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Two more coming today, first up, the newly revived Alaska Anchorage Seawolves! Like Alaska Fairbanks, the Seawolves currently sport very generic uniforms with a basic triple stripe design. For the new design I took inspiration from the stripes in the Seawolves logo, creating nine thin, alternating dark/light stripes and a contrasting shoulder yoke on the home design only to really emphasize a balance between green, yellow, and white. Finally, the number font was designed taking inspiration from the angles of the logo's indigenous art style without straying into the problematic 1970s Cleveland Indians territory. Our second team today has (until recently) the dubious distinction of being the worst team in D1 hockey history, American International College Yellow Jackets. First, I reverted AIC back to their previous logo, which I find superior to the recent change. However, I made some minor adjustments that I feel clean up and improve the look. On the jersey side of things, a team called the Yellow Jackets basically designs itself; alternating black and yellow striping. Here, I go with another barber pole style sleeve design (I promise there won't be too many of these) reminiscent of the recent alternate designs worn by fellow in-state hockey team, the Boston Bruins. Finally, AIC retains the yellow helmets they currently wear.

Next up: The University of Alaska Nanooks. Alaska Fairbanks over the years has converted to just referring to themselves as the University of Alaska, but that doesn't mean I couldn't take inspiration from their classic designs. First and foremost, Alaska is one of the rare instances in which the school's academic logo is a better sports logo than the actual athletics logo, so I made a few alterations to fit the athletic color scheme. For the jersey I took inspiration from the team's barberpole sleeve throwbacks and the Alaska Nanooks throwback. Rather than stick with the blue and yellow only design, I also incorporated white into the sleeve stripes with the alternating colors continuing from the stripes to the names and numbers as well as the jersey collar.

I recently designed a new jersey template for hockey and decided to test out my new design with a large scale project. The NHL and international hockey have been done to death, but Division 1 college hockey remains for the most part a fertile ground, in particular because it is one of the weird sports that includes otherwise D2 schools while most powerhouse schools do not even field an NCAA level team. I set myself a few goals for the project: 1) Give every team a unique look; eliminate NHL uniform copies, reduce the number of teams with the same elements. 2) Respect a team's history where applicable; While each uniform is new in some way, historically dominant teams will be less likely to veer into wild designs. 3) Two jerseys only per team; I might make alternates later, but for now I just want primary looks for each team. 4) No jersey manufacturer designs; This exists in a world where MDGP got the contract for all of D1, and I prefer jerseys without the manufacturer logos. NOTE: Primary and secondary logos in the presentation do not necessarily correspond to their location on the jersey or real life designations, rather what I chose as the primary and secondary as the design was being made. NOTE 2: Where there are two different colored helmets in a set, the helmets are considered interchangeable between the jerseys. The helmets will be placed in the more conventional arrangement of light jersey with light jersey and dark helmet with dark jersey, unless otherwise specifically specified. With that, let's get started. We're gonna do this alphabetically (with preference to main campuses)... First up, the Air Force Falcons! Air Force has worn a few designs over the years generally featuring asymmetric striping designs on the shoulders and sleeves. I created a design that combines a double stripe commonly used by the team with gray shoulder stripes that I've used in the past. The shoulders continue to feature the team's traditional Captain America shield logo and the chest/numbers feature a font inspired by fonts used on air force planes. The design also includes my redesigned Atlantic Hockey logo on the chest, which can be found here!

It makes me think the "he picked the color to match Notre Dame" is just another thing made up by someone years later. Reminds me of how when I was at Penn State, there was this persistent myth that they switched from Black and Pink to Blue and White because the colors faded in the sun (I want to say that's the same myth surrounding the Arizona Cardinals' name origins too) Speaking of yellow vs. white, I've always loved the Michigan Heritage Jersey mix-up. Despite the guy who runs the site explicitly saying he messed up and the jersey was actually white, I still see people use this image as proof they wore all yellow in the 60s.

Ironically the Packers and Eagles both switched from Blue and Yellow to Green in 1935. Honestly, uniform histories are weird like that. Most teams didn't really settle into their classic identities until the 50s and 60s and so there's a lot of random, obscure things like that. Off the top of my head, the lions started out in purple and then primarily wore red one season, the Steelers didn't start wearing their famous jerseys until the late 60s, the Bears didn't settle on their look until the 50s and even then the current orange wishbone didn't show up until the 70s.

This is VERBATIM what Bradyismyhomeboy said about my Seahawks concept in 2013. He said it was leaked by the Seahawks around the internet and forums in order gauge their opinions. The prodigal son has returned!

From what I understand the league doesn't want old logos to be reused because it allows them to sell more hardwood classics merchandise with the old logos.

I believe you're thinking of the NBA.

It's like a horror movie monster. You can never truly kill that alligator wearing sunglasses in a car.

I personally love when terrible changes are always joined by shills that repeat the same BS "Oh you just don't get it, it's NEW, it's INNOVATIVE, get with the times GRANDPA" before the design is scrapped as soon as possible. The NFL examples have all been the most obvious, but my favorite was definitely when someone on the diamondbacks was adamant that everyone would be using their ugly dark grey within 3 years because some marketing executive with their nose firmly planted in their rectum told them they would. And then they quietly phased them out after everyone hated them.

I really wish the people that made sports jerseys were actual jersey manufacturers and not third-rate wannabe hypebeast apparel designers.

Correct, 2008 was the first season the Titans wore Columbia full time.

With the Women's Beanpot being hosted at the TD Garden for the first time this year, the arena added its 47th banner last week before the semifinals.

I've been on this site for over a decade and literally every year people fall for the reddit hype that ends up being laughably false. You'd think at some point they would learn, but alas.

A revival of the name of a failed football league not actually associated with the original failed football league created by combining the revival of the name of failed football league not actually associated with the original failed football league with the revival of a name of a failed football league league no longer associated with the original failed football league. Brilliant stuff.

His dad's a huge Sammy Baugh fan so he started wearing the number as a kid

College hockey, like many of the smaller and/or regional sports sanctioned by the NCAA, is structured much differently than the more familiar sports. Division I Men's Hockey features only six conferences, with the Big Ten being the only conference to host universities across multiple sports. The other five exclusively host hockey, being: Hockey East, CCHA, ECAC Hockey (not affiliated with the larger ECAC), NCHC, and Atlantic Hockey Association. Of the conferences, the Atlantic is by far the worst by just about every metric, with the 16th and final seed in the National Tournament colloquially referred to as the Atlantic Slot. This is due to its eleven member teams being so noncompetitive that, usually, its only representative is the the conference's autobid champion in that final slot. The conference also has the absolute worst conference logo I've seen in college sports at any level. This logo is not a joke, it is actually what a Division I conference uses to represent itself. Needless to say, this logo barely befits a youth hockey league let alone an actual collegiate conference. I decided that I was going to take a shot at designing a new logo that isn't a complete embarrassment. The best conference logos are generally simple, easy to read, and identifiable even in smaller applications. I also wanted to make it quickly apparent that this is a hockey specific conference. I took the conference's little used acronym "AHA" and made it the focal point, with the A's titled towards the center and the outer legs designed to appear like a hockey stick. Ultimately the design is simple, but easily recognizable and versatile in its application. Below is the new logo side by side with the other current conferences, and below that a patch version of the logo in the various color schemes of its member schools. Let me know what you think! C+C is always appreciated.

Halifax Town FC is one of the newer teams in professional football, founded in 2007 after the former team folded, and almost certainly takes the cake for one of the worst, most generic crests in sports, there's pretty much nothing interesting or unique about the design. For my design I wanted to keep in line with Halifax's teams histories of simple crests. However, I still wanted to give the squad a design that doesn't look like it was designed in Microsoft word. The main design uses an HT letter lockup on a half navy, half light blue shield. Upon the top of a shield is a Yorkshire rose, because apparently every team from Yorkshire is legally required to have one. The jerseys continue the half blue style, with the primary kit mimicking the style of the crest, while the clash kit utilizes the pattern on a center stripe and sleeve cuffs. Halifax is the city where the popular british candy Quality Street was created by Mackintosh's. Eventually the brand was sold to Nestlé, so it made sense as the sponsor for the squad.

Thanks for the C+C, I see where you're coming from with both points. I'm gonna take a look at a few ideas and make some adjustments, though it'll probably come after the next few teams get posted.

United Health (New England) is worth nearly $500 billion, Alaska Airlines (Portland) is the 5th largest airline in North America, Thomas' (Philadelphia) is just a sub brand of Bimbo, the largest bread company in America, American Family Insurance is a multibillion dollar company, and basically every company sponsoring an MLS jersey is a Fortune 500 company Not being sufficiently well known to you =/= Not well known or extremely profitable

The TD Garden actually has 46 banners. 17 Celtics Championship Banners 3 Celtics Retired Numbers Banners 6 Bruins Stanley Cup Banners 6 Bruins Division/Conference/Presidents Trophy Banners 12 Retired Number Banners 1 Beanpot Champion Banner 1 Hockey East Champion Banner The old Boston Garden had considerably more banners since the Bruins used to have a separate banner for every division and conference title.

Chesterfield is by far the most successful team I've done so far, historically spending much of their time in the third or fourth tiers of English football, the Spireites have recently cratered and now languish outside of the Football League. The team's current crest depicts Chesterfield's famous twisted spire alongside their traditional CFC letter lockup. My logo is a full modernization of the crest, darkening the blue to a navy, altering the spire to a more abstract depiction of the spire, changing the letter lockup to one that reads more like CFC than the current, and finally changing the shape of the crest to accentuate the tilt of the spire. The striping pattern from the crest becomes the main focus of the jerseys. The clash kit takes inspiration from the Houston Astros' 1980-1993 shoulder stripes. The jersey manufacturer is puma and the sponsor is british sporting goods company Slazenger, so there are a lot of cats on this jersey.

Stanford out there looking like Indiana West

Boreham Wood FC is another club that has never played in the Football League, but recently gained moderate fame for its 2021-22 FA cup run, beating League One's AFC Wimbelon and the Championship's (at the time) Bournemouth, before losing to Everton. Now, I generally hate when people describe logos as looking like a generic placeholder in a video game, but yeah, that's about as generic as it gets. I decided to drastically change the logo and incorporate the local flair. Borehamwood is famous as the home of Elstree Studios, the filming locations of films including the Shining, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones. The new crest depicts a classic film camera, with the film reels represented by soccer balls. The main focal point of the crest, BWFC is a modified Steel Tongs font, a font inspired by film poster credits. The uniforms are kept simple, stark black and white. The main feature is the northwestern stripe on the cuffs and collars. Originally the idea was that the stripes would depict film reels, but the look was a too kitschy, so I simplified it into the northwestern stripe as seen here.