Silent Wind of Doom

Could there be some sort of legal reason to necessitate all the changes between the three leagues? Many of the decisions seem odd and change for change sake. I do believe the most shocking decision from XFL 2 was ignoring the Las Vegas market. And now they have an NFL team. Although they were able to catch the same fire in St. Louis. I can only guess the decisions made were in line with Vince's attempt to rebrand as the squeaky clean league and traditional. But it's not like "Outlaws" is much different from "Renegades".

When they said that the Diamondbacks were bringing back one of their old colors, I was really looking forward to Red/Purple/Sand. Purple is the color of the flag of Phoenix and seemed like an obvious mix in that isn't actually utilized well within the league. Teal is a cool addition, but we've already covered the ground that they didn't even go with their old shade and instead went with a soapy Ivory Coast that isn't mixed with half the set and is just an odd jamming in half the time. I think both the original look and the second identity of the team look great, but they've just gotten weird with trying to include some things sometimes and not in others. I've no idea why.

The two would be easily distinguishable. That was just building off the previously mentioned thought that perhaps the reason no teams share a base jersey color is because it was league-mandated. The matching tops and pants may be a making it a thousand times worse. Probably meant to emulate the monochrome outfit of the character. But I am of the opinion that save for one historic standout (Colts whites), no football team should ever wear the same colored pants and jerseys.

Wow. Black Adam came and went so fast and I'm not doing theatres still, so I didn't even think of that connection. Shoulda just gone black. But if indeed only one team was allowed each color, that would step on Vegas's toes. I think sand would fit their home better, but the yellow does look much better.

Stripes of both, whether bright like used in the past of pale like that hotel would work well on the primary in emulation of the iridescent shine of a fish's scales in the sunshine. The Pensacola Blue Wahoos were probably what made this idea pop in my head, so there may be problems with overlap there. But it would look cool and offer extra colors they could play with in their identity. The Marlins usually use all the colors in their logo set, right?

Fun weekend. Now that we've seen everything in action... Darlington looks better than I expected to find them. The helmet stripe is unique and it all looks good together. White on powder without an outline is stupid and the use of the DR logo is moreso. I understand all of the bad decisions made involving the Arlington identity. It was a sacrifice to get good deals with the city. It still sucks. And I know they've got XFL, Under Amor, and sometimes Brahma Bull logos, but couldn't they have had a space for any of the secondary logos they made a big deal of on the logos themselves? Especially since a lot of them look so good. Vipers look awesome. The more and more I look at their logo, the more I like it. It's cool. It looks like a logo for a cool car, but it's still cool. And it may be the only time I've had one of those overly-thought-out explanations of a logo's inspiration actually give me better appreciation of it, since I see the fangs and think it works. They might be the best pure identity in my book, but for me the Black/Red/White color scheme is always a winner. Orlando's logos look tiny. There has to be a middle ground. The stripe is cool, but much like the animal that looks like a mixture of things, I'm left wondering if there's meant to be some specific reference. I'm getting Cow Tools'd. They should have taken the three-claw swipe stripe from the Los Angeles Wildcats. Houston looks like a CFL team. I don't know if that's because they specifically looks like the Alouettes, or if I associate the different-colored shoulders like that with the league. The helmet doesn't help, but I don't think it would look too bad with a solid uniform. St. Louis looks like the last St. Louis, and that's all they had to do. Classic-looking but unique color scheme. The center stripe should probably more clearly evoke the sword from between the wings, but the Titans may throw a hissy. San Antonio looks... weird. The greyish is drab and I have absolutely no idea where this color scheme came from. It looks like it should be a color scheme for an Army alternate, but just because it would be based off of an actual military uniform. I actually really dig the helmets. I feel silly that I didn't realize it was a negative space B on the back and instead thought there was a little design I couldn't see between the horns. But the horns themselves look 1,000% better in action than they did on the graphics packages/on a mannequin. DC looks beautiful and classic. The pattern is a bit weird, but I like to believe the marble interpretation. The D looks great, and honestly I'd be perfectly fine with them just putting a backwards D on the other side because it looks so much better moving forward. Seattle looks good on the road, but I don't know how much I'll like the more orange homes. Such a weird decision out of all their colors to go with orange primarily. Actually, looking at the league... were the teams forced to go with one major color that didn't match everyone else so that they could put them all together and be distinct? Powder, Black, Green, Navy, Royal, Gunmetal, Red, and Orange. No two are the same. That's so stupid. Orange seems ill fitting. The new logo is not nearly as bad as it looked when I first saw it. It felt then like the Suns alternate, but in practice it looks much less weirdly chonky. Although that may half be the way ESPN added features in the embossed logos they used for the broadcast. But it definitely would have been better to go with the previous forward-facing dragons. Even if you had to turn the S around, it would have been better. Actually, hold on. Seattle has just the head on their shoulders. Just like everyone could do with their great alts. WHY ISN'T THAT ON THE HELMET?!?!

@bob95, here's the sig you requested in pm's. Figured I'd just post it here to keep the thread going.

So... the league truly has paid tribute to its roots, hasn't it?

The first post in this thread explains how to add it to your signature so all can see your alma matter!

@Will94, sorry this took so long! @maxwasson, congratulations!

Bwahahaha. I just came in to mention I needed one. Thank you. Sorry I got so busy. I'll have it for you in the coming days. Currently there are 17 remaining slots in your pic to fit within the board's size limit. You suggested 30 additions. You're going to have to either cut from what you already have, or add less.

Oof. Yeah. I was gonna mention the Tigers sorta doing something similar and I 100% forgot about the White Sox. Doesn't help that that looks like a in' t-shirt. There's a difference between special event one-offs and going full Diamondbacks. They didn't sell the Stadium naming rights, not even going with the possible planned half-measure of naming it "Yankee Stadium at Nike Plaza". We'll see. But for the moment, saying there's not even a hint of benefit of the doubt seems a bit much. Why... why... why would they go with that stylistic, edgy-attempting, soon to be immediately outdated text? They just needed to do a few simple touches to make it timeless. Why?

If the images are on-line, you can just link them in your post. If they're your personal pictures you could upload them to imgur and then link them from there.

You give me a logo, four pictures, and a little saying for the bottom and I can get it done. I don't know a thing about the place, so you'll have to provide quite a bit. Sorry.

I wonder if they could thicken up the stripes akin to the 80's blue away. Keep the slightest bit of red on the away gray and it would read better from a distance without bleeding. Similar aspects have been bleeding in a bit.

Heh. No. It's fine. *I* was worried about possibly not getting you what you wanted by not using the pictures you gave me. Glad you like.

Yeah. Are they keeping grey pants, or doing white on the road?

Hah! At first, I didn't think anything out of the ordinary for this, but when I thought more about "Sports YouTubers", probably because it was just after watching a GPS episode, I was like "I hope it's the Clickbait crew". The That's Good Sports logo had a transparency issue, so I went to the channel to try to get another version. I also got a higher quality Scooter logo from the end of his video. To get all the text for Russell and Tank Bowl I had to draw some additional picture in, but I think it worked out well. I also had an additional Tree thing and wanted to throw that out there. He's my favorite and the gateway that led me to the guys. Lemme know if you'd prefer anything different from how it is.

The splotches of the multi-color pattern could be referred to as camo. It seems like it would be some kind of local reference, but it's a part of Baltimore culture I've absolutely no idea about. Anyone have any idea what this pattern could be referring to?

I cannot for the life of me find a source for that phrase. Is that a specific reference?

Here ya go @JerseyJimmy! Yeah, I've spend hours and hours making things for people who never use them anyway, so I figured I'd have a check to see if those who requested previously actually care at all or have already moved on.

Wow. I forgot those exist. And I drew them. No matter whether we add a blue or stay the same or add another color or ditch the sleeves... Is there anyone who doesn't agree the halo should be gold? Athletic gold, not metallic.

It's workable, although the graphic causes it to become a weird volt yellow/green like the Atlanta Hawks had going a few years back. When LA was looking for a football team, I actually really wanted to see the Jaguars move and take on a similar color scheme but with a straight metallic gold on red logo on the helmet. Lean into a Central American warrior theme. The Lakers are untouchable, tho. If any scheme would have to take over the others, it should be Gold and Forum Blue. Wouldn't look bad on the Rams if the Vikings wouldn't have a conniption and it's the scheme the Kings originally wore. Huh... I wonder what a gold and purple Angels team would look like. It's not like anyone else is effectively using purple.

FIFA Union of European Football Associations (H-Z) Hungary Referencing the nation's national anthem Italy Referencing the Roman Empire The Netherlands Referencing the traditional title in Dutch royalty Norway Referencing a national motto Poland Referencing the nation's national anthem Portugal Referencing the nation's national anthem Russia Referencing a common idiom and the nation's common symbolic animal Spain Referencing the team's nickname and the Pillars of Hercules featured in the nation's coat of arms and flag (as well as the team's crest) Sweden Referencing the nation's national anthem Switzerland Referencing the nation's national anthem and one of the team's nicknames

FIFA Union of European Football Associations (A-G) Austria Referencing the team's nickname Belgium Referencing the team's nickname and the nation's motto Bulgaria Referencing the team's nickname and a nearby island's famous lions Croatia Referencing the team's nickname Czech Republic Referencing the nation's national anthem Denmark Referencing the team's nickname England Referencing the team's nickname and Richard I's crest, which inspired the nation's, which inspired the team's An alternate for Team GB, where English players play during the Olympics France Referencing the team's nickname and the nation's national anthem Germany Referencing the team's crest Greece Referencing the team's nickname