard core fans who make Championship Weekend part of their annual Memorial Day ritual, but I don't think that would be a large number.  Having to get a plane for a 3-4 hour flight some time around/after 5:00 EDT on Memorial Day when you have to work the next day makes for a tough slog.

Oh, yeah . . . Fear The Turtle!

And after Sunday, next weekend will be the Big Ten/Ivy League Challenge.

17 hours ago, 4_tattoos said:

Delaware vs Georgetown was a good one.

I did not see that coming, especially once Georgetown took a late lead.

Delaware's behind-the-back-on-the-dead-run goal was a thing of beauty.

22 hours ago, Burmy said:

ESPN reports that Mount St. Mary's is joining the MAAC effective July 1.

That would be a nice step up for The Mount.

9 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

Hey, um, so, remember that really small crowd from last night? Well, it looks like they drew more than a thousand people LESS today. :censored:ing how? Manfred, come get the A’s, they’re WASTED. 

 

To be fair, the game time yesterday was moved up 3.5 hours to avoid impending nasty weather (the first ever reverse rain delay?).

That doesn't mean they would have drawn 30,000 at the regular time, but there were at least extenuating circumstances yesterday.

2 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Just my two rusted Lincolns -^TM @tBBP

I like it.  The clown face concept is clever and it is well executed.

15 hours ago, JayMac said:

Man, the Angelos family sucks.

The sons seem to be okay (though it's too early to tell), but the old man definitely sucks.

45 minutes ago, Sport said:

Did the Orioles give up a lot of home runs because of Camden Yards or because their pitchers have been batting cage machines for the last 5 years? 

https://www.southbmore.com/2022/04/06/photo-tour-of-the-new-left-field-at-oriole-park-at-camden-yards/

The angle at the bullpen wall in left center doesn't look as severe as I expected.

Since this is from The Spun, I'm surprised the headline isn't "College Football World Reacts To Naming Of Best Helmet".

15 hours ago, EJ_Barlik said:

I still think the Panthers gonna win it.  Jeff F is the best coach in the league.  The best coach always has a decided advantage in a new league in year 1, because experience trumps, well, everything else, in a new league.

USFL.  Trumps.  I see what you did there.

1 hour ago, TBGKon said:

Let's try to keep the updates about the league itself to the thread in Sports in General, and keep this one for logo talk.

 

 

That's fine.  I thought the lawsuit news fit here because it is based on the names and logos, but I'm good either way.